Dilek and Jotraza, thanks for your comments. Jotraza your comment is comprehensive and very interesting.

I don't find the alphabet difficult, as there are letters which exist in the Latin alphabet. Those letters which are different (я, ы, и, н, в) are not hard to learn, no matter your learning style. In terms of grammar, I would say that Russian grammar is complex, but it is not as hard to learn, as using the right words in a context (today, I was talking to a friend in Russian, and she said about the snow storm affecting my region: "use снегопад if the snow is coming from the sky, and снежная лавина if the snow is coming from a mountain, and if the snowstorm has heavy wind, use метель"). This is a difficulty, but not an insurmountable challenge. For me it is quite fascinating, since in English we do not have this ability to use many different words. This variety of words adds to the richness of Russian, то есть, великий русский язык ;) Another complication is the double negative, though I would say in my case this is because I rarely use more complex variations in conversation — I plan to work on this aspect of Russian (Полли удивилась, потому что до сих пор в этом доме НЕ было НИКАКИХ детей). The last complication happens across all languages — when listening to music, it is hard to understand those songs, because of the obsolete words and phrases used to make the song beautiful. But otherwise, I would say Russian is just different from English. I am not of the widespread perspective that English is way simpler than Russian, I would say both languages have their own pecularities. English has way more tenses than Russian. I would imagine having difficulties with the "have" "been", "was going" "I am"... and articles, for which there are more than fifty different rules. In this regard Russian is simpler than English. As for aspect — I still struggle with that, but if I was learning English as a foreigner, I think I would have trouble with the verb tenses.

alphabet is different, this is one thing. the second thing is, there are some rules but lots of expectations. for example, we claim that 'o' is pronounced as 'o'. However sometimes it is pronounced as 'a'. As a result, once we learn the letters, we may not be able to pronounce the word in a correct way. Finally, there are lots of suffices :(