Loetsj Newbie Belgium Joined 4319 days ago 1 posts - 2 votes
| Message 1 of 6 30 January 2013 at 6:04pm | IP Logged |
Hello
Recentely I discovered Werner Lämmerhirt. Can anyone tell me what accent he has and from which sounds you can
tell that?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZHc2rhUABo
Does anyone know more singers like him? It's a pretty good exercise for my German.
Yours
Bart
Edited by Loetsj on 30 January 2013 at 6:04pm
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sennae Diglot Newbie Germany Joined 4363 days ago 2 posts - 3 votes Speaks: English, German* Studies: Swedish
| Message 2 of 6 31 January 2013 at 4:07am | IP Logged |
I hear this as mostly just a standard German accent and you can tell that he had voice
lessons by how pronounced his plosives are. There are some traces of what I would guess
is a Berlin-region accent in how his 'ich' ch-sounds are realised as 'sh' sounds but
that's common in a lot of German regions (especially in the Rhineland) so I may be wrong
there.
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Earle Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6317 days ago 276 posts - 276 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Norwegian, Spanish
| Message 3 of 6 01 February 2013 at 7:27am | IP Logged |
sennae wrote:
I hear this as mostly just a standard German accent and you can tell that he had voice
lessons by how pronounced his plosives are. There are some traces of what I would guess
is a Berlin-region accent in how his 'ich' ch-sounds are realised as 'sh' sounds but
that's common in a lot of German regions (especially in the Rhineland) so I may be wrong
there.
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I had a next-door neighbor for ten years originally from Darmstadt (he was a member of the original von Braun rocket team), and his "ich" came out as "ish." OTOH, I had a friend originally from Berlin whose "gut" came out as "yut." I haven't listened to the Youtube, but I shall...
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morinkhuur Triglot Groupie Germany Joined 4679 days ago 79 posts - 157 votes Speaks: German*, Latin, English Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Arabic (Egyptian), Arabic (Maghribi)
| Message 4 of 6 05 February 2013 at 12:42am | IP Logged |
Sounds like Standard German with a slight Rhineland (possibly Cologne?) accent to me.The only thing that is
noticeably non-standard though, is his pronunciation of the "ich-sound" (IPA:ç) as "sh" (IPA:ʃ). Other than that
he sings in Hochdeutsch.
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Sh'Naya Diglot Groupie Germany Joined 6760 days ago 48 posts - 65 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: Spanish, Japanese, French
| Message 5 of 6 15 February 2013 at 5:17pm | IP Logged |
As the others already have said, it is mostly Standard German with the exception of the the "ich" sound. It does sound a bit like "sh", however, it does not sound like "ich" is pronounced near Darmstadt ("Odenwälderisch").
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sans-serif Tetraglot Senior Member Finland Joined 4561 days ago 298 posts - 470 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English, German, Swedish Studies: Danish
| Message 6 of 6 15 February 2013 at 8:11pm | IP Logged |
A quick Wikipedia search tells us that he is indeed from Berlin.
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