Quote Originally Posted by fortheether View Post
Nichole,
I have no help for you in Russian. I am learning Russian and also hated English grammar as a kid. I am actually learning more about English now then in school. From your note maybe take the language in smaller steps then you are? Your example sentence is a complicated one, no?
My ego is really preventing me from doing things. Sure, I know I need to start with smaller sentences, but I'm so used to being praised in school for my supposedly "wonderful and mature speech", that when I don't know how do translate a simple sentence from my own language into my target language, it bumps me down a peg.

It's also extremely frustrating when I know exactly what each case does, and I can translate something from Russian to English, but I can't figure out how to translate something from my own language into my target language because I never cared for grammar, so now, I'm confused about so many things, and I can't keep track of them all at once, which sends me into a bit of a tizzy.

There's too much consternation.