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Wow, didn't know there were tests for this! Thanks.
I'm only using pronouns at the minute, and adverbial sentences, so as to avoid having to learn verbal and adjectival stuff yet. When I've got...

Yes, I think it's just going to have to be:-

learn each word on it's own
assume nothing
be delighted if some pattern of predictability emerges occasionally.

And yes, like everything language...

In your last example of 'I am talking to you', I suppose you could put it as 'I am talking with you'... Although to be strictly instrumental, I think it would then be interpreted as ' I am using you...

Thanks Demonic one...

That's a good 'pocket sized' way of remembering which case does what, I'll use that. But like you said, there are exceptions all over the place!

Wow!

I think I now have all the advice I'l ever need! Thank you all. The key seems to be to learn in context, get to know the rules but don't expect to be able to apply them yet, and ignore the...

Okay, that's interesting! The fact that it describes something about what it refers to (ie giving) is reassuring!

thanks

Hi,

I'm having great difficulty with the idea of cases. I don't really understand what a case is in English, let alone Russian.

One stumbling block for me is why are the cases called what they...