I went to school in Russia and this is what I studied
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- čas přidán 10. 07. 2024
- I went to school in Russian in a unique time - right after the Soviet Union collapse. The school subjects that I studied were different from those my siblings or parents studied. In this video I'm going to tell you about Russian school subjects, what I studied and what grades I had.
I went to school in Russia for ten years. Actually, it is supposed to be 11 years but I sort of skipped the 4th Grade, like most kids of my age. Russian educational system was being hastly reformed, so strange things like that happened sometimes.
My favorite school subject was Literature, it includes both Russian and Foreigh literature. I didn't like math, although math is a quite importans school subject in Russia.
“Bad is bad enough” 😂
Actually, I got 'one' a few times, not sure it was an official grade, but the teacher just wanted to really shame me, I suppose😄
Very interesting!
Very informative video! It seems to me like Russian students have a lot more pressure on them to study considering they have to study 11 subjects (excluding PE).
In my country, it is not much better, I'd say. 😅
I live in Pakistan and here we have 12 grades. We study at least 8 subjects in Matriculation (grade 9 and 10) and then at least 7 in Intermediate (grade 11 and 12). One thing that sets us apart is that Islamic Studies is a compulsory subject all throughout school.
Totally agree with what you said about students not reading War and Peace. I am an avid reader myself but whenever I'd try to read War and Peace, I would end up abandoning it because it was too long.
Thank you for your comment! Fun fact, there's an audiobook War and Peace, it's 74 (!) hours long :)
9:40 So everything you need to visit the USA :PP
Quite interesting list of subjects! Except for "Health & Safety" and "Literature", it's quite similar to our German curriculum, though we have some choices in the final two years, so we don't have to do all of them.
Also, not sure how this is in other countries, but here, writing poetry or playing chess will get you at most a meaningless certificate, if you are in a school club or something. Not sure which system I think is better. I guess it's nice that your interests were recognized in some way, I'm sure that gives some motivation, but I'm also not entirely comfortable with giving teachers such free hand in choosing grades. I can imagine that this can also go the other way, with teachers giving poor grades to students they dislike.
Sure! Those are the most important phrases! :)
Well, chess was sort of a part of P.E. class, since it's a sport, and chess competitions are quite a big deal here. I was bad at athletics but good at chess (I think now it's the other way round). Poetry was something like extra activity and had something to do with history, English and some other subjects, because some subjects were interconnected a lot, espesially literature/history. There could be an event that included literature, history and even georpaphy. In small towns, like mine, it was common that one teacher was teaching a few subjects, sometimes not exactly related. So, my hobbies gave me some extra 'points'. For example, if your knowledge of the subject deserves a '3' but you've done some subject-related extra activities, you'd most likely get a '4', because neither '3' nor '5' would feel fair. This 2 to 5 grade system is not really flexible, that's for sure.
I read "War and Peace" after like, grade 7th, and by the 10th grade when we were studying it, I forgot almost everything 😆😆😆
I also spent only 10 years at school, 11-year course wasn't fully implemented yet. I started school at 6 and finished at 16, and went to university straight away)
But then now I still live in dormitory 11 years later as a PhD student 😆
This is the way many professors have walked, nothing wrong about it :)
@@sergeysvids2756 many professors have salary smaller than cashier in Pyaterochka, so that is hardly a relief 😆😆😆😆
2:24 in mother Russia, the subjects choose you
haha, that's true though
Can you make some videos about life on Sakhalin and Far East in general? I am from the opposite side if the country and haven't traveled so far, so I have no clue about day-to-day life there. Do people there travel often to China, Japan, Korea?
People here, where I live, often travel to Finland or other EU countries. I have only been to handful of places in western Russia plus Finland, Sweden, Norway, Estonia and Bulgaria.
People in Primorie (but it's on the mainland) might visit China more easily. For me it would be harder because I'd need to go to Vladivostok first. I wouldn't say people travel to Japan or Korea a lot - those are quite expensive countries. Alghough it depends on who you ask. Some people would say they spend every other weekend in another country :)
But just generally speaking, Sakhalin is as much Russia as most other regions. There are some local things, but it's not like it's a different country.
