Yeah exactly . Makes other options at WR more appealing . <| sep |> It doesn ' t have to be classical literature . Just reading in English will help . Are there books that you ' ve only read in German but not in English ? Reading them in English and being exposed to multiple ways to say something will help . For example , just in the first few pages of Harry Potter Und der Stein der Weisen it is clear for me in the reverse situation of learning German that the way things are written is not really perfectly like how they are spoken . The same is true in English emanate is probably not a word that a lot of people would use in typical everyday conversation . There are so many words in English that aren ' t typically conversational unless the group you ' re speaking to is highly educated . Ineffable is a word that comes to mind as one that would just not be commonly used in conversation . And also , keep in mind , English has germanic grammar and we have a huge part of our vocabulary from the Germanic Languages . but we also have a HUGE part of our vocabulary from FrenchLatin thank you Norman Conquest . There are so so so many ways to describe the samesimilar concept often times , the FrenchLatinbased word is considered more educated or sophisticated . For example , to kill Germanic vs . to murder Latin , and so on . The crime isn ' t Killing . it ' s Murder .