Multilingual Spell Checker?

How does Mail know German words? I am using the US version of OS X.
I was answering an email someone sent from Germany so I answered it in German. What (pleasantly) surprised me is that Mail apparently switched the spell checker to German.
So it seems that Mail comes with spell checkers for multiple languages? If so, is there a way to switch the languages when composing a new email?
Thanks much for your help
Olaf

Greetings,
Mac OS X supports a lot of different languages, and it does spellcheck in multiple languages, too.
If you want to compose an email in a different language, all you need to do is type your message in that language. If you want to spellcheck it in the language you're composing in while you're typing it, you need to choose Edit > Spellcheck and choose the language you'll be using from the dropdown menu of the spellcheck window first.

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