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| j_schnare Newbie Canada Joined 6581 days ago 19 posts - 18 votes Studies: English* Studies: German | Message 1 of 9 13 January 2007 at 6:24pm | IP Logged | ||
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Like most people know German is quite easy for english speakers to pronounce but, there is always a few words I can't see to figure out how to say it. I usually use a text to speech generator to listen to the word, but sometimes I just can't hear it, it seems so quick
Theres a few words I was wondering if someone could tell me how to pronounce. die Zehe ( I know how to say this pretty much, but I find it had to say die then try to make a "ts" sound for the z. die Truhe ( I can't hear how to say this at all) das Knie (It sounds like its say "ka-nee" or something like that) also das Auge (I thought it might sound something like "ow-gah", but the last part doesn't exactly sound like gah on the txt to speech) Thanks in advanced ps. if your wondering, I'm trying to learn vocabulary for parts of the body. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| MeshGearFox Senior Member United States Joined 6701 days ago 316 posts - 344 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, Russian | Message 2 of 9 14 January 2007 at 3:55am | IP Logged | ||
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Text to speech generators do odd things. I wouldn't use them for this purpose.
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| Heinrich S. Groupie Germany Joined 6942 days ago 63 posts - 85 votes Studies: French | Message 3 of 9 14 January 2007 at 7:43am | IP Logged | ||
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Truhe: like the English true, just with a German r, and then a regular e at the end, like Zehe has. The h is more or less silent in regular speech.
Knie: like the English knee, just with a pronounced k which immediately melds with the n, so not ka-nee, but knee. Auge: the au part is like an English ow as in cow or the German word Traube, and the g is similar to the g in geh, but softer due to the same e as with Zehe or Truhe, not the sharper one in geh. Edited by Heinrich S. on 14 January 2007 at 11:26am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| j_schnare Newbie Canada Joined 6581 days ago 19 posts - 18 votes Studies: English* Studies: German | Message 4 of 9 14 January 2007 at 8:16am | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks for your reponses. Do you or anyone know any place that has sound files for German vocabulary. I can't find any place, so I have to reply on txt to speech. I have German pimsleur 1-3 which I just started yesterday, but I don't know how much vocabulary, like body parts and other useful things there will be in it. Edited by j_schnare on 14 January 2007 at 8:53am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Heinrich S. Groupie Germany Joined 6942 days ago 63 posts - 85 votes Studies: French | Message 5 of 9 14 January 2007 at 11:30am | IP Logged | ||
Sorry, no, but you might like to take a look at this page and specifically the area "Lesen und Hören": http://www.deutsch-perfekt.com/ 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| virgule Senior Member Antarctica Joined 6846 days ago 242 posts - 261 votes Studies: Korean | Message 6 of 9 14 January 2007 at 2:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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Transparent's BYKI does have quite good audio. There's a free version; and one where you pay. I have only ever looked at the free program, and the audio seems good.
Given their random choice of words for their lessons, I'm not sure I would pay. BYKI might help you to get the sounds right; after a while, however, you should find that German has a very regular pronunciation: seeing the text means knowing how to say a word. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| lefthat Newbie United States Joined 6519 days ago 19 posts - 20 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 7 of 9 26 January 2007 at 4:24am | IP Logged | ||
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The site dict.cc is a great German/english dictionary and they have sound files for most of the words in there. Its been able to help me out whenever I get stuck.
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| Mareike Senior Member Germany Joined 6230 days ago 267 posts - 323 votes Speaks: German* Studies: English, Swedish | Message 8 of 9 11 September 2009 at 10:37am | IP Logged | ||
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Here you can hear also the German pronouncing: http://dict.leo.org/
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