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Originally Posted by OctobersBlackRose
The German "ch" as in "acht" or "nacht" is going to be very hard for me to pronounce, because we just don't have that type of "ch" spund in English, so it's going to be a hard sound to make, and I may never be able to actually do it.
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That's always been kind of a weird idea for me. Maybe I'm doing something wrong... It's just that all those "h"-like consonants have never sounded too different from each other. Which may actually be the problem... But, like, people say "the 'ch' sound", as if it's something alien - like the "ll" in Welsh, say! - while it's just a more pronounced version of the "h" sound.
I don't know... I think people sometimes also say that this sound occurs in Russian, so I would have a natural advantage. To which I say bollocks. Our "h" is a completely normal one.
On the other hand, I've been having a bit of trouble with the "ch" in words like "solche" - where it's supposed to be the same as in "ich", but here it seems to require a more advanced acrobatic tongue manoeuver than I'm used to.
Still, I maintain that there's nothing supernatural about it and it's just an "h" sound, slightly dressed-up.