a b c d e f g h i j k l m ah beh Guten Tag! tseh deh eh eff Sprechen Sie Deutsch? geh hah ih Bitte schön! yawt kah ell em
Dom Volkswagen zahlen n o p q r s t u v w x y z en oh peh koo err ess teh ooh fow Volkswagen veh iks üppsilon zahlen tset
ah a b c d e f g h i j k l m beh tseh deh eh eff geh hah ih yawt kah ell em n o p q r s t u v w x y z en oh peh koo err ess teh ooh fow veh iks üppsilon tset
ä ö ü ß ah a b c d e f g h i j k l m beh tseh deh eh eff geh hah ih yawt kah ell em n o p q r s t u v w x y z en oh peh koo err ess teh ooh fow veh iks üppsilon tset sounds like ä ö ü ß mädchen made good schön fuel für hiss heiße
} { b d g p t k End Sounds in the final position of words take the sounds of } p t k { in the final position of words
Weib /vipe/ Bad /baht/ Tag /tock/
ie /eeh/ pronounced ei /aih/ Die Sonne scheint. ie ei
eu äu /oy/ au /ow/ neu, läuft Haus = = & Sounds like “boy” Sounds like “how”
S S S h z s prechen le en Auto ‘s’ before a consonant ‘s’ before a vowel S s Auto ‘s’ in final place
Z /ts/ Die Zeit Der Reiz ‘Time’ ‘charm, stimulous’ sounds like As in “Tse tse fly” Der Reiz ‘charm, stimulous’ sounds like “dare rites”
Kneipe Pfeife Psalm Zwanzig Pronounce both consonants Using only one syllable
No silent letters Köln Sounds like ‘could’ - D + N Pronounce the ‘L’
Cognates and Stress-shift English German ar-ticle Ar-ti-kel per-son Per-son flex-i-ble flex-i-bel sys-tem Sys-tem ha-bi-tu-al ha-bi-tu-ell Shift the stress to the next syllable.
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