How to Learn Russian: The Complete Guide from Zero to Fluency from a Russian Tutor
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After a decade of teaching Russian, a degree in linguistics, thousands of lessons with students of all levels, and having taught Russian for the US Army, I've developed an extensive answer.
In This Guide:
Step 1: Get Clear on Your Goal
Step 2: Don't Overcomplicate It
Step 3: Understand the Basics of the Language
Step 4: Find a Professional Teacher
Step 5: Build a Study Structure
Step 6: Spaced Repetition Is the Secret
Step 7: Build a Vocabulary Foundation
Step 8: Learn Russian Grammar in the Right Order
Step 9: Input and Immersion
Step 10: Start Communicating
Step 11: Make Russian Yours
Step 12: The Joy Rule
This is an actual, real thing, step-by-step roadmap to how to learn Russian from zero.
Step 1: Get clear on your goal
Before you buy books or download apps, get clear on 3 things:
• Why am I learning Russian?
• What is my actual goal?
• What level do I need to reach that goal?
The reason getting clear on your goal matters is that it determines what type of Russian you need.
Someone preparing for a two-week trip to Moscow does not need the same level of Russian as someone who wants to read Dostoevsky in the original.
Likewise, not every learner needs the same balance of skills. If your goal is reading novels, reading comprehension is your top priority. If you're learning it for your significant other, speaking will likely matter much more.
Many people can achieve their goals at a much lower level than fluency and that’s reassuring. Your learning plan should be built around your specific destination. Once you know where you're going, it's much easier to estimate how long it will take to get there.
Then look at your life realistically:
• How busy are you?
• How much time can you truly dedicate each week?
• How much time will it realistically take to reach your goal?
Now write down the answers to these 6 questions. When students come for a trial with me that’s what I ask them and that’s what I write down first thing.
Now, before we move on, let me tell you the two things I see in almost every successful student, which will probably be the two most important points I would want you to take away from this article:
Schedule your Russian lessons. And: Learn to enjoy the process.
Without a schedule, most people drift, and without enjoyment, most people will eventually quit.
I used to hate the phrase: “If it’s not scheduled, it’s not happening” because it’s too simple, yet decisive. It keeps proving itself to be true with any goals, be it learning a language or anything else involving consistency.
The most successful students are usually the most orderly with their schedule.
I found that if you simply pick a dedicated lesson slot in a week and just stick to it religiously, it already increases your chances to learn the language by a lot.
Step 2: Don’t overcomplicate it
So, you want to learn Russian. One of the very first things is obviously learning how to read Russian.
Russian reading is actually much easier than many people expect because, for the most part, we're simply sounding words out as they're written.
Russian has 33 letters and, to simplify, you can think of them as representing 33 sounds. Once you learn the sounds that the letters make, you can read. That's it.
One mistake I see all the time is when people start with learning the alphabet, which is learning the names of the letters. You don't need that. Because you are not trying to spell the words out on the phone or go do a spelling contest on TV, instead you’re trying to read. And this example illustrates the principle I want you to adopt - I want you to always focus on going straight to usage.
Learn and practice what gives you highest returns and feel free to deprioritize everything else.
Or another example, handwriting. If your goal is to speak Russian, travel, communicate with family, you do not need cursive handwriting right away.
Can you learn it later? Of course. Should you learn it eventually? Probably. But most beginners don't need it on day one and that’s my main principle for beginners: only learn what you need and don’t make it harder than it should be.
Step 3: Understand the Basics of the Language
The next thing I'd do is figure out what is the same and what is different between Russian and my native language.
Say, your native language is English. Now let’s examine how Russian is different from your native language.
Russian has nouns. Russian has verbs. That part is familiar.
But Russian doesn't have articles like "a" and "the." Differences like this change how you build sentences and how you think while speaking.
Do not expect Russian to have the same structure as English. If all you needed to produce a sentence in Russian was to translate every word in your English sentence and say it out loud you would not need language teachers.
When you translate a text, do not expect to be able to translate a sentence linearly, as Russian will have free word order.
When you listen to a speech, do not expect the same phonetic system and pronunciation.
If you keep failing to be understood, chances are you are failing to produce the sounds or intonation that is decisive for understanding. Having an accent is totally acceptable, but you would not want to mess up the sounds that are most crucial.
Don’t expect to translate a culturally specific saying literally, something like: “touch base” and to be understood.
