RE: Learning German, advice or help appreciated!
September 8, 2015 at 11:46 pm
(This post was last modified: September 9, 2015 at 12:00 am by Alex K.)
Yup, ee-ah that gets you close, though foreigners (not only English natives, also Italians for example) sometimes tend to overcompensate at the r by putting too open an "ah" there.Try to keep the ah short.
The ch is a bitch. If you master both main varieties of that, you're really really good. The upside is, noone will understand you any less clearly if you do ch -> k, and there are even German dialects which do it regularly (north/eastern German, famously Berlin). The northern German varieties have the ch=k precisely because they are more closely related to English historically (see the "machen"-"maken" Isogloss https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benrath_line and the related ich-ick isogloss).
Remember: your native language is a northern German dialect with some french vocabulary
The ch is a bitch. If you master both main varieties of that, you're really really good. The upside is, noone will understand you any less clearly if you do ch -> k, and there are even German dialects which do it regularly (north/eastern German, famously Berlin). The northern German varieties have the ch=k precisely because they are more closely related to English historically (see the "machen"-"maken" Isogloss https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benrath_line and the related ich-ick isogloss).
Remember: your native language is a northern German dialect with some french vocabulary
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
