I've taken extensive notes on the consonant and vowel sounds as well as the multiple word cases. The written word of Russian is quite a serious undertaking though and I will keep it secondary to my learning of the spoken tongue.
I've found that there are numerous free websites that have alot to offer someone trying to learn russian and I even found a downladable flash card program with many of the simple words spoken aloud so that I can memorize them and then practice conjugating them.
I also looked into a site that tells how to learn foreign languages in general and they recommended listening to the language in the form of movies or music. The reasoning behind this is that movies and music offer a snippet of the colloquial language so the learner will have less of an accent when he/she begins speaking it.
All in all, I'm pretty excited.
