I personally feel that knowing alphabets should be the first thing.
After that you should try watching movies, serials or listening music - but with subtitles.
Grammar is most crucial & most difficult part of any language - so, you should start with basics. Like, as you said, types of words should be the first. You can also look at various verbs & their forms based on tense, singular/plural and 1st/2nd/3rd person...