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Originally Posted by OctobersBlackRose
I don't know what I'll do when it comes to pronouncing words in an English text. Right now I pronounce words in my head, I would be too self-conscious to pronounce them out loud. I mean every time I have encountered a German word (usually one we stole from the German language), I pronounce it like it'd sound in English (which I know is not right to do but it's how it comes out in my head). Now that I'm getting better at knowing how letters are pronounced in German I might be able to pronounce words better in German that I see in an English text, and not pronounce them like they would sound using the English alphabet pronunciation of letters. I don't know if I answered your question right though.
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I don't know either. Did you mean words of German origin that are already well-established in English? I was talking more about a situation like if you're reading a news article, and it mentions a German city... It might already have a normalized English pronunciation, but take for example the city Stuttgart. Would you say it starts with the "s" or the "sh" sound? (Insert a devious cackle.)