What's the best way to study a language on your own?

As James Bond said: “Brush up on a little Danish”!

A friend has a tutor for Italian. The woman comes to her home once a week, and they speak. She’s been doing this for several years, and is quite fluent.

There are plenty of expensive programs like Rosetta Stone (expensive, because they work…but hurt the wallet something fierce), but my friend learned Japanese by using a lot of flash cards to get down some basic words, and then using anime to help her with pronunciation. It didn’t hurt that she really enjoyed anime, either, and could look at subtitles if she was confused as to a meaning.

I’m not sure what Russia has in the way of movies/television that you can get ahold of, but I’d say it seems like a key component in learning a new language is to surround yourself with it every day.

My wife says that I’m a cunning linguist.

i use rosetta stone. it’s very affective. i also get penpals who speak the language i’m learning and practice with them

You may want to check out some older threads about this topic.

Here are some links for you:

Rosetta Stone thread

One about language tapes

Another Rosetta Stone thread

One about Dutch that may have some good answers

These are just a start. Look up some old threads in the search bar with tags like language, Russian, et cetera. Lots of people have asked this question, and some people may not want to repeat themselves in new threads, so the old ones are worth checking out!

Buena suerte.

Reading stories books is good way to learning language also try to speak with people whom speaks the same language ^_^