Due to changing politics when I was in school, we went through several versions of "English" training with year-long gaps between versions. The result is we studied a lot of literature but very little actual grammer.

This has made it "interesting" learning Russian since I never learned various grammer terms and now need to use them. With one of the hardest languages for an English speaker to learn.

Oh well, if it wasn't challenging, it wouldn't be fun...right?