Foreigners and even Russians often say that Russian language is hard to learn. In your opinion, is it really difficult?
How good are you in Russian?

Yes it is extremely difficult! I have been learning for a few years now and I can still only have a very basic conversation. I understand a lot when I am just listening and reading but talking is very difficult.

Very difficult as it's not in the sense of common Latin languages - and very poor --- not able to communicate properly, although I can read most of the Cyrillic script - but it still takes time

I think the best way of learning Russian is to live in Russia for a while and to take language course, for example.
Do you want to study Russian in Russia?

I think that learning Russian is not that hard because if you have the correct material for learning how to speak and to read than it's not a big problem, for example I listend to "Pimsleur - learn Russian Language" and after the first cd out of three that i listened, I already know how to make a basic converstaions.
I sugguest to anyone who wants to learn how to speak in russian to buy/download this 3 level of speaking russian fro Pimsleur.

You better communicate with natives. It's the best way to learn any language.