The freed children of German aid workers kidnapped in Yemen a year ago speak only Arabic to each other.
They call each other by Arab names, and have asked their relatives if they can cook over an open fire.
The two kidnapped girls Anna (L) and Lydia are from Saxony. Lydia Hentschel, five, calls herself Sarah and sister Anna, four, is known as Fatima.
The children were reunited with their uncle and other family members late on Wednesday after being flown back to Germany aboard a Bundeswehr aircraft and then onto he tiny village of Meschwitz in Saxony
Anna and Lydia were abducted along with their parents and brother Simon, two, in June 2009. A British engineer, Anthony Saunders, two German care workers and a South Korean teacher were also taken.
The girls were freed on Monday in an operation conducted by Saudi Arabian special forces in a village near to the Saudi border with Yemen.
There was no sign of their parents Johannes and Sabine. He worked as an engineer at a hospital where his wife was employed as a nurse.
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