[Moderator's note: This was sent in a few days ago and I just found it! BIG] Tatiana, good luck with your ESL class. My family speaks Esperanto (the international language) and has made a lot of foreign contacts that way, so just for fun I started collecting the words for "ferret" in other languages. Here is my collection to date: furo (Esperanto) Frettchen (German) furet (French) huron (Spanish) itachi (Japanese) khoryok (Russian) vadasz menyet (Hungarian)- literally, "hunter weasel" ffured (Welsh) ilder (Danish) furao (Portuguese) iller (Swedish hilleri (Finnish) nuselales (Albanian) samur (Hebrew) fret (Dutch) I've left some accents off of the letters, but that should be close enough for your purposes. If you manage to gather any more words while teaching your class, I would love to hear them. Take care, Julie [Posted in FML issue 2885]