Proficiency by system

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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
NOUNS VERBS SENTENCE NUMBERS PRONOUNS ADJ. SOUNDS
Each spoke is a system. Further out is stronger. Rings mark levels 1 to 5.
Strongest ground is Verbs and Sounds & Spelling, both Intermediate. Newest terrain is Numbers, still barely past Novice. Nouns, Sentence & Usage, and Pronouns cluster just above Elementary, with Adjectives trailing slightly behind them. 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.
1 Novice 2 Elementary 3 Intermediate 4 Advanced 5 Fluent
Grammar the skeleton
NounsElementary+
2.5 / 5
Case endings are the main gap. You recognize the six-case pattern well and know which preposition wants which case, but producing the right ending in the moment, especially matching an adjective to its noun's case, as in "на моей работе", is not yet automatic. Animacy hasn't been introduced yet.
Six cases recognized, not yet automatic in production
Gender & declension patterns
Prepositions governing case
Animacy animate accusative copies genitive
▲ to Intermediate: make case endings automatic in production, not just recognizable, especially prepositional and adjective agreement.
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 `приезжа́ть` / `прие́хать`
1st vs 2nd conjugation
All three tenses
Imperative `иди́` & 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 & SpellingIntermediate
3 / 5
Reading Cyrillic and the hard/soft vowel system are reliable, and you regularly ask sharp questions about where stress falls, that curiosity is doing real work. What's unverified rather than weak: pronunciation itself hasn't been heard enough in spoken practice to judge precisely, so this score leans more on written and analytical command than on confirmed spoken accuracy.
Reading Cyrillic
Hard / soft vowel pairs
Palatalization by ear
Mobile stress & vowel reduction asking the right questions, not yet by ear
▲ to Advanced: get more spoken practice heard and corrected, so stress-driven vowel reduction moves from asking-the-right-questions to producing it by ear.
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 / 5
The basic personal pronouns are solid, and you're getting more exposure to the fuller case paradigm beyond the common forms, `мне`, `тебя́`, `и́ми`, and the rest. Possessives and demonstratives across all six cases are still not drilled.
Personal pronoun declension `меня́`, `мне`, `со мной`
Wider case forms `тебя́`, `и́ми`, etc.
Possessives `мой`, `твой`
Demonstratives `э́тот`, `тот`
▲ to Intermediate: drill possessives and demonstratives through all six cases until they match your noun endings.
Sentence & UsageElementary+
2.5 / 5
You build understandable sentences, but word order, agreement across the sentence, and choosing the right construction still need practice. Direct English-to-Russian structure transfer shows up often, e.g. reaching for "на моя работе" instead of "на моей работе," where the noun's case should carry over onto the adjective in front of it.
Flexible word order recognized, not yet reliable under pressure
No articles / no present "to be"
"we with X" idiom `мы с жено́й`
Real-time production Arma
Register switching & idiom depth
▲ to Intermediate: make agreement carry across the whole sentence, not just within a single word, and cut down on direct English-structure transfer.
NumbersNovice+
1.5 / 5
Still the least-evidenced system on the whole chart. You can count, but numbers form their own sub-grammar in Russian, the number itself dictates the case of the noun that follows it, and that interaction is still mostly ahead of you.
Counting
Numbers governing case `оди́н стол`, `два стола́`, `пять столо́в`
▲ 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.