Vicki,
on the other hand such little mispronounced words make the language of
somebody who isn't in origin German so lovely. And sometimes there are
mispronounced words you will ever remember and laugh and say , oh this
was in ... or at
Don't try to be tooo correct.
I too try to
On Apr 22, 2009, at 14:53, Antje González wrote:
The long e from German doesn't exist in English. So it is difficult
to
explain...
Yep. Long e (or long a) means something else in English than it
does in German (or in Polish, for that matter). Try saying a short e
(as in men, pet, let,
FunnyI asked this very question when I was in Germany last
December. There was a confection called schneeballen (snowballs)
which is popular in Rothenburg and recommended to us by our German tour
director. I asked about the pronunciation since I too had thought it
was as Clay indicated,
Hi All:
but was told no, it is schnee (rhymes with see in English). My
guess is that it is somewhere in between...??? I hate to
mispronounce things ))-: Of course, I'm sure there must be
regional differences in pronunciation in Germany just as there are in
the US
I learned Standard
