eurotravler

How do you say " I would like to reconfirm my reservation" in German.

logos999

Ich möchte meine Reservierung rückbestätigen, bitte.

mnss

I wonder if you know how to pronounce that correctly though!

Please never pronounce ich "itsh"!

The sound of ch in both "ich" and " möchte" is fifty precent "sh" and fifty percent "h"

It sounds like a cobra about to spit her venom actually!

I wonder if that sound is exclusive to German?

I don't know how else to explain it! Goodluck though..

diddl_maus

I was told by my german friend that the sound in Ich and Nicht is a little like a cat hissing.

eurotravler

Thank You !

Underhill

Your grandmother must have been from southern Germany. In the north, where my grandmother came from, "ich" is pronounced "ikh."

logos999

"ikh" is local Berlin dialect for "Ich", while "E" would be Bavarian.

mnss

I was actually talking about standard high German.

mnss

Ch is only pronounced kh when preceded by a,u,au,o!

Pronouncing Ich and Nicht "Ikh"
and "Nikht"? how weird is that!!!

logos999

I am not quite sure what you mean by "kh" Why would a dialect be weired?

logos999

Got it. You mean "ch" like in the hebrew word "lachaim" when you write "ik"?

rex

<<I wonder if that sound is exclusive to German?>>

No, not at all - - Hebrew (already mentioned), Greek, Russian, Dutch, Scottish, probably countless others...

Best wishes,

Rex

mnss

I mena kh like in rauch, boch, auch machen and so on

mnss

rex, the "kha" sound is found in so many languages, but I ment the ch as in "sicher" !

mnss

I mean logos, you must have watched TV and heard standard German. The sound of "ch" in "sicher" and "machen" is totally different !

rex

Hmmm... I get your point, I guess. Definitely different from machen. Maybe not so different from ich (in some parts of Germany).

There must be similar sounds in some languages - - probably several European languages, and other continents (well.... Asia), I would suppose.

logos999

>you must have watched TV and heard standard German.
Right, I am watching to much TV. But only the Bavarian channels "Bayrischer Rundfunk" and "BR Alpha". ;-) and it's somtimes hard to find people around me who speak "decent" German. It's mostly Prussian nowadays ;-)

rex

The word Bayrischer is a reminder of how these subtle variations do exist in German, and have a very real regional variation. Curious if these regional variations exist in Russian also - - for example in the letter "shch" (as in Khrushchev) - - more similar? or more different than "Fischer"? (and quite different again from sicher, nicht wahr?)

logos999

But I do believe there are slight differences between Prussian and Russian ;-) ;-)

Ingo

logos,

you don't mean to say that Bavarian dialect is "decent" German, eh? LOL!