Translation of festbinden in German-English

I would rather like that you write through the messaging system on this site and not to my private email address. All the info is gathered here online and I would like to keep is this way. It is nothing personal.
I've been working on and off on the dictionary during the entire week, and I'll spend some more hours on it this coming weekend. Sometimes he would get a bit mixed up and use formal Castilian sometimes instead of informal.
That's a great deal. I know that in the beginning it is difficult to have conversations, especially if you're not stable with vocabulary. Actually, your English does not seem so bad. Have you ever taken a course?