It’s awesome that you reached out, man!

Breaking the ice would take some time, as typical russians stew in their own juice without refreshing feedback from the outer world. Be patient with our nitwits, once first dirty water of their prejudices and ignorance will drain away you'll see how warm hearted and capable the majority of us are. Also try not to get offended, I can assure you half of folks here have issues with realizing you are absolutely the same as them just for some funny reason don't speak russian. Cheers!

Few key considerations you wanna keep in mind:

english is more advanced language when in comes to verb tenses, you have 12 combinations, where as russian language has only 5 that's why it is so difficult to for russians to understand what you really trying to express.

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