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    • Monthly Archives: November 2012

    Survey Results (The Difficult Sounds of German for English speakers)

    Thanks to all who participated.  Here are the (most important) word pairs that caused problems:

    Scale: 1 – Sound the same (mit/mit).  2 – Very Similar (drücken/drucken).  3 – Similar (Pfüte, Pföte).  4 – Different (Pfeet/Pfit).  5 – Completely different (Meat/Mat)

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