Dear Jane,
It's great that you're going to study Russian and be bilingual.Of course it's very difficult but you should try because bilingual and multilingual have a lot of advantages. They can find a very good work because not many people know a lot of languages. And they can make their career very quickly. These people also have a lot of friends because people like people who know a lot, so they try to imitate them. And finally it's very interesting to know others languages, so just try to do this. By the way i think you should know that Chinese and Japanese languages more difficult than Russian, but it's your choise, so Good luck!
Best wishes, (или другой вариант Love
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