▲ 585 ▼ ænyøne with me? (thelemmy.club) submitted 1 month ago by laurenceOfSuburbia@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.world 251 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Noobnarski@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 child) So ä ö and ü are pronounced the same as in German? Then i'd just have to learn how to say å and õ if I visit the Baltics or Scandinavia. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago Yes, ü sounds like the ü in über and ö like Österreich at least. I'm not entirely sure about the German vs Estonian pronunciation of ä. Sounds closer to the ä in Käfer than the ä in Käse if you go to wiktionary and listen to the example pronunciations. I did study German in school because it sounded preferable to learning an entire new alphabet and recall the German ä was taught as sort of a cross between the Estonian ä and Estonian e, leaning towards one or the other depending on context, but then again I'm not sure how good my German teachers were, I know I only ever had two or three English teachers out of like 8 or 9 that actually spoke the language and knew how to pronounce words. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago Yes, ü sounds like the ü in über and ö like Österreich at least. I'm not entirely sure about the German vs Estonian pronunciation of ä. Sounds closer to the ä in Käfer than the ä in Käse if you go to wiktionary and listen to the example pronunciations. I did study German in school because it sounded preferable to learning an entire new alphabet and recall the German ä was taught as sort of a cross between the Estonian ä and Estonian e, leaning towards one or the other depending on context, but then again I'm not sure how good my German teachers were, I know I only ever had two or three English teachers out of like 8 or 9 that actually spoke the language and knew how to pronounce words. permalink fedilink source parent