German Pronunctuation Question ??????

[Mush Martin]

How do you correctly pronounce Kaleun

is it...........Kaloin
or
is it...........Kaloon
or
is it...........Kalein

help would be appreiciated.
MM

[Gizzmoe]

Kaloin.

[Mush Martin]

Originally Posted by Gizzmoe

Kaloin.

Thanks gizz I am working up an audio prompt training ogg
to help subdrivers learn surface combat and unlearn what
they know already....its been a bit of a problem with the
test group for Uberboot cruiser sub. the readme just
isnt seeming to communicate it, to far in the past i guess.
I thought about building it in to the mission as radio transmission
but decided that this approach would be unique,novel,effective
and maybe easier.

So I decided to make a Surface Combat Training ogg
for the training mission.

MM

[Sailor Steve]

A more fun way to get the correct pronunciation would have been to boot up SH3 and give an order. The first thing they say is "Jawhol, Herr Kaleun".

[ReallyDedPoet]

Originally Posted by Mush Martin

Thanks gizz I am working up an audio prompt training ogg
to help subdrivers learn surface combat and unlearn what
they know already....its been a bit of a problem with the
test group for Uberboot cruiser sub. the readme just
isnt seeming to communicate it, to far in the past i guess.
I thought about building it in to the mission as radio transmission
but decided that this approach would be unique,novel,effective
and maybe easier.

So I decided to make a Surface Combat Training ogg
for the training mission.

MM

MM: took German Language as an elective in university, dropped it ( to much pressure, lots of " in front of the class trying to speak it " time
If only I would have known then about the whole Silent Hunter thing.

RDP

[Abd_von_Mumit]

Originally Posted by reallydedpoet

to much pressure, lots of " in front of the class trying to speak it " time

:rotfl: Next time take Russian! :rotfl:
And when you drop it - try Arabic!

[ReallyDedPoet]

Originally Posted by Abd_von_Mumit

:rotfl: Next time take Russian! :rotfl:
And when you drop it - try Arabic!

Yeah lots more of this

[Rykaird]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

A more fun way to get the correct pronunciation would have been to boot up SH3 and give an order. The first thing they say is "Jawhol, Herr Kaleun".

Yup, one of the reasons I find this game so immersive is those german voices. With the english subtitles it works perfectly.

[Dantenoc]

Originally Posted by Rykaird

Yup, one of the reasons I find this game so immersive is those german voices. With the english subtitles it works perfectly.

I think so too, the german language sounds authentic and very martial... but maybe german speaking people just can't stand to listen to it much the same way tha the rest of us can't stand the horribly terrible english voice acting in the game . Can any german speaking person post on this?

[Elder-Pirate]

Originally Posted by Dantenoc

I think so too, the german language sounds authentic and very martial... but maybe german speaking people just can't stand to listen to it much the same way tha the rest of us can't stand the horribly terrible english voice acting in the game . Can any german speaking person post on this?

I'm from the U.S. so I think the "English" voices in SH 3 are just fine but if your from the UK then I understand why you don't care for it.
But then again I don't know for maybe "UBI" had different english for U.S. sales than UK sales ?

I'm U.S. born but German descendant, was raised ( mostly ) by full German grandparents whom spoke German when I was around if they did not want me to understand, otherwise allways English. I hated the German language for many years because of that, now in later years I've found to like it and speak some german but not much.

[Mr.Fleck]

Originally Posted by Dantenoc

I think so too, the german language sounds authentic and very martial... but maybe german speaking people just can't stand to listen to it much the same way tha the rest of us can't stand the horribly terrible english voice acting in the game . Can any german speaking person post on this?

Hello Dantenoc,

the German voices are ok in my opinion. I would say the speakers are native. You don't hear any accent. The voices also fit quite well, except for one speaker which has a very high voice, which sounds a bit childish. Well, some of the crew, actually may have been very young...

On the other hand it would have been nice to have some accents, as in "Das Boot", where you hear that the crew is assembled from different parts of Germany (e.g. Bavaria) or even Austria.

Cheers!
Mr. Fleck

[AndyW]

Originally Posted by Dantenoc

I think so too, the german language sounds authentic and very martial... but maybe german speaking people just can't stand to listen to it much the same way tha the rest of us can't stand the horribly terrible english voice acting in the game . Can any german speaking person post on this?

Well they sound a bit too assiduous and snappy for my taste and haven't different dialects. But it's not that bad, I have heard worse in other games and after all it's a Nazi-Tube . Weren't it the guys from "Frontflottille" who modded the Wav's and thereby unintentionally put in thier various different german dilalects?

Ah well, and the "Ka" in Kaleun is with an "A" like in "Car" or "Carl", so it's "Ca-loin".

Cheers,
AndyW

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Elder-Pirate

I'm from the U.S. so I think the "English" voices in SH 3 are just fine but if your from the UK then I understand why you don't care for it.
But then again I don't know for maybe "UBI" had different english for U.S. sales than UK sales ?

I always find game voices to be a little "stilted", or artificial. I do remember on German Destroyer Command player asking if some American player could send him a set of US files, since according to him the German version of the game had German voices with American accents, and he'd rather have the real thing, no matter how flat they sounded! Hey, everybody likes immersion!

[Jimbuna]

German voices with English subtitles

[johan_d]

Its not Ka-loin... it it close bu it isnt it.. its more like KALeuN. and the EU is spoken as like if euforia, KA LO EU ION

hmmm.. verdomme (verdamt) hoe dit te schijven, wie das zu schreiben, how to write this.....