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I've been learning German since October 2013. I know at some point I must decided how to pronounce "ich". Any opinions that might help me make this decision? Danke...
Crissov. 9,177 1 25 59. asked Mar 26, 2016 at 16:53. user20985. It would have been better to ask how Leonhard Euler would have pronounced his own name. Now we have answers that talk of an "English pronunciation" of Eulers name - which isn't very useful, as we also likely (amongst lots of others) had to list Mandarin, Russian and Khoisan to be ...
With the spelling reform of 1996 "daß" was replaced with "dass". I am wondering if somebody knows of any references explaining this decision? In detail, I have the following problem: In school, I
The pronunciation of Grüß dich on that site is decent but doesn't sound like a native speaker's. The r is rolled in a way that doesn't sound German. The ü is ever so slightly off (possibly something about length or intonation). The i sounds a bit too schwa- or e-like. And the ch, while definitely recognisable, has a tendency towards sch.
To claim that the vowel in Käse is somehow more “correctly pronounced clearly” as [æː] than [εː] is absurdly wrong. The historical origin of the letter ä is completely irrelevant to the current pronunciation of the sound (s) represented by that letter in writing.
If German "W" is pronounced like an English "V" and German "V" is pronounced like an English "F" i.e. W → V V → F Why is it that I continually hear German speakers pronounce their (Engli...
As you see, the following are international phonetics in German for König and Leipzig: [ˈkøːnɪç] [ˈlaɪptsɪç] My question is how to pronounce the g, i.e., [ç] properly? Does it pronounce as close as...
So at least in upper class society, French and French pronunciation was much more part of daily life for German native speakers than today. And this makes me believe, that at least among scholarly persons the french pronunciation of Dirichlet was standard in mid-19th century Germany.
The name is pronounced as the German word "List" which comes very close to the English word "list". To understand it, you have to know that Franz Liszt was an Austrian-Hungarian composer. In Hungarian his name is Liszt Ferenc. In Hungarian "sz" is pronounced similarly as the German "ß", and in fact in former times the modern German letter "ß" was written as "sz". And up to now in "ß" is ...
How is the word Deutsch pronounced in different German dialects/languages? What are the most deviant examples?