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<blockquote data-quote="Per SÃ¸vik" data-source="post: 82061" data-attributes="member: 1285">Re: A Thank You to our Non-Native English SpeakersWhile german sometimes might be difficult to pronounce, even for those of us that speak closely related languages, the pronounciation of words are generally easy to figure out because of the consistent rules. In english, there seems to be no rules, just exeptions. In Scotland, there is a place called Hawick that is pronounced Hoyk, now if someone told you verbally to find Hoyk on the map, you&#039;d have a hard time. Speakers of the english language even like to name their children with impossible to pronounce names, assuring they will be continously offended as foreigners mispronounce their names :razz:Incidentally, if I understand the rules right, it should be Donaudampfschifffahrtkapitänwitwe without the s between Kapitän and Witwe, tempting me to conclude that you have compounded &quot;der Donaudampfschifffahrtkapitäns Witwe&quot; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />~;-)~:wink:</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Per SÃ¸vik, post: 82061, member: 1285"] Re: A Thank You to our Non-Native English Speakers While german sometimes might be difficult to pronounce, even for those of us that speak closely related languages, the pronounciation of words are generally easy to figure out because of the consistent rules. In english, there seems to be no rules, just exeptions. In Scotland, there is a place called Hawick that is pronounced Hoyk, now if someone told you verbally to find Hoyk on the map, you'd have a hard time. Speakers of the english language even like to name their children with impossible to pronounce names, assuring they will be continously offended as foreigners mispronounce their names :razz: Incidentally, if I understand the rules right, it should be Donaudampfschifffahrtkapitänwitwe without the s between Kapitän and Witwe, tempting me to conclude that you have compounded "der Donaudampfschifffahrtkapitäns Witwe" ;)~;-)~:wink: [/QUOTE]

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