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- Boleslav Paszkowski
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GERMAN
Germany shares borders with Denmark in the north, Poland and the Czech Republic in the east, Switzerland and Austria in the south, France in the southwest and Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands in the west.
A few Funny Facts about
Germany
and the German language
1. The longest word published in the German language is Donaudampfschifffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft (79 letters, translation: Danube Steamboat Shipping Company).
2. To ask for a beer in a pub, you would use your thumb to indicate “one” rather than your index finger.
3. Most taxis in Germany are Mercedes.
4. The working week in Germany includes Saturday.
"I can understand German as well as the maniac that invented it, but I talk it best through an interpreter."
- Mark Twain, A Tramp Abroad
Content
Pronunciation
of German Vowels and Consonants
A Table of Vowels with pronunciations
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A Table of Diphthongs and Reduced Vowels with pronunciations
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A Table of Consonants with pronunciations (from b to pf)
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A Table of Consonants with pronunciations (from r)
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German (Deutsch)
German is the most widely spoken (and official) language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Italian province of South Tyrol (Alto Adige) and Liechtenstein; it is also an official (but not majority) language of Belgium and Luxembourg.
One of the major languages of the world, German is the first language of about 95 million people worldwide and the most widely spoken native language in the European Union.
As you may well be aware, German is renowned for its long words. The word’s paltry 30 characters is nothing compared with what Germans call the ‘beef labelling regulation and delegation of supervision law.’ For this they use the 63-letter word ‘Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz.’
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