We dived into Dativ today and it is not as scary as I thought it would be. Also, we learned about the locator words like vor, neben, hinter and über. No, it’s not the same as calling a uber. Über means over which is somewhat similar to English (with a thick British accent).
For the getting the article right you have to know the gender of the object. Seems like it all comes down to remembering if the object is a masculine, feminine or neutral. Since there is no trick to remembering this. You have to memorize for all the words in the German dictionary. Even synonyms can have different gender so the gender is really based on the word rather than the object itself.
I think this is the biggest problem everyone finds in German but it’s not the only language which has this. Some of the other languages I know like Hindi and Bengali also have a gender associated to the object. But I don’t remember memorizing the gender there when I was learning those languages and it just came to the students with time and practice. So, I am not stressing out about gender right now.

Sudeep