Good grief! (Sorry, complaining again.)

[6_02x10e23]

Кого вы ждёте?
Я жду своего старшего брата, Игоря.
Вы знаете его?
Нет, я не знаю вашего старшего брата.<--------This sentence took me a long time to type as I had to figure out the case of every word! How can Russian children learn to talk???? This is crazy!!! Just to say one thing! Who is going to wait 10 minutes while I figure out cases just

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[olvven]

:)) It seems that the dialogues in all language textbooks are equally... er... not so much true-to-life.

[gasc]

Don't think about it.
Just listen and get used to it.
The only thing you need to know, that it's correct and sometimes people use this kind of sentence structure. Although, I should say it sounds a little bookish.I would say something like:

Кого ты ждёшь?
Я жду брата, Игоря.
Вы знаете его?
Нет, я его не знаю.

Good luck with your studies.

:)

[6_02x10e23]

Thank you for telling me this. I think I need to read and listen more and more and eventually things might start to sound "right" --I hope!