Hi! I teach Dutch to students between the ages 12-18. We have students from all different countries and languages. At the moment there is a Russian student (16) in my class and he is making a lot of progress really fast, he seems really smart or at least really good at learning languages. The other day I was trying to explain something grammatical but he didn’t understand and I didn’t know how to explain it differently. So I tried to explain it by referring to the Russian languages. I know that Russian has 6 cases (right??) but when I started talking about the cases he didn’t know what I was talking about. So I even named them (nom. dat. loc, etc.) but he said ‘no, we don’t have that in Russian.’ Am I an idiot and did I say something really stupid? Do Russian students not learn this in school? Do you use other words, so not ‘dative’, ‘genitive’ etc. but…? I am really curious, the explanation went south after this and I am pretty sure that my student now thinks I am dense :)))))).