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We'll you can put off Russian reading for right now if you want, but still focus heavily and learning vocabulary and building CONVERSATIONAL Russian skills by having conversations. The best way to teach grammar is to model it in simple sentences that grow increasingly complex, and use your words everyday!!! AS time passes have an Russian Room, where Russian is spoken, and have a Russian meal, a time where the whole family speaks in Russian and listens in Russian and has conversations in Russian. Find Russian Cartoons online, order Russian childrens DVD's and learn about Russia and study Russia. Don't learn numbers, letters, counting and generic greetings first. Learn them 51st. Unless you routinely tell your kids good morning, how are you. Don't teach them that in Russian first. Teach them to say things that "this one" and "please" in Russian, because those are 2 words that kids use ALL the time. (ie I want --THIS ONE, PLEASE.)

Start today, teaching Russian vocabulary and basic reading skills. Kids can learn to read 2 languages without great pain if you do it right. I learned to read Arabic as a child, it was no major problem. Arabic and English have different alphabet, Russian uses the cryllic and English the latin alphabet, it shouldn't be a problem. Anyway, put up labels (3x5 cards) around the house and make it your mission to begin learning vocabulary for around the house things. Focus on one room every several days. Learn the words for "my" and "yours" and all their variants. Slowly stop saying "put on your shoes" and say "go put on your --SHOES--." Then --Your shoes-- --go--put on --your shoes-- Don't teach Russian as a foriegn language but as an everyday living one. Learn 100 conversational phrases this year and use them regularly, learn lots and lots and lots of vocabulary. USE your vocabulary. Get one of those first 1000 words in Russian books and make some simple games to play in Russian. Teach how to say things like "my turn" "your turn" "where is the..." "lets read this book" "what is this?" etc... As you progress, use more and more Russian throughout your day. With in a month or two, depending on how well you're progressing, change one room to a Russian room. or have Lunch only in Russian. You should work your way up to being able to speak Russian for several minutes with more and more dependence from English.

What subjects/topics/ age ranges are you looking for? You probably don't need to go to Russia, though by the time you're done paying the Shipping fees for importing a decent library, you might wish that you had just gone to Russia. You might try your hand ate translating books like Are You my Mother and using sticky notes/index cards to paste in the translations. Many books are easy because they have such straightforward dialogue to them, though you may need to get creative with sound effects such as splat or yuck.

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