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i am currently in my second quarter of russian at a university, and let me tell you, it is fucking hard. i would not suggest "teaching yourself in ten minutes a day" that sounds like a bad idea with a language like russian. my professor said that spanish/french/english require about 700-900 hours of exposure to gain fluency, and russian takes about 1800.>>9301has good ideas, but i would suggest getting books in russian that either have english on the page as well, or just get the english version and read them side by side. that will probably do more than movies, though you do need to hear the language so thats good too.
also, a tip when learning noun cases: it seems ridiculously overcomplicated, and it is, but most of the time you can substitute an english word in for the case. for genetive case, it is the word "of," for example. saying "????? ??????" means "book of music," even though "of" is not there. this makes cases seem much more useful when you realize that it's not just pointless changes, actual words are represented. many people in my class have had trouble with this concept, thats why i point it out.
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