[Alexa]

Interesting! :) :) :)

[SEO]

Yep and by the way Alexa is interesting too. Very interesting I'd say.

[Xsokii]

I suppose that it's more like "Alyona", so it will be "Алена" and if you want it to look 100% Russian you better use the "ё" letter, so I bet her name is "Алёна".

I don't get it.

[MSL]

I will try to explain it better:

1/ in case that her name is really Aloona it will be written as "Алуна" in Russian (and other languages which use Cyrillic letters).
2/ more probably her real name is Alyona which in Russian in written in 2 ways: the first one is simpler, just "Алена", but the second one is using a specific Russian letter (which looks like an "e" with two dots above it) and then it is written as "Алёна".
 The letter in question is ё.

[Xsokii]

Pretty sure it's "Aloona" actually.
Is it a thing for Russian female names to start with an "a"? I notice a lot of names start with an a.

[MSL]

 Then, "Алуна" is the right one. It's some modern name.
 No, there are many names without any initial "A"s like: Екатерина, Софья, Варвара, Елизавета, Дарья, Наталья, Татьяна, Ярослава, Карина, Пелагея, Вера, Злата, Милана, Ольга, Светлана, Яна, Елена, Ксения, Ирина, Ева, Дарья, Кира, Ульяна, Татьяна, Юлия...

[Xsokii]

Good thing is I heard Russian doesn't have to deal with words having a gender or a case system I think.
Unlike German which allows you to use the most nonsensical word order ever.
Example: "Meine freundin hat ein hund" (my friend/girlfriend has a dog) can be arranged to "ein hund hat meine freundin" (a dog has my friend/girlfriend).

[MSL]

 Who told you?! It's exactly the opposite. There are 3 genders in Russian (masculine, feminine, neutral) and 6 cases!
 And about the inversion, there is too. Examples: https://russkiiyazyk.ru/leksika/inversiya.html. So, when it comes to learn Russian grammar it's really the "ugh" case.

[Xsokii]

Who's idea was it to create 6 cases? Not like I would want to read that scribbly-dook.

[MSL]

There were 15 cases in the ancient Russian (many, many years ago)... later the evolution of the language reduced them to the present 6.

[Incel]

The Russian grammar isn't easy even for the people who are native Slavic languages speakers.

[Xsokii]

The Russian grammar isn't easy even for the people who are native Slavic languages speakers.

I think you said you were of eastern european desent (basically being a slav) so do you have a hard time with Russian? Aren't they bascially related to some other slavic languages?

[MSL]

 In fact many East Europeans are Slavs but there are also non-Slavs. For example, Hungarians, Romanians, Tatars, etc.

[Xsokii]

Ik.

[Alexa]

I learned a lot of Russian words and phrases but without the cases. Some of them I just used to guess without knowing them exactly...