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Good day!
My name is Alexander.

And what is your name?

Today it is about the pronunciation of certain letter combinations.

As in any other language also certain letters are used

In the German language
that are pronounced differenty as to when they stand alone.

Let's begin with the diphtongs.

A diphtong, which are two vowels, which together
have a certain pronunciation.

The egg; If e and i are together, they will form
[Ai].

For example: the egg, the ladder, the bucket.
E and i together - ei.

The egg, the ladder, the bucket.

The second important diphtong is e and u.

This is expressed in German as [oi].
The owl, Europe, the udder.

This is the udder.
The owl, Europe, the udder.

E and u together - oi.

U and u, maybe you still remember from the first lesson,

An A umlaut is Ä, together
With U also [oi] is pronounced.

For example, the skins.
The hides is plural of skin.

This is the skin.

Two mice.

This is the plural of mouse.
This is a mouse; two mice.

A and u together, oi, mice.
And the cottage.

The cottage is a very very small house.
The hides, the mice, the cottage.

U and u together are always pronounced [oi].

The SCH is very important.

If S C H together they are in German
Always [sch].

For example in English: shake, shut,
Shift

The pig, Switzerland, pregnant.

Switzerland is a country south of Germany.
Also Germany has a SCH in the center,

This is expressed as [sch].
The pig, Switzerland, pregnant.

S and T together in over 90% of cases
In the German language as [scht].

This means you do not have S C
H T, it suffices S T.

And that is [scht].
For example: Stuttgart, the street, the skunk.

S and T together, also in the middle of the word,

Not only at the beginning, is [scht].
Stuttgart, the street, the skunk.

Stuttgart is a city in the south of Germany.
I grew up in Stuttgart.

S and P together are analogous to S and T,
It is pronounced [schp].

S and P together is expressed as a [s c h p]:
[Schp]

For example: the sport or Spain.
Spain is a country in southern Europe.

The game.
The sport, Spain, the game.

S and P together - [schp]

C and H together are sometimes expressed as an H;

Such as. In English hand, hound, hungry

And sometimes it is pronounced as one
[Ç].

So it is somewhere between [h] and [sch],
In the middle [ç].

Such as. The church, but, or I, or
the books.

I, the books, the church.
C and H together are pronounced very often [ç].

C and K, they dive together, is easy
a K.

For example: the blanket, the tick, and that
Piece.

It is however important to know that
When C and K are together, the vowel,

Which precedes C and K, is briefly pronounced.
So it is the ceiling, not the ceiling.

It is the blanket, the tick, the piece.

The vowel before C and K is pronounced very briefly.

The blanket, the tick, the piece.

The Tz makes very many non-native speakers
Problems.

It is literally [z].
Very very similar to the C. Or the Z.

Tz is pronounced [z].
For example the treasure or the place.

The treasure, the place.
Tz is usually pronounced as a Z.

The combination T Z T is expressed as a [zt].
Now.

So you only hear a z and then one
T at the end.

Now.

The H, if it is not at the beginning of a word,

But in the middle, has not
.

This means the vowel, e.g. Here the
E, the E here and the E here, is pronounced long.

It's stealing, seeing, walking.
It is not stelen, lakes, or geen.

The H makes the vowel after which it stands.
Steal, see, go.

If an E is after an I it is just like
When an H is after a vowel.

The E here is not pronounced.
It has the property of pronouncing I long.

For example: the knee.
It's not KniE. It is the knee.

This I is pronounced long.

What is also very important is that two consonants are identical,

such as. Here twice M, or here twice S,

Then the vowel becomes before that double consonant
In short and closed.

So it's come, come, it's not gonna be,
Or coma.

It's coming.
A closed short O before a double consonant.

Or eat.
Do not hassle.

Eat.
A short vowel before a double consonant.

Come or eat, for example.

Goodbye!