o.k you've studied the basics, finished a couple of courses. what now? reading of course. PROBLEM: HALF THE TIME OF READING IS SPENT ON SEARCHING IN THE DICTIONARY. the simple solution for this problem is russian accented text (with stress marks) which has translations for difficult words on the side. is that too much to ask? how come the only book ever published in this format (inostranka a russian reader) is out of print? I've searched the net and foud a few places which give you text with translation like learnrussian.com or etext.virginia.cyrillic-mandelstam. but they dont give stress marks! to shame! one exeption is: sussex.ac.uk/units/russian/ruslang whitch give text with audio (it's not the main text look for audio on the side) and literal translations for 4 stories. another good site is: russianmentor.net they have vocabulary modules (no stress marks boohoo! ) but get a look at the "reading and listening" library here's a chance to listen and understand news reports.
IF ANYONE KNOWS A WAY TO READ WITHOUT A DICTIONARY I BEG YOU TO SAVE ME!