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Hello and welcome to Coffee

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Break German. Welcome back to the Coffee Break German

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show. I'm Mark. I'm Thomas.

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How are you, Thomas? Excessively well, Mark. Thank

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you. Excessively well. Now

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I know why you're saying you're over the top good

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today. Yes, because you know the

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topic for today, don't you? We're talking about umlauts

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and all those sounds like... The

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S, the U's and the U's.

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Yeah, so we're going to be practising our pronunciation

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in this episode, learning more about how to make

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Okay, we know what we're talking about. Shall we get started? Yeah,

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let's get started.

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Thomas, where did umlauts come from?

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Umlauts? Glad you mentioned this. I

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like to discuss this.

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one that has a slightly like I would describe

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it as a short a sound is like

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Hende, so that's Hans,

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you know,

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and we'll talk a bit more about like

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where you find these home loads in German and

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also a slightly longer pronunciation

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of the air for example in the word Endlich,

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similar. Endlich, understand

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each there after the E

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in the word here, so Endlich,

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Endlich and

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another one would be the word for a back which is

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Kefr,

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Kefr, Kefr,

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Kefr, so make sure you're repeating these

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after Thomas, now after me I am a learner

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here and you need to repeat after

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Thomas here, so we've heard Apples,

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Hätze,

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Hans,

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Hende, similar,

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Endlich and Bug,

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Kefr,

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okay is the sound

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always pronounced like that? Unfortunately

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not, of course it's not, of course it's not,

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so there's a few exceptions

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where it's actually more pronounced like an E

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sound and that is for example the word

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Kiese or cheese, you know and

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also Mee-Tien, girl,

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you know, okay so Kiese,

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okay now

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few more exceptions, there's also the

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combination of the E and that

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is followed by a U, oh that's like OI,

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okay now and actually the area where I come

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from in German is the Alköy, so

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it has the U is OI, okay

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Alköy and I think that's an easier

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sound for a Scottish person, OI. You

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would also find it for example in the word Moo-Yze,

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is that like mice? Yeah exactly,

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it's a little mouse and Moo-Yze.

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Am I right in thinking that we see that pattern

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quite a lot where we've got this singular

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word without a numelode but then we get

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the plural word that does have a numelode in it. Exactly

6:05

and especially on words that only have one

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syllable, like mouse and

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that if changes that and if it has an

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R, O or U, it very often

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changes into a numelode. Okay so mouse, voice,

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right. So

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that's the E with a numelode.

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What about O with a numelode? Ooooh.

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Again I think you can kind of like distinguish

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between like a shorter O which would

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be for example in the word, Efnan. Efnan,

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so to open. You know,

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Efnan.

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Efnan.

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Another word that I am sure you've heard before is

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Kannen. Kannen, a short

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one there and that is like to be able to. You

6:46

know, or can use on Kannen, but a

6:49

here, but I mean can you wait here? Can you

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stay here? You know, perfect. Okay.

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So you also have the slightly longer one that

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for example you find in the word, Ul.

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Ul, does Ul mean beer? And

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no, not in German, it means like sonen

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blumen Ul or oleven Ul.

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Oh, like oil. Yes. Ul

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is beer in the Swedish region. But

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Ul, oil, okay. Kannen. Oh

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and also popular or a very common one is

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Schön. Schön, so beautiful. Those

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ones are long Ul sounds. So

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we had the Efnan, which is short

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and then the Schön or the Ul.

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Yeah. Okay, good. Are there

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exceptions with the or is it? I

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didn't come across any to be fair actually. So I

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think it's really those short Ul

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and the long Ul. Okay, which sounds

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pretty similar. I mean, it's just like a kind of extended

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version of it. Yes. I also maybe

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slightly exaggerated when I pronounced the long one. So it's like

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Ul, Uliven Ul. Uliven Ul.

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Okay. We've lost more.

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And I actually think this is probably for learners

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and English speakers at least the most

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difficult one to sound to make.

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have enjoyed this lesson about Umleus

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