@@sergeysvids2756 yeah same here in Karelian Isthmus even though we get some shops doubling their signs in Finnish and some Finnish geographic names still remain (too few though, I wish more historical names remained). But I have been in Finland itself only 2 times, though there are many people who go there more often
I'm from a small town in the USA and I'm about your age-we did blueprinting in middle school too. I always got marked down for having a dull pencil even though the pencil sharpener in the classroom didn't work
That's interesting! Was the name of the subject 'blueprinting' or was it something else?
@@sergeysvids2756 We called it drafting class
Interesting! We have a numbers 1 to 10 in the Netherlands. I usually had 7 or 8 tot grades, if I had a 5 that was bad 😅 so nice you could not get a 1 👍 we did not have literature, only Dutch, French, English and German, but you could drop a few languages in time if you wanted. I hear these days Chinese/Madarin is also added in some schools. I would have really liked blueprints 😃
Oh, so many languages!😮 Are they all spoken in the Netherlands? Did children really end up being able to speak/understand them?
@@sergeysvids2756 No not spoken. The Netherlands is a tiny country in the middle. If I travel an hour or 2 or 3, west I will be in London, South I will be in Paris and east I will be in Berlin. And nowhere do they speak Dutch (exept half of Belgium and some people in Luxemburg). So for work or vacation it is better to know (a little bit of) each language. English is started at a very young age. French I had for five years because I chose it. German only two years, grammar was too hard, I did study it as an adult later for work with German clients. Dutch grammar is even worse than Dutch but I could not drop that unfortunately 😂
@@sergeysvids2756 So everybody speaks English oké, other languages depends. I can read French but speaking is hard. German is good but easier because it sounds and looks more like Dutch. Dutch people mostly try there best to speak other languages when meeting someone that does not speak Dutch. Also Scandinavian languages look like Dutch and German, really weird to look at: I can read this.. wait no I can't 😅
@Marjolein Smolders This sounds amazing! Growing up I was sure that learing English is useless because, well, no one can speak it anyway. Except for the teachers, but they didn't count😄 It felt to me like learning to levitate or teleport - would be great do be able to do that but it's never gonna happen.
My school was specialised in English, so we got like 5-6 hours a week, and started it the second year at primary school. Which is much more than other schools in Russia.
Then, there were also optional languages for ones who want to study them at the last two years (high school): French, German or Finnish, but my year could choose only the latter, it depended on which teachers were free enough to take more groups. There were also a bunch of other subjects for choice, I chose three related to biology and Russian and also went to advanced math, where I was not enlisted, but it was useful for the future exam.
I also had the best teacher in English I think, so after the last grade, I just took English as a 5 exam, even though I didn't need it, and got 90/100 points, which was almost the best score in all exams I got, so I even pitied that I didn't need it to get to my faculty)
I went to school in Moscow, and if I got "1", that meant, I could re-do the task. Then the teacher would correct it to 3 or 4, depending on how I managed to perform. But never 5 - it was not allowed to correct 1 to anything higher than 4 :D
That was a qute strict teacher! I had a teacher who would give "ones", too. Those marks wouldn't go to the certificate, though, it was just a way to give children some extra motivation :)
Cool! Let's just make it clear: you don't have to spend 11 years at school.
You may quit after 9 years and try to find some low-skill job. Or you can go to a vocational school (PTU) or to a 3-year college (Technicum) and then try to find some low-skill job.
Or you can complete your 11-yeas school education and dedicate the next 5 years of your life to uni when your low-skill low-pay job find you anyway :)
Sure! There are many thing about schools I haven't mentioned. I just wanted to focus on the subjects here, not the school system. Would've been too long. I'll probably make another video about it. For example, some people might find it interesting that there are 2 shift in schools, and you don't get to choose one.
@@sergeysvids2756 yeah you're right, it's a potential playlist, not just a video