Reddit reviews Schaum's Outline of Russian Grammar, Second Edition (Schaum's Outlines)
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First, i know it will seem pessimistic of me to ask but; are you guys getting along very well? Most likely one will be better than the other, cause some frustration and will kill the learning process because of ego mismanagement.
If you guys can really work as a team, here's what i suggest:
http://www.amazon.ca/Russian-Learners-Dictionary-Words-Frequency/dp/0415137926/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1300431171&sr=8-1-spell
And follow this man's method, The Goldlist Method:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH6FERpM5fQ (Part one)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTyJiGVJ0LM (Part two)
This will be your main method of vocabulary acquisition. I also recommend:
http://www.amazon.ca/Schaums-Outline-Russian-Grammar-Second/dp/007161169X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1300431298&sr=8-2
and
http://www.amazon.ca/Big-Silver-Book-Russian-Verbs/dp/007143299X/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_b
Yes i know, spending money sucks, but i bought all three of them and not regret my choice at all. Very practical.
Speaking of spending money, if you have money to spend, spend it on a private tutor for both of you. The value of this cannot be stressed enough. He will explain things to you that books can't and will correct your pronunciation and also challenge you by having higher degrees of conversation (like the use of dative instead of instrumental, etc) so that you learn in deep and not just "to get by".
A huge part of language acquisition is the exposition to culture. The longer you expose yourself to russian, the faster and better learners you will be. That means listening to russian music, watching russian videos and movies, reading russian news and get interested in what's happening int he country, speaking russian as much as possible. Immerse yourself in it.
If you do all of this and you really, really dedicate yourself to it and use your couple as a blessing rather than a curse, i guarantee you that in 6 months, your level of russian will be that native russians will not believe you when you will tell them it's всего шесть месяцев :)
Hope this helped, good luck with your russian!
No promises, but I might be able to write up a document. Depends on how much time I got after I'm done grading these calculus papers.
EDIT: This is taking longer than I thought! I might suggest an EXCELLENT grammar book, though: Schaum's Outline of Russian Grammar by James Levine. It's amazingly comprehensive, shows tons of tables, gives example usages, has exercises with keys in the back... we're using it for my Intermediate Russian course right now, and I love it. It might be a bit overwhelming if you're just starting out, though. But even then, if you take it a bit at a time, it can be a huge help.
I'm not sure if I'll keep going with this, because I want to put so much into it (otherwise I feel I'm just rehashing what can already be found online). I'd like to put:
All of this (except the IPA stuff) is featured in Levine's book, anyway. I'd honestly just recommend buying it.