English is not my mother tongue, but in my country it was compulsory for all the schools to teach their students English right from KinderGarten. I remember we used to have a picture book of English alphabets in which it was written things like A - Apple B - Ball C - Cat .... and English was no...

Lets say you write an manual: Open the window Throw out a stone Close the window In German you would add again: Close the window again. / Schließen sie das Fenster wieder. This does not mean: Do it twice, instead it emphasizes to revert your action. The word wieder means both, and here in this ...

I am currently reading (aloud with my kids) german translation of Harry Potter and I am a bit surprised that the german word "Eingeweide" is used very often. Entrails, guts, bowels are some english words that translate to the german word "Eingeweide" as far as my favorite dictionary tells me. I a...