Learning Russian

[Ghazban]

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Learning Russian is incredibly hard. It is a language you can only learn by being immersed in it. Speaking it is hard enough - writing... boy...

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I'm a very visual person; reading and writing languages has always been easier for me than speaking/understanding. I know it's going to be wicked hard; I'm just looking for a good way to get into it. I know a whopping 100 words/phrases right now (learned from a friend who is a native speaker and thrown into an Excel spreadhseet) but nothing about grammar, structure, etc.