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To help out, let me point you to the English phonology page on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_phonology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_
by NoahTheDuke 9y ago
To help out, let me point you to the English phonology page on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_phonology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_phonology . Specifically, look into the 'Voiced alveolar sibilant', the 'z' in English. That's the sound you're looking for, as it's the one used by Raph in the linked talk.
For completeness, the vowel is the dipthong 'aɪ', pronounced like the 'i' in the word 'price', discussed on the same wiki page.
- erikb 9y agoGreat resource, thanks a lot! I think this is really the stuff you can't learn in high school education and have to learn by yourself. There our teachers are native Germans as well and while they are probably better than the average second language English learner they can't be perfect either. In Chinese the "x" would be pronounced like that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_alveolo-palatal_fricative https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_alveolo-palatal_fric... So not really a "sh-" either, but English doesn't have that sound at all I believe.