Russian is still a bit hard to find good resources to learn.

As for the basics of Russian… I still have no idea what is the best to use to learn the grammar. I have made a course for the Russian alphabet though so that’s a start.

When you get some basics down, there is one thing I can advise you from my experience: listen to podcasts. Podcasts are just like blogs but in audio (so they are like small private radio programs by amateurs about all kinds of topics). They are free. I was able to download a lot of Russian podcasts to listen to at the site Russian Podcasting.

The podcasts there are mostly about entertainment. From my experience, though, a lot of the podcasts there are not that interesting for non-native Russian speakers (and I believe that they are not interesting for native Russian speakers either). However, check some podcasts in the top 10 there or use the search tool if you have some topic you are interested in. If desperate, just try Vasily’s Weekend.

I was able to find one or two podcasts there that I would listen to from about once every week when new episodes came up for a year or so and I can tell you that it has helped a lot with my Russian understanding. It still is a bit hard for me to make out sentences as I still sometimes get the cases or the verb endings a bit wrong. Still, podcasting has helped me a lot in understanding Russian so you should do it as well.

A short summary of my recommendations.

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