The Power of the Linguist
The Power of the Linguist story is supposed to be titled "Who Is She?" For some reason, the first 19 episodes have this alternative title. It puzzled me for a while, too.
I have been studying Russian from a book for two years. As a result I was pretty good on grammar but poor on pronunciation.
The idea of LingQ is that you listen to all the material many times. If you are a complete beginner the idea is that you start with the simplest material and listen over and over and over until you absorb the sound and structure. I have no experience of using it as a complete beginner, but Steve Kaufmann has taught himself 10 languages including Russian that way, so it works for him.