>>5564305>>5564317>>5564349They force you to learn the stuff you need to use when speaking, when you apply it and learn it this way you will learn the same stuff you learn in uni, just maybe not the grammatical rules behind it. For those it's good that you learn it in class as well.
If you look for it, everything can be found in Russian. Russian imageboards or threads in Russian on other image boards, videos, books, blogs, you can turn the language in a game you play to Russian or you listen to Russian podcast. Whatever it is you are looking for.
It's really not a problem.
Also, it happens that I learn Russian too. For me the most helpful is actually chatting with Russians. I need to look up a shitton of words but it helps building a little immersion of that makes sense and getting used to building sentences and so on with the limited knowledge you have, while at the same time you learn and memorize the words you actually use.
When it comes to the discords, there indeed are a few. People help each other with the respective language they speak. It works great.
To be quite honest, in the last few answers you posted I get the feeling you don't actually want to learn the language and you're only looking for excuses, you can make for yourself here.
Might not be true, but show some initiative when wanting to learn something.