After understanding how grammar and pronunciation are different, I would learn just enough to start speaking. Not all of it and not even most of it, but just enough.
And for grammar I don't understand yet? I'd chunk it. By chunking, I mean memorizing useful phrases without worrying about the explanation for now.
For example: Меня зовут Алла.
Most beginners do not need a deep grammatical explanation of why it's меня instead of я.
Just learn the phrase as a token of meaning and start using it. The explanation can come later. You don’t need to understand everything before you can use anything.
On the other hand, there is grammar you absolutely need to understand before speaking because that will benefit you.
I’m talking about the grammar patterns that unlock the most meanings for you, like learning that if you take verbs that look like “делать, читать, играть” and then add an ending -л or -ла, (depending on your gender), you will effectively produce a past tense form meaning “I was doing”.
Learning the right grammar in the correct order is really a language learning hack! So, keep learning the crucial basics that are productive and useful and don’t worry about the rest at first. But it’s hard to identify what is useful and what is not on your own, which takes us to the next step…
Step 4: Find a professional teacher
I would get a good teacher immediately; don’t waste your time and make sure you’ll find a professional who will not waste your time either.
The quality of guidance matters enormously. Also, having a real human being look you in the eyes each week gives you an accountability check.
Many beginners try to save money by booking a cheap tutor. On the surface, paying $20 per lesson seems like an obvious win.
A good teacher can explain a complicated concept in a few lessons, whereas a cheap unprofessional tutor will be dragging it through dozens of lessons and still leave you confused, so the math might be in favor of quality after all.
All I would say is, don’t hijack your progress from the very beginning.
Now let’s talk about: how many lessons per week do you need?
For most people, one or two lessons per week is enough.
If you need Russian for work, school, or some serious professional goal, three or more lessons per week can make sense.
One strong recommendation: never do biweekly lessons.
I see this all the time: people decide that every other week feels manageable and then they miss one lesson and now you have a huge gap, an entire month has gone by without meaningful practice. Same goes for frequently rescheduling/cancelling your lessons.
Stick to your weekly lessons religiously and it will pay off.
Language learning depends on momentum. Once momentum disappears, progress slows dramatically.
And please don't assume that every native speaker is automatically a teacher!
Teaching is a profession. A good teacher can save you hundreds of hours. A bad teacher can convince you that you're bad at languages when the real problem was the instruction.
And a native speaker who doesn’t know how to explain a concept but keeps trying to anyway, can convince you that “the Russian language is just super hard, no one knows why we say it like this”. Ever heard that?
I've seen students arrive carrying years of frustration that had nothing to do with their ability and everything to do with how they were taught.
Step 5: Build a Study Structure
Here’s the structure I suggest to my beginner students depending on their goals:
Light Plan (busy adults)
• 1 lesson per week
• 20–30 minutes of review of your last lesson’s notes before each lesson
• 5 minutes of vocabulary review every morning
• About 15 minutes of language input per day
This is enough to make good progress if you're consistent.
Standard Plan (what I recommend to most students)
• 1–2 lessons per week
• 1 hour of homework/review a week
• 10 minutes of vocabulary review in the morning
• 10 minutes of vocabulary review before bed
• Around 30–60 minutes of language input per day
This is the structure for most adult learners who need real, visible progress.
Intensive Plan (hardcore mode)
• 2–3 lessons per week
• 2 hours of review and homework a week
• 15 minutes of vocabulary review in the morning
• 15 minutes of vocabulary review before bed
• At least one hour of language input per day
This is the type of schedule I would recommend if you have an ambitious goal or need Russian professionally.
When I say language input, I don't mean sitting down to study. I mean reading, listening, and watching what naturally interests you throughout the week.
Watch YouTube, listen to podcasts, read simple texts. Follow Russian creators, save Russian memes. Listen to music and read the lyrics you feel like looking at. In other words, spend time with the language in ways that feel alive.
Unlike lessons and homework, language input is not something I recommend scheduling.
You need to naturally want to reach for this material. You need to make sure you’re having daily contact with the language, and you need to make it joyful and automatic and never dreaded or heavy.
Then, make it easy to be consistent. Attach your Russian learning to the habits you already have, to the things you already do throughout your week:
• Review notes after your morning coffee.
• Listen to Russian while walking, driving, or doing chores.
