i know that noone is even talking about vocab and memorize anymore, but i learned a cool trick in german class... i dont know if it will work in russian alphabet... but take about 6 or 7 words... and take the first letter of each word for example туда, дог, реклама, бой, кид,ман,пооп,кандий, ataman and фантикий keep in mind only like 3 of these words is russian. anyways... memorize all 6 of the words, so u can say them in any order, this takes between 5 and 7 minutes... then make up other words with the first letter of each word for example

Ф.a.р.т. and then u will go Fantiki ataman reklama and tuda... and when making up other smaller words is the time to learn the translations... use the same 5 to 10 words untill u can say any word in any order, try to make small sentences so u wontever forget... *maybe this wouldave worked better if i used real words* =P sorri bad example