banjo67xxx Posted March 6, 2015 at 04:17 PM Report Posted March 6, 2015 at 04:17 PM I've seen lots of discussion on how to pronounce "ch" and "g" in Hochdeutsche but I notice the sounds are very much softer in Schweizer-Deutsche (and also Nederlands - glad to know I'm not the only one who thinks Swiss German sounds a bit like Dutch). Can someone explain the correct way to pronounce a soft "ch", hard "ch" and "g" in Swiss Standard German, Zurich dialect of Swiss German, Dutch standard Dutch, and Den Bosch dialect of Dutch? TIA Banjo Quote
New Members shitou Posted March 9, 2015 at 11:49 AM New Members Report Posted March 9, 2015 at 11:49 AM For Hochdeutsch this short text summarizes it much better than I could: http://web.stanford.edu/~jrb/reference/german.html Unfortunately I cannot answer this for the other languages. I even have my difficulties to understand Schwiitzerdütsch or Dutch, though I live somewhere in the middle... Quote
New Members shitou Posted March 9, 2015 at 12:29 PM New Members Report Posted March 9, 2015 at 12:29 PM @banjo67xxx I just came along this site; seems to be interesting for you: http://www.pholab.uzh.ch/forschung/laufende-forschungsprojekte/VoiceApp.html I must admit as a native German speaker, that after learning Mandarin for a few weeks and watching the video on this site, my Mandarin listening skills appear to be not worse than my Swiss German listening skills . ;) Quote
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