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Old 14th February 2021, 11:44 AM
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Default How good is your German?

I have been enlightened, see

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iW_iBmUC_Xc&t=106s
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Old 14th February 2021, 02:45 PM
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The correct pronunciation of "ch" at the end of any German word is very familiar to a Scot. A lot of the North East dialect in Scotland, known as "the Doric" is based on Anglo Saxon so has broadly Germanic language roots. Some words are even identical. Acht is eight in Doric as it is in German

The guy in the video does a number of analogue photography videos with idiomatically correct English that is as clear as any of a native English speaker I have heard.

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Old 14th February 2021, 04:09 PM
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flippin eck I can only speak cockney ,but German that's like another bloomin language
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Old 14th February 2021, 04:15 PM
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Default Ich Sprechen Deutch aber nur langsam. Danke.

One point on pronunciation is, the letter 'i' is always pronounced as 'e' and vice versa. Sometimes it is a struggle to get your tongue around those words.

The chap in the video certainly speaks better English than I do German. I learned enough to carry out my duties in Germany when I was in the Army, but not enough to hold and in depth conversation. It takes me a day or two to get up to speed when I travel over there on holiday. After that I am OK.

There again different regions of the German speaking race (Germany, Austria and parts of Switzerland) have different inflections and emphasis on sounds. Pretty well the same as we have with Geordie, Scouse, Welsh, Cockney or West country and many others.

Also a German speaking English may have a different accent with more than a tinge of American if they come from the zone which was administered by the US Forces after the war. The English accent does not seem to have made such an impression.

(Translation of the title above. I speak German but only slowly. Thanks)

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One point on pronunciation is, the letter 'i' is always pronounced as 'e' and vice versa. Sometimes it is a struggle to get your tongue around those words.
Further to this point, if it's "ei" in a word, it's pronounced as in Leica, or Schneider. If it were "ie" it would sound like "Leeka" or "Schneeder".

(I grew up in a German-speaking house, and still speak it, so I'm not being a smartarse here )
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Further to this point, if it's "ei" in a word, it's pronounced as in Leica, or Schneider. If it were "ie" it would sound like "Leeka" or "Schneeder".

(I grew up in a German-speaking house, and still speak it, so I'm not being a smartarse here )
A good example is "Rhein Riesling" (my other hobby is wine).
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A good example is "Rhein Riesling" (my other hobby is wine).
Good one! I'll have to remember that

And that reminds me that I haven't had a German wine in ages. Time to get reacquainted.
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Take a Mosel Riesling, preferably from Wiltingen (river Saar) or Kasel (stream Ruwer). :-)
Thanks for the video. Indeed, it's often simply about pronounciation, finding similarities to known sounds. The Umlaute are tricky. I recommend the training advised by James Cagney in Billy Wilder's "One, two, three". :-)
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Take a Mosel Riesling, preferably from Wiltingen (river Saar) or Kasel (stream Ruwer). :-)
For sure -- Mosel are more to my taste over the Rheinhessen and Pfalz style. I like the Baden wines too.

I'll have to look for that Cagney bit. Sounds like fun :-)
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My brother and I camped in Trittenheim in the summer of 1962. If I could get the time back, I'd do it again.

We also spent time in Bad Kreuznach on that trip. I wish I'd been more clued up.
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