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Originally Posted by ArcheM
Yeah, Duolingo will mess with you in this respect... I've heard a few polyglots recommend the site forvo.com for the purposes of pronunciation, although I don't really use it. Well, after I've learned English I tend to stick to languages with more or less strict phonetic spelling (which isn't actually one of my rules... but I suspect it helps me keep my sanity anyway). So I learn the pronunciation rules once and mostly don't have to worry about it anymore... Although on second thought, German is a language that benefits from double-checking, due to, well, compound words among other things.
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Thanks for the website recommendation, I'm sure it'll be helpful to me, Duolingo though good for an absolute beginner like me has things that don't make sense. Even Google translate mispronounces words, "ich" and "Deutsch" were grossly mispronounced. I also heard German has flexible sentence structures which makes the language hard to pick up as I'm finding out. I'm also finding out the words in German can have many different translations, one word in Englis can be up to eight different words in German, so it'll be fun looking for the most commonly used words for the translations. I picked a hard language to learn, someone told me it shouldn't be a hard language for English speakers to learn as there are similararities, but other than having some same or similar words, I dont see any other similarities.