German Beer Word Pronunciations Site

[Fast_Eddy]

Very useful for German beer word pronunciation:

http://www.bodensatz.com/staticpages/index.php?page=20020410072601767

Stahlsturm - could you check the validity of the pronunciations??

-Eddy

[newportstorm]

Nice - thanks for the link.

And here's one for all you Belgian beer fans:

Belgian beer speak (http://www.belgianstyle.com/mmguide/pronounce/speak.html)

Cheers!

[steveh]

I remember that Belgian link from the past - I can now properly pronounce Gueuze! Even though I've never had a problem with Reinheitsgebot! ;)

S.

[steveh]

Hey Sturm, how does "bock" sound to you? Maybe it's just a Bayerisch or Münchener dialect, but I was always hearing it pronounced similar to "book" in English - which makes it all the more confusing to we midwestern Amis always pronouncing it as Johann Sebastian .....

S.

Oh yeah - that guy is having too much fun with the tongue-rolls!

[Fast_Eddy]

My biggest interest was the "saaz" pronunciation. I was pretty sure but I needed something to corroborate it.

[steveh]

Someone once wrote it out as "zotz" for me, but I still say "sahz" most often. Maybe on that first trip to Bohemia I'll practice more! ;)

S.

[Fast_Eddy]

I was pronouncing it with more of a fricative "s" than "z" but now I know.

Another word I recently learned how to pronounce (thanks Stahl) correctly is urquell. According to Stahl it's, in English, like "ur-quail" where I've been pronouncing it "ur-kell"(as in the name Kelly).

[steveh]

Originally posted by Fast_Eddy
fricative

Okay, now you lost me!

According to Stahl it's, in English, like "ur-quail" where I've been pronouncing it "ur-kell"(as in the name Kelly).

My friends from Stuttgart told me "ur-kvel," damn Schwäbisch! ;)

S.