Hey guys, Mike here.
Sorry, Patty's STILL slammed trying to get "Cry Wolf" edited to her liking (I'll try to post more about that on the Hurog.com home page today), and she's even further behind than usual with emails
Patty made a "tactical error" with the German. She has a bachelors degree in German, which she earned many years ago. She majored in German because it was the first class she took that she didn't get an "A" in, and she was too stubborn to admit defeat. Languages are really difficult to learn in a couple of hours a day of formal training, and most of the other students had spent months or years in Germany. It says something about Patty that rather than giving up, she continued to take classes in a subject that didn't come naturally to her until she ended up getting a degree in it

However, even including only a few snippits of German, it's obvious that her skills are rusty -- she's gotten at least twenty letters (most of them very nice) from folks telling her her German is flawed, and many of them have offered to help. She's actually taken one kind person up on the offer, a Gentleman named Michael Brock who is not only a native speaker but a history student with an emphasis on the history of German language. All the German phrases from future books will be vetted by him.
By the way, here's a huge "THANK YOU" to everyone who took the time to inform us that the language was a problem, and another to those who offered their time and efforts to help. The details make the difference between an OK book and a really good read, besides, it's just lazy not to get someone else's language correct!