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Aug 2019
42m 3s

049 - Mental Traps and how to avoid them

Russian With Max
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In this episode of Comprehensible Russian podcast we discuss 5 most common mental traps from the book by Andre Kukla.

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This podcast is for learning Russian (A2, lower intermediate and above). My goal is to get you involved in the Russian language through interesting, fun, educational, and controversial topics. I speak clear and slow, explaining words in Russian to build your strong Russian foundation and help you on your way to understand real Russian (TV-shows, movies, podcasts, etc).

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This podcast is for learning Russian (A2\lower intermediate and above). My goal is to get you involved in the Russian language through interesting, fun, educational, and controversial topics. I speak clear and slow, explaining words in Russian to build your strong Russian foundation and help you on your way to understand real Russian (TV-shows, movies, podcasts, etc).


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