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Haha, we have the rolling (Russian-style) R in all of Scandinavia.
So it's completely natural to me! The sounds that are difficult are:

1) Remembering that there is a difference between ш, щ...

My Latvian friend told me a joke after I commented that Hungarian, Estonian, Finnish (and Korean and Japanese and I think Mongolian too) are all related.

He said, did I know how Hungary and...

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well it is definitely not a "Dracula Accent", lol... when I'm listening to that I'm reminded of Audrey Hepburn in War and Peace lol... ok well, the thing it is not natural spoken...

Russians have extremely an difficult time getting rid of their accents... over time it will soften quite a bit, but still be very noticeable. There are a few that will lose it completely, but "few"...

I am a foreigner but you asked interesting questions, so I'll make some observations:



I met some people from Kazahkstan, they spoke Russian very well... but they looked Russian to me, so well...