Hello Geoffrey, you're welcome! Studying foreign languages is a very noble undertaking. There is a saying that a person is as many times a human being as many languages he/she knows. I wish you great success with your studying Russian, though I have to warn you that you should be prepared to many difficulties and a lot of hard working in order to master Russian. Bearing in mind that this is your first experience in studying a foreign language and that Russian is quite different from English and other Western-European languages regarding the grammar and phonetics I would say you must have very strong motivation. So I wish you persistence and patience and not to lose heart if the results of your study aren't as quick and good as you might have anticipated them to be. Just walk and ye shall reach!