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Weeks 5 and 6: Breaking down declensions

Hi everybody, These two weeks have been very busy at work and trying to get a journal paper ready for publication, which did not leave much time for German learning. However, I kept my habit and practiced vocabulary using Anki, as mentioned in the previous post to retain the words previously learned. The number of words in my Anki decks are increasing, but luckily, Anki is intelligent enough to ask me only for the words that I have not integrated in my vocabulary yet. That makes the whole system very efficient. In this post, I will present a few ideas regarding what I am learning given my experiences during these two weeks. Since the beginning of the stay, he company that I work for offered me two hours of German classes weekly. This is very nice, and I believe that this is an excellent push for my self-study. In there, we focus on different aspects. Listening, talking, and quite heavily on grammar, and specifically on declensions. As I mentioned in this post, I believe that t