I can barely knit myself - what's the difference between English and continental style?
English style means yarn is held in the same hand as the needle which stitches are formed on.
Continental means yarn is held in the opposite hand to the needle on which the stitches are formed.
Standard English - yarn in right hand, stitches formed on right needle.
Mirror Englsh - yarn in left hand, stitches formed on left needle.
Standard continental - yarn in left hand, stitches formed on right needle.
Mirror continental - yarn in right hand, stitches formed on left needle.
Added to that there are 101 different ways of holding and tensioning the yarn for each method.
Also the restern mount and eastern mount thing:
Western mount means that the leading leg of a stitch is to the front and to get a regular untwisted stitch you knit into the front of the stitch.
Eastern mount means that the leading leg is to the back and you knit into the back of the stitch to make it untwisted.