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It is more regular because it is fully predictable from the nom and gen sing. There are very few exceptions. While Russian nouns are declined in unpredictable ways especially if we regard the stress....

It is as close to the real Russian pronunciation as Russian хё(р) to English "her". (That's how this and many other words are pronounced by Russians).

The key word here is "slight". What you...

I'm not sure that French and Spanish have fewer inflections than Russian. how many forms does a spanish verb have? Don't forget that obligatory, inseperable unstressed pronouns are a part of the...

The main problem with wrong pronunciation is not that different words can merdge, but that the phonetic image of words and phrases changes significantly and cannot be effortkessly recognized by...

Russian и is English [i:], Russians cannot pronounce fit correctly without special training. I agree with Боб about those long and short vowels.

But they will understand what they don't understand and will make a choice: whether to find other resourses which explain the most important Russsian phonological feature or not. And they won't even...

No. Because the very basic understanding includes the ability to write phonemic transcriptions and understanding that ля is ль+а, and лья is ль+й+а, and that saying лъя or лья instead of ля is a...

Should a v-w distinction be mentioned in a textbook of English or not?
Why do you care so much about the conjugation. Искаю is perfectly understandable as well as Я жить. Are there many situations...

Not at length, but at least somehow correctly. At least the very basic things. How they are pronounced in general (with the middle of the toungue raised towards the roof of the mouth) and Russian...

There are plenty of words and word forms like that. стал - сталь, был - быль, лёд - лот. лыко - лика, стол -столь. школы - школе, лак -ляг, говорит -говорить, мат - мать, перетряхивать -...

Conjugations mean practically nothing in Russian because personal pronouns are usually used with a verb. Cases are rarely important for the sense.

But even that simple thing is not explained in textbooks, it does not take neither much place nor much time, but gives a possibility for a learner to understand what is what in the written form....

how many? Anyway less than lack of distinction between all the Russian hard and soft consonants.
An unfair example. Both pronunciations with the hard and the soft s exist in Russian. But what for...

Russian with English sounds is practically incomprehensible, and you have to understand native speakers as well. Just think of a Russian saying vafe instead of wave, debt instead of dad, вёрт instead...

Entirely wrong expalanations cannot be justified, because they do not help but make big harm to a language learner. I explained why. It is difficult to understand for a native English speaker that...

No, it doesn't. It is absolutely wrong. Sya and ся are as similar as w and v in English. If it is difficult to hear and understand, it must be properly explained and emphasized.
These are all...

I wonder why many textbooks fail to explain that.

All those "guides" must be burnt, because they mislead learners. The pronunciation of a hard consonant and "y" instead of a soft consonant is a typical mistake. lya will be written лъя, in fact.