Learning Russian

I am trying to teach myself Russian.  So far I have listened to some tapes and I engaged the services of two tutors for a while but I ended that.  I hired them online and they taught me over skype.  It was pretty cool and if I start doing better financially I might do it again.  One step I am taking now is constructing some flash cards.  I also downloaded a bunch of e-books and tapes.  I mean purchased legally.

Here is my first set of flash cards, 1-5 of the most common words in Russian.  I got them from this book 10,000 Russian words in frequency order.

http://quizlet.com/46796739/russian-vocab-1-flash-cards/

I think flash cards are a decent way to learn.  Targetted focused learning.  I really like the Brainscape approach as well!  I quite enjoy learning new languages.  Recently I deactivated facebook.  I spend a lot of time online so I guess I should spend it doing more productive things than just scrolling newsfeeds and getting into arguments with people.

I plan to document my progress learning Russian.  So far I am fairly novice.  I know a few words.  Maybe 20?  25?  And I have a rough idea about grammar.  I have a long way to go!  I want to learn a lot of different languages.  I think I will focus on Russian first.  I also need to learn French, Spanish, Mandarin, Arabic... and plenty others.  What else should I learn aside from languages?  Economics of course.  History I suppose.  There are so many things to learn!

Recently I did tape one of Pimsleur's something and something Russian.  Speak and Learn?  Listen and Speak and Learn?  These things have the silliest titles.  That's all for now.  Zak Out.

P.S. I have more vocab sets and will be posting them in subsequent posts.  I've got another one for the alphabet sounds.