101 in 1001 - Russian Duolingo

Screenshot of my Duolingo homepage with the little "completed" golden owl, featuring a Russian flag scarf

Yesterday, I finished a goal on my 101 in 1001 list!

• 009. Complete the Russian language course on Duolingo.

Я закончил, но я ещё плохо говорю по-русски!
Любимое предложение:

Кто будет защищать наш город от драконов?

Who indeed!

When I started, I only knew a few words from songs, games, and films, but now I'm able to read  and write cyrillic (both printed and cursive - though reading cursive is still hard!), form sentences about various topics, understand what's being said in some of the aforementioned media (without looking at translations), and have even had a few basic conversations with people in Russian too (oh, I sound awful, but I was understood so oh well! Haha). 

So, even if I'm still terrible at Russian, I've made progress, which is what I wanted, more than just to get the shiny golden owl. Obviously, some of the things I learned, I didn't learn on Duolingo, but having somewhere to practise everyday has helped a lot! (And no, I'm not a premium member, I just use the basic free stuff).

Though this goal is finished now, I'm going to continue practising Russian both on Duolingo and elsewhere, because it's a language I've very much fallen in love with. 

Of course, it wasn't the first language I completed on Duolingo though...

日本語コースも終わった❣

でも、昔は、日本語の勉強したので、
ロシア語に比べて難しくなかったですね。

Hopefully, the next little golden bird you see here will be the German Duo owl. I'm learning Korean for 101 in 1001 as well (and other languages just because I want to), but I've learnt German before and have people to practise with, so that seems more likely. Plus, I'm pretty terrible at Korean right now. I mean, really terrible! But I'll persevere. :)

Спокойной ночи!