I agree that motivation is immensely important in learning a language.

I would also like to point your attention to the fact that PERCEPTION (seeing, reading and hearing) comes first, before you actually begin to reproduce speech (before speaking and writing). that is exactly how babies learn to talk. First, they observe e adults around them and then they begin to imitate what they see and what they hear. So how fast you will learn Russian will greatly depend upon how often and how much you are exposed to hearing Russian and reading in Russian, as well as observing Russians articulate sounds and converse.

this website also offers lots of helpful resources. elcome, and May God help you along the way.