• If you like language apps, do 5-10 minutes before bed.
Even five minutes a day adds up. Five minutes a day becomes 35 minutes a week. Short daily contact with the language beats one long weekly homework session, and I will tell you more about it in the next section on spaced repetition.
What I want you to take away from this chapter is the less you rely on willpower, the better. If you rely on scheduling your lessons + maintaining small habits + reaching for content that naturally interests you, you will be dramatically more likely to stay consistent.
Step 6: Spaced repetition is the secret.
If you asked me to give you a secret, a hack, a reliable tool to learn a foreign language I would tell you about spaced repetition. If you embed it in your learning structure, it will give you significant results combined with the rest of the steps.
Spaced repetition is a technique for moving information from short-term memory into long-term memory. Using it or not is up to you but if you told me, you are a serious learner who needs results, I would absolutely advise you to structure your learning around it.
Spaced repetition means instead of reviewing vocabulary once and moving on, you revisit it multiple times over weeks and months with increasingly growing intervals.
There are studies on what type of intervals work best for our brain and there are real mathematical findings, but the core is:
Each delayed review tells your brain: "This word is still important. Don't throw it away."
That's why spaced repetition is used by serious language learners, medical students, pilots, and anyone else who needs to remember large amounts of information for long periods of time.
Spaced repetition simply means reviewing information right before you're about to forget it.
Each time your brain forgets a word your teacher just told you, what it does is simply asking you to decide: do you really need it in your long-term memory, or can we delete it and save up space? If you retrieve the word, the memory path grows. Each time you retrieve it again, the path grows more.
You don't need a complicated app to do this. The simple method I use is the 3-folder system.
Create three folders on your phone, computer, or in a physical binder:
Folder 1: New. Words and phrases you've learned this week.
Folder 2: Learning. Words you've already reviewed a few times but don't know automatically yet.
Folder 3: Known. Words that feel easy and familiar.
When you review what you have learned so far, move cards between folders.
If a piece of information is easy, move it forward. If you've forgotten it, move it back. That's the system.
You can do it with your lesson notes or flashcards.
Some students print sheets out and keep them in three folders. Others create three albums on their phone and move screenshots between them.
Now to the frequency of review.
My practical language learning version looks like this:
Lesson day. Review your notes, flashcards, or script for 5–10 minutes before bed.
The next morning. Review again with your coffee.
The weekend. Spend 10–15 minutes going through everything you learned during the week.
Before your next lesson. Quick review of the previous lesson's material.
End of the month. Do one larger review the first of each month (or any dedicated date of each month, really) covering everything you've learned so far and use it as a monthly checkpoint of your progress.
That's already enough spaced repetition to dramatically improve retention.
I'd use spaced repetition early on if you are serious about your language learning goals.
Whether you use the 3 folders method or an Anki app it doesn't matter nearly as much as consistency, so pick your poison.
And if that sounds too complicated the easiest version of reviewing your notes is this:
Take pictures of your notes or flashcards, save them as images in one dedicated album on your phone.
Whenever you have five minutes in your day, review them. You don't need a complicated system. You need a system you'll actually use.
Step 7: Build a Vocabulary Foundation
I would use a frequency dictionary instead of an alphabetical dictionary and set a goal of learning the 500 most frequent words.
If you want an even better system, I have a “Russian for Beginners. The Essential Vocabulary Builder and Speaking System” PDF on my site.
There you can find a full learning system arranged around the idea that the most frequent words matter the most in the early stage of learning.
Learn the first 500 most frequent Russian words.
Why? Because language follows the Pareto principle: a relatively small number of words appear over and over again. Not me being nerdy again, but seriously, just look at this:
Depending on the study and the type of language being analyzed, the 500 most frequent words can account for roughly 65–75% of everyday speech and text.
As a foundation, I'd focus on:
• 100 high-frequency nouns
• 50 essential verbs
• 50 essential adjectives
• Personal pronouns
• Common prepositions
• Connector words like "and," "then," and "because"
• 50 survival phrases
The order I use with my students, and the same order I use in my Vocabulary Builder PDF, is based on communication rather than grammatical categories.
First, learn how to interact. Learn greetings, politeness, simple questions, survival phrases, and conversation chunks. Learn how to introduce yourself and keep a conversation going.
Then build vocabulary around your actual life: your family, home, food, hobbies, work, travel, shopping, emotions, weather, and daily routines.
