Regeln Lesen und Aussprache 3
Deutsch January 12th, 2010
Stress
In German words the stress usually falls on the first syllable (Flugzeug - airplane) with the exception of some words (warum - why), words with unstressed prefix (verstehen - understand) and words that came from other languages (Computer).
Unstressed prefixes:
be-, ge-, er-
ver-, zer-,
ent-, emp-, miss-
Tags: Aussprache, prefix, stress, syllable
Regeln Lesen und Aussprache 2
Deutsch January 9th, 2010
Vowels
Vowels with changing-mutation (Umlaut - with two dots on top) is read more narrowly (with more narrow mouth) than usual vowels:
schon (already) - sch?n ('шён' - nice)
Zug (train) - Z?ge ('цюгэ' - trains)
"A Umlaut" is read as э: S?le - halls
Y (юпсилон) is read as ?: Lyrik.
Letter combination of vowels.
Weimar (ай) - (city) Weimar, Liebe (и) - love (underlined vowel means long vowel), heute (ой) - today, H?user (ой)- houses.
Tags: Aussprache, letter, Umlaut, vowel
Rules of reading and pronunciation (Regeln Lesen und Aussprache)
Deutsch December 26th, 2009
Consonants
W(вэ) is read as russian letter в: was? - what?
Z (цэт) is read as russian letter ц: Mozart
S (эс) is read as russian letter c: Post - почта, but before (or between) vowels - as з: Saal - a hall, lesen - to read.
? (эсцэт) is read as russian letter с (this letter consists of two s).
F (эф), V (фау) is read as russian letter ф: Frankfurt, Vater - a father. In loanwords letter v is read as в: Vase - a vase.
J (йот) is read as й: Ja - yes.
R (эр) is read as russian р (south Germany) and pronounce one's "r's" in the French manner(burr).
H at the beginning of the word or root is read as exhalation: Haus - a house, dahinten - over there, and in the middle of word or root (after vowel) isn't read at all: gehen - to go, Kuh - a cow.
Letter combination of consonants
Koch (х) - a cook, Fuchs (кс) - a fox, Schiller (ш) - a flicker, Sport (шп) - sport, still (шп) - silently, Deutsch (hard ч) - German, backen (бакн) - to bake, quaken (квакн) - to croak.
Suffix -tion (always stressed) is read цьон.
? or ss.
The letter ? consists of two letters s. According to the new reform of spelling, after long vowel or diphthongs we write ?, and after short vowel - ss: wissen- wei?, dass, gro?.
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Let’s start with German!
Deutsch October 1st, 2009
It was a big break in my studies of languages, but now I want to continue with German. I found book "Deutsche Grammatik mit menschlichem Antlitz". I really hope that this book'll help me to study German. The author of the book is Ilja Frank. He has own method of learning languages. Let's try to study!
Preparation for English
English July 4th, 2009
I've started to find the books for my English learning. I don't know exactly my current level of English, but I think it's Intermediate. I need to achieve First Certificate in English (FCE) level, then I can go to Minsk and take an exam.
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Key English Test (KET):
Certificate in Advanced English (CAE):
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