Forgetting Material
Something that I am worried about is forgetting material from previous chapters. If I am inconsistant with my studying, I am not going to make any progress, and this makes me a bit nervous. When I go back to SLO for school, I want to maintain my current learning pace, and still retain everything that I learned before. Today, I just finished all of Chapter 4 exercises, yet I would say that I am pretty rusty on the material still after doing all of the exercises. I kind of struggled through this chapter, which introduced prepositional cases (in/on/at) and also nominative plurals of nouns & adjectives.
One thing that I have neglected is using the тройка workbook. I have been doing exercises in the textbook, but I have avoided opening the workbook until today. I decided to start doing Chapter 3 workbook exercises and by tomorrow I should be able to finish Chapter 3 & 4 in the workbook, since they are relatively easy to get through.
Yet, I wonder if doing these extra written exercises are really helping me retain this information in the long-run. One disadvantage of self-study is that you don’t have quizzes, tests, or exams. Thus, I can’t really see if I am “failing” at Russian or know exactly when it is the right time to move on to the next chapter or not.
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