What is the difference between a Wand and a Mauer?

  Last week within two days I was asked about the difference between a “Wand” and a “Mauer”, and a quick google showed me that many German learners struggle with this. Here’s my answer: If you look in a dictionary you’ll see that both translate as “wall”, but which wall is a Wand and which wall is a Mauer? Let’s have a look at die Wand: A Wand (feminine) is mainly indoors [...]

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