i will try, thank you soooooo much! This really helps me. and yeah dad threatens me by saying that if i give my age out on the internet, I will lose my internet, my games, my christmas gifts priveliges this year, and so much more! But thank you!
Yeah, i hear ya! My parents did the same thing.... but they are also in the italian mob, so its apparently "dangerous" to even talk to people on the internet! (oh, and i never said that! )

but the bee thing really really works man. I was speaking spanish before russian... and you need to roll the r's. I could always start them, but never carry on the sound, you know? I read something that there are 3 levels of rolling. People who cant do it, people who are like me and cannot hold it, and people who can do it. If you are level 1, you need to work to just get the initial sound of it rolling, not holding it. Once you are there, you do the bee thing, and it takes time!

Can you kind of make the sound? If you say "air", can you kind of hear the r?

but for encouragement, here is a quick story! (i know i talk too much, sorry!)

My family has been trying to adopt 2 girls for 3 years, and its a hard process for us! I was studying russian for about 6 months, but i came to a point where i realized that i couldnt speak russian without rolling the r's. So i tried and tried, and everyone told me its not possible to learn how to do it. Finally, i was so discouraged, i was lying on my bed, and i gave it one last try. I could start to feel it coming, and i kept going and going, and finally it came. Maybe it was divine intervention! I ran around the house rolling my r's for 30 minutes straight! My parents were screaming at me to "frena parlando!", because they couldnt take it anymore! But all is well now, and i actually went to russia last week to see the girls! I should be having 2 new sisters in 2 months! I cant wait!

and i love pretending to have an accent like you said (or to not speak english at all)... I ALWAYS walk into stores in amurika and pretend not to speak english... its hilarious! If i speak italian, people say to go make a pizza, if russian, they say "go back to the soviet union you commie!" I must say, i get a sick kick out of doing this! Amurikans are definatly the best people to do it on. Because if you were in italy and pretended to only speak english, they would start talking to you in english! (I have YET to find an italian speaker at a store here...)