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Originally Posted by OctobersBlackRose
Yeah, smartphone apps can be weird, I did find a German/English dictionary app which if you typed in a word in German or English it would give you the translation and a bunch of examples of uses for the word, well sentences using the word, I forgot what the app is called though, I'll have to look for it again. With books, I just like something tangible that I can read, plus I did find on Amazon books for grammar, verbs, pronouns (I think, I'll have to look again at that one), and a bunch of books with short stories that you can read in German (though it says for beginners I don't think it's for the absolute beginner, so I'll wait on that). But the books I can get either when I do have money or I can ask my Dad to buy some for me.
My problem will be memorizing everything, I can memorize a price of sheet music no problem sometimes within a day I'll have the music memorized, but words I have more difficulty retaining, I don't know exactly why that is, but that is how it is for me, bit I think the more I practice the better I'll get with memorizing the words and retaining them, it'll just be a little more difficult than sheet music.
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Well, from my understanding, in music the brain travels down well-worn phrasal passages, so to say, and it's also a source of innate satisfaction for our brain, so it's no wonder... But with foreign languages, the remembering is the worst with completely strange words and rules... Which is why I put so much emphasis on finding familiar context (familiar in the sense that I should mostly know all the other words)... And of course, the sound, because the part of the brain that we've trained to recognize squiggles on the page has been doing it for a very short time, evolutionarily speaking, whereas the vocal language region is possibly 100,000s years old... I actually feel that hearing the sounds of a foreign language I'm studying is innately satisfying, kind of like with music.