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To learn to speak Russian, you absolutely must learn the alphabet and the sounds of the letters. Once you do that, your job is much easier. Russian is very consistent in pronunciation, so you know what most words sound like from seeing the word written.
The position of the stress accent in a Russian word is hard to predict, and it is not shown with a written accent. You will get this by listening to a teacher, or by tapes and CD's.
Russian verbs work differently from English verbs, but they don't have all the tenses that Romance languages do.
The biggest challenge, in my opinion, is the case endings. Memorizing all the case endings may help, but you will probably learn the case endings better by hearing a lot of Russian. Soon your mind will recognize the case endings, and you will use them correctly (most of the time). If you get the endings wrong, Russians will understand you anyway.
A bonus for Russian learners, is the large number of words that are the same in Russian and English.

RussianTutors From Wyzant Face-to-face lessons in Russian. Search in all US states and major cities.
Learn Russian Online From Russian Made Easy.com Lots of audio for learning Russian. This course has recorded audio with a complete transcript of the audio in Russian with Cyrillic characters and an English translation. This is excellent!
Learn Russian Online From MasterRussian.com. A lot of fun ways to learn Russian. Word for the day is just one. AUDIO on Line! See and hear the words!
Learn the Russian/Cyrillic alphabet From Bucknell University This method works!
Learn Russian Online An introduction to Russian with sound by J. David Eisenberg!
Learn Russian Online. Reference grammar From Alphadictionary.com
Learn Russian Online From Russianlessons.net Lesson 1 is an excellent introduction to the Russian alphabet and its sounds.
Learn Russian Alphabet Online From Dorogadomoj.net A simple introduction to the Russian alphabet and its sounds.
Russian sounds at languageguide.org Hear the sounds of the Russian alphabet. Place mouse cursor over a letter.
Russian Spoken Vocabulary: Hear the most common words in Russian at Languageguide.org Mouse over and hear the word spoken. This is fun, and is good for learning and testing yourself.
Russian text to speech at Text-to-speech.imtranslator.net.org Type in Russian text. It reads it aloud in Russian.
Russian Text to Speech From Acapela group.com
Russian Text to Speech at Imtranslator.net
Russian Grammar Online From Bucknell
Russian proverbs From Wikiquote
On Line Encyclopedia in Russian From Wikipedia
Linguistic description of the Russian language From Wikipedia
Description of the Russian language From Answers.com
Read books online in Russian By Project Gutenberg Includes books by Pushkin, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy
HTML Character Codes for Russian From Penn State University Scroll down.
HTML character Codes for Russian From About.com
Russian Keyboard. Type Russian letters From Apronus.com You can copy and paste into a Word document!
Russian keyboard: Type accented Russian letters by Lexilogos Type Russian letters with their accents. You can copy and paste into a Word document!. Instructions in French.
Russian keyboard: Type accented Russian letters From Convertcyrillic.com
Type accented Russian letters by Tomasz P. Szynalski Type Russian letters with their accents without a Russian keyboard. You can copy and paste into a Word document!.
Convert Cyrillic characters to English alphabet by transliteration From Convertcyrillic.com Helps some people read Russian out loud.
Russian Spell Checker. Type Russian letters From Ru.spellcheck.cc
Conjugations of Russian verbs. Perfective and imperfective forms From Masterrussian.com
Russian words same in Russian and French From Editions-harmattan.fr Page is in French. Also has a few English words that are the same in Russian and English.
Some essential Russian words and phrases From Petersburgcity.com

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