
Originally Posted by
Matroskin Kot Well, in the USA, finding a decent tutor is not easy irrespective of cost, which starts around $20/hr and goes up from there. There are a number of former teachers around, but they don't necessarily know how to teach Russian as a foreign language.
College courses are available, but they are expensive. IMO, they aren't worth the time and money unless you need the degree.
I've tried both self-study courses, and study with a human teacher in Ukraine, and I made SO much more progress with a teacher. Maybe I just got lucky and had an unusually good teacher (no kidding, she was a rock star), but the methods she used were the same ones that all the other teachers used as well, and which had been part of the curriculum for decades.