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@RockySalad@discuss.tchncs.de on discuss.tchncs.de Open parent

If English wasn’t your first language, maybe if you learned English later in life, were there any words that you had a really hard time learning how to pronounce? Do you think that had to do with the sounds made in your first language?

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@davel__dup_7797@lemmy.ml on lemmy.ml Open parent

Ask a German to pronounce “squirrel.”

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@FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website on startrek.website Open parent

The delightful thing is that it works in reverse also: ask a native English speaker to pronounce “Eichhörnchen.”

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@khannie@lemmy.world on lemmy.world Open parent

Eye-ch-orn-ken? Irish and we have that gutteral Ch sound so I feel like it’s a cheat code for us.

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@FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website on startrek.website Open parent

None of those ch’s are guttural and you skipped an h;)

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@khannie@lemmy.world on lemmy.world Open parent

So… eye churn chen?

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Saurok in !asklemmy

@Saurok@lemmy.ml · Dec 13

The ch digraph in both instances of Eichhörnchen are pronounced closer to the way you pronounce the first consonant in the word “hue”. It’s closer to the front of the mouth than the one you’re thinking of in Irish. It’s ç in the International Phonetic Alphabet. It’s a different sound than the other way that ch is pronounced in German and has to do with what sounds/letters appear around it. The other pronunciation of ch in German is normally pronounced as x (this sound is the one you’re thinking of that’s in Irish) or χ.

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