It been difficult to work on videos and still make time to learn a language. But learning Russian has been really exciting whenever I do get time to sit and absorb a lesson. So I want to share some of the books and resources I use when I'm studying.  

I'm only useing one notebook for my lessons and notes. It is this red one subject college ruled notebook and its been lasting me a really long time. As shown I have little stickers of numbers and colors on the inside flap for reffernce. I got these stickers from the Russian In 10 Minutes A Day book. The book said to stick them on a clock that you look at often for practice but the main clock I look at is on my phone (lol) so I just stuck them here.

I use most of the stickers from that book in my notebook anyway because it would be pretty dumb to put stickers all over the objects in my parents house, especially things that get touched alot and the stickers would just get worn and faded. :P

So one thing that came to mind to solve this was to go into magazines (my mom + the local library have a ton of old ones they didn't want) and find nice pictures of the things I had labels for and made kind of my own picture dictionary. It was good prectice to say the word in Russian as I looked for it in the magazines, and I think the words have stuck to my memory as well if not better than they would have if I had stuck them around the house.

I picked up the Everything Essential Russian Book because this is more of a full structured lessons type of book that has a lot of great information and question sheets for you to complete at the end of each lesson/chapter. I look to this book A LOT and its actually getting pretty worn and crowded with sticky notes so yea I didnt even bother taking a picture of the inside because its a mess. But a useful mess! I found this DK Visual Russian/English Bilingual Dictionary in a Barnes & Noble in New York and it is super useful but I've found some of incorrect translations in it! I don't know why there are a few clear errors in this copy but its whatever its still really usefull and fun to just flip through and look and learn from sometimes.

They have a bunch of other languages in this series of dictionaries and since I'm planning to learn Arabic after I have a solid grasp on Russian I'm thinking I might get the Arabic DK Visual Bilingual Dictionary.

 I also got this Barron's book from Barnes & Noble as well. It's really useful for when I need fun worksheets for a particular thing I'm leaning, for example numbers, counting roubles, telling time, saying mesurements in russian, etc. I recently found out that this book even covers a bit of information on cases! This was such a pleasant surprise for me to discover int his book because it's something I've really been looking for as much help as I can find on. I scan and print copies of the pages to do the worksheets from this book becuase honestly it's such a nice book and the pages are glossy so I don't even dream of writeing in it but...I'm weird like that about books. It came with a tear out mini bilingual dictionary with a food and drink guide in the back. It also has a genourouse section with cut out flash cards in the back of the book for you to cut out. But I doubt I'll cut them out, besides the Russian In 10 Minutes A Day also has a ton of useful flash cards in the back that I already cut out and use. And I like the ones in 10 Minutes A Day better because they are made of a thick cardstock, so yea, more sturdy than the beautiful, clossy, thin pages of the Barron's Russian book.

 The flash cards I cut out and handy glossary in the back of this book. I don't mind writng in this book and the activites are pretty similar to my Barron's book but I would consider them breif simplified versions.

There are a ton of lables in here that I haven't even got to using yet, which is exciting! Also, to spice things up in my studies I watch the  YouTube channel Be Fluent In Russian. Fedor makes great content that I always enjoy watching because he has a way of teaching that I think fits my learning style. I tell my mom and sublings (becuase they are currently trying to learn spanish and french) that when your looking for a youtuber/channel that teaches the language you want it's good to make sure you kinda click with them and thew way they teach. It sounds silly but I really thing that helps you learn better because I've checked out other channels that teach Russian but they're content and lessons just didn't click for me and never helped me much so I had to shop around on YouTube to find the ones for me. My little sisters and I joke that I watch Be Fluent In Russian because it's like having a personal guy tutor

who's kinda hot but I actually watch it becuase it's good content that I find easy to learn from.

So yea and the way I usually watch them is on my phone while I study from my books as kind of a supliment to my lessons. It's really great to hear how a native speaker pronounces words and phrases. Super handy!