Podcasts VS Textbooks: Do you need to learn Russian GRAMMAR?

In this video, I would like to talk about two approaches. Very popular approaches are the grammar approach and the second approach. Immersive when you surround yourself with the language. Which of these methods is better? Especially if we are talking about the Russian language. I will tell you from the point of view of a person who has been teaching Russian for 6 years. I'll start, if you don't mind, with grammar. If you are a native English speaker, then you probably haven't encountered teaching English as a foreign language. And therefore, you probably don't know that one of the most popular methods now for learning English is the lexical method. What is the point? You learn words, or word combinations, or parts of sentences. And from this lego you already make your phrases. In English, it works like a candy. But let's see what is the difference between the English language and the Russian language. If you are just starting to learn English, and of course you want to talk about some basic things, then you only need grammar. But when you start learning Russian and you want to tell some basic information about yourself, for example, I am Yaroslava, I teach Russian, I live now in Argentina, I travel a lot, I love my cat. For example, to talk about common topics, general basic topics, you need to learn cases, conjugations, verbs and movements, plural, all exceptions. You need to learn numerals, order, or quantitative. In general, you need to suffer. Well, condolences. But later. When you step over, when you are already at level B1, when you are already at level B2, everything else is just easy. You just need to continue to discover the Russian language for yourself. Now let's compare this with such a subversive approach. There is another group of people who believe that in order to learn a language, grammar can not be paid attention to at all, you need to listen as much as possible, read, watch in the language you are learning, well, for example, in Russian. This is not a bad advice, this is actually a good advice. This is how, for example, children learn to talk. This is how neural networks learn, for example. Because they have a huge number of examples, and they use these examples to find patterns. Okay, yes, if you watch and listen to a lot of content in Russian, I will talk about the Russian language, then you will remember, Hi, my name is so-and-so, you will remember the words, you will remember in what forms, most often, there are certain verbs, for example, what pronouns these verbs belong to, and so on. What is the difficulty here? I see two main problems in this. There is not a lot of content in Russian. More precisely, not so. There is a huge amount of content in Russian. I don't remember if I remember correctly or not, but I read somewhere that ... In short, in the video I said absolute nonsense, so now I'm just recording on a recorder. In English, in all the Internet, in English, almost 60% of the content is in Russian, 5.3% in the second place. Then there is Spanish. In general, Russian is in second place. That is, there is just so much content in Russian. There is a problem here. This content is made by Russian-speaking people, that is, the speakers of the Russian language, for the same speakers of the Russian language. Therefore, if you do not have some high enough, maybe just an adequate level, then it will be very difficult for you. That is, this content is simply not for you. On the other hand, there is very little content in Russian, which is made for Russian-speaking people. That is, in English, in Spanish, in French, in German, maybe, I don't know, there are a lot of podcasts for learners, there are a lot of bloggers who teach this language, and you can surround yourself quite comfortably. In Russian, unfortunately, there are not many people who make content for learners. And therefore, if you do not have a high enough level, of the Russian language, then it will be very difficult for you to understand these videos, these podcasts, which are made for learners. And if with English, for example, with French, with Spanish, it is quite easy to find subtitles for any video, there are services that make subtitles, even built-in subtitles on YouTube, they better recognize such more popular languages. In Russian, there are very few videos where there are exactly subtitles, or podcasts with subtitles. And this is very bad for learners. And the second difficulty is related to such a self-surrounding with your own language. Yes, you will understand very well, just like in the grammatical method, you will understand the structure well, but to speak it is not enough. Even children who learn the language in such a natural, natural way, begin to speak adequately in a few years. A small intermediate result. Grammatical approach. Super, if you want to lay the foundation for learning the Russian language. If you learn grammar, it will be easy for you. Basic grammar will be 150 thousand times easier for you. Advantages of an immersive approach. It is more interesting and it seems simple. But let's see what the knowledge of any language consists of. These are 5 skills. And this is grammar. And this is vocabulary by level. Listening. Reading. Speaking. And writing. Yes, probably it is not difficult to guess that the last two skills are speaking and writing. Most often in these approaches they just stay out of the picture. Isn't it easier to work on all the skills so that they just give the maximum effect and develop each other? I don't know. And the last one for today. I have one suggestion. In a month I will open my mini school. So if you want to know more about the method, what the school will be about, please fill out the form so that I don't lose you and I can invite you and tell you everything. I was glad to talk to you all. Bye!