Can't Say Strawberry

If you hadn’t guessed already, my name is Elena, but most people call me Len. I’m studying English and German, and am currently on my year abroad in the land of the Deutsch as an English language assistant! I’m normally residing in South Wales, but Dortmund is my home for the year.

My aim has always been to become fluent in German but along the way others have cropped up, the most prominent of which has been sewing. I’m addicted! So you’ll often find my sewing news mixed with my German news here.

As for the name of the blog – it’s all explained in an awfully long-winded way in this post, but to sum it up:

I still can’t bloody say Erdbeere – or strawberry to us English native speakers. See the problem becomes apparent every time I order a crepe from the crepe stand at Dortmund Hauptbahnhof – ‘einmal Crepe mit Erdbeere bitte’ I say, but try as I might, I can never escape the look of confusion and the ‘bitte?’ or ‘mit was?’ that follows. People have suggested that maybe I go for the easier to pronounce Nutella Crepe, but NO, I want my Erdbeere Crepe bitte!!

When I attempt to say Erdbeere it sort of comes out like ARDBAAAAAAAAAAAAR and confuses all the locals!