Thread: Who's afraid of Russian Nouns...? [me!] Русские существительные........

Scott and KidK, thanks both of you...
Yes... it's tough isn't it. Numbers apart, can you believe that the whole thing works differently depending on the gender of the word... !
I guess it's a matter of "slowly does it" and "every little helps".

But I don't know in which end to approach the kasus-es.

-It's impossible to simply memorize all of it.
-And it's so complicated that you couldn't (as an adult) learn it simply by listening or reading (or do you think it's possible?)
-And in addition to the very complicated rules, there are large numbers of exceptions.

It's very overwhelming...

For what it's worth I find the prepositional case to be the easiest. Maybe start there??? My teacher when I took Russian in college started the cases with the prepositional then added genitive (I find to be one of the harder cases) then added accusative but always adding more rules from the genitive case. I still don't have the cases down but every day it seems to be falling more into place.

Scott

Originally Posted by Hanna

Scott and KidK, thanks both of you...
Yes... it's tough isn't it. Numbers apart, can you believe that the whole thing works differently depending on the gender of the word... !
I guess it's a matter of "slowly does it" and "every little helps".

But I don't know in which end to approach the kasus-es.

-It's impossible to simply memorize all of it.
-And it's so complicated that you couldn't (as an adult) learn it simply by listening or reading (or do you think it's possible?)
-And in addition to the very complicated rules, there are large numbers of exceptions.

It's very overwhelming...