German words you'll find easy, and German words you'll find confusing

Problem
How do you learn German?

Answer
I am using D u o l i n g o free online course. Today I was learning animals, birds and insects. Some of them were easy, almost the same in both languages.

German - English
Eine Biene - a bee
die Fliege - the fly (looks like an English command, "Die, fly!" but it's pronounced dee
Ein Insekt - an insect
Die Spinner - (a spider is a spinner of a spider's web)
Haustier - pet (Haus is German for house - it sounds the same, tier is german for animal, so a house animal is a pet)

English - German
a bee - eine Biene (remember that nouns start with capital letters in German)
the fly - die Fliege
an insect - ein Insekt
a spider - die Spinner

Angela Lansbury, learner and teacher of languages.