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Note: I have a long way to go. While I am nearly an adult, I find it so embarrassing that my language skills are less than a small child's in Russian - I became proficient for a while, but was forced to stop for a mere handful of months, and lost most of my knowledge (albeit all introductory stuff - how to say where I lived, who my family was and where I worked, etc.). Currently, when I try to write in Russian (ignoring the fact that Russian cursive is far beyond my capabilities - normal handwriting only slightly less so) I try not to write things like "Hello. My name is Belle. I love [x]. I don't love [y]. Goodbye." as they're are so much simpler than my normal writing that even writing them in public - for all the internet to see - shames me. My name, when spelt in Russian, is also eerily similar to white and underwear, although it would explain why my Russian friend called me 'belly' instead of 'Belle' - maybe I should be safe and change my name to колокол instead? (I'm not being serious - it's just a bad joke) У меня есть вопрос (I have a question) - Does anyone here watch Hetalia? My favourite is Russia, though Germany and Romano/South Italy are cool too. (And who is learning Australian English? Because the computer is correcting me to be American English instead of the (much better) Australian English)

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You're welcome. The important thing is that you don't give up on learning, because I've witnessed a lot cases like that :). It will get easier as you get used to the language structure.
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Thank you for your comment Farhat - I'm glad my name isn't so close as Google Translate seems to think it is. I make many mistakes, but I am getting there.
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I think you mean your name sounds like "белый" and "бельё". It's, actually, not so hard to pronounce in Russian - Бель or Бэль. And more good news - underwear means нижнее бельё. Бельё is more like cloth garments; it also could mean as постельное белье - bedclothes. All in all, you don't have to change your name or try to introduce you in some weird ways :). Also, don't think it the way like if you were shaming yourself - you are trying to learn a language here and almost everybody here makes mistakes.

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