German Language Test

After much anticipation, today we had part 1 of 4 of the German language test for my Intensive German Course.  The German language test is the standardized A1 test which includes:  speaking, writing and listening.  In addition, the school I attend also adds 5 pages of grammar to the German Language Test which we were tested on today.  I don't know my score yet on the grammar part of the German language test, but am not feeling overly optimistic.  German grammar is hard with three different articles to memorize and three different cases (that we've learned so far).  Even a simple sentence such as "The book is on the table." requires you to know whether the book and the table each are masculine, feminine or neutral (for the record, the book is neutral "das buch" and the table is masculine "der tisch" and whether it is accusative case in which case you would say "den tisch" or dative case in which you would say "dem tisch".  "Der tisch" is only used in the nominative case, so in this case "Das Buch ist auf dem Tisch."  Aggghhhhh. 

 This particular German Language Test is not important, meaning that we don't get kicked out of the class if we don't do well, but I want to do well, and I want to learn German and be able to speak German without making grammatical mistakes in every sentence, but am thinking it will be a slow process.  Some days the words just roll off my tongue (keeping in mind my German Vocab is limited to 6 weeks of German school), while other days, like today, I feel like I will never learn German.  Now, I'm off to study for the listening part of my German Language Test next week.  Hopefully this part will go better.  Wish me luck!
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Samples of the A1 German Language Test can be found at A1 German Language Test.