Naturally, this meant she spent almost all of her time in the library, because she was trying to catch up properly to the third-year curriculum of a school she wasn't familiar with, all in a new language. Durmstrang had an entirely different set of courses to Hogwarts, as Hermione probably should have expected. Translated to English, her core classes were "Life Magic", "Battle Magic", "Brewmastery", and "History & Language", each of which had its own set of rules for behavior that she needed to learn by practice and observation.