Come on, i keep reading over and over that Russian is a difficult language...I can't believe what i am reading here.
Russian is considered an 'Indo-European' language, just as English, German or even Ukrainian is...

Now if you'd take a look at the English language back a thousand years ago, it would look like somekind of odd german-like language, probably not too far away from Dutch-Pensylvannian or something.

The English language, as i have often heard, is easy to speak but very difficult to master.
To me learning Russian isn't anymore difficult than learning English.

As a matter of fact, this is all psychological, meaning that, it's like people who claim they can't send a sms because mobile phones are from a newer generation..

Russian people tend to easily pick up new languages such as the English language, well, to me it's only because they are more serious about learning a new language than we folks are.

It's true to say that people don't necessarily share the same abilities when it comes to learning a language, but i will tell that, if you are serious about doing something and do everything that it takes to achieve your goal, then, you will get to the level you intended in the first place.