Hello, I have some questions, or at least I’m looking for some opinions about how to learn German, my native language is Romanian, not English. In the last 194 days, I spent 377 hours listening + 3.2M words read in German on Lingq. +I have been living in Austria for 7 months, so I have a little more “learning” time. And in the next year (the next 300-400 days) I want to reach the C1+ level because I want to be “material” for college. I can understand and read quite decently, depending on the theme and the level of the book. I will attach 2 pictures of different lessons to show you how I see a certain text, and how much I understand. All this sounds good until I hit the grammar and when I start speaking.
I know the words, I have an idea where the verb should be :), but then I start thinking “Der, die, das?” , I simply don’t know, and because I don’t know that, it creates other problems, such as “meinen, meiner, meines?etc”
Nominative/Genitive?, and I’m a disaster at exercises like “You have a sentence and you have to complete it with x for Genitive/Dative”. declensions? NO WAY.
So my basic question would be how do you approach grammar effectively? Do I simply take a book of 500 pages and start “filling in the boxes”? What is that 20% that will give me 80% of the results in grammar/German? What do I learn for the first time(grammar) and how do I learn it?
And let’s say that you had my experience in German, metaphorically speaking, what would you do every day if you had 3-4 hours (daily) in order to be C1 in German in the next 365 days? Would you read and listen for 2 hours? and 1h to talk with someone + 1h of grammar?, or 1h x, 1h y, 2h z, what would be your “recipe”?
I only know some of the words “in orange” but not as well as I would like, I have the words either “in orange” or I know them, no color (passive, that is, I can recognize them in a context, individually it becomes more hard, and “active” words become even fewer.
