RE: German 'ich' (was: Pronunciation of U+0429)

2002-08-09 Thread David Possin

I guess everybody know that "the" has genders in Germany: der, die, das

Now imagine the poor American arriving in Munich and stepping on a
Bavarian's toe:
"Das die der Dei-bel hol" 
(I messed with the Bavarian spelling a bit to get my point across.)

I' bä a Schwob
(I learned German the first time in a tiny Swabian village near
Tübingen)
Dave
 
--- "Vaintroub, Wladislav" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Despite all the similarities in pronounciations of Russian U+0429 and
> German
> "ich" , 
> U+0429 seems to be very hard for pronounce Germans, who learn Russian
> (the
> most complicated for Germans is I think U+042B, which most of them
> pronounce
> like German "u").
> 
> Icke,
> (a Russian living in Berlin)
> 
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: David Possin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 2:17 PM
> To: Otto Stolz; Rick Cameron
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: German 'ich' (was: Pronunciation of U+0429)
> 
> 
> I was thinking about Hessisch too, which is Frankfurt area and the
> German Bundesland Hessen. 
> I think I can distinguish about 6 different dialects, each one has a
> different pronunciation of 'ich'. If anybody is interested I can
> organize a conference call offlist and we can listen to the various
> sounds by phone. Compare it with the Berlin version ;-)
> 
> Dave
> --- Otto Stolz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Rick Cameron wrote:
> > 
> > > At http://www.philol.msu.ru/rus/galya-1/kons/n-2.htm you can find
> > > audiovisual samples for the consonants of the Russian alphabet.
> The
> > entry
> > > for U+0429 (which they write as D?') sure looks and sounds like
> an
> > ich-laut
> > > to me.
> > 
> > Are you referring to the German standard pronounciation [A?],
> > or have you, by any chance, heard this phoneme pronounced by
> > a Hessian [Ef]? The latter would resemble the pronounciation of
> > "N?" much more than the former (which is normally transliterated
> > into Russian as "D3").
> > 
> > Best wishes,
> >Otto Stolz
> > 
> > 


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RE: German 'ich' (was: Pronunciation of U+0429)

2002-08-09 Thread Vaintroub, Wladislav

Despite all the similarities in pronounciations of Russian U+0429 and German
"ich" , 
U+0429 seems to be very hard for pronounce Germans, who learn Russian (the
most complicated for Germans is I think U+042B, which most of them pronounce
like German "u").

Icke,
(a Russian living in Berlin)


-Original Message-
From: David Possin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 2:17 PM
To: Otto Stolz; Rick Cameron
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: German 'ich' (was: Pronunciation of U+0429)


I was thinking about Hessisch too, which is Frankfurt area and the
German Bundesland Hessen. 
I think I can distinguish about 6 different dialects, each one has a
different pronunciation of 'ich'. If anybody is interested I can
organize a conference call offlist and we can listen to the various
sounds by phone. Compare it with the Berlin version ;-)

Dave
--- Otto Stolz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Rick Cameron wrote:
> 
> > At http://www.philol.msu.ru/rus/galya-1/kons/n-2.htm you can find
> > audiovisual samples for the consonants of the Russian alphabet. The
> entry
> > for U+0429 (which they write as D?') sure looks and sounds like an
> ich-laut
> > to me.
> 
> Are you referring to the German standard pronounciation [A?],
> or have you, by any chance, heard this phoneme pronounced by
> a Hessian [Ef]? The latter would resemble the pronounciation of
> "N?" much more than the former (which is normally transliterated
> into Russian as "D3").
> 
> Best wishes,
>Otto Stolz
> 
> 


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Re: German 'ich' (was: Pronunciation of U+0429)

2002-08-09 Thread David Possin

I was thinking about Hessisch too, which is Frankfurt area and the
German Bundesland Hessen. 
I think I can distinguish about 6 different dialects, each one has a
different pronunciation of 'ich'. If anybody is interested I can
organize a conference call offlist and we can listen to the various
sounds by phone. Compare it with the Berlin version ;-)

Dave
--- Otto Stolz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Rick Cameron wrote:
> 
> > At http://www.philol.msu.ru/rus/galya-1/kons/n-2.htm you can find
> > audiovisual samples for the consonants of the Russian alphabet. The
> entry
> > for U+0429 (which they write as Ш') sure looks and sounds like an
> ich-laut
> > to me.
> 
> Are you referring to the German standard pronounciation [ç],
> or have you, by any chance, heard this phoneme pronounced by
> a Hessian [ʃ]? The latter would resemble the pronounciation of
> "щ" much more than the former (which is normally transliterated
> into Russian as "г").
> 
> Best wishes,
>Otto Stolz
> 
> 


=
Dave Possin
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www.Welocalize.com
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/locales/

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