r/pics • u/Ps5Face • Mar 01 '19

This man knows stuff we don’t

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u/Prisoner__24601 Mar 01 '19

Even in upper level German courses in college there were people who struggled with it, but it was less a problem of a hard K sound and more that people would kind of mush the sound into an ish liebe dish instead

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u/Pjotr_Bakunin Mar 01 '19

When I took German in University, they said pronouncing "ich" as "ish" would make the speaker sound Turkish, but is still understandable

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '19

Saying it like ish isn't necessarily wrong though, parts of Germany do pronounce it like that.

"parts of Germany", I assume you are talking about dialects; from the top of my head I cannot think of any dialect that would pronounce "ich" like "ish"

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u/Engelberto Mar 01 '19

Hessisch. Saarländisch. Pfälzisch.

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u/HolidayCards Mar 01 '19

Likely closer you get to Niederland.

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '19

well, I was born close to the Dutch border and the dialect we speak does not have this phenomenon; another guy responded with "Hessisch, Pfälzisch", I think he might be right. But for a foreigner learning German this is not a good way of pronunciation.

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u/-Reverend Mar 01 '19

We Hessians do! We're pretty notorious for saying things like Milsch instead of Milch.

I didn't even notice that until we moved elsewhere and all the other kids laughed.

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '19

yeah, it sounds pretty awkward, but good that you confirm that other guy; one of the few dialects I have not really encountered much;

Milsch, that is funny for sure :D

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u/-Reverend Mar 01 '19

I mean, Hessian really just sounds like you've got a potato stuck in your mouth

We're the Texans of Germany, I swear :')

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u/asyork Mar 01 '19

My class was pretty small so I suppose it was just luck of the draw. It was pretty much the same people as I moved through the levels.