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Old 11-13-07, 05:35 PM   #9
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There is no letter K in Friedrich Nietzsche. CH is difficult to be imagined for Anglosaxons. I still wait for my first American or English pronouncing it correctly. You kind of put the back part of your tongue upwards and press it slightly against your palate, then breath out through your mouth and the small slit between palate and tongue. the hissing sound resulting is how CH is pronounced. It is no "K"!
You might as well talk to a brick wall rather than try to teach the English how to pronounce the 'ch' in Friedrich. We Scots still haven't managed to get them to pronounce 'loch' (as in Loch Ness, Loch Lomond, etc...) correctly!
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