Next, I would learn numbers, quantities, age, and time expressions chunked, with no underlying grammar because it’s unnecessary to dive into that.
After that I would learn the most frequent verbs like “to do”, “to speak”, “to help”.
Learn how Russian verbs behave in the present tense first, that is how to say “I do” vs. “He does”. First focus on how to talk about yourself for the most part, how to express what you do, what you like, where you go.
After verbs, learn your numbers, days of the week, and seasons.
Then learn how to describe things using adjectives (descriptive words like big/small) and adverbs (words like well/poorly). A cool hack is to learn them in opposites cause that’s how our brain stores them anyways: big ↔ small.
Then learn how to connect ideas not only through "and/but," but other glue words too that will help you build longer sentences.
Learn your question words in context, instead of just learning “how much”, learn it in a phrase that will be useful, like “how much does it cost?”.
I'd also learn a set of toolbox phrases that allow me to learn more Russian through Russian:
• How do you say that?
• How do you spell that?
• How do you say that in English?
• Please translate that.
• Please write that down for me.
The rest would be chunking useful sentences you would expect to encounter in real life, which gets you conversational fast without having to build everything from scratch through grammar, think full ice breakers like “do you have any pets?”.
On top of that, Russian shares a huge number of similar loanwords that are called cognates, like “telephone – телефон” or “doctor – доктор” I would absolutely take advantage of that.
I’d highly recommend you get the Vocabulary Builder PDF I made that gives you all that in one place and I’d print it out so you can work with it however you want.
Step 8: Learn Russian Grammar in the Right Order
The first thing I would do is learn how to recognize noun gender. Gender is one of the most important organizing principles in Russian and understanding it early makes many other grammar topics easier later on.
Next come Russian verbs. I would start by learning how Russian endings change in the present tense depending on who is performing an action: I, you, he, they…and then I’d memorize the common irregular verbs and the ways they change.
Once that foundation is in place, I would add verbs of motion, things like I go vs. I went, I drove vs. I walked but I would cap it at the useful basics only.
After that comes the tense system: present, past, and future. But for beginners I would cap it at learning how to say: “I am doing, I was doing, I will be doing” – «Я делаю, я делал, я буду делать», which would only refer to describing a process.
Of course you should learn the rest of the system later, but this would be your very first step.
Next: learn that, if you want to describe a masculine noun you will need a masculine adjective for it, if you want to describe a feminine noun, you’d need a feminine one and so on. See, building a grammatically correct sentence is like Lego. Some pieces go together; some don’t match.
Since you’re already learning the Russian adjectives, learn that to make Russian adverbs out of adjectives all you need to do is to erase the adjective’s endings and replace them with the ending -o. That will make it an adverb. This is an example of working smart, and not hard. That’s how you use productive patterns to your benefit.
And just like that, from the word “хороший” a descriptor meaning “good”, you are getting an adverb “хорошо” that means “well”.
Then I would learn how Russian describes position and location. How to talk about where things are, where people are, and where actions take place.
Finally, I would tackle cases. Tackle, not learn the entirety of it. This is where my approach differs from many traditional courses.
Most students are introduced to cases almost immediately and then comes heavy “grammar”. I prefer to postpone them until students already have enough vocabulary and grammatical intuition to understand what cases are actually doing.
Besides, yes, you can speak without cases and people will still understand you versus if you mess up your tenses referring to today/tomorrow people will not understand you.
Instead of memorizing charts from day one, I want students first to notice a deeper question:
Why are Russian nouns changing at all? For example: мама → маму → маме → мамой
The word itself hasn't changed. It's still "mom." What changes is the role that word plays in the sentence.
English often expresses these relationships using word order and extra words such as "to," "with," or "about." Russian often expresses them through endings instead.
Once you understand that idea, cases stop looking like random rules and start looking like a system. A system that allows Russian to have a free word order, place its nouns wherever it wants to in a sentence and still know who is doing what.
That said, I wouldn't learn all six cases at once and try to memorize all the charts related to cases. In my first months I would start with the three cases that give beginners the highest return:
Accusative: for talking about things you see, buy, love, want, use…
Я люблю пиццу. I love pizza.
Prepositional: for talking about location and topics.
Я живу в Москве. I live in Moscow.
Я думаю о семье. I am thinking about my family.
Instrumental: for talking about being with someone or using something.
