Yes the L does appear to be soft here. Are there a lot of Russian people in your grade? Do you speak without an accent? In my grade there are only about three other Russian speaking people besides me, but none of us speak it as well as we used to. And none of us are from Russia either.(One is Moldova, Kazakhstan, Israel, and me Ukraine) But my friend from Kazakhstan says she is Russian. Very sorry to seem off topic. Another comment, my friend who's living in Romania(She is Romanian) wishes she had learned Russian before, because of how widley spoken it is.(Useful)