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English is my native language. tips i can give: if you've never had experience with a fully inflected language, be prepared to deal with declined nouns, conjugated verbs, and some very foreign constructions. none of the other languages i speak are really related to Russian though. they're English, French, Spanish, Latin, and German. although Latin and German are similar to Russian in construction at times, the vocabularies are not even close in most cases.
i'm a bit of an odd case when it comes to giving tips on language, though. i had a bunch of serious head injuries as a kid and really the only things that weren't affected were my brain's language and 'art' centers. i literally can't do anything else (i can't divide or add/subtract numbers in my head, for instance), but i have photographic memory with pictures and conversations. i seem to learn it a different way than other people, and since i know a bunch of other languages, i learn them all in relation to one another, so it's difficult for me to explain how i learn things.
i'm also in the process of learning Gaelic, Japanese, Chinese, and Italian.