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[jaceug]

Hi

I live in Germany in the beautiful wine region and hope that I can learn a few tricks to make some extra money on horse racing systems.

I am South african by birth, and love horse racing, rugby and cricket

[scoobydoo]

Hi

I live in Germany in the beautiful wine region and hope that I can learn a few tricks to make some extra money on horse racing systems.

I am South african by birth, and love horse racing, rugby and cricket

Guten Tag! Wie geht es Ihnen?

Welcome to the forum. :D

[mathare]

[jaceug]

Guten Tag! Wie geht es Ihnen?

Welcome to the forum. :D

Ich bin sehr gutt, danke! :)

Thanks. My german is not that great yet by I am learning, very slowly indeed.

[scoobydoo]

Ich bin sehr gutt, danke! :)

Thanks. My german is not that great yet by I am learning, very slowly indeed.

Yeah I have been learning for about 6 months now but got a long way to go. Must be easier living in the country though eh. Its a great language but hard for English speakers to put the verbs at the end of sentences and all those flipping words for 'the'!!!:D

[mathare]

I found it much easier than French when I did it at school

[jaceug]

Its much easier to learn when you live in the country. I understand more than I actually speak. :splapme

I am thinking of starting a system(s) of my own Jumping in at the deep end find its the best to learn to swim

[MattR]

What's with the V and W pronounced opposite to us? And how is the letter phoenetically pronounced? And how would you say Woven in English if you were German Vowen?

[jaceug]

W is pronounced "wie"

[scoobydoo]

What's with the V and W pronounced opposite to us? And how is the letter phoenetically pronounced? And how would you say Woven in English if you were German Vowen?

Was that your 5000th post?!!!!!!!!! Well done mate. :)

V is pronounced fow

W is pronunced vay.

If you were German and were speaking English, the proper way of saying 'woven' would be the same as us! Does that help at all?

[jaceug]

Thanks Scooby

[MattR]

Was that your 5000th post?!!!!!!!!! Well done mate. :)

So it was, didn't even notice!

V is pronounced fow

W is pronunced vay.

If you were German and were speaking English, the proper way of saying 'woven' would be the same as us! Does that help at all?

You know what I mean Would it sound like Vowen. And what about Hannover does that sound like Hannower? I know Werder sounds like Verder. What about vowel :D I might have too much time on my hands today!

[mathare]

Vs sound more like Fs in German.

That Becks Vier we have over here gets pronounced with a V (veer) but in German the word for four (which is what vier is, in case you didn't know) is pronounced more like 'feer'.

So 'woven' would likely be pronounced 'vofen' by a German.

But a 'w' in the middle of a word, like in 'vowel' would just be pronounced as a 'w'. Not that I can think of anything along these line in German. I can only think of cases where the 'w' starts a new syllable, in which case it can be (and is) pronounced like a 'v'.

Vowel is an odd word anyway and is is pronounced 'voul' to rhyme with 'foul'. And the latter is how I would expect a German to pronounce it.

[scoobydoo]

Couple of good sites for learning;

http://german.about.com/library/anfang/blanfang_abc.htm (alphabet)

You can see that the German alphabet can be very complicated to English speakers, the 'e' sounds like an 'a' and the German 'i' sounds like a Yorkshire 'e'! :D & have a look at the German 'y'...pronounced " oop-see-
lohn"! It is pretty difficult when a German spells something for you as you can easily mix up those letters.

http://www.dict.cc/ (because you can hear the words)

Mat if they bring the rules, take them off please?

[jaceug]

Thanks... I will use the sites. I can go for classes twice a week (3 hours each) through the local council, but I am sure I can spend the time better :D

[bigcumba]

What part of the wine region are you in? Only reason I ask is because we had a great holiday there a couple of years ago, based in a very friendly wee village called Leiwen in the Mosel valley, and we discovered a well kept secret, that the Germans can produce some amazing red wine as well as the decent whites they are well known for, and youwon't find them in any supermarket over here....

[Win2Win]

Have you ever polished a German soldiers helmet?

[jaceug]

What part of the wine region are you in?

Bigcumba, I am in the Neustadt an der Weinstrasse / Deidesheim region. Some pretty amazing wines in the region

[bigcumba]

Bigcumba, I am in the Neustadt an der Weinstrasse / Deidesheim region. Some pretty amazing wines in the region

Oh yeah we toured around that area a couple of days while we were there, very nice part of Germany, good food, great beer, and as you said, amazing wines!

[jaceug]

Oh yeah we toured around that area a couple of days while we were there, very nice part of Germany, good food, great beer, and as you said, amazing wines!

What I do like of the area is the (hick) winefests that starts in October (hick) :)

There is a winefest every weekend somewhere. I tried the neuer (new) wines last year. Taste like colddrink, but man when I tried to stand up my legs were detached from my nody:splapme