Katharina Hirmer, B.A. was born in Regensburg in 1987. She obtained a bachelor's degree in English linguistics from the University of Regensburg in 2012. Currently, the author is taking her state exams in English and History to become a teacher at Gymnasium which she will have completed in the summer of 2013. Particularly fascinated by the American culture and language, the author spent a semester abroad at the Murray State University in Kentucky in order to get to know the country and its people. Since the author has acquaintances raising her children bilingually, she came across the fascinat...