German Words - Easy Quick Ways To Learn

Problem
How do you learn German words quickly?

Answer
Make an A to Z list in a notebook. You can either underline all the easy words or underline all the difficult ones. Or make two lists. If I am very tired late at night I make one German = English list hand-written in a notebook, then type up the easy ones, returning to the difficult ones next morning.
Find a memory aid for the hard words.

Story
I am using Duolingo. Here are my lists from today:

German - English
A-D
alt - old
Buch - book
die - the (rhymes ee sound. der/die/das all translate mean 'the' matching masculine and feminine or neutral nouns)
Dokumente - document
kauf - buy / purchase (as in the surname Kaufmann - shopkeeper)
hoch - high (first and last letters of both words are the same h..h - h..h)
Gewinn - profit (think of my winnings on the lottery made me a profit but the betting shop wins and makes a profit)
Job - job
Management - management
Projekt - project
perfekt - perfect

English - German
book - Buch
document - Dokumente
high - hoch
management - Management
old - alt
perfect - perfekt
project - Projekt

Tips
Note that German nouns start with a capital letter.
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Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.