Pronunciation Problems
If you do not know why this is a little bit funny, then you need to ask me.
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Translate the Text into English: Übersetzen:
Susann, Faten, Rico, Heike, Simone and Frank.
Ich mag keine Feuerzeuge.
Mein Feuerzeug ist neu.
Die Frauen mögen die Werkzeuge.
Das ist mein Spielzeug.
Ist das mein Fahrzeug?
Ich habe kein Feuerzeug.
Sein Fahrzeug ist alt.
Wir haben kein Fahrzeug.
Das Spielzeug.
Ich bin nicht dein Spielzeug.
Das Kind hat ein Spielzeug.
Ich habe kein Flugzeug.
Hast du ein Feuerzeug?
Ist das dein Zeug?
Das Fahrzeug.
Das ist nicht mein Zeug.
Mein Werkzeug, bitte!
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NOTE: Our American friends call ‘Lemo‘ ‘pop‘ and ‘Lemonade‘ = ‘Soda pop‘ or just ‘Soda‘ for short.
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Pronunciation Problems:
Vegetable
Sample sentence:
“I like eating vegetables and I like eating meat. Anyone who does not like eating meat is a ‘Meat Head‘ which is American slang.
Comfortable
Sample sentence:
“I feel comfortable when I am wearing loose trousers and not tight uncomfortable ones.“
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NOTE: Who would you believe?
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The silent letter ‘L’
Almond
Sample sentence:
“I do not like Indian Curry with Almonds and raisins in it”
Salmon
Sample sentence:
“The word Salmon is my favourite word that Germans always pronounce wrong.“
Half
Sample sentence:
“I dug half a hole today, but then I fell in the whole way and not just by half.” “I do nothing by half.”
Would
Sample sentence:
“Would be so kind as to read this sentence for me as I am busy chopping some wood?“
Talk
Sample sentence:
“Talk is cheap. Birds don’t talk, but they do go ‘Cheep, Cheep!'”
Walk
Sample sentence:
“You don’t just have to ‘Talk the Talk,’ but you also have to ‘Walk the Walk‘ you understand?”
ETC. et cetera
Sample sentence:
“If I want to say “And so on and so on and so forth, I can much more easily just say or write etc. and etc.“
Clothes
Sample sentence:
“This is another one of my favourite words that Germans always pronounce wrong. So, say: the clothes over there do not belong to the clothes over there, but my clothes belong to me, they are my clothes. Your clothes belong to you, they are your clothes, not my clothes. What cloth are your clothes made from?”
Jewellery
Sample sentence:
“Women like jewellery, but men do not like jewellery, especially when women want men to buy them expensive jewellery!“
K sound
ch = ‘K sound
Architecture
Sample sentence:
“I love architecture that is of the old genre, but the new fashion in architecture wants to make everything ‘functional and not to have any nice bits sticking in and out of here or there!‘”
Stomach
Sample sentence:
“Since the time of Corona, my stomach has got larger and larger! Heh, Don’t look at my stomach!”
Ache
Sample sentence:
“I have a headache from thinking up all these sample sentences!”
En/thus/i/as/tic
Sample sentence:
“I am not very enthusiastic about writing any more sample sentences!“
OR = ‘ER’
Word / world / work
Sample sentence:
“There is one word in this world that I truly hate and that is the word work!”
Stressed Syllables
The stress in the syllable can change within a word. Check out the words below and see:
Photograph/photography / Photographer / Photographic
Sample sentence:
“I like to take photographs, but I am not very good at photography, so I could never be a professional photographer. My face is not very photographic either. Oh well, perhaps I’d better stay a teacher…..“
Wit, wit, wit – Drink and Other Drugs:
Witz, Witz, Witz – Trinken und andere Drogen:
“The heavy port drinker must be prepared to make some sacrifice of personal beauty and agility.” Quote by Evelyn Waugh.
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