Each system scored on its own. Grammar is the skeleton; vocabulary and the four skills are the body around it.
Grammar systems at a glance
Each spoke is a system. Further out is stronger. Rings mark levels 1 to 5.
Strongest ground is Nouns and Verbs, both Intermediate. Newest terrain is Numbers, still Novice. Everything else clusters at Elementary. On the skills side, your vocabulary is domain-heavy (strong on tactical, thin on everyday), and writing is the least-drilled, though it is also lowest priority for your goals.
Your strongest system. The full case machine is reliable, singular and plural. What keeps it from Advanced is that animacy and case-after-numbers are not yet automatic.
Six cases the whole engine
Gender & declension patterns
Prepositions governing case
Animacy animate accusative copies genitive
▲ to Advanced: make animacy a reflex, and fold in case after numbers so counting stops breaking your endings.
VerbsIntermediate
3 / 5
The biggest system, and you hold most of it. Aspect, conjugation, all three tenses, plus imperative, reflexives, and the conditional introduced. The reflex layer and the advanced verb families are what remain.
Aspect, the concept `приезжать` / `приехать`
1st vs 2nd conjugation
All three tenses
Imperative `иди` & reflexive `-ся`
Conditional `бы` plus past
Verbs of motion, prefixed
Participles & verbal adverbs
▲ to Advanced: choose aspect by instinct rather than deriving it, and take on prefixed motion verbs.
Sounds & SpellingElementary
2 / 5
You read Cyrillic comfortably and know the hard and soft vowel pairs. The gap is in the ear: stress moves unpredictably and reshapes vowels, and that is not yet automatic.
Reading Cyrillic
Hard / soft vowel pairs
Palatalization by ear
Mobile stress & vowel reduction
▲ to Intermediate: internalize stress-driven vowel reduction so unstressed `о` reliably sounds like "ah".
AdjectivesElementary
2 / 5
Core agreement is in place: adjectives match gender, case, and number. The two extensions, short forms and comparatives, are still untouched.
Full agreement gender, case, number
Short forms `он рад`
Comparatives & superlatives
▲ to Intermediate: add short forms and the comparative ("bigger", "biggest").
PronounsElementary
2 / 5
You handle common personal-pronoun forms (`меня`, `мне`, `со мной`) by feel. The fuller system, possessives and demonstratives across all six cases, is not yet drilled.
Personal pronoun declension
Possessives `мой`, `твой`
Demonstratives `этот`, `тот`
▲ to Intermediate: drill possessives and demonstratives through all six cases until they match your noun endings.
Sentence & UsageElementary
2 / 5
The structural principles are yours: flexible word order, no articles, no present "to be", and idioms like `мы с` plus instrumental. What is developing is live operation, which your Arma servers train directly.
Flexible word order
No articles / no present "to be"
"we with X" idiom `мы с женой`
Real-time production Arma
Register switching & idiom depth
▲ to Intermediate: build register and idiom through live reps, matching casual, formal, and military speech to the room.
NumbersNovice
1 / 5
The one system barely opened. You can count, but the rule that makes numbers hard, where the number forces a case on the noun after it, is still ahead.
Counting
Numbers governing case `один стол`, `два стола`, `пять столов`
▲ to Elementary: learn the core rule: 1 takes nominative, 2 to 4 take genitive singular, 5 and up take genitive plural.
Beyond grammar the body
Grammar tells you how to assemble words. These are the words themselves and what you do with them. My read here is coarser than on grammar, since we have measured it less directly, so treat these as a starting estimate.
VocabularyElementary
2 / 5 · the biggest single lever
Lopsided in a useful way. You are strong in your chosen domains (tactical, Arma, coffee-shop) but thin on the high-frequency everyday core that carries most real conversation.
▲ to Intermediate: work the top 1000 to 2000 everyday words in context, not lists. This one axis moves comprehension more than any grammar unlock.
SpeakingElementary
2 / 5
You already produce live, building sentences in real time on Russian servers. That is real output most learners avoid. Speed and range are what grow from here.
▲ to Intermediate: more reps where you speak before looking it up, tolerating rough output over silence.
ReadingElementary
2 / 5
Comfortable with sentences and your own reference pages. Native long-form text, with its unfamiliar vocabulary and compressed grammar, is the next step up.
▲ to Intermediate: read graded readers or simple native text slightly above your level, daily and short.
ListeningElementary
2 / 5
More built here than I first credited. Around 50 Russian With Max episodes (comprehensible-input by design) plus Masha and the Bear is real, sustained ear training. Natural-speed native speech between fluent speakers is the next rung.
▲ to Intermediate: step up to unscripted native audio (podcasts made for Russians, not learners), tolerating lower comprehension at first.
WritingNovice
1 / 5
Barely touched, and lowest priority for your goals. Composing from scratch and Russian cursive are both ahead, but neither is urgent for live server chat.
▲ to Elementary: type short original sentences now; save cursive for much later, if ever.