I know Russians may tell you that o is a or that this or that is not pronounced, but I honestly think you shouldn't give a f!@#K and just pronounce it how you see it. Even though it may sound weird at times it technically won't be wrong and certainly not something to cry over when you're a foreigner in the first place.

For instance Пожалуйста. Think you shouldn't pronounce й, huh? But try to ask a random russian why, he won't have any idea. Etymologically, this word is a contracted version of пожалуй ста рублей, give me a 100 roubles. Sо Пожалуй Ста = Give me 100. Why should the full, logical pronunciation be wrong, makes no sense to be so. 

Moreso the more trivial. Хорошо... you think someone will give a flying fridge if you don't pronounce it as хАрАшо? In fact, even as a native speaker and particularly when speaking slowly I often ignore the habit of changing the pronunciation. When you become more fluent though, you'll understand that this changing of sounds exists simply because it's much easier to speak faster when you mispronounce or ignore letters.

That Mosfilm selection above is quite good.

Also try some here

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIQBIIhOnK1sZrP3zTdNdVdGpWVV-xgvd

I wouldn't recommend a lot of modern 'pop' movies and tv series though, they are anti-cultural society degrading rubbish.

I began and am continuing to learn Chinese without a teacher and in a non-chinese environment, and as I see it there is no efficient or even feasible way to process thousands of characters and vocabulary using solely visual and auditory mnemonics. I would say not at least you can understand the language to some reasonable level, since words that involve abstraction from substance or those which have very subtle differences would require an actual explanation in order to truly understand it, and that's where you can dispose of reliance on translation by reading such explanations in the target language. 

I wouldn't know, but I am guessing that you have to be in an environment where you are surrounded and reliant on your target language in order to learn it through association and implication at an efficiency comparable to simply translating lists of vocabulary.

Something about my life

I'd like to talk about my job first. I have been graduated for almost five years and I have had four jobs during these years. All of the jobs offered me a position as an architect. While I was working, I drew a lot of computer models to illustrate my architectural designs. Sometimes the Clients would advise me to change the design and concept. I often worked overtime.
The first three companies are in Beijing. I had a break from work for 9 months. Then the year before last year I decided to move to Shanghai and I took my 4th job there. And now I quit my job again because I received an offer from a UK university last week.
Because it was a conditional offer, I have to pass the IELTS exam. They required a 6.5 score that I didn't achieve in my last test in the last month. I will take a training lesson for IELTS next Monday. Now I learn it by myself with this website.
Recently I made some new study partners and practiced speaking on Skype. I called some native speakers to chat and they were very kind to talk to me and pointed out what was wrong during my speech. I think I have made progress in speaking.
I am very excited about the study life in the UK. I will travel to many cities and visit many attractions and landmarks. I wish this experience will change my life in the future.