Russian is known for its abundance of borrowings. There are very few authentic Russian words. Complex structure of grammar allows Russian to modify any foreign word to our own. The only thing you have to do when you start learning Russian is to settle basics of word’s changes. Because everything that yall have already learned when you learned other languages can lend in learning Russian. Most of modern borrowings are from English. Often from english russian borrows business and professional work words. From French it borrows names of furniture and clothes. Speaking about genuine Russian words these are, as in most of European languages, word with origins from Latin and Ancient Greek. So, it not hard remember russian words as it seems at first view.