It's always good to research myself to look for guides. But sometimes I pick one that a native would deem as bad or just downright horrible to learn from. For that reason I've decided I'd ask for help from anyone who knows of a good website to start learning Russian grammar.

I don't plan to start seriously for a few more months as I get the alphabet and sounds down - but it would be nice to have the resources to get started when I decide to.

It would be nice if the words were accentued ... as it's a fondamental feature of the language.

How can one fix errors on the courses? I have just given up a great course because of the excessive numbers of spelling errors.

Hello, I'm extremely new to Russian.
I've just recently gone through the Russian alphabet course and have learned all the characters.
In the first 4 words of this course, there is always a "t" sound pronounced, but there is no "t" letter.
Could anyone help me understand why they are pronouncing a "t" sound?

We want to make Russian a featured language. For a full explanation of what this means, take a look [here](http://www.memrise.com/faq/becoming-a-featured-language/). That is a general explanation of how we are going to go about it. But there are specific issues that make Russian a bit different.

* there is already a lot of good content. I know that Robbie.C and jetfromgladiators among many other have been adding a great deal of excellent content.

* I also know that parrishdj, alexpgp and saelie have been doing some great work on a spreadsheet that makes use of the roots of Russian words and the "depends on" feature that Memrise has so that you can always see and learn the root for a word when you are learning it. We have not yet uploaded that spreadsheet - we should certainly do so very soon!

But before we do, could we put together some final "conventions". Take a look at for example the [Czech](http://www.memrise.com/faq/czech/) ones - they may be a good model, although they do not use the "roots" feature. Should we add this in?

We now have the tools to make this process as fast and easy as possible, so if you let me know your thoughts on altering the conventions, then we can crack on with getting this fixed up!

I've put a few wordlists up, however I am still new to the site. At the moment the site is not asking me to type the Russian word when presented with the English word. I am purely just typing English out. Is this normal?

Okay, how about this? I've added stars to flag up my questions. And we probably need to add something about stresses so that the correct pronunciations are on the site.

What are the "conventions" for adding words to the Russian database?

1. Adding Entries
a). always make sure they don't already exist first.
b). part of speech should be added for every word in the "part of speech" field. 

c). don't use capital letters except for proper nouns.

d). adding alternatives is done through the tab labeled "other".

2. Nouns
a). add the Russian Noun to the Russian field
b). add the English translation *with the indefinite article* to the "English" field.
c). add the English with no article as an "alternative English," and append it with an underscore _ .

d). add the English with the definite article as an "alternative English", and append it with an underscore _.
NOTE: do not do this if by removing the article, you change the meaning of the word (ie, a little should not be alternatively listed as “little”.
NOTE: The underscore, means that it will be accepted as a correct answer but will not be displayed as a meaning during a learning session (which other alternatives will be, very soon, once two-way testing has been introduced.)
e). add the gender in the gender field *for soft sign nouns* (ie not in parenthesis after the word!)
f). *for irregular nouns add genitive*
f). for part of speech, choose "noun"



3. Adjectives
a). add the Russian masculine singular dictionary form.

b). add the English translation

c). add the gender specific Russian alternatives (each as a separate entry) . eg: if the word is высокий add высокая, высокое and высокие
d). for part of speech, choose "adjective"


4. Verbs (infinitives only)
a). add the Russian infinitive in imperfective then perfective form (e.g. хотеть / захотеть)
*how to separate them? I usually do it with a slash as above*
b). add the English infinitive (with the 'to')
c). add the English form without the 'to' in the English alternatives
d). add whether perfective or imperfective
e). for part of speech, choose "verb"
f). for irregular verbs add the third person singular form (or should this go under conjugated?)

5. Adverbs
a). add the Russian adverb into the Russian field
b). add the English translation
c). for part of speech, choose adverb

6. Prepositions
a). add the Russian preposition
b). add the English translation(s)
c). add the case(s) that the preposition may take into the "special properties" field.
d). for part of speech, choose preposition

7. Phrases and Short Sentences
This section is meant for short prepositional phrases, like “по пути” or greetings like “добрый день!” or “Как дела?” and just general short sentences
a). add the Russian phrase or short sentence
b). add the english translation
c). If it makes sense to do so, as a Russian alternative, add the sentence again with/without personal pronoun, ie. for "Как дела?” add “Как у Вас дела?”
d). for part of speech, choose “phrase”
e). when adding phrases, it is useful to add similar, but different phrases at the same time, and to add them as "confusables" of each other. This will mean that the multiple choice tests for each sentence are made a bit harder.

8. Other
This section is meant for anything which does not fit into parts 1 to 6, this would mostly mean one or 2 or so words, of a conjugated verb, noun, adjective etc.. like “я берегу”
a). add the Russian entry
b). add the English translation
c.) for part of speech choose “conjugated”

9. What guidelines should moderators follow?
1. if you are adding a word:

a). make sure it isn't there already
b). if a word with the exact same spelling means two different things, add it as two separate words
1. if you are cleaning up a word:

a). get rid of any errors (this includes errors in accents - the website recognises both with and without accents so there is no need for the non-accented versions!).

b). get rid of anything that appears twice


c). do a general clean-up to get rid of things that don't fit in with the conventions described on this page

d). note that 'alternatives' are listed under the tab 'other'

e). if adding an alternative (either Russian or English), add it as it appears on its own main page (so, following these conventions)

сейчас у мой список слов подключён к языку "английский для англоговорящих". Хотел бы к русскому подключить. Вот только в поле выбора языка нет русского языка. есть польско-русский и русско-французский. неудобненько.