Correlation between Russian and English - part 2 - How we were taught Russian? We have same 11 years to spend for Russian and for English in parallel, but results are completely different. I am going to describe it relying to Classes, this is the word we use for describing level/years/grades. They were pretty same to years, except we skipped 4 Class and went from 3rd to 5th directly, but nowaday school students have continuous 11 years for school. 1 grade is for very basic, about how to form sentences: affirmatives, questions, exclamations. We don’t have special topic for negative statements. Primary school takes 4 years (previously 3). So for me 1-3 classes were for basics, just learning words, parts of speech, grammar cases, declensions (we have to change forms of nouns, numerals and adjectives depends on amount, grammar gender and grammar case, as I get there is no such thing in English, like adjective always have only 1 form even there is no such thing as plural adjective, but there is something for pronouns), conjugations (same thing for verbs, but additionally you have to pick up time to change form of verb). But there are only basics: nouns, numerals, adjectives, but adverbs, participles (past and present) would be later, also gerund (if you translate it as деепричастие). 5 class is the most important year for studying Russian ... in my opinion. That year we study syntax. But I have never faced with such separate topic as “Syntax analysis of sentence” in English course. It is about how you can use different parts of speech as different parts of sentence. Later teachers use it as a basis to implement participles and participles phrases easily. Also it is quite useful for punctuation. 6-9 classes are about parts of speech (noun, verbs, numerals, adjectives, adverbs, participles and gerunds), complex sentences, punctuation and conjugation. 10-11 classes are about repeating all this stuff again but with increased difficulty. We had taken sentences whole page long with nightmare punctuation. It’s quite a challenge to pass. So the path is clear, to pass this quest please get this milestones: -General basis of sentence making; -Declensions, Conjugation; -Syntax!; -Conjugation (level 2), adverbs, participles, gerund and punctuation; -Game+ mode. And interesting remark, we do not have any related topic according to Time, like how to make Past Perfect sentences. I have googled that we have 1 lesson in 2nd class, but that is all. It is all described in conjugation theme.