Hello
I'm learning russian since 6 month. Now, my reading skills are much better than in the beginning, but I'm still having big problems pronouncing hard and soft consonants correctly.

Especially I'm having problems with the letter Л. My girlfriend says, my soft l sounds like the hard and the hard isn't very russian too, it sounds like a german L. Sadly she can't give me a tip to improve it...or in other words..she tried it, but it didn't work. And she asked me to asked somewhere else, maybe other peoples can explain it better.

So, anybody here who can describe me, how to produce soft consonants in general and especially Л?
If pictures or videos are available for this topic, that would be from big help!

Thank you so much