Learning Russian  

I'm learning Russian, too. I don't know how far you've come by now, but the Learn in Your Car series is very good. Also Pimsleur, but that one is more expensive. Ultimate Russian Advanced is good once you've gotten far in your studies.

Make sure you practice often. If you stop practicing a foreign language, you can forget it pretty fast. A trick I learned to make it easier to learn new words is to associate them with an image that sounds like the word, so it acts like a cue for the word. The example I was given was the Russian word for waiter is afeetseant, which kind of sounds like efficient, so think of an efficient waiter. Or the word for car is mashuina, and on Malcolm in the Middle a car was once referred to as a "go machine," so I think of that when I have to recall the word for car. I didn't think it would work for very long when I first heard it, but it's what I still do after about a year of studying and it makes remembering words really easy. Just go with what first comes into your mind when you hear the word. Another trick I use is to review the new words I've learned that day right before I go to sleep. When I wake up the words I was having trouble with are easier to recall.

Above all, practice. The more you encounter the words the quicker you will recall them.

learn russian need enthusiasm and interest, russian is very boring, complex grammar, lengthy vocabulary, mechanical sentence structure, you need patience there is not shortcut to learn russian.

hi cnoker _100 i have ben struggeling with russian language for areal long time ..and you need a teacher and a groupe , ..after that pimsleru audio course is great ,,www.listen2russian.com and on advacned level , russian podcass with its text content on www.taste of russian.com .....all of this along with watching russian moves with both sub in russian and your own language will do the magic trick ,, search friends on facebook or anyother available social networks,,skype and talk with them ,, and you will learn fast .. and good luck ,, i m ready for all fo your questions my friend

I'm learning Russian as well and I find it easier to grasp if you hang around people who speak the language so you can get the gist of the pronunciation of letters and words. I live in New York so I go to Brighton Beach where there are alot of Russian immigrants and fluent speakers. I actually find Russian easier to learn than English sometimes in terms of grammar and sentence structure. Livemocha is a great online website that is free and helps withe reading, writing, and speaking plus you can talk to other people who speak the language and they help. Other than that, rosetta stone is supposed to be one of the best if you want to pay.