Dorian, Benjamin, and Aurélie have finished their third week of the 3-month challenge: Learning Russian in 3 Months. It is incredible how they have progressed after 3 weeks only.
Moreover, it is super interesting to observe their different learning style. Everyone has his own style to acquire a new language.
What do you think? Who has the best approach to learn Russian? Dorian, Benjamin, or Aurélie?
Should you monitor your conversation?
It is interesting to observe how our three contenders differ regarding using the language. Speaking a new language is a lot of stress. You feel uncomfortable when you do not know how to express your thoughts and your sentences consist of permanent stuttering. Especially, the Russian language provides you many opportunities to stop during a sentence start to think instead of speaking because of its amount of grammar.
As a result, you can decide between speaking correctly and making mistakes. If you want to speak correctly as a beginner then you must monitor every word that you say. This leads to a lot of breaks in your speech and the classic stuttering. Monitoring is not bad inevitably but it limits your progress when you overdo it. You should find the right balance, which probably means to focus less on monitoring for most of us.
