Introductory German Notes

This site will be a brain dump of notes from introductory German class.
Both the act of creating a web page and reading that web page should help me learn the material.
The web site will be simple enough such that it should work on most modern web browsers even with reasonably strict security settings in place.
The maximum fancy formatting I am targeting is that the answer to some questions will not be visible until you click on it.
Individual pieces of the brain dump may or may not later become organized differently later.
The web host I am using forces file names to be lower case.
Case matters in German but not I am not going to find a different web host just so that I can have case sensistive file names.
Important Points

• Memorize the articles for vocabulary.
  If an English speaker studies Japanese he or she does not need to learn articles, but for a Japanese class a native English speaker does not know what all the Japanese characters look like after day one either.
• Be able to use articles correctly depending on whether a given noun is used in accusative or nominative case.
• Be able to conjugate verbs.
• Be wary of words with similar meanings such as mögen versus möchten and gemeinsam versus zesammen.
• If you look up a word or a just word's article on leo.org, when entering in your own document type the answer to the question that you are researching instead of copy-pasting the answer from leo dot org.
  Otherwise, you may visually notice that for example a given word contains "ei" but if you do not write or type it then later you might not remember whether it was "ei" or "ie".

To Do:
Add notes on how to bring up characters with umlauts.
If you have a German keyboard, then they should be easy enough to bring up.
Otherwise, there are character sequences that you can type that will create them.
If you enter them enough times it will become automatic.
For now I will begin listing some.
Ö, ö...
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While holding down the ALT key on a desktop or laptop computer, press the digits 225, then release the ALT key.
If that does not work for you, if you are using a number pad, verify that Num Lock is set.
You can practice in the edit box below: