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Omg I was reading it as "ich lel" not "ich iel" this whole time ๐ thanks
It is pretty close on the pronunciation, except ch is not sh. Unless you're speaking certain regional dialects :)
The closest pronunciation you can get in English is probably eek.
I'm a German native who studied linguistics (ok, computational linguistics with a minor in phonetics and phonology), but I basically only speak my regional dialect well. I was visiting a friend in Berlin once and a stranger in a bar complimented me that I "speak good German for a foreigner".
I regarded it as a potential evidence for my unfounded and highly debateable hypothesis that the dialect we speak in the region is not in fact a dialect, but its own language.