Schokolade

Fun story time. There are a lot of French Swiss here. Like, 2/3 of the students at my language school are French Swiss, so naturally I have befriended some of them. One of them, Tom, is often trying to get me to help improve his English, specifically his pronunciation. One of the words that he has trouble pronouncing is "chocolate." Today I was hanging out with a group of people (only 2/6 are French Swiss, although a third spoke French as his native language). Of these people I only knew three of them previously, the rest were new. So, while we were hanging out the word "chocolate" came up for some reason and Tom asked me to pronounce it. So I said "Chocolate," and the guy standing next to me, who is from Britain says: "Wow. That's a very American pronunciation." Laughter ensued. And so, that is my funny story for the month. I will try to work on my comedy skills before next month. I'll also try to write a post about my trip to Berlin, soon!