/lit/ - Literature

What are some biographies on authors? I'll self-bump with my own list shortly.

Hey, /lit/. I know this isn't /adv/, but I imagine this board is better for getting advice about learning a foreign language. I'm beginning my first semester of university on the 31st. I don't know how it is at other universities, but the standard number of credits per class at my university is three. For instance, all philosophy, English, and non-lab science classes are three credits. [Lab-sciences are four credits.] Intensive Elementary Russian I, which I'm taking my first semester, is six credits - I'm guess due to the workload. I took languages in high school. I took two years of German and two years of Latin. I kicked ass at Latin. I know university-level Russian will be much more demanding. I also know Russians don't use an alphabet with which I'm familiar. On another note, when I was in Latin, my teacher set up this online flashcard-machine which would help review vocabulary in any order. But I'm going to go ahead and assume my professor(s) won't do that. I'm worried I don't know a more efficient system of reviewing vocabulary, and keeping flash cards would certainly get cumbersome. So I have two questions:

(1.) Any advice on learning Russian?
(2.) Any advice on how to study vocabulary in particular?

>>1984838
>I have not once read a poem
You could've ended the post there, and it would've meant the same thing.

Celebrating Melville's birthday, are we?

>>1971669
>basically anything that describes a woman gets me kind of hard.

self-bump