[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] MANUAL-German Phonetics> Speakers of Amer. Eng.

[Otto]

Grüße Alle,

The following will aid those of us whose speech machinery in our  
formative years developed voicing English words.

PDF MANUAL HERE (downloading from a neat 2,000 year old city)
http://www.uni-trier.de/~mein4101/Download/ASUManual.pdf

Page 46 for German vowels and umlauts-

This site will sound out some umlauts for you.
http://www.interdeutsch.de/Uebungen/umlaut.htm

This is easy.
You will discover the use of 'der', 'die', 'das', and 'den' does not  
necessarily follow set rules.
Their use seem to flip-flop like a gold-fish out of its bowl.

. . .  Otto

                      " The Zen moment..." wk. of March 5, 2006
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