First Declension Nouns (Latin)

Latin is literally the fourth language that I have started on, and I have realized how this is so close to the romance languages (being the bases for them).  So, I'm going to start this language out with the first declension nouns.  These nouns usually have an ending of -a. So here is how you would decline these nouns.

Singular Nominative: -a
Singular Genitive: -ae
Singular Dative: -ae
Singular Accusative: -am
Singular Ablative: ā

Plural Nominative: ae
Plural Genitive: -ārum
Plural Dative: īs
Plural Accusative: ās
Plural Ablative: īs

Now this is a lot to take in, right?  But have you realized some similarities in the endings? Singular Genitive, Singular Dative, and Plural Nominative have the same ending of -ae.  That makes it easier on us, isn't it?  To tell you guys the truth, I'm able to have each of these declension endings memorized in less than a half an hour.  What I usually tell people is to learn it in the way that you can learn it.  Mine is just memorizing.  So, good luck if you are learning Latin!