Quote Originally Posted by paulb
If you want to be very focused on reading and don't care if you ever speak a word of it, then you can save yourself some time on practicing pronunciation.
You might, indeed. However, unless you're a real bookworm, I would still recommend going out there, listen to the songs, sing the songs in Russian, read poetry aloud, etc. I think the new [possibly unusual] words would sink in much better. And if there was a way of sniffing or touching a language, I would recommend that as well.

Good luck!