Sabine, thanks for the pronunciation help!

Don't feel embarassed about your English. The fact that you're trying, and willing to join a forum like this made up mostly of native English speakers shows that you are very courageous and brave! Hurray for you! We can live with your occasional stumbles -- the way you overlook faults in your best friends because you like them.

I'm sure if I were posting at a German site, my Deutsch would be FAR worse than your very good English!

Babelfish is fun to do a there-and-back-again translation. Write something in one language, translate it to a second, then re-translate it back to the first and see how far away from the original it has become. Great way to waste time!

Again, Sabine, welcome welcome welcome! Hope you enjoy your time here as much as I have since I've been here.

alex