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Originally Posted by OctobersBlackRose
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.
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All I can say is, welcome to the club. I mean, English is my second language and, like, my parents took me to lessons somewhere around kindergarten age... and I still barely had any grasp in, well, somewhere around the middle of secondary school.
And German... well, I began in the spring of 2013 (which makes it my 5th anniversary!). Anyway, for me every language has had an interminable period where I felt I wasn't making any progress. If I'm counting right, in the winter of 2015 I still couldn't understand basically any spoken German. Of course, then it started moving pretty steadily because that's the time I found a reliable source of German sounds that I could enjoy for a long time (gaming-related).
One exception to this rule was Dutch... Well, I'm still bad at understanding speech, but I was able to pick up an unadapted book in about a month, because the written language is very similar to German... Of course, I relied on a dictionary a lot, but at least I after that things made sense, grammatically and whatnot.
...I mean, there's pretty much only one antidote to slow progress - immersing yourself in as much German as you can find. :shrug: