As someone who learned German as a second language (so take this with a pinch of salt and feel free that I did this wrong/bad), I found older German works usefu

As someone who learned German as a second language (so take this with a pinch of salt and feel free that I did this wrong/bad), I found older German works useful for the purpose of understanding sentence structure and grammatical case. Immersion introduces vocabulary and contemporary ways of speaking. Stuff like the verb in second position was not difficult for me and asking questions by leading with a verb is actually still used frequently in English (more so in en-GB). Additionally, a number of European languages heavily use the verb “to have” in ways similar to each other, where an American English speaker may use “to be”, or “to do”, but the one thing that, to this day, I find myself struggling with occasionally is the gottverlassen grammatical case.