My wonderful boyfriend bought me the cutest baby knitting book while he was in Germany. However, I am not exactly sure about the abbrevations that I am seeing. Since the patterns are pretty much written the same way, if I could just get the basics I would be off and knitting in no time. Does anyone know if there is a place to go where this might be explained? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much.

Here's a couple links to non english knitting terms and abbreviations - http://www.geocities.com/barbie42day/translate.html
http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=129918.0