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| Arthaey Groupie United States arthaey.com Joined 4838 days ago 97 posts - 155 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 1 of 3 06 April 2011 at 9:54am | IP Logged |
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I'm teaching myself German and have had essentially no contact with anyone else to speak it with. I would love some
feedback on my pronunciation so far, so I can try to unlearn any bad habits I've already picked up. :P Here is a 37-second clip of me reading the introduction text of Unit 3 in my textbook: http://db.tt/R72cJda If you know the IPA or linguistic/phonetic terminology, that would be very welcome! :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Inno Newbie France Joined 6139 days ago 17 posts - 17 votes Studies: Japanese | Message 2 of 3 06 April 2011 at 10:53am | IP Logged |
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I think that was quite good. Some remarks:
- when you say 'sprechen', the beginning sounds to me like [spr], should be [ʃpr] - when you say 'Düsseldorf', the 'ü' should be short, not long (because of the 'ss') - 'Künstler'. Again a short 'ü'. - 'Lehrer', first syllable should be long, not short (because of the 'h') - 'wir brauchen einen Lehrer'. I cannot hear the final 'n' of 'einen'. Weiter so! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Doitsujin Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5112 days ago 1256 posts - 2363 votes Speaks: German*, English | Message 3 of 3 06 April 2011 at 11:03am | IP Logged |
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Not bad. However, you may want to work on differentiating the soft "ch" sound in "ich" /ɪç/ from the hard "ch" sound in "Nacht" /naxt/. Also note that "sp" and "st" are usually pronounced as /ʃp/ and /ʃt/.
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