a b c d e f g h i j k l m ah beh Guten Tag! tseh deh eh eff Sprechen Sie Deutsch? geh hah ih Bitte schön! yawt kah ell em
Dom Volkswagen zahlen n o p q r s t u v w x y z en oh peh koo err ess teh ooh fow Volkswagen veh iks üppsilon zahlen tset
ah a b c d e f g h i j k l m beh tseh deh eh eff geh hah ih yawt kah ell em n o p q r s t u v w x y z en oh peh koo err ess teh ooh fow veh iks üppsilon tset
ä ö ü ß ah a b c d e f g h i j k l m beh tseh deh eh eff geh hah ih yawt kah ell em n o p q r s t u v w x y z en oh peh koo err ess teh ooh fow veh iks üppsilon tset sounds like ä ö ü ß mädchen made good schön fuel für hiss heiße
} { b d g p t k End Sounds in the final position of words take the sounds of } p t k { in the final position of words
Weib /vipe/ Bad /baht/ Tag /tock/
ie /eeh/ pronounced ei /aih/ Die Sonne scheint. ie ei
eu äu /oy/ au /ow/ neu, läuft Haus = = & Sounds like “boy” Sounds like “how”
S S S h z s prechen le en Auto ‘s’ before a consonant ‘s’ before a vowel S s Auto ‘s’ in final place
Z /ts/ Die Zeit Der Reiz ‘Time’ ‘charm, stimulous’ sounds like As in “Tse tse fly” Der Reiz ‘charm, stimulous’ sounds like “dare rites”
Cognates and Stress-shift English German ar-ticle Ar-ti-kel per-son Per-son flex-i-ble flex-i-bel sys-tem Sys-tem ha-bi-tu-al ha-bi-tu-ell Shift the stress to the next syllable.