Russian, One Mistake at a Time
Russian One Mistake at a Time is a podcast about the challenges, frustrations, breakthroughs, and funny moments that come with learning Russian as an English speaker. This podcast explores grammar confusion, language mistakes, cultural differences, and what it’s really like learning Russian while dating a native speaker. Honest, reflective, and occasionally frustrated — because language learning is never as simple as the textbooks make it seem.
Episodes
4 episodes
Why You Must Learn To Think Like a Russian Speaker
Why do so many Russian phrases seem confusing when translated into English? In this episode of Russian One Mistake at a Time, I explore how my biggest breakthroughs came not from memorizing vocabulary, but from understanding the litera...
Why Your English Brain Finds Russian So Strange
Why does Russian feel so strange to English speakers? In this episode, I explore one of the biggest mistakes I made while learning Russian: trying to translate words instead of concepts. From почему vs. зачем to the surprising ways Russian and ...
Why Trying To Memorize Russian Cases Didn't Work
Russian cases can feel impossible when you first start learning Russian — especially if you try to memorize all the endings at once. In this episode, I talk about why memorizing Russian case endings didn’t work for me, how I finally started und...
I Have a Degree in Math and Physics… and Russian Still Makes Me Feel Stupid
Learning Russian as an English speaker can feel confusing, humbling, and occasionally ridiculous. In the first episode of Russian One Mistake at a Time, I talk about why I started learning Russian, how the language completely humbled me despite...