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But the German "ch" phoneme doesn't even exist in (American) English?

• asynchrony 7y ago
  It's not pronounced from the throat like the German "ch" but otherwise it's as close as it gets.
  • anyfoo 7y ago
    There are (at least?) three different ways "ch" can be pronounced in German: Throaty as in "Buch", a slightly altered "sh" sound like in "Bücher", and just as plain "k", like in "Lachs".
    • posterboy 7y ago
      I was very surprised to see wiktionaries phonetic transcription and sound sample of "Buch", apparently it is not throaty everywhere. It's a /k/ in all "-achs", e.g. "Dachs", "wachsen", "Flachs", exactly as in "bochs" the emulator (compare "boxen"), except across boundaries, e.g. "wachsam, wach-sam" (wakeful, at guard), or contractions, e.g. "[Meister seines].Faches/Fachs".
• anyfoo 7y ago
  In this chase, "ch" is pronounced as "k", not as one of the two German ch-phonemes that don't exist in English.