Aww code, go easy on the beginners.. >:)
Anyways, yes you need to realize that the server's information that is sent back to you is based on things called headers. These are the things that tell the website what browser you're running, your ip, and also *language*.. If you want the german site, I would suggest adding the line:
/sockwrite -n $sockname Accept-Language: en-us
*Note: That is for english, I'm not sure as to what en-us is for German, but i'll leave that to you.
Anways, hope that clearifies, and takes (some) stress off poor code's back.
