Does anyone here read German?

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My Mom's family all speak German, they immigrated to Canada from Eastern Europe via Germany after the war. So I've grown up all my life hearing it spoken and can understand quite a bit, plus I took a year of German at university just to get the written basics down. My accent is terrible, so I never speak it, but I do ok with written stuff or when people speak slowly.

I had to look up the "Marillenlikor" because I knew it was liquor, but not what type of fruit or grain it was made from.

The literal translation, line by line, goes something like:

House-made Specialty
Elfriede Deureztbacher
Bahnhoff (which means Train Station) Street 139
A-3511 (likely the highway number) Furth near Gottweig
(not sure about the Furth part--if it had an umlaut/two dots above the
letter u it would be a town near Nuremburg Germany, but Gottweig is in Austria
so it must have a village nearby called Furth as well)
Telephone 02732 84987 (not sure about the L6932)
Apricot Liquor/Liqueur .2 Litres (200 ml) 24% alcohol per volume
 

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It gets better--it came in a gift box with a jar of boozy apricot jam, and I just checked the label on the liqueur that I have always assumed was also apricot, and it turns out to be raspberry (I did a quick online translation since I didn't recognize the word "malinowa" (raspberry) but remembered that apricot was "morela".

[hic!] It's good stuff :)
 

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I am German and cannot read her hadnwriting either :idunno I can make out some letters but not enough to form a word.
 

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JR - you should definitely write to them...I think they would get a kick out of knowing where their bottle ended up!! (Like the old "message in a bottle" thing). :D

(And sorry for calling you AL...got you Florida people mixed up!) ;)
 

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Avalon1984 said:
I am German and cannot read her hadnwriting either :idunno I can make out some letters but not enough to form a word.
It's really different, isn't it? My Oma's handwriting was very legible, albeit in the European style which is different to how we write here. I actually make my 1s and 7s European style because of my Oma :)
 

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moolie said:
Avalon1984 said:
I am German and cannot read her hadnwriting either :idunno I can make out some letters but not enough to form a word.
It's really different, isn't it? My Oma's handwriting was very legible, albeit in the European style which is different to how we write here. I actually make my 1s and 7s European style because of my Oma :)
Same here! We did learn the old type of writing when I was in elementary school but this one is just too much :)
 

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