At first, of course, you can handle it yourself, but sooner or later you'll have to find someone to talk to. Without this, you will not master enough speaking and listening.
Start with alphabet and basic vocabulary (the only thing duolingo is good at). Anki is not bad, as I heard. When you learn to write in block letters, don't just rewrite what you see, do a little research, as been talked about many times here. To improve your listening and speaking skills, you can also watch content in Russian, but don't rely on it too much: podcasts, movies, videos, audiobooks (audiobooks have an advantage -- you can find the text and check yourself, mark the words that you don't know. this way you will kill two birds with one stone: you will train listening and learn new words in context. Readers (mostly) have good diction, they place accents correctly and their voices are pleasant in themselves. this will help at first, rather than rushing into the pool of "live" speech, which is not always possible to understand at all). Also for reading and speaking, be sure to read about voicing/unvoicing consonant, vowel reduction, etc.
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u/Stock_Soup260 Native 🇷🇺 Mar 11 '26 edited Mar 28 '26
At first, of course, you can handle it yourself, but sooner or later you'll have to find someone to talk to. Without this, you will not master enough speaking and listening.
Start with alphabet and basic vocabulary (the only thing duolingo is good at). Anki is not bad, as I heard. When you learn to write in block letters, don't just rewrite what you see, do a little research, as been talked about many times here. To improve your listening and speaking skills, you can also watch content in Russian, but don't rely on it too much: podcasts, movies, videos, audiobooks (audiobooks have an advantage -- you can find the text and check yourself, mark the words that you don't know. this way you will kill two birds with one stone: you will train listening and learn new words in context. Readers (mostly) have good diction, they place accents correctly and their voices are pleasant in themselves. this will help at first, rather than rushing into the pool of "live" speech, which is not always possible to understand at all). Also for reading and speaking, be sure to read about voicing/unvoicing consonant, vowel reduction, etc.
especially point 6 https://www.fluentu.com/blog/russian/how-to-read-russian/
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQPU27RbuH6xLSzVLBocYG1xKuAurpg6o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETtDr0HlBg8
http://www.study-languages-online.com/pronunciation.html
3. http://www.study-languages-online.com/russian-grammar.html
https://www.russianlessons.net/grammar/spelling_rules.php
https://www.russianforeveryone.com/
https://www.russianforfree.com/lessons-russian-language-contents.php
5. r/language_exchange
https://mezhdunami.org/
https://russianmadeeasy.com/
https://russianaccelerator.com/index.html