banjo67xxx 21 Report post Posted March 6, 2015 I've seen lots of discussion on how to pronounce "ch" and "g" in Hochdeutsche but I notice the sounds are very much softer in Schweizer-Deutsche (and also Nederlands - glad to know I'm not the only one who thinks Swiss German sounds a bit like Dutch). Can someone explain the correct way to pronounce a soft "ch", hard "ch" and "g" in Swiss Standard German, Zurich dialect of Swiss German, Dutch standard Dutch, and Den Bosch dialect of Dutch? TIA Banjo Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shitou 0 Report post Posted March 9, 2015 For Hochdeutsch this short text summarizes it much better than I could: http://web.stanford.edu/~jrb/reference/german.html Unfortunately I cannot answer this for the other languages. I even have my difficulties to understand Schwiitzerdütsch or Dutch, though I live somewhere in the middle... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shitou 0 Report post Posted March 9, 2015 @banjo67xxx I just came along this site; seems to be interesting for you: http://www.pholab.uzh.ch/forschung/laufende-forschungsprojekte/VoiceApp.html I must admit as a native German speaker, that after learning Mandarin for a few weeks and watching the video on this site, my Mandarin listening skills appear to be not worse than my Swiss German listening skills . ;) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
