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It's also a lot easier to understand. I am constantly asking my German colleagues to pronounce that word 'as if they were imitating my accent', so I can get so
by hessenwolf 15y ago
It's also a lot easier to understand. I am constantly asking my German colleagues to pronounce that word 'as if they were imitating my accent', so I can get some idea of the spelling, and not just a smudge of weird consonants.
- wazoox 15y agoI cannot actually speak German, but isn't German relation of pronunciation to spelling much clearer than in English (for which it's notoriously intractable, see the famous "ghoti" joke)?
- hessenwolf 15y agoYes, it's phairly phonetic, but there are a few different 'h', 'ch', and 'k' sounds that were initially completely undistinguishable to my ears.