In Accents^x, Indefinite articles^x

I have been told that the accent of Russian is such that Russians have to struggle a lot in order to speak good English. Is it true?

Beg to disagree there Greg. In the past some 'H' words were pronounced without the 'h' - hotel and historic, for example. So they took 'an' as the indefinite article. Other h words have always been pronounced with the 'h' and they take the indefinite article 'a'. I'm sure you wouldn't say 'I...

I thought, Clive, that there was also the issue of whether the accent is on the first or second syllable. We say 'a history' but 'an historical'. My guess is that it would be 'an Hispanic'.