Systematiker wrote:I wonder if there's been lists made (that are accessible!) of loan words in Russian from various languages. It would go a long way toward getting that "free" (if not high-frequency or particularly useful) vocabulary for me.
I am not sure if I am allowed to post links. Here is one: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Russian/Loanwords
I am figuring out that a beginner needs only some resources: A list of easy-to-hard frequency words (8000 or so words)
Loan word list
list of cognates
a book showing how phrases (aka sentences) are put together
At least 100 verbs and their conjugations in the Nominative form (the rest will come but in Nominative, you can communicate).
A few parallel text books
Youtube Russian teachers that you can watch