Я с мамой. I am with my mom.
Я пишу ручкой. I write with a pen.
As my first step, I would only focus on changing the endings of the feminine nouns and see how well that sticks at first. Once those feel comfortable, the remaining become much easier to add.
If you learn all this grammar in this exact order you are good to go. You can read and watch the majority of what you want to read and watch, and even though you won’t understand 100 percent of it you will be able to understand enough to move forward and meaningfully interact with the language. Also, you will be able to hold a simple everyday conversation if you learn all the above.
And of course, your learning should continue, but all of the above would already constitute a beginner conversational level.
And as you go further, always remember that there are things that make sense learning first and there are things for later. And there is also plenty of grammar information you do not need to learn at all, some grammar is better left alone and offered to academics to scrutinize.
The way to decide what is useful to learn vs. what is not is simple: if you catch yourself doing heavy theory, you’re on the wrong path. If you see how this rule will unlock productive speech you’re doing it right.
Step 9: Input and Immersion
Now let’s talk more about language input, as I’ve advised you before to make it a big part of your learning routine.
Simply put, the idea of language input is reading, watching and listening not for full understanding, but for exposure.
Start with beginner-friendly content. But don't stay there forever. As soon as possible, start mixing in content that is slightly above your level: books, movies, TV-series, YouTube, Russian memes.
Find your own balance between comprehensible and interesting.
Some learners do best with mostly beginner materials and occasional challenges. Others enjoy alternating between the two: learner content on some days and more difficult but genuinely engaging, more authentic content on others.
Many learners underestimate how much they can learn from material they don't fully understand. Personally, I think what most learners need is permission to try more difficult content earlier than seems appropriate.
You can even start reading Dostoevsky after a few months, if your tolerance for ambiguity is high enough, you have my permission. You won't understand all of it, but that's not the point.
You can learn from a text even if large parts of it are still blacked out to your brain. Maybe you understand 20%. Maybe 40%. That's enough to start building familiarity with the language.
One thing though: as you are looking for the texts to read, don't pick up books made for native Russian children. Those books were written for children who already speak Russian. They're often full of vocabulary that is completely irrelevant to beginner foreign learners.
You do not need to learn the names of the animals that live in the forest before learning how to order food, talk about your family, or describe your day.
Start with materials designed for learners. Then gradually move toward things that genuinely interest you.
During your language input activity, you are also not required to stop every minute and translate every unfamiliar word.
Follow the main idea, follow and enjoy the plot. Your brain is constantly building connections and filling in gaps, often long before you consciously start noticing it.
Language acquisition is not an all-or-nothing process. Your understanding will grow gradually.
So don’t wait, read books you'd want to read at a higher level. Listen to podcasts you'd enjoy if you already spoke Russian. Watch YouTube channels and TV series you'd naturally choose in your native language.
Language acquisition happens through repeated contact with the language, and the goal is to surround yourself with enough Russian that it starts feeling familiar rather than foreign.
Soak your brain in the Russian language so it feels almost like immersing yourself in a different reality.
You can still recreate the benefits of language immersion even without moving abroad.
Step 10: Start Communicating
At some point, every learner faces the same question:
When should I start speaking?
My answer is: earlier than you think.
Many beginners wait until they feel "ready." The problem is that confidence usually comes from speaking, not before speaking.
But let’s make a mental shift. What if you are being asked not to start speaking, but to start communicating.
To simply be successful in getting your message through.
At the beginning, your only goal is to be successful in exactly that – delivering the message, no matter how imperfectly and no matter after how many takes.
If someone understands you, you succeeded. Even if you forgot the word for “dog” and used “woof-woof” instead to ask if they have one. Even if you gestured at your wrist instead of asking “What time is it?”. Did they understand you? Good. You passed.
Real life is not a grammar test. Real life is buying a cup of coffee in Russian. If you got the coffee, you won. That said, learners differ.
Some people are natural talkers. They enjoy experimenting with the language immediately, even if they make mistakes every other sentence.
Others prefer a longer silent period. They like observing, listening, reading, and building confidence before they start speaking. That's perfectly normal too.
In fact, many successful learners spend many months absorbing the language before they begin speaking comfortably.
The important thing is not whether you speak on Day One or after a year. The important thing is that you eventually move from consuming the language to using it.
When you do start speaking, you're going to sound like a child, and that’s perfectly acceptable. Sometimes only your teacher will understand you.
