Late comment is late, but congrats for trying! I did German for 3 years and... sort of got the hang of it. However that was 20 years ago, so I'm not much good now.

Funnily enough, then I grew up in the Faroes, and Fareose has a similar grammar to German, so it's less confusing to learn. (And yes, you just absorb the grammar without thinking as a child.)