Would it have helped you if it had been slower? Where and how?
Well it's a choice to start explaining German by taking words and start from there (as you explained). But these are not like standard words you are taught first when learning a language.
I was just wondering, okay so suddenly we're writing in capital letters, what and how with the umlaut (¨), what about a simple sentence?
But that's just me looking for the more traditional way of learning a language. And doing that would probably make it one of the many, which I don't think you were looking for.