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tdelano Jun 10th, 2009 05:57 PM

Website with Phonetic Spelling?
 
Can someone please direct me to a website that will have not only the words in German and English but also the phonetic spelling?
Thanks!

Gary_Mc Jun 10th, 2009 08:16 PM

I do not know of any such website but the German language is phonetic and often sounds much like English. (English is largely based on German.) Get a basic German Language text or phrase book (Berlitz?) and it will have the phonetics.

Regards, Gary

Larryincolorado Jun 10th, 2009 08:21 PM

I have a book, by Duden, Das Aussprachewörterbuch, which has the pronunciation of over 130,000 German words in the IPA. I don't know where something equivalent might be on the web.

My Langenscheidt dictionary also has pronunciations in IPA.

Ingo Jun 10th, 2009 09:04 PM

http://dict.leo.org/

Robespierre Jun 10th, 2009 09:26 PM

See if there's anything here that you find useful:

http://www.byki.com/fls/free-german-....html?l=german

worldinabag Jun 10th, 2009 09:46 PM

Hi

What about http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/germa...ros/slideshow/

avalon Jun 11th, 2009 01:36 AM

Or how about this site that lets you hear the word pronounced correctly

http://www.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php

lavandula Jun 11th, 2009 02:53 PM

www.dict.cc is an online dictionary that I sometimes use. It has voice recordings for its entries (a small speaker to the left of the entry, for both German and English). Try it out!

Lavandula

hausfrau Jun 12th, 2009 07:13 PM

The nice thing about German is that the pronunciation rules are very straightforward (unlike English, which has a million-and-one "exceptions to the rule"), so once you get the basic pronunciations down, you will know (in theory) how to say anything!

tdelano Jun 12th, 2009 09:37 PM

Great resources and exactly what I needed. Thanks to all!


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