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'I guess we all won here, ain't we?'
Yes, I'd say so! It's been a good 'shake down' for me to see the difficulties in translating English vagueness to Russian aspect. It's worked well for me; thanks...

'Yeah, I'm also baffled at your thinking of "I'll leave it all to chance, I'll face it with a grin" as an ongoing action. It's not like you'll be doing whatever it is you're going to do all along...

'Wtf!? How do you guys decide between momentary (instantaneous, instant) and ongoing actions in Future Simple? How do you get that "I'll face it with a grin" is an ongoing action? Why not a...

Some interesting points there, I think a couple of these are due to my interpretation of the English verbs, and some of them are used in a 'loose' sense here:-

Whatever happens, I'll leave it all...

Maybe like this? With my way of looking at it, I can only find 3 perfectives, and one of them I can't find a Russian equivalent of the English (I'll top the bill.) Maybe there are other verbs I could...

That sounds like a worthy challenge. One for tomorrow, I think.

I thought I'd got the second one totally wrong.
I see your point about 'not even once.' I sort of combined the 'not' of 'не' with the verb itself, would have been better translated as 'wasn't...

'Я не позвонила потому что не могла.'
'I did not phone you (at all, not even once) because I was (repeatedly or continuously) unable to.'

'Ты не позвонить должна была! Ты должна была звонить мне...

Yes, and I have to say I find this the hardest part of the Russian language (that and sentence structure); sometimes I just look at a familiar verb and draw a complete blank. 90% of the time I need a...

Okay, I see your point.

Sure, but isnt почитать also imperfective, with perfectives почесть or почтить?

'IMO, the perfective aspect indicates not only some result, but a transition to a new state in general.'
This is something I will try to bear in mind, I think, when looking at aspect. The idea of a...

Thanks Alex, I guess these "за-" and some "по-" prefixed verbs, etc don't fit that definition, but then I don't use the definitions I wrote very rigidly, unless I get stuck and have to go through a...

Ok, thanks.

So perfective gets used when you want to emphasise the result (or lack of result) of an action, whereas imperfective is used when a result is not seen as relevent. That sounds quite...

Does 'дозвониться' mean 'to phone (someone)' in a general sense, or does it mean 'to get through (to someone) on the phone.'?
If it's the second one, then 'Я не дозвонилась' translated into English...

'Tell me how you understand those concepts'
Do you mean my understanding of perfective and imperfective aspects?

I'm trying to find a way to remember which aspect to use with negated verbs:-

Я не позвонила - I failed to phone.
Я не звонила - I didn’t phone.

I'm finding it hard to just remember the...