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[QUOTE]Originally posted by TSN: [QB] You'll hear "ae" pronounced like a long 'a', a long 'e', and a long 'i'. If it's from Latin, it [i]should[/i] be a long 'i' (just try saying the two sounds separately: ah-ee; it sounds like an 'i'). Of course, in German, "ae" is just another way to write 'ä', so it's pronounced like a long 'a' or short 'e' (depending upon how it's used). The 'ö' is pronounced by rounding your lips for an 'o', but saying either a long 'a' or short 'e'. The 'ü' is pronounced by doing the lip-rounding thing and saying either a long 'e' or a short 'i'. And every time I refer to a long or short vowel, I'm talking about the way those vowels are pronounced in English. BTW, "umlaut" is the German word for the double-dots over a letter. In English, it's called a diaresis. Usually in English it's used to show that two vowels in a row are pronounced separately, rather than as a diphthong ("naïve", "coöperation"). However, that went out of practice quite a while ago, so you're not likely to see it much, if at all. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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