Dear Russian language,

today I write this diary to keep track of what I am learning and what I still need to work on. Don't pay too much attention to the stupid meme I made, it's just a funny way to forever remember this word I memorized these weeks. As a tip I want to give to everyone who is studying a new language: make it funny and silly. Link to a word a specific feeling, colour, situation, image, drawing. Whatever helps you the most. Remember: languages are acquired the very moment you forget you are learning them.

In this weeks we studied accusative, genitive, prepositional and dative cases. When it comes to verbs we saw past tense (I love Russian past tense because it's easy to remember and you can even guess the gender of the subject using said verb, screw those hellish abominations you find in Romance languages XD) and future. We also started to see first imperfective and perfective verb couples. I plan to write down 100 times the first five couples I found; simple couples without prepositions.

ИДТИ-ХОДИТЬ= walk (on feet)

ЕХАТЬ-ЕЗДИТЬ= go, travel (by horse or vehicle)

БЕЖАТЬ-БЕГАТЬ= run

ЛЕТЕТЬ-ЛЕТАТЬ= fly

ПЛЫТЬ-ПЛАВАТЬ= swim

I also want to write conjugation of these verbs to see potential irregularities (keep in mind I am very new to the language and I started the course one month later than my classmates since I had to switch the third language), but I also need to strengthen my knowledge of how adjective works because I saw it's my weak point and I've noticed that when practicing with prepositional case.

To do so I will do extra exercises and give them to the teacher to see if I understood how they works. I can recognize if they are weak or strong but I still get confused when using endings during declension. Despite that I'm having so much fun and I am gradually absorbing what I did in these last two weeks. Currently doing some exercises for the next week so I can spare extra time for review and strengthening. My last advice: don't wait for the teacher to give you homework, do it yourself!

Well, that's all for now. See you next time!