Quote Originally Posted by Platinum
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.
Yes, use Penguin, it's the best. With Russian, you are not going to make serious progress without sitting down for some hardcore grammar sessions.