it’s helpful to know how to pronounce words correctly. German has lots of similar phonemes to English, which should help when pronouncing a lot of German words. A phoneme is a unit of sound.

Turning to my girlfriend, Iara, I said out loud, ‘Ich liebe dich’. I didn’t even know the English translation – I just repeated it to her and asked, ‘Babe, what does this mean?

That was a brilliant stroke of false advertising of course because there’s no such thing – and never will be such a thing – as a "complete" dictionary of German. But how many words does the German ...