I want to learn Russian and am just starting with the alphabet so far.

I have the "complete idiots guide to learning russian" that is by no means a comprehensive exercise on the language, but hopefully will give me the bare necessities to get started, like simple grammar and the alphabet and etc and it came with a CD to give me a simplest idea of how to pronounce the sounds.

I was going to get the new penguin russian course too after I go through this simple one.

Any other tips to get started?

Joe