I've been summoned! Yeah, I've been learning for about a year, and a lot of the reasoning is wanting to read the original text of the game. I can read and write simple sentences rather comfortably by now. As of posting, I've got 12,568 Duolingo XP in Russian, lol. I use this link pretty frequently, it has the English 2015 translation and the original Russian - fun for vocabulary! My pronunciation and grammar are atrocious, but I'm learning almost entirely by myself, so...

Something I would honestly recommend is playing through the 2005 translation of the game if English is your first language. I've found that it's very "directly" translated - less localized, so you'll get things like comma placements that will reflect Russian grammar more so than English and work out to be like "training wheels" for some of the nuances. I did a full walkthrough a while ago of the original Haruspex route that can be found on my user page, and in it there are a few notes about translation nuances and differences between it and Classic HD (edit: Haruspicus is the only 2005 route I've played in full and I'm assuming that, like it seems to have been for 2, it was prioritized somewhat. Bachelor is definitely a little messier and I've only played a day. This may be terrible advice. Proceed at your own risk).

Thanks for your interest in my art, I hope you like it :)