The best way to learn anything is in your sleep: you fell asleep, watched a dream, woke up, stretched – and you know everything. You don't need to learn anything, you don't need to cram anything.

That's roughly how we suggest you learn German: just read all the stories on this site one after another, and the language will "stick" to you by itself.

You don't need to cram anything. If you forgot a word – just point your finger/mouse at it.

Don't pay attention if the texts seem funny and silly – silly stories are easier to remember).

When learning a language, we do only one useful thing – we remember phrases. Everything else – grammar, learning (in reality, this is just mindless cramming) words – is purely auxiliary. You can know no grammar at all and speak correctly (native speakers usually do just that). And cramming words by itself is meaningless, it only partially helps with remembering phrases.

Conclusion: up to 90% of the time we usually spend (on courses, school lessons, etc.) learning a language is spent in vain.

Why don't the methods you use work? All those who offer "fast", "easy" learning, "learn a language in 2 months" and so on, including your school and other textbooks? Why, despite all their promises, is learning languages from them still difficult, long and painful? Because they bury you in information, overload your brain with it: too much at once and no gradual progression.

At best, during one lesson you remember one phrase – everything else "falls away" and is forgotten, and the time spent learning it turns out to have been wasted. One lesson – one phrase (maybe two), everything else – time wasted for nothing.

Why are reading books, listening to and watching films also ineffective? Watching, listening and reading are good only for improving your knowledge of a language. During them we repeat again and again familiar phrases in different contexts and thereby merely improve our knowledge.

If we don't know these phrases yet, repeating them is a waste of time: you read them, heard them, said them – and immediately forgot them. Reading or listening to an unfamiliar phrase makes sense only if you immediately remember this new phrase. But at one time we can remember only a few phrases, therefore all the other phrases we read/listen to are in vain.

And we can remember these 2-3 new phrases only if we constantly repeat them. But in books and films, one phrase is repeated several times very, very rarely. Remembering a phrase the first time and after a single repetition is practically impossible.

So how can we achieve 100% learning efficiency? To do this, we need to build our learning in accordance with the rules governing how our brain works. How can we make the brain remember information (language phrases) as effectively as possible? This is what the sequential reading/listening method is for.

How does this method work? The sequential reading/listening method is maximally tailored to the algorithms by which the brain works. In order to remember a phrase well, you need to repeat it often (repetition is the mother of learning). But simple repetition one after another is also not very effective (you can repeat some word 100 times in a row and forget it a minute later – this is exactly what traditional learning does).

For effective memorization of information, you also need to use the spaced repetition method. What is it? Imagine you are watching a new film, in which there are characters previously unfamiliar to you, and everyone has names that you don't know yet. But already by the middle of the film you can easily distinguish who is who, and what everyone is called. You effortlessly remember the names of all the participants as the film progresses. Why?

Because there are not many of these names, around twenty, they are constantly repeated in the film, and they are not repeated one hundred times in a row as in cramming (John-John-John-John…), but in conversations, alongside other words, interspersed with other information.

The sequential reading method works in the same way: we take 2-3 simple phrases and make a story out of them (in which these phrases are repeated many times). We read the phrases – for some time they remain in our "working memory" in our head. During this time we read the story. While the phrases are in our working memory, we remember them by constantly repeating them in the story.

Then, at the next step, in the next story, we use these same phrases again, but add one new one to them. The new phrase in the new story is also repeated many times (and gradually remembered), while the intervals between repetitions of this phrase are filled with text made up of the phrases taken earlier. Which are also repeated again and again. And so on: at the 3rd step + one more phrase + repetition of the previous ones, at the 4th + one more, etc.

As a result, we have: constant repetition of what has already been covered + spaced repetition of new material. At the same time (for those who want it), at the end of the stories there is a grammar reference explaining why phrases in the language are constructed in exactly this way. The learning algorithm exactly matches the algorithm by which the brain works, and learning efficiency approaches 100%.

And one more thing. Cramming is (among other things) violence against the psyche. The sequential reading/listening method allows you to avoid violence + you can get pleasure/benefit from reading/listening itself as such.