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Subject: Looking for ü #2
Category: Miscellaneous
Asked by: uzzz-ga
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Posted: 24 Feb 2005 08:36 PST
Expires: 26 Mar 2005 08:36 PST
Question ID: 480085
I seek pronunciations of 10 of 11 words listed in Question ID: 474533.
Please leave out #4.

My preference is for pronunciations that an English speaker can twist
their tongue around. This may be tougher than it appears at first
glance.

Good luck & thanks for trying.

Regardzzz

Uzzz
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Subject: Re: Looking for ü #2
From: david1977-ga on 24 Feb 2005 13:15 PST
 
To calirfy are you looking for written pronucciation or will verbal work?
Subject: Re: Looking for ü #2
From: david1977-ga on 24 Feb 2005 14:02 PST
 
I will look at the rest of the words after this part is posted. There
are a few words that I could not find the proper pronunciation for.
süß for example I have found many sites that are wanting to sound it
like suess but I can not find anything definante.

vergüenza-Audio version
http://users.ipfw.edu/jehle/DEISENBE/readsp/Lesson_2_-_Pronunciation_and_Spelling.htm

U is generally pronounced like the "oo" in "boot" or the "u" in
"tune." Do not pronounced it like the "u" in "uniform." Examples:
universo, reunión, unidos. In the combinations gui and gue, as well as
after q, the u is silent. Examples: guía, guerra, quizás. If the u
should be pronounced between a g and i or e, an umlaut (sometimes
called a dieresis) is placed over it. Examples: vergüenza, lingüista
http://spanish.about.com/library/beginning/bl-beg-pronunciation-vowels.htm

pingüino [peen-goo-ee'-noh] 
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Thebes/4319/lesson1.html

In the clusters gue and gui, u is not pronounced unless it has the
diaeresis mark (¨). This mark is somewhat rare, however.
Examples:
pingüino = penguin 
agüéis (2nd person plural, present subjunctive of the verb aguar).
Here it's quite clear that the diaeresis helps preserve the u sound in
all the verb tenses of aguar.
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Pronouncing_Spanish_words


cinqüenta fifty qüe/qüi sounds like [kw] quick 
http://www.sonia-portuguese.com/text/pronunciation.htm

Cinqüenta -Audio version
http://www.geocities.com/Eureka/Executive/2731/lesson1/cinquent.mp3

Can not find one for qüinqüênio

Not really a way to prounounce the Catalan but best I could find.
Catalan diphtongs are formed by the combination of a strong vowel (a,
e, o) and a weak vowel (i, u).
If the weak vowel follows the strong one, the diphthong is falling (decreixent): 

güe: aigües ['aiws] fpl water 
http://www.orbilat.com/Languages/Catalan/Grammar/Catalan-Pronunciation.html

qüe: qüestió [kws'tio] 
http://www.orbilat.com/Languages/Catalan/Grammar/Catalan-Pronunciation.html

Bücher-Audio
http://www.ex.ac.uk/german/abinitio/pronounce/audio/blech.wav

süß
A similar pattern can be found for English /t/. This corresponds to
the fricative /s/ after a vowel. (The German symbol ß is pronounced
[s].)
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/courses/Spring_2001/ling001/relationships.html
Subject: Re: Looking for ü #2
From: david1977-ga on 24 Feb 2005 14:36 PST
 
This is the rest of the ones I could find. I am including a great
little site that may help you.

üks
[?] some advice to transform an [u] [?] into an [y] [?]. Make the tip
of the tongue touch your lower teeth and make your lips very round and
small. The tongue should be in (almost) the same position as for [i]
(English ?EE?).
http://home.unilang.org/babelbabble/index.php?n=1&t=8


Main Entry: 1suit 
Pronunciation: 'süt
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=suit

A great site for some of the more common words. I t has a audio clip
that prounounces the word for you.
http://www.citibay.com/citibay/subhome/referencesearch/travelerlanguage/travelerlanguage.shtml
Subject: Re: Looking for ü #2
From: thx1138-ga on 25 Feb 2005 07:13 PST
 
2) Brazilian Portuguese
	cinqüenta ("fifty")
	qüinqüênio (a five-year period

cinqüenta is pronounced sin-kwenta

Regards

THX1138
Subject: Thanks david1977-ga
From: uzzz-ga on 25 Feb 2005 13:46 PST
 
david1977-ga

Your comments were most educational and I especially appreciated the
pronunciation links. Thank you for taking the time to post. My goal is
to learn the various ways that ü can be spoken.

Regards

Uzzz
Subject: thx1138-ga Re: Looking for ü #2
From: uzzz-ga on 25 Feb 2005 13:47 PST
 
Thank you for the pronounciation.

Regards

Uzzz

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