Learn the alphabet. This part is easy. If you get stuck here, you won't even know what horrors await you. Next get a list of the 1000 most frequent words and start memorizing those. This will help you get off the ground at least. Spend some time learning basic grammar so you can put these together in sentence and hope to decipher what others are saying but not too much because Russian grammar is completely brutal and you're far better off working on vocabulary at the beginning anyway. You'll want to start working on pronunciation and comprehension too, because without this you don't stand a chance at all. Ideally live emersed in Russia to do this, but if you can't listen to music with lyrics and translations can help. Pronunciation is diffult, and I don't really have much advice for that. After maybe 1000 hours at this, you'll be able to travel around without major difficulties but don't expect much more. To take it to the next level you'll need to keep on building your vocabulary and working on grammar. No advice on that because if you make it through the first part you'll know what you're in for and can probably guide yourself. Good luck!
Learn the alphabet. This part is easy. If you get stuck here, you won't even know what horrors await you. Next get a list of the 1000 most frequent words and start memorizing those. This will help you get off the ground at least. Spend _some_ time learning basic grammar so you can put these together in sentence and hope to decipher what others are saying but not too much because Russian grammar is completely brutal and you're far better off working on vocabulary at the beginning anyway. You'll want to start working on pronunciation and comprehension too, because without this you don't stand a chance at all. Ideally live emersed in Russia to do this, but if you can't listen to music with lyrics and translations can help. Pronunciation is diffult, and I don't really have much advice for that. After maybe 1000 hours at this, you'll be able to travel around without major difficulties but don't expect much more. To take it to the next level you'll need to keep on building your vocabulary and working on grammar. No advice on that because if you make it through the first part you'll know what you're in for and can probably guide yourself. Good luck!
Learn the alphabet. This part is easy. If you get stuck here, you won't even know what horrors await you. Next get a list of the 1000 most frequent words and start memorizing those. This will help you get off the ground at least. Spend some time learning basic grammar so you can put these together in sentence and hope to decipher what others are saying but not too much because Russian grammar is completely brutal and you're far better off working on vocabulary at the beginning anyway. You'll want to start working on pronunciation and comprehension too, because without this you don't stand a chance at all. Ideally live emersed in Russia to do this, but if you can't listen to music with lyrics and translations can help. Pronunciation is diffult, and I don't really have much advice for that. After maybe 1000 hours at this, you'll be able to travel around without major difficulties but don't expect much more. To take it to the next level you'll need to keep on building your vocabulary and working on grammar. No advice on that because if you make it through the first part you'll know what you're in for and can probably guide yourself. Good luck!