11-06-2018, 02:21 PM
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Re: Do you have an accent?
Originally Posted by Mr Ploppy
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There is the Scottish loch and the German loch, (hole).Then there is the German 'Milch' (Milk)
Very hard to explain the pronunciation of the word 'Milch'
but it's not 'Milsch'.
I think of it as being like 'sch', but raising the back of the tongue at the same time.
'Ch' as in 'loch' is the raising of the back of the tongue, but even further back!
Complicated, isn't it?
But Germans have learnt how to speak those sounds since birth, so it must just come naturally to them.
11-06-2018, 02:33 PM
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Re: Do you have an accent?
Originally Posted by Ffosse
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For such a small country there are a preponderance of different accents just within Scotland.
Go north over The Howe o' the Mearns and it's as different again.
Edinburgh is a beautiful city. The Athens of the north.
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