For travelers and English-speaking readers of German, approximately 2000 idioms come with English translations plus each idiom's use in a model sentence presented in both languages.

The easy way to learn the most common words and phrases, this up-to-date reference incorporates terms related to computers, cell phones, and other digital technology, along with slang and other 21st-century vernacular. In addition to handy sections on grammar and pronunciation, it features quick charts of numbers, times, dates, seasons, and more.

Cassell's Colloquial German is one of a newly revised series of handbooks which provide convenient and fascinating coverage of modern languages, and of the pitfalls and difficulties inherent in colloquial, colourful, or idiomatic usage.

This is an essay about love, one of the most powerful but elusive emotions in the human repertoire of feelings. Only a fool would attempt to define it, yet we all know what it is and whether or not it is at hand in a given situation. The following is my attempt to delineate it in terms of my experience.