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Hopefully I'm making progress in becoming more understandable. Thanks for the encouragement.

That's good information to know, and helps a lot. Thanks :)

That's a good way of looking at it, Throbert. Of course, that's if the sentence is already written. I'm thinking more along the lines of how to know just by the nominative case itself with words...

That sounds like one of those nuances that can only be picked up from a native speaker. My textbook has good information in it, but not all information...lol. Discussing these things in writing helps...

ZXC - - that's an interesting tip about nouns ending in -ность... :)

Eugene- I was afraid you'd say that! LOL :)

That makes sense. I was wondering, Eugene, do you have any tips on how I can know the gendre of a noun that ends in "ь"? Do I just have to memorize which words are which?

многому=dative case (дательный падеж)?

You're right, "выучить" is the right word. But what if I consider learning as an unfinished process? Wouldn't I need the imperfective "учить"?

Sure thing Eugene. Here's what I was trying to say:

"Thanks Eugene...lots of things to learn, though that's excellent (fine)."

Спасибо Eugene…много вещи учиться хотя этот прекрасный :)

Can I use this forum to begin practice on composing my own sentences in Russian? I have a comprehensive dictionary and a textbook that I refer to and would like to practice writing letters or...