Call it by its name

So, strawberries are your favourite fruit. You are travelling in a different country, and would love to try the home-grown strawberries, the local strawberry ice cream or that exotic pavlova topped with strawberries.

Do not get stuck, call it by its name. Here is a list of languages followed by the way to say strawberry in each:

European languages
Albanian luleshtrydhe
Corsican fregola
Check jahoda
Danish jordbaer
Dutch aardbei
Estonian maasikas
French fraise
German erdbeere
Italian frogola
Portuguese morango
Spanish fresa
Asian languages
Bengali স্ট্রবেরি
Chinese 草莓 [cǎoméi]
Hindi स्ट्रॉबेरी
Japanese イチゴ
Korean 딸기 [ttalgi]
Malayalam സ്ട്രോബെറി
Nepali स्ट्रबेरी
Thai สตรอเบอร์รี่
Turkish çilek
Vietnamese dau dâu
Middle-Eastern languages
Arabic الفراولة[alfarawila]
Hebrew תּוּת
Kurdish
African languages
Afrikaans aarbei
Chichewa sitiroberi
Zulu ijikijolo
Austronesian languages
Filipino presa
Indonesian stroberi
Malagasy frezy
Maori rōpere

 

This simple guide should help you to get your way around your strawberry tasking in different countries. However, if all else fails and you find yourself in a market or shop where you see delicious strawberries, pointing and gesturing enthusiastically should also do the trick.