It helped, helps and will help! Now, when I answer the question "how well do I speak German?", I confidently exclude the definition ein bisschen :) I can speak with pleasure, I listen to super strange, but such cool German music and understand what they sing about, I go to the cinema to see German films in the original and do not want to run away. Yes, I do not understand jokes yet (at least quickly), but there is a lot to come! Once I had to type everything into Google Translate and rehearse the phrase for buying coffee and a bun before entering the bäckerei. It was terribly annoying! And what about making an appointment with a doctor? And answering an incoming call from an unknown German number? At some point, I really wanted to just live a good ordinary life in a new country. That was the moment when I clearly understood - I want and will speak German.