Johnny Gertie sounds like an old murder ballad.
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Umlauts are the undoing of every non-native German speaker.
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My HS German teacher said to shape your mouth like you're going to make the oo sound but say the "long a" sound instead when pronouncing Goethe
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Same here. Probably why I can sometimes pass myself off as a native in the right circumstances.
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You mean it's not Gwee-theeee?
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GUR-tuh. I read Faust with a German professor
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That’s not correct.
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Goethe was a name I was saying wrong for such a long time in my head, it took some time to train myself to say it "correctly."
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They’re unpronounceable. Like the Tetragrammaton.
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It's pronounced Dawn-Old.
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