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[-] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 5 points 22 hours ago

Oh I'll add the Estonian ones because we've got fun ones

Ü - pretty much does not exist in English, you might hear it in a weird dialect, apparently in the word "few" as spoken by scousers and some South Africans?

Õ - same preface, apparently you might hear a person from Cardiff pronounce "foot" this way or a southern USian might say "nut" this way, but I've never heard either.

Ö and Ä are the same as in Swedish and we do not have Å

[-] Noobnarski@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

So ä ö and ü are pronounced the same as in German?

Then i'd just have to learn how to say å and õ if I visit the Baltics or Scandinavia.

[-] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 points 22 hours ago

Yes, ü sounds like the ü in über and ö like Österreich at least. I'm not entirely sure about the German vs Estonian pronunciation of ä. Sounds closer to the ä in Käfer than the ä in Käse if you go to wiktionary and listen to the example pronunciations. I did study German in school because it sounded preferable to learning an entire new alphabet and recall the German ä was taught as sort of a cross between the Estonian ä and Estonian e, leaning towards one or the other depending on context, but then again I'm not sure how good my German teachers were, I know I only ever had two or three English teachers out of like 8 or 9 that actually spoke the language and knew how to pronounce words.

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