Haier America Washers and Dryers
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I won't even TRY to explain how to pronounce 'hübsch'. The biggest challange folks from the 'States (like me about a million years ago) have in learning German (or other European languages) is that all the phonetics are based on an idealised "Oxford English" which doesn't exist. Example: This stupid "luh" nonsense for the final "e" in many German words. It is not anything close to "luh". It is a soft and tender (ok, nothing in German is that soft) sound sort of like the é in café. But not exactly. I could not reconcile the German ö with the written explanation that it is like "a" in English until a German born English teacher told me that to my "American" ears it would sound more like an "r". Which it does. The English I have met in Germany have the same problems with the descriptions I have...
And so on.
Never mind the purists, folks. Pronounce 'em as you like. After all, if you are taking the trouble to try to speak somebody else's language they should be thankful for your effort! Have never yet met a German who got theata and delta right...
Dutch, of course, is a very even handed language - having all the horrids of English, Danish and German rolled into one, each phoneme is just as hard as the other
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I won't even TRY to explain how to pronounce 'hübsch'. The biggest challange folks from the 'States (like me about a million years ago) have in learning German (or other European languages) is that all the phonetics are based on an idealised "Oxford English" which doesn't exist. Example: This stupid "luh" nonsense for the final "e" in many German words. It is not anything close to "luh". It is a soft and tender (ok, nothing in German is that soft) sound sort of like the é in café. But not exactly. I could not reconcile the German ö with the written explanation that it is like "a" in English until a German born English teacher told me that to my "American" ears it would sound more like an "r". Which it does. The English I have met in Germany have the same problems with the descriptions I have...
And so on.
Never mind the purists, folks. Pronounce 'em as you like. After all, if you are taking the trouble to try to speak somebody else's language they should be thankful for your effort! Have never yet met a German who got theata and delta right...
Dutch, of course, is a very even handed language - having all the horrids of English, Danish and German rolled into one, each phoneme is just as hard as the other
))
Many thanks for the vidoes / links!
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Pete Peterson is uploading Haier videos tp putfile
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Link above works I think if not the owner will fix it I hope
Pete Peterson is uploading Haier videos tp putfile
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Link above works I think if not the owner will fix it I hope
