How to pronounce tricky letter combinations - ‘sch’, ‘ei’, ‘ie’ and more | The Coffee Break German Show 1.10

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🗓️ 20 December 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Do you know how to pronounce the German letter combinations - ‘sch’, ‘ei’ and ‘ie’? In this final episode of The Coffee Break German Show, Mark and Olivera dissect and practise several of the most challenging German sounds to pronounce. By the end of this episode you will be more confident when using these letter combinations in conversation!

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0:00.0	Here's come in too coffee break German.
0:02.6	Welcome back to the coffee brick German show.
0:04.6	I'm Mark and I'm Oliver.
0:06.6	We get the Oliver?
0:08.0	Me get the my favorite word danker and we get it yeah good danker so in these weekly
0:17.5	episodes of the coffee break German show we are helping you improve your
0:21.0	German one coffee break at a time.
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0:34.0	As what was myh, we're going to be here, Olivera.
0:37.0	Today we're doing a bit of pronunciation.
0:39.0	Some pronunciation practice with a little bit of a festive flavor.
0:43.7	Yeah, just a tiny bit, yes.
0:45.6	A so Los Gates.
0:46.7	So, Olivier, what is our first sound that we're going to be practicing?
0:56.0	Our first sound for today is S.C.H. So, S-C-C-H.
1:00.0	Shh. So is the same sound that we have in English with S.H. Fish, for example.
1:06.3	Gano, or English for example.
1:08.3	Good idea, yes. English is a
1:13.7	I guess the difference or perhaps the the challenge is that it can well first of all it contains three letters
1:16.9	and yeah and it can sometimes come at the beginning of a word link to another
1:21.5	consonant yes gonna know so that just makes it a bit, maybe a tiny bit scary when you see so many consonants, but it's just one sound, the S, C, H. So one example would be Dershny.
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