Krysten,

I'm feeling you girl!

I had/have the same trouble in that most guides place all the hard stuff first leaving the simple answer as something too complex for new speakers.


I found a very early guide to the russian language that is much more helpful than all that 'leaving out the obvious to be unburyed by the different learning person'

And I'm diggin it!
It is called-- (maybe you can find it on halfprice books. com or some other search, amazon for example)
It is called--russian for the high iq'd idiot. j/k..

It is called--'Conversational Russian In 20 Lessons: Cortina Method' ISBN 06-463605-4

mine seems to have been written in the 70's back before 'writing' for readers was bastardized.

Good Luck! I really reccomend this book.
It will walk you through all the bs of ending changes for all the scenarios of all the complications of this and that, while your speaking it right off and getting background and context for such things--
however, it doesnt say 20 lessons in 20 days. So much simplicity and complexity is embedded on pages one through 8 as too keep you on a lesson for a long time. The guide numbers point to to other parts of the book to 'speak more on' the grammer aspects. And yes there is reference to the placement changes and when as to the sentence structures.

Why must everything be so complicated?
Because. Some time after or during one of the world wars, policy changes on education took place to keep enough people uneducated enough to fill the military and keep filling it. Now we have alot of uneducated people out there and some of those policy changes stuck-shown by the absence of applied mathmatics in schools ect. I personally find the more complex the information--the easier it is to read, because it leaves little out--


anyways--I was having a similar issue and then my coworker had this book see, and he aint getting it back!