Hello, my name is Steve and I am a 17 year old college student living in Chicago Illinois in the USA. I took Russian in high school, and retained basically everything I learned including the history, I am apathetic as far as history is concerned. I hate the Spanish language, as it reminds me of immigrants.

I 'started' learning Russian about 3 years ago, because I was required to in order to graduate. I haven't forgotten anything, except perhaps the really long words I once knew to impress people.

I used special books designed by my high school. I think the third year course was by far most informative, focusing on Nineteenth-century literature.

This once was a great forum but now is going to the proverbial dogs. If you stick around maybe you can balance out the growing crappiness.