How would you rate the difficulty of Russian?

Question

I prefer students who have studied Russian or studying Russian to answer this question......

Thanks

Answer 1

Personally, I find Russian to be a difficult language, coming from knowing another slavic language. Most slavic languages have many similarities, but I've personally found Russian to kind of stand apart from them, which I think makes it more difficult to learn.  

Answer 2

12 of 10 :) I'm native Russian and I know that many natives couldn't speak right russian at all.

Answer 3

This website list Russian as a Category II language, or a language that has significant linguistic differences from English.

http://www.nvtc.gov/lotw/months/november...

It says it would take around 1100 class hours to reach a decent level of fluency.