No, things never do, not really, one only has to read works from 5th century b.c.e. to realize that...

"If, of all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these: 'It might have been',
More sad are those we daily see:
'It is, but it isn't ought to be.'"

Yes, I'm bilingual, Russian is my first language, in fact...

The alphabet is not so bad, but the grammar, for an English speaker, is quite complex.