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Minor Update 2022-06-17
Translation for about 20 sentences have been changed, along with 1 sentence.
No special instructions are needed to update from the earlier version. Updating from v2 or v1 should follow the same step as outlined in the blog post.
UPDATE 2022-06-15
Differences from the old version (v2.1):
- Bolded targets word for quicker reviews
- First 2000 cards are now manually reviewed. They should be generally free of errors in terms of the sentence and definitions, as well as word stress
- Stress marks and ё on all words
- Improved definitions, marking noun gender, animacy and verb aspect, as well as presenting words with multiple senses correctly
- Yandex audio pronunciation is now used instead of Google
This deck consists of sentence-based cards for the 15000 most frequent words in Russian, based on the frequency list from the Russian National Corpus. The set of sentences come from Tatoeba project, with a small portion created by ourselves. All cards shows the dictionary forms of the words and contains TTS audio for artificial immersion as well as pronunciation hint.
All sentences are ideally meant to have only one targeted unknown word to minimize difficulty. In reality, some sentences might have unfamiliar proper names or occasionally difficult words not on the frequency list can slip in. Other times, the sentence might still be too hard to understand even with only one unknown word.
The first 2000 (up to index 2176) should use only bilingual sentences, whereas the later cards may contain monolingual sentences (though, bilingual sentences are preferred when they exist).
In general, in using this deck, you should suspend any card you think is too easy or too hard - remember, the point of studying this deck is to prime your brain to acquire the words more easily, not to fully learn it. You should always be picking the low-hanging fruit to maximize gains from studying. Moreover, Anki decks are not alternatives to authentic immersion, which should always be your primary method of learning any language.
Credit to members of the Refold Russian Discord community for manually reviewing the top 2000 cards. For more information, please visit
https://refold.la/.
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