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Vocabularies of Food and Beverages, pronounce it , here are the basic sounds:
a Salat (hunt)
e der (empty)
i Fisch (meat)
o Tomate (Ron)
u Wurst (shoe)
I will ask you besides of the meaning
Do you see a lot of basic vowels, (a e i o u)in the list of food?
Some vowels come in pairs , as we had seen before
Remember the twins, the sound like a long vowel
aa Aal (fish)
ee Beet (patch)
oo Boot (boat)
aa, ee, oo, stand with a long vowel.
I show you new pairs o f vowels that come together to make a long sound.
Vowels plus h
ah, a+h sounds like (hard)
eh e+h (Tesla)
ih, i+h (Teen)
oh, o+h (morning)
uh u+h (youth)
Sahne, long a
Tee, long e
to remember:
Beet, long e
Boot, long o
But...the long i comes with an e
Notice as a special thing:
the long i comes with his best friend, i+e
Exampels in your list
Bier i, (like bee) don t pronounce the e
die long i, ibidi
I know that sounds confusing:
What a funny thing: ie- and what about ei?
They look similar, but are differnt.
EI e+i like (My) means Egg
from now on this is in your mind and you never forget.