Thank you very much, very helpful indeed!

I have been thinking about your question for quite a long time now and I could not come up with any false friends between English and Russian. I have one for Russian / German: Butterbrot. In German, this is a bread with butter (and butter only), while in Russian it is more like a sandwich which can also have cheese, sausage, or whatever on it. Sandwich in German is a belegtes Brot. And I have two for Russian / Serbian: zhivot in Russian means belly, while zhivot in Serbian means life. And ljubit in Russian is love, while in Serbian it means kiss. Maybe one example you can use for English / Russian: arbitration / arbitrazh. While these appear to be cognates (words with the same origin), arbitration in English refers to what is known as treteyskiy sud in Russian (thus a private court), while an arbitrazhniy sud in Russian can be either 1) a state commercial court (khozyastvenniy sud in Belarus), or 2) a treteyskiy sud. There is also a word in English, "arbitrage" (pronounced similar to "arbitrazh" in Russian) which is only used for a certain technique in finance. Arbitrage there means to use different prices for the same thing in order to buy cheap and sell expensive (and make profit). For example: If one dollar buys you let's say 1 rubel in St. Petersburg, but you can sell 1 rubel for 1,20 dollars in Moscow, you buy 100 rubel in St. Petersburg and sell them for 120 dollars directly afterwards in Moscow. That way, you made 20 dollars profit. I hope that this is helpful. Ya podumayu eshche, esli eshche shto-to spomnyu, snova pishu.

Yes, we indeed say "in der Wand" in German for a climber, even though, as you correctly pointed out, he literally is more "an der Wand" and not inside of it. I would use it also for small walls, as long as it is a climber we are talking about.

Hola, saludos desde Alemania. Pues si quieres me puedes enviar un mensaje para hablar, pero lo que pasa es que este parte del sitio es para preguntar preguntas sobre el idioma mismo.

Well at least where I live, being "just" friends is quite common between men and women, or boys and girls. 

 

I would definitely do my very best to help my female friends without expecting them to have a crush on me in return for my help. It never happened to me that I became attracted to one of my female friends, I was either attracted to a girl and tried to be with her or I wasn't attracted and we became friends. 

 

However, I am ready to admit that sometimes people would start playing like they want to be friends and then try to switch it around to dating. As for myself, I do not believe that this works out well - being honest right from the beginning has proven more efficient. 

 

 

I can help you with German: 1. I love you = Ich liebe dich. 2. Will you be my friend? = Würdest du gerne mein Freund / meine Freundin sein? 3. Where's the restroom? = Wo sind die Toiletten? 4. It isn't easy to open your mouth and you mind in the same time. = Es ist nicht einfach, gleichzeitig seinen Mund und seinen Geist zu öffnen.

Zdravo Dragana, jas mislam deka mozes da zboruvas taka: Auch ein gewisser Mihály Kertész verkehrte hier, bevor er als Michael Curtiz den weltberühmten Film "Casablanca" drehen sollte. A certain Mihály Kertész also came here before he was to shoot the world-famous movie "Casablanca" under the name of Michael Curtiz. "was to" e kako moras da zboruvas "...sollte" tuka. Se najubavo!

для ну я же говорил, я предлагаю "but I (have) said (this / that / it)"