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Originally Posted by Giller
Is it pronounced "Porsch" or "Porsch-AH"?
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Well, that is not that easy, because a german e is pronounced i in english.
But i found this on the internet. It's a soundfile where a radio announcer says german words:
Brand names as they sound in German:
Adidas, Bayer, Braun,
Porsche, Deutsche Bank, Lufthansa, Volkswagen
People and things:
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Dr. Seuss, Loess, Neanderthal, Gerhard Schröder, Steffi Graf, Sigmund Freud, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Henry Kissinger, Jörg Haider
File:
http://german.about.com/library/media/sound/words_a.mp3
Common German words in English as pronounced by Germans:
Kindergarten, Gesundheit, Poltergeist, Strudel, Dachshund, kaputt, Schadenfreude, verboten, Ersatz, Rottweiler, Gestalt, Weltanschauung, Angst, Fahrenheit, Frankfurter, Wiener, Zeppelin, Leitmotiv, Rucksack, Fahrvergnügen
File:
http://german.about.com/library/media/sound/words_b.mp3
Regards from germany
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