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Are you determined? I can warn you beforehand that the language has many sets of endings for different types of words: nouns decline, adjectives agree (participles agree too!) and the verbs conjugate and govern. You are going to make stupid blunders for a while (you know, even children do not confuse these endings as often as you are going to). Don't give up.
Well... right now I'm feeling pretty determined
The whole "all words decline" thing feels a bit like latin... tried it once... can't say I'm fluent in it
Life's all about making mistakes, if you were to feel stupid for them, well... it would suck to be you
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You may also try this very scary book:
http://www.seelrc.org:8080/grammar/pdf/ ... ussian.pdf
Of course, it is for an advanced level. Otherwise it won't assist you much in learning the language, but will help to fall asleep quickly in the evening if used properly.
Do not forget that Russian is an Indo-European language, after all. Its structure is slightly different from the languages you know, but still quite familiar.
Will check it out! Probably I'll just download it until I feel my brain won't pour out of my ears at the mere sight of it... but eventually I'll get to it
My university has got a couple of "Rosetta Stone" licenses, and they do have russian, so I'll check it out next week and tell you guys about it... seems pretty awesome but still need to try it first hand.
Thank you very much for your comments!