• Noobnarski@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    So ä ö and ü are pronounced the same as in German?

    Then i’d just have to learn how to say å and õ if I visit the Baltics or Scandinavia.

    • boonhet@sopuli.xyz
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      10 hours ago

      Yes, ü sounds like the ü in über and ö like Österreich at least. I’m not entirely sure about the German vs Estonian pronunciation of ä. Sounds closer to the ä in Käfer than the ä in Käse if you go to wiktionary and listen to the example pronunciations. I did study German in school because it sounded preferable to learning an entire new alphabet and recall the German ä was taught as sort of a cross between the Estonian ä and Estonian e, leaning towards one or the other depending on context, but then again I’m not sure how good my German teachers were, I know I only ever had two or three English teachers out of like 8 or 9 that actually spoke the language and knew how to pronounce words.