I am from Russia, Moscow so you can ask me any questions this correct: два стола тринадцать стулЬЕв три волка шестнадцать волков двЕ пчелы девятЬ пчЁл (there we use Ё, but it is not so important, you can write E) двадцать семь ножей двадцать три ножа четыре змеИ шестнадцать змеЙ два музея десятЬ музеЕв
First - learn alphabet and then find any book about how learn Russian if you can not understand somth. ask me
You should learn Cryllic first so that it's easier to practice, because most of those words they give you to learn are in Cryllic. It's very very easy, I've almost learned to read and pronounce most words. What's difficult is the actual learning to speak and all the grammar and there are a lot of exceptions. I've put a hold on it until i get some more resources because there's not many on the internet. Do you listen to Vitas? I love him (':
My methodology for learning any language is as follows: 1) Learn the writing system 2) Learn the language's phonemic inventory and practice each of its phonemes until mastery 3) Purchase a phrasebook and learn the essential phrases or the phrases you think you should know 4) Learn the 1,000 most common words, then the next 1,000 words, etc. until you've attained a lexicon adequate for essential communication (5,000 most common words) 5) Practice grammar every waking moment whilst concurrently following step 4. 6) Speak every day, all day. It could be in the mirror by yourself, through Skype, on the street, on forums, etc. 7) Write every day, all day. 8) Try to think in the language more than in your native language 9) Keep practicing grammar intensely and try formulating grammatically complex and correct sentences in your mind until the grammar becomes internalized and can be correctly produced with near automaticity in a spontaneous and extemporaneous situation such as in a conversation. The above 9 steps constitute a mere approximation of the way I study languages. I've excluded the nuances and intricacies of those steps for the sake of brevity. Regarding the efficacy of those 9 steps, it typically takes me 3-4 months of persistent and radical autodidactic study to reach an intermediate level of proficiency in a language; or, in other words, the ability to converse with native speakers on practically any topic that could arise in natural and non-technical speech. There's a forum that I'd like to recommend for those language learning enthusiasts. Its URL is http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/ For those who don't want to register, but simply want access to information, you can PM me for a username and passcode to an already made account so that you can browse most of the site and make posts.
Haha, good idea starts learning russian with Vodka, but you need also a bear, bears than will talking with you (on russian) and play on balalaika Kalinka-Malinka song. btw I am native russian speaker too, and I starts learning english in school and until now, I used all: books, songs, movies, blogs (like blogtv - there is also a russians broadcasts, not advert, really help). So I think you must be a fanatic of other language if really want to know it.