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minus-squareflubo@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·edit-21 year agoFun fact. Both of you are right. Just that the German i is pronounced the same way as an English e. So the rule of your teacher is right for English people but its just the opposite for us Germans. That explains bluekeys answer. A German i is pronounced like the first e in the word English. The ie is the same but longer. So Frieden is like freeden. And ei is indeed like eye.
minus-squarelobster_irl@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 year agoYeah even decades later my brain still freezes when I say eagle in English because Igel is hedgehog in German and pronounced the same.
Fun fact. Both of you are right. Just that the German i is pronounced the same way as an English e.
So the rule of your teacher is right for English people but its just the opposite for us Germans. That explains bluekeys answer.
A German i is pronounced like the first e in the word English. The ie is the same but longer. So Frieden is like freeden. And ei is indeed like eye.
Yeah even decades later my brain still freezes when I say eagle in English because Igel is hedgehog in German and pronounced the same.