Quote Originally Posted by Lampada
Cases in Russian are the same significance as the strict rule of SVO (subject-verb-object) is in English.
I agree. But my 6-year-old daughter knows how to speak near-perfect English. And she has no idea about this strict rule. She doesn't even know what a verb is yet.

My point is...I think you can learn about cases without even knowing the names of the cases. But again, I admit that I'm a beginner and I don't really know what I'm talking about.