If you have been studying for only one year, then I'm not sure whom you're chatting with but it cannot be much more than just basic how-do-you-do. I have been through all of Pimsleur, as well as all of Michel Thomas Russian, studied vocabulary and grammar, etc. As mentioned already, I have given up numerous times, and then after maybe a year or two, I come back. Of the 16 years, I have probably been studying full time only about 4-5. K