A helpful tip: visualize grammar rules
Evolution has taught humans to link visual stimuli with (often vital) information and behavior patterns. Images are quickly and reliably stored and also learned by the human brain. You should also take advantage of this ability of the human brain when working with grammar and learning the rules. You will remember every rule, every mnemonic sentence and every example faster and more permanently if you record them as a picture, symbol or illustrated with colors.
You have a variety of ways to make grammar useful for learning:
Color-code rules
For example, you can mark all rules and mnemonic sentences in a certain color (for example, red). When learning the conjugation (inflection, inflection) of verbs: mark the ending with a highlighter. You can also underline the inflectional ending. It is important that you separate it from the root of the word. When learning the sentence structure of a language:
Write down a sentence you want to study. Mark each part of speech with a different symbol. For example, circle the verbs. Put a rectangle around each noun. Use triangles to mark the adjectives. Edit several sentences in this way. You can now see the structure of the language on an abstracted level. For example, you can now quickly investigate whether or not the verb is always found at the end of a sentence in this language. Invent your own symbols!
If there are no colors or labels in the textbook you are working with: Make up your own symbols! Now work on each chapter in your own way.
You will quickly notice that you can especially quickly remember the content that you have thought about yourself.
Make abstract drawings!
Try to abstract the rules of your textbook in drawings and pictures. If you translate a text from a foreign language into German, it is important that you grasp the temporal structure of the text. For example, now mark all verb forms in the present tense (the present) in blue. Everything that takes place in the past is marked in green. The future with be highlighted in red.
For example, you can quickly analyze if there is an action in the past first in this text (lots of green markers). These actions then have an impact on the future (later change to majority red markings).
Use visual metaphors
If you come across an image that fits a grammar phenomenon particularly well, draw it next to your rules and notes. For example, visualize the intensification of adjectives with a tall and steep mountain that you draw next to the rule for intensification.
Of course, only use this image if it seems appropriate and plausible.
Collect pictures
If you find a picture in a newspaper or magazine (this can also be a graphic, drawing, or cartoon) that you think sums up a problem well, cut it out. Put these visual supports with the appropriate learning materials and take them out again and again as you work on the issue.
Please note: Once you have found a way of editing or marking that works well for you to learn: Stick with it and always prepare your learning material in a consistent way. This will help you to learn other foreign languages quickly.
