# Hello German Language Learners

**URL:** <https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/hello-german-language-learners/33770>\
**Category:** General Memory Chat\
**Created:** [April 23, 2012, 12:39am UTC](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/hello-german-language-learners/33770 "2012-04-23T00:39:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![Josh](https://forum.artofmemory.com/user_avatar/forum.artofmemory.com/josh/32/21_2.png) [@Josh](https://forum.artofmemory.com/u/Josh)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2012, 12:39am UTC](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/hello-german-language-learners/33770/1 "2012-04-23T00:39:57Z")

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I’m getting settled in Vienna and have to start learning German. I started working on the wiki page:  
[Mnemonic Techniques for Learning German](https://artofmemory.com/wiki/Mnemonic_Techniques_for_Learning_German).

The first thing I’m hoping to do is categorize words and grammar so I can place them in my memory palaces or [memory towns](https://artofmemory.com/memory-techniques-brazilian-portuguese-795.html).

Does anyone have ideas about how we could organize German grammar and vocabulary? Examples:

- Nouns -- masculine, feminine, neuter. These could go in three different sections of a memory palace/town
- Plurals -- how are nouns pluralized? Are there groups or patterns?
- How many verb conjugation groups?
- Is there any regularity to verb conjugation exceptions, or is it complete chaos -- and how can memory techniques solve that problem?
- _Sein_ vs. _haben_ -- which verbs take which? In English we say, "I have to...", but in German, there are two seperate words:
  - Ich _habe_ gegessen... vs.
  - Ich _bin_ gegangen.

- Etc.

What other ways can the language elements be categorized so that memory palaces could be well-designed?

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**Author:** ![surbhinahta](https://forum.artofmemory.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/51bf81/32.png) [@surbhinahta](https://forum.artofmemory.com/u/surbhinahta)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2021, 6:41pm UTC](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/hello-german-language-learners/33770/2 "2021-04-07T18:41:43Z")

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