Dearest Lyubov and Yana!
I'm spanish and right now i can say you that i speak my own language, catalan (it's a language spoken only in Catalonia) and english almost perfectly.
I also can speak a little bit italian and french, and NOWADAYS i'm learning russian because i'm looking for a east europe woman.
I needed 2 months to begin to write with translator some words in russian and seeing that ladies came to speak with me i realized that i MUST learn russian.
So today and after 3 months i have learnt your alphabet, i can write and read russian and i'm learning your grammar. And everything by my own, without an academy and with the help of internet only until last week, that i found a woman from Yekaterimburg, who is teachiing me russian and i am teaching her spanish!
It's just a question of what are you willing to do! and how much will you desire to do for him/her!
Now i'm talking with this Yekaterimburg girl to learn, and she knows PERFECTLY that we will be only friends, because i'm in LOVE of a Kyiv girl and i will go to live with her in Kyiv when she will be ready and say it!