Quote Originally Posted by gRomoZeka
Mind of a child differs from one of the adult. And to achieve this near-perfectness she spent every moment of her life actively learning English and hearing English everywhere.
Are you going to give up at least 6 years of your life exclusively to Russian?
Anyway, good luck.
You all make good points. Perhaps I will rethink my plan. At the moment, I just started Rosetta Stone and I'm going through Pimsleur for the second time. I guess my problem is that when I'm using a textbook I get so overwhelmed with the technical jargon, I find that I'm getting frustrated and give up. And many times the vocab lists are too long to retain many of the words.

As I said before, perhaps I will get out my old Penguin book and trudge my way through while I'm using the multi-media things. Thanks everybody for your help and advise...I'm sure I'll have many more questions.