Quote Originally Posted by pookie123
the best resources i would say are children books.( you have to learn what the sounds the letters make first! you're on your own on that one..use the internet for that!).. get a children's russian book and look at it and get familiar with the words and stuff..try to pronounce the small words..thats what i did...i can read russian quite well now! (i just dont know what half of it means!)
I'd suggest getting some easy reading books published in Russia for foreigners.

In the Soviet Union, educational publishing houses published lots of easy reading stuff for non-Russian children (from Soviet republics other then Russia) studying Russian. Studying Russian was obligatory, and so lots of texts were published. I guess these books can still be found in secod-hand bookstores or something. They had detailed footnotes, stress marks in all words etc.

I guess that such books are still published, even if in lesser numbers.