I feel like right now I'm not really retaining anything, I've been learning since December and I don't know how much progress I've made, I mean I know a couple phrases, and my reading and listening skills are getting better (but my ability to speak anything is almost non-existent). I'm also getting better at pronouncing words aswell. So I see some progress but not a lot, and as much as verbs are confusing me I do think I'm understanding a little better or atleast memorizing how they end I'm different forms versus actual understanding of how and why some end in -en, -e, -t or -st but pretty much memorizing the ending in the ich, Sie, du, wir, forms and so on. Eventually I'll understand why say why they end that way.