I found that Duolingo helped me to learn some German, I haven’t been practicing as much lately, but when I hear German, I can understand more than I can speak, and I find it fun to read in German. I bought a book that was in German and started reading it, my brain reads German the same way I remember learning how to read English; by seeing certain words in certain orders and then being able to fill in blanks. I actually found buying a German book helped a lot with learning because you get familiar with the patterns of the language and then you don’t have to try to translate the language into your mother tongue, you can just know what it’s meaning by inferring the meanings by the structure, pattern, frequency of words etc… The hardest part of learning German for me has been getting the nouns - and knowing why some nouns are feminine or masculine.