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LostInAnomie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-20-09 02:47 AM
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I cannot pronounce the number 12 in German.
It is fucking impossible!
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muriel_volestrangler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-20-09 03:23 AM
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1. tsvurlf (nt)
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elleng Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-20-09 03:57 AM
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2. EASY!
TVULF! TeVelf!
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theNotoriousP.I.G. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-20-09 06:11 AM
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3. You think that is bad??
Wait till you get to the tenses! :crazy:

Zwölf is a hard one because of the umlaut. Getting that down is really hard and you feel pretty silly cause you feel like your trying to do an Inspector Clouseau impersonation. Get a cd if you don't already have one. Good luck!
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timtom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-20-09 11:38 AM
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5. Try this:
Edited on Sat Jun-20-09 11:40 AM by timtom
say "tzvelf" and then say "tzvolf".

Then try to say it with the vowel about halfway between the two.
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theNotoriousP.I.G. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-20-09 02:44 PM
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8. I've got it
down. Umlauts were the hardest thing for me to learn because we don't have anything like it in English. Ich and similar unfamiliar sounds really kicked my ass too but after 7 years I can pass for a native sometimes.
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timtom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-20-09 04:10 PM
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12. Boy. Do I feel foolish.
That was meant for the OP.

Es tut mir leid.
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theNotoriousP.I.G. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-20-09 04:16 PM
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13. kein problem nt
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no_hypocrisy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-20-09 06:47 AM
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4. TS for the beginning and it rhymes with wolf.
Tsoolf.
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-20-09 02:48 PM
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9. you forgot the v after the ts
:hi:
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no_hypocrisy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-20-09 05:37 PM
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15. Scheiss! Du hast rechts! Ich habe das vergessen. Danke schoen.
Edited on Sat Jun-20-09 05:38 PM by no_hypocrisy
:hi:
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Aristus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-20-09 11:39 AM
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6. Nothing is impossible.
I pronounce it all the time...
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RandomThoughts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-20-09 11:52 AM
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7. Language development between the ear and the brain is interesting.
When learning language brains group sounds to the nearest sound that has a purpose, then anything close to that sound gets heard in the mind as that sound.

So depending what language you learn as a child, there are groups of sounds your mind literally does not hear, because they get pushed into the most used sound with meaning near that sound.

It is an effective way for language to be quickly understood based on many different ways people speak, but it makes it difficult for someone to learn a new sound they never grew up hearing.
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SOteric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-20-09 03:16 PM
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10. Stick with the German, then.
'Cuz 'hello' in Russian is the even more tongue-twisty Zdrastvueetee.

:D
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GCP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-20-09 03:33 PM
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11. Tsverlf
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Obamanaut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-20-09 04:17 PM
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14. OK. Do 555. It's more fun than 12. nt
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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-20-09 06:20 PM
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16. I imagine it sounds like getting punched in the stomach.
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