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Originally Posted by Yapyap
We spent a LOT of time on grammar - both Estonian grammar and the grammar of any foreign language we learned (for me it was Russian, English, German and Norwegian in school as far as foreign languages went). I'm not sure how things stand now but we had Estonian language as a separate subject from literature, and the ~4 hours of language a week, from the first week of school until the last, was more or less all grammar. With foreign languages there was a more or less equal emphasis on grammar and vocabulary.
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That's comparable - though not exactly the same - how we have been taught German in Germany. The "German" lessons had been equally devided between literature, oral and written use of German and orthography/grammar and we'd got a mark/grade for every of the three parts and a summary mark.