A good teacher knows how to switch between two roles.
The first is the Language Coach: explaining grammar, correcting mistakes, and helping you improve.
The second is the Language Parent: understanding your broken Russian, encouraging communication, and helping you express yourself without overwhelming you.
Beginners need both. But in my experience, they especially need the second one.
This is one reason I generally prefer private lessons over group classes.
A good private lesson allows the teacher to adjust the pace, explanations, speaking practice, and homework to your specific needs. You also get dramatically more speaking time.
That doesn't mean group classes are bad.
Some people genuinely thrive in groups. They enjoy the social aspect, the energy of learning alongside other people, and even the competition that comes with it.
But if your primary goal is efficiency, private lessons are usually the fastest path forward.
If you can, finding native speakers to practice with outside your lessons is a great, great way to become conversational faster. Though what you must be careful about is not to make them your teachers.
Many native speakers overwhelm beginners and explain things incorrectly without realizing it.
Learn from your teacher and practice communicating during your lessons, get additional practice with native speakers if you can, and gradually build the confidence to use Russian outside the classroom more.
Step 11: Make Russian Yours
Most language learners spend years learning suggested vocabulary topics. But one of the biggest shifts in language learning happens when you stop consuming Russian and start creating Russian.
Start with creating scripts. This is one of the most underrated language-learning techniques. I'd write scripts about:
• myself
• my family
• my friends
• my work
• my hobbies
• my daily routine
• why I'm learning Russian
Then I'd practice them until I could say them quickly and confidently.
Most beginner conversations revolve around these exact topics anyway. Having them prepared dramatically increases confidence and it can legit make an impression that you know more Russian than you actually do, lol. Practice them and rehearse them consistently.
At some point, you need to start building a Russian that reflects your actual life.
Keep a running list on your phone of words and phrases you genuinely want to use. Your hobbies, your profession, things you won’t find in textbooks. The thoughts you keep finding yourself unable to express.
You can just keep it in your Notes app. This becomes your personal Russian database.
I also recommend keeping a diary/journal in Russian. You can even get one with a little lock on it if you live with Russian native speakers and don’t want them to see it, lol.
Write about what you did, what you saw, what you learned, what you're planning to do…
Don't show it even to your teacher. This one is not for performance and your mistakes don't matter.
The goal is simply to use the language.
When you're writing about your own life, collecting your own vocabulary, and expressing your own thoughts, Russian stops being a subject and starts becoming your language.
Step 12: The Joy Rule
I've spent this entire article talking about lesson frequency, vocabulary goals, grammar order, study plans, and spaced repetition.
And all of those things matter.
But after teaching Russian for a decade, I've noticed something else:
The most successful learners are usually not the most disciplined. They're the people who can't wait to get back to Russian.
They finish a lesson and immediately look something up. They find a Russian native speaker to text with. They start noticing Russian memes on their feed. They open YouTube and somehow end up watching Russian videos for fun.
They begin writing little notes to themselves in Russian. Some even start making their first humble attempts at poetry long before they're ready.
In other words, Russian stops being something they study and starts becoming something they're curious about.
Find what excites you and ditch what doesn’t. If the movie is boring, watch a different movie. If the book feels like homework, put it down.
If grammar is driving you crazy, go do something else in Russian. Listen to Russian music on repeat or listen to a Russian guided meditation before bed if that feels more manageable.
The specific activity matters less than your willingness to come back tomorrow.
The learners who succeed are the people who become genuinely interested in the language and keep finding reasons to spend time with it.
And when that happens, consistency stops being a problem. You no longer need motivation hacks because you're naturally spending time with the Russian language. That's why I consider enjoyment a real learning strategy.
If you only remember 5 things from this guide:
1) Schedule your Russian: the most successful students are usually the most consistent with their schedule.
2) Learn the most useful things first: high-frequency vocabulary, useful grammar patterns, and real-life phrases chunked.
3) Spend time with the language every day: 5 minutes daily beats one giant study session that keeps being postponed.
4) Don't wait until you're ready. You don't need perfect grammar to start communicating.
5) And learn with joy. The learners who become fluent are often the ones who fell in love with Russian.
That said, I hope you've enjoyed reading this article. And if you have made it through the entire guide of 6000 words about Russian learning, you're probably the type of person who can actually learn Russian.