I decided to memorize German paradigms today. So I memorized the conjugations for sein and haben and werden and hoffen and sehen and the modal auxiliaries (like sollen and wollen). I also memorized the list of unaccented prefixes (be-, ent-, er-, ge-, ver-, zer-) and the declensions for the personal pronouns (ich, mir, mich; du, dir, dich; er, ihm, ihn, etc.). German is delightfully cool. :) I really like learning a language this way. I’ll of course complement it by doing the induction method, like the Berlitz books. But for me it feels good to attack it from a grammar/forms standpoint. I love memorizing paradigms! (I’m quite serious, too.) I also memorized around 50 vocab words from Sharp and Strothmann’s German Reading Grammar. I’ve decided that instead of studying Russian, I’ll focus on French and German, since I’ll use them much more (scholarly works on older languages are usually written in them or in English). I’ll still study Russian eventually, of course; just not at the moment.