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Привет! I haven’t started formal study of Russian yet (two months to go!), but from my past few months of self-teaching, I have found some resources that have really helped me get a hang of everything!

Resources

• Russian pronunciation dictionary. Excellent for getting a hang of the way the language is spoken (still struggling with rolling my r’s here…)
  
• Russian cursive sheets + here. Writing in print is an effort, and Russian letters are pretty in cursive. ж is my personal favourite.)
• Duolingo. While it’s hard to get a good grip on rules of grammar through duolingo and it’s not a perfect way to become fluent in a language, this is where I personally started and it does provide an excellent way of being familiar with common words and phrases.
• Duolingo post on 95 Core Concepts in Russian. Read the comments to see other interpretations of concepts.
• Russian cognates. Yay for words that are the same in English.
• Simple outline of the definitions of Russian cases by properrussian. 
• Another page on Russian cases.
• Awesome podcast series, nice to listen while travelling on public transport.

Books

• 501 Russian Verbs (Baron’s Guide). My go to book on verbs :) Easy layout and easy to follow.
  
• Schuam’s Outline of Russian Grammar. A little difficult to get through when starting out, but I currently use it as a reference for some technical parts I struggle with.
  

Random

• My guilty pleasure is listening to Russian pop on Spotify. Seriously, it’s awesome. Try this.
  
• I’m a bit of a baker, so finding something you like and using in another culture has been really fun. Recipes here in English.
• If you want to see some Russian recipes in Russian, have a look at this and this.
• Russian radio stations. 
  

Other

• As for which order to learn everything in, this is something I’m discovering myself. I find the 300 words method detailed here an awesome start to memorising base vocabulary. 300 words can give you the space to write quite a lot! (here’s a link of 300 Russian words)
  
• I was going to write more but going with what works for you, and finding what areas of the language your passionate about is the best way to go. Learning a language is a personal thing! удачи!

Also, if anyone has any resource suggestions for me, send me an ask :)