One of the most difficult barriers in language study is the disconnect between the words and pronunciations you learn in a book and those you hear in daily speech.
In English, we write "I am going to..." but we say "I'm gonna". We write "what do you think?", but we say "Whaddya think?" This same phenomenon happens all over the world in other languages, and it will confuse you if you try to learn from books and in classes.
In my super-fast year of Russian study, I took in a lot of vocabulary... continue reading at Fluent Every Year
