What should I go too?

Question

I'm trying to learn German but I don't know how to pronounce some German words. What should I go to on the internet where a person will pronounce the word for you? With the English word by it.

Answer 1

Most German pronunciations are quite simple and very literal.

Remember this

W is always pronounced as a V
V is always pronounced like an F
When you get the letters ie together they are pronounced like ee
When you get ei together they are pronounced like eye
When a word starts with S like stein (stone) it is pronounced shtine
When you see an umlaut (two little dots) over a vowel it changes the sound so
Letter a in a word like vater (father) is pronounced like faater
An umlaut over the a as in the word spat (Umlaut over a but not on my keyboard) makes the word sound like shpate
Umlaut over e or i is not seen
Umlaut over letter o makes it sound like er as in horen (to hear) pronounced heren
Umlaut over u is a strange one. Try saying ee with your mouth in a shape as if saying oo

Hope that helps.

Answer 2

You should probably learn English first, then search German word pronunciation and see what comes up.
Or you could go to your local library and borrow a CD/Tape based learning program.
Or you could enroll in a local community college German class

Answer 3

Nothing on the Internet that I know of. I have seen something called the RosettaStone advertised that will surely help you with German. Check them out on the Internet and see if it is right for you of find someone who speaks German.

Answer 4

Try this site. You can download language lists and they pronounce words for you.

http://www.byki.com/FLSIndPage.pl?Lang=GA11&engine=adwords!9236&keyword=byki+language&match_type=&gclid=CKPJo8_Tgo4CFRnwgAodPkgiQQ

Answer 5

just try to type; english word for --------. in you space bar and see what you get.