>I feel like those online courses and shit are scams or made for retarded people.
You have to read the reviews of this shit first. Then you gotta buy it. The best language courses are with a live personal tutor.
>For learning Russian, what are some things I need to consider and keep in mind?
Russian language (as well as all Slavic languages) is a completely different concept of language. It differs significantly from the article concept in the direction of flexibility (grammatical cases), many words subject to morpheme in Russian can have gender, time, emotional coloring. There is no need to put artikles and additional words to clarify the context, as in English, their role in Russian is performed by morphology depending on the grammatical case.
Also take into account the fact that even a person with Down syndrome can speak Russian at a basic level.
Please, stop mentioning Ukrainians out of nowhere.
>It differs significantly from the article concept in the direction of flexibility (grammatical cases)
Thanks, this is something I wasn't fully sure of.
>personal tutor
I'm personally not fond of classroom-type settings, but I guess I can always try talking to my Russian acquaintances every once in a while.
A personalized teacher can talk to you online via video link via Skype, Discord or some other shit. Just read reviews and research the schools reputation before you pay, that's all.
Here's an example of a school in Russia: https://skyeng.ru/teachers/?from=main_new_menu
I was taught English by an American bro.
Check in your country for a similar one.
You need to start by figuring out your goals, too.
i guess try to play games with russian voiceover but eng subtitles
thats how i can understand engrish
This is not the best, but worth to try: duolingo.com. There is a russian course. It will take more than year to complete, if you practice 15 min every day. On duolingo you learn alphabet and after that lot of words and phrases. What duolingo lacks is grammar lessons or explains why someting is written in russian like it is.
>as well as all Slavic languages
All except the Bulgarian*
Byzantine slavery was not good for them.
Не нужно ехать в эту Раиссю, можешь поехать в любую другую страну пост-СССР, где русский язык является официальным, или преобладает русскоязычное население. Я например прекрасно говорю по русски, хотя в жизни я с россиянами фактически не сталкиваюсь. (но у нас тут достаточно местных русских, с которыми я и выучил язык)
grammar books
>Не нужно ехать в эту Раиссю
Заткни свое ебало.
>>125251 (OP)
Go to Russia and live here, you'll find yourself a KGB sniper Natasha.
There is no point to ask Russians about learning Russian.
you can move your ass in Moscow, and live, most people understand basic english there, and Saint-Petersburg as bonus.
Why do you even need it?
anime subtitles
stage 1. duration: a couple of months
learn alphabet
install Russian interface on phone or pc, to get comfortable in reading Russian
stage 2. duration: 2 weeks
print out "xxxxx most common Russian worlds" list
check the list out from time to time, try to translate it from memory and check out your progress, it would inspire you, especially on the third day, when you'll see you're actually making surprisingly big progress
print out illustrated prepositions
pin in where you'll easily see it
bookmark the following:
- deepl,
- multitran,
- google.translate, yandex translate,
- google.images, yandex.images,
look for anime with subtitles on yandex and watch them 4+ hours a day for two weeks
space key is pause
never skip any word, pause and translate it, till you get it
stage 3. duration: forever
watch youtube in Russian
watch videos with more rare words, like some technical and scientific videos
bonus: you'd learn the complex stuff that uses rarer words to describe itself
the trick is:
learn most common words
quickly jump over the ebbinghouse curve (learn it faster than you forget it)
learn by repetition
you'll repeat most common words for 10-100 times a day, remembering
but you won't get bored out of learning, because you'd be consuming some anime plot
imagine repeating words 100 times a day without the plot, you'll drop the learning on the next day forever
after two weeks you'll be remembering the core language for 3-5 years, so you'll need to repeat it from time to time, consuming some leisure videos, so again without producing any boredom in the process
remember: learning and studying is different things
you will know how to speak well and understand it well, but you won't know how much cases there are or what's th perfect/imperfect forms, etc.
you'll learn language more or less the same way the natives do
Also avoid kids books or old ones, russian language mutates into different widely adopted dialects in matter of decades. Take books from decade or rough time period you want your speech to sound like reprints usually adopt vocab of books for time so take them as orient too.
Do not use internet texts as reading practice as it is too advanced shit to unravel, plus grammar is generally bad.