Despite all the similarities in pronounciations of Russian U+0429 and German "ich" , U+0429 seems to be very hard for pronounce Germans, who learn Russian (the most complicated for Germans is I think U+042B, which most of them pronounce like German "u").
Icke, (a Russian living in Berlin) -----Original Message----- From: David Possin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 2:17 PM To: Otto Stolz; Rick Cameron Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: German 'ich' (was: Pronunciation of U+0429) I was thinking about Hessisch too, which is Frankfurt area and the German Bundesland Hessen. I think I can distinguish about 6 different dialects, each one has a different pronunciation of 'ich'. If anybody is interested I can organize a conference call offlist and we can listen to the various sounds by phone. Compare it with the Berlin version ;-) Dave --- Otto Stolz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rick Cameron wrote: > > > At http://www.philol.msu.ru/rus/galya-1/kons/n-2.htm you can find > > audiovisual samples for the consonants of the Russian alphabet. The > entry > > for U+0429 (which they write as D?') sure looks and sounds like an > ich-laut > > to me. > > Are you referring to the German standard pronounciation [A?], > or have you, by any chance, heard this phoneme pronounced by > a Hessian [Ef]? The latter would resemble the pronounciation of > "N?" much more than the former (which is normally transliterated > into Russian as "D3"). > > Best wishes, > Otto Stolz > > ===== Dave Possin Globalization Consultant www.Welocalize.com http://groups.yahoo.com/group/locales/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com
