I'm new to this forum and just interested about other's people expirience in learning Russian. Mostly you discussing about free sources, site's and so on. I feel kind of advanced in Russian after a year of studying with my tutor and I have no idea who you guys and gals can handle with all these grammar things on your own. Yes, tutor's service isn't cheap but the result makes me feel happy and I'm not sorry about the money I've spent. Moreover, lessons with a tutor bring regularity to the process and I don't let myself loose Initially, I thought I could make with a self-study and I have enough of native Russian-speaker here in Romania but soon I realised how poor and unstructured my knowledge was.
In other words, my question is: do you choose self-studying only becase of the money issue or not?