Merry Christmas in German

[ARFFguy20]

can anyone tell me how I pronounce Frohe Weihnachten?  I'm not German but I would like to be able to say it correctly. (That is Merry Christmas correct?) any help would be apreaciated.
      ~Brent

[ozzy72]

Ask Heretic, he is German and can probably give you the correct phonetic spelling.

Ozzy

[ARFFguy20]

Thanks Ozzy. I'll send him a message.  Take Care

[gn85]

Fro - as in 'Afro'
Ha - as in 'ha ha ha'
Vie - as in 'vitamin'
knock - as in 'knock knock'
ten - as in 'ten'

If you can work on making a German accent, it will come a bit more 'real'.  But that'll get ya saying it right.

http://www.naturalvoices.att.com/demos/

Try this site... use the German voice with 'Klara'.  She says it a little fast, but you can still get the idea.

HTH

[ATI_7500]

Frohe Weihnachten.

[gn85]

Danke.  8)

[Woodlouse2002]

German spelling is about as phonetic as you get. So if it's spelt like that then it'll be pronounced like that.

[Omag 2.0]

German spelling is about as phonetic as you get. So if it's spelt like that then it'll be pronounced like that.

Oooh. Might be dangerous. According to me the German language has some rather interesting letters like W ( pronounced V) and V pronounced f...

But then again, i might be wrong...

[ATI_7500]

According to me the German language has some rather interesting letters like W ( pronounced V)

Weihnachtsmann.

...and V pronounced f...

Volk.

[Omag 2.0]

What about the poor guy that invented the VW-sign from Volkswagen.

designer: And so i came up with VW!

CEO: Ach nein! Est ist FV!

Designer: eh?



Just kidding, i know it started somewhere in Germanies misty past... not to mention der F

[Ijineda]

Fro - as in 'Afro'
Ha - as in 'ha ha ha'
Vie - as in 'vitamin'
knock - as in 'knock knock'
ten - as in 'ten'

Thats not even close to the correct pronunciation!

[ATI_7500]

Thats not even close to the correct pronunciation!

Yep. But you can teach flying to an elephant more easily than getting an english speaking person speaking accent free german.

[gn85]

Thats not even close to the correct pronunciation!

Would you care to give it a try??? I tried using common English words that have similar sounds.

[ARFFguy20]

thanks for all the great suggestions. no offense to anyone's answers (cause they were more than I started with!) but I'll listen to the guy who is actually from Germany.  Thanks Heretic!

[gn85]

[quote]thanks for all the great suggestions. no offense to anyone's answers (cause they were more than I started with!) but I'll listen to the guy who is actually from Germany.