Yeah, cramming isn't good, I've done that for tests in school (especially when I went to University), and I forgot everything by time the test came around. I still have to figure out short term goals, maybe learn 10 new words in a week, that way I'm not cramming words down my throat, but still learning words. Maybe I should buy a book that is in German and give myself a timetable of when I want to beable to read it, maybe a year down the road beable to read an actual book, not just a book of short stories (which I should buy and give myself a timetable on reading that too). Or another goal to beable to understand a song in German without having to look up the translation, because after finding out the translation of the song in my signature was wrong, I may want to figure it out on my own (though I may still look up a rough translation just to get an idea of what it could be). I'm just not good with making and sticking to goals, that's my problem, that amd motivation.

Thanks for the suggestion of writing out dates in German, the names of the months aren't too different (and some are even the same just pronounced differently) than they are in English. The days of the week will be harder for me but I do know every day of the week ends in "tag" which makes it easier. The numbers will be the most confusing for dates, I'm only at 20 so I have a long way to go in remembering numbers.