Re: How to Make Chicken Cacciatore (was: phonetics by guesswork)

Quoting Christian Thalmann <cinga@...>:

> > I was taught that ä was pronounced
> > like (German) e (and äu like eu),
>
> That's the case in the spoken High German of many Germans
> I know.  It might actually have become the standard
> pronunciation nowadays.  Saying /mE:dCn=/ rather than
> /me:dCn=/ sounds kinda Swiss to my Swiss ears.  ;-)
Most High German speakers I know do uphold the e~ä distinction, but I'm
intrigued by eu~äu. As far as I'm aware, I've never met anyone distinguishing
them, and I don't know what the distinction would be.

                                                        Andreas

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