You were sitting calmly, looking at him. In front of both of you, he held a soft notebook. How did this happen? Well, it's simple. Even though he seems quite distant from people, your interest in his language helped a bit in wanting to do it, and that's all he did.

He wasn't an expert in teaching, but he tried with you. His eyes focused on you, his soft hair falling on his cheek as he started asking you to pronounce the same words he was saying.

It wasn't easy, nor was it difficult. It was all about practice, and he would help you, unless you were just playing with him, in which case, he'd probably kill you for being an idiot not paying attention.

"Какой вид инструмента вам нравится?" Fyodor asked, trying to get you to at least say half of that in Russian.

He even wrote it in a notebook how it was pronounced.