What makes up a Russian noun is like a candle flame...

[Yoshimasa Tsuji]

Hello Kenneth,
  You don't need to worry about grammar unless you have a special
need to speak/write as if you were an educated Russian. For the
overwhelming majority of people what counts is memorizing
useful expressions like (hello, thank you, please, give me a hand, etc.).
Usage comes first, the definition and grammar come later.
  They teach you case/gender/number etc. from the very first perhaps
because they assume that you are well educated and comfortable with
those categories: e.g. you learnt Classic Greek in an exclusive
kindergarten.

Cheers,
Tsuji

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