A NEW Way to Learn Russian!

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How does it work?
Start the Russian radio player below and let me tell you how and why it works so well.

All you really need to learn Russian is to see, hear and practice speaking. You literally 'speak to learn'. It's a physical process and you don't need to memorize anything.

'Physical memory' is also extremely powerful and it really is like riding a bike and you don't forget. After a few minutes speaking along with the audio, the muscles in your mouth will literally feel like they've had a workout, and they have! Your ears also need practice picking out the sounds and at a natural speed as soon as you're able.

Through physical practice, 'intuitive learning' is also maximized. Our logical, conscious mind generally 'gets in the way' of language learning (and other things). By 'distracting' it, the speed of learning can be greatly increased and you'll begin to surprise yourself with what you 'know'.

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Physical and Intuitive Learning
These are really the key elements and I'm sure you all have examples of experiencing this yourself. For me, one such incident was learning to type Russian in just 2 hours. Really! I made a template of the Russian keyboard on a piece of paper and started like I learned to type English in high school: fff [space] jjj [space]. That's as far as I got and I decided to simply start making my first lesson.

Here's the start of my first lesson:

Урок Номер Один:    Lesson Number One:

Что это?    What's that? / What's this?
Кто это?    Who's that? / Who's this?

Что это?    What's this?
Что?    What?
Это.    This.
Это яблоко.    It's an apple.

It didn't matter how fast I was going, I was practicing my Russian and learning to type. Obviously I quickly learned where some letters were because they're repeated so many times, and I was also learning them in common sequences, which is important. It took me a long time to remember where the 'backwards capital R' was, since the only word with that letter was 'яблоко' (apple). When I 'tried' to remember, I was always wrong. When I relaxed, didn't think and simply asked, "Okay, finger, where is it?", then I was always right. Physical learning in action!

A great example of physical and intuitive learning happened when I was living in Indonesia and making a program for learning Indonesian. I gave a beginner booklet to my new helper who had zero English and told him to read the English out loud, 3 times a day which would take about 5 minutes each time.

He was a new employee so of course he did as he was told. He could see the Indonesian and the English side by side as well as word definitions so he could understand everything, but I specifically told him to just read it without trying to learn or remember anything.

A week later, I got him to learn to type, the same way I learned to type Russian and it worked amazingly well again. Then I got him to try typing the English from the Indonesian and he wrote the following: She's listening music on the radio. I happened to see it and said, "Oh, this one's wrong."

He couldn't find the mistake and even started to think I was wrong! It was really interesting. Then I told him, "Relax, don't think, don't look at the computer, just give the English after I say the expression in Indonesian." We started a sentence back and he replied, "What's Mary doing?". I said the next line in Indonesian and he said, "She's listening to.." and then stopped, realizing his mistake, but he'd already said it correctly without thinking. I exclaimed, "That's the entire foundation of our language learning concepts."

Note how we weren't writing "Cпасибо." (Thank you.) since you often don't hear the 'c' at the beginning.

Simple things like this are what make learning a new language more fun and interesting. It's also super easy to learn and helps solidify basic patterns and helps you 'think' in the language you're learning and not in English.

One expression you hear all the time is 'Не надо.' (No need.) but it's used for a whole range of English expressions such as "Don't.", "Stop that.", "That's enough.", "No." and, of course, "No need.".

Another expression that is also never taught but is extremely useful is "Ah, here it is!". I was in Japan and hearing it all the time but when I asked my Japanese friend what she just said, she wouldn't remember and would give another expression that matched the English. It took more than a week, hearing it quite often, before I was able to figure out with another friend that she was saying, "Ah, ata!" (Ah, was!). So simple and so useful to know!