hi, i'm new here. sometime last year, i decided that i wanted to learn russian, so i bought a few books, and learned a few phrases here and there, but soon had to give up that time learning russian in order to work on my actually class studies.

now that i'm out of highschool, i'll be attending a college that teaches russian... so, just a few questions for you wonderful people here:

1. would starting off learning russian at college be a good idea, or should it be something that i should try and learn at my own pace?

2. (warning, pretty dumb question) i've also taken an interest in the modern greek language. seeing as the russian alphabet, and the greek alphabet are slightly alike, would learning greek after russian (or visa versa) be a little easier (like learning italian or french after learning spanish) than just learning it alone?

thanks in advance to anyone who helps.

--hannah.