I'm trying to find out what the most common foreign language (not Russian) taught in Russia is, and what is the main foreign language taught - they might not be the same.

I was thinking English, but maybe German or other European language

I've recently become interested in learning the russian language. The only problem is that I've no idea which organisations/schools offer russian as a foreign language, so right now I'm trying to teach myself using internet and audio clips. I really want a tutor to teach me the language properly in person so that I'll be able to learn it faster instead of trying to figure out how the language and various variations to pronounciations/sentence structures work on my own. The 3rd language centres over here don't offer russian as a foreign language, and it's really hard to find russians in singapore. I'm currently in the music conservatory at NUS, and I only know 2 russian teachers of mine. But it's kind of hard to ask them for proper russian lessons in the conservatory when my timetable is getting fuller by the semesters. Plus they aren't trained in teaching languages.

Does anyone know where I can go for proper russian lessons, not counting internet, books or going to russia?

I'm thinking about taking a Russian or German class as my foreign language for school. I just wanted to know if any experts can tell me which one is easier to learn?

I was surprised to read on some forum dedicated to Russian as foreign language talks about how ppl want to learn it, how beautiful it is. I think it's a challenge cause Russian is or thought to be one of the hardest languages.

is it sensible for me, an English native speaker, to learn a difficult language like Russian as my first foreign language. I have a a lot of interest in this language, but I feel it may be too much to cope with.

I've noticed that my biggest problem with learning Russian has been my inability to remember vocabulary. I can remember (most of) the rules for which gender/case/tense gets what ending, but I spend far too much time looking up words in a dictionary.

Does anyone have any recommendations for effective ways to learn foreign language (particularly Russian) vocabulary? I'm well aware that there's no "shortcut" to learning a language, but maybe some of you have some useful suggestions!

Thanks a lot!

I am willing to learn Russian and pass the language test, such as Test of Russian as a Foreign Language (TORFL, TRKI) which would allow me to study/work and live in the Federation.

I wanna learn at least two foreign language, one is russian, 2nd one is french/spanish. Plz suggest me the links, sites about this..I am a novice. I have sufficient knowledge of english.

Hello everyone. I am a mechanical engineer and i want to learn Russian. I am working in an international company and in the near future we will need qualified workers who speaks russian as a foreign language. By the way i need russian friends to be in contact to make some practice. Does anyone want to help me?