I am Canadian, of half Russian ancestry. I have a passion to learn the language; I already know a fair amount of basic vocabulary and can read/write/speak at a very basic level. How long should it take of intense studying to become fluent?

By the way I am already perfectly fluent in English (clearly) and French, as I am half french aswell. So I'm not too worried about grammar.

I'm a 14 year old girl and have a Russian friend, and a new Russian aquaintance that I see sometimes. How hard would you rate it? I know no grammar or the alphabet.

Like many people I learned how write in cursive in elementary, but since I no longer have to use, I no longer know how to. I can read cursive with out a problem, but it is writing it. I tried to learn how to again last week but I found out it was really hard. So I'm getting better with the Russian, actually to me Russian is easier, but I'm curious if you(hopefully a russian speaker), thinks that I should learn how to write English cursive? Sorry for the bad grammar, this was written real fast because I'm in a hurry.
I know how to do my name but thank you for the help.

It must teach alphabet/pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, reading writing, understanding and speaking and should have tapes and books.
It must teach reading, writing, speaking, and reading, grammar and lots of vocabulary. Rosetta stone is okay, but for Russian not amazing. By the way, please give this a star, I really want a lot of answers. Thanks! I'll give the first to give me a star who doesn't have one of those badges top answer.

I have started taking russian lessons and i am really passionate about it !! cuz my grandfather is russian but i wasn't born in russia and cant speak a word !! ( i mean i can say basic stuff and read cyrilic "menia zavut Ivan" ) LOL , but since i had my 1st lesson in russian today !! if i carry on learning igt with lessons !!! how long does it take until i can :

1. understand russians
2. speak russian with quite a good grammar

you only know English and Spanish?? cause like i want to learn Russian but some people have told me that the grammar and the pronunciation is really difficult to learn..so is it really hard to learn it??

I've looked around and I see three things
-Rosetta Stone
-Pimsleur
-Going and living in Russia...
I don't want to just learn the words, I would like to learn the grammar and the written word too.Could I do this all in about 7 years? Anyways, thanks in advance!

I have been studying Japanese for one year. So I am basically working on Kanji and grammar. I really want to learn both really bad. I'll be going to regular college soon, possibly.... Should I wait to learn Russian or am I at a good point now?

I know that looking at a website written in Korean or something really makes my head hurt. I don't understand how someone can understand that.
I don't only speak ENGLISH, I'm fluent in five languages. I posted a question about Swedish earlier, that's why she answered in that.

I wasn't talking about the "LETTERS" or the "GRAMMAR", I was talking about the "SYMBOLS".

I've already got the alphabet down and all of the sounds, but are there any websites for grammar or vocabulary? And if you speak Russian as a second language, tell me how hard it was. I think it's a lot like English, but maybe that's just me. Can you give me any free websites that you learned from. And if you've used Rosetta Stone, tell me how hard that was and about how long it took you. And yes, I use LiveMocha.

I could use an online translator but I want the grammar and sentence structure to look like I haven't

'English is overrated and Russian is much more romantic. Maybe some people in Britain are trying very hard to learn your language.'
I'm starting to learn spoken Russian, written is a whole other ballgame.

If I could I wouldn't be asking now would I?

Purely grammatically speaking, is Russian or Arabic harder in terms of complexity of grammar for a native speaker of English? Disregard the writing system and the vocabulary (I already know how to read both of the alphabets, and while Russian has a bit more grammar in common with English, I don't think there are too many common ones).

Hello!
I really want to learn Russian, for many many many good reasons, eventually I want to live there.
Anyways, I want to be able to understand the grammar and also be able to understand and speak it.
I can commit atleast an hour to it a day, but what kind of routines, techniques, software, supplies, books, tapes should I try.
I am looking for a routine that will help me.
any other tips would help too.
Thanks

How long do you think it will take to get proficiency in the language and how best should I continue learning? I'm definitely a language person and because I've mastered Latin, I find Russian pretty easy to learn. I've already got to grips with a lot of the grammar in a few weeks and I have enjoyed using linguaphone so far. The trickiest thing by far, is learning vocabulary. How best do you think I should expand my vocabulary? What resources should I use?

Thanks, so much.

I speak English, French and Dutch fluently. I studied latin for 6 years, Greek for 1 year, German for 1 year, Spanish for half a year.
Just so you know, I have learned some languages before, as well as a different alphabet (Greek), and that's not too hard.

The only thing I'm concerned about is the grammar and language/phrase structure. Taking that into consideration, which one is going to be easier to learn?

I'm trying to teach myself Russian, and I've got the grammar and alphabet down. Those aren't the hard parts. But I'm struggling beyond reason with vocabulary. Obviously there aren't any cognates between the languages, which really helped me out when I was learning Spanish. I don't learn things analytically, I learn them through conversation. But since I'm doing this on my own, I don't have anyone to converse with.

Help, anybody?

I am 15 years old, and i am currently learning russian and german.

i am pretty good at german, but russian gives me problems, i really like it. but theres just so much grammar. i have rosetta stone, i have a dictionary, and a good russian course book.i know the cyrilic alphabet pretty well.
but i don't know how i can memorize all of it, I'm going to try to take a college course so somebody will actually teach me. but any tips?

thanks.

Would it be "Что ты хочешь о говорить?"?
Thank you.
I speak some Russian and the online translators usually have bad grammar, so I figured I'd check here. Thanks though. :]]

I took a few years of German in high school and it came easily to me. I think Russian is really awesome and would like to learn it, but because it has such a different alphabet, etc, I'm afraid it will be way too hard. How hard is it to learn, pronunciation-wise, grammar-wise, etc, and what would be an efficient way of learning it?

Like english got 3, german 4... and how many got russian language????
No, I mean in grammar

As much as I know, Russian doesn't have any influence upon (Latin) America, Africa, & Australia, but perhaps it is generally regarded as an important language in Europe & Asia, the question is that, how important is Russian respectively in Europe & Asia. & Is Russian really harder than German in aspects of grammar, cases, gender, & syntax ? And is Russian really much easier than Arabic? Thanks !

I am a Russian girl who wants to learn English language and grammar. I am looking for online English language books for Russians. Can you please help me find resources on internet?

Thank you in advance for your help.

Francesca
Paid if not too costly is alright also.
Note: Somebody else is typing this for me.

I was randomly wondering about the number of tenses in the Russian language. I remember someone once told me that there are around 50-something, and that we don't use a lot of them (from old Russian?) and don't notice when we use the rest. That sounds like an insanely large number, and I have no idea if there's any inkling of truth in it as I've been living in America for 12 years and speak Russian only at home (never formally studied grammar). I'd love to hear any thoughts about this!