{"id":30573,"date":"2006-07-10T10:00:26","date_gmt":"2006-07-10T10:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2006\/07\/10\/wenn-auslnder-deutsch-phonetisch-singen\/"},"modified":"2006-07-10T10:00:26","modified_gmt":"2006-07-10T10:00:26","slug":"wenn-auslnder-deutsch-phonetisch-singen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20060710-26\/?p=30573","title":{"rendered":"Wenn Ausl&#228;nder Deutsch phonetisch singen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=4777378\"> When foreigners sing German phonetically<\/a>, the results are kind of painful. Listen, if you dare, to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/dmg\/dmg.php?mediaURL=\/day\/20050801_day_cash&amp;mediaType=WM\"> Johnny Cash sing &#8220;<span lang=\"de\">Wer kennt den Weg?<\/span> (I Walk the Line)&#8221; [WMV]<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/dmg\/dmg.php?mediaURL=\/day\/20050801_day_cash&amp;mediaType=RM\">Real<\/a>]. If you can&#8217;t get enough, you can <a href=\"http:\/\/german.about.com\/library\/blmus_jcash01.htm\"> grab the lyrics and sing along<\/a>.\n Listening to the recording brought back painful memories of my high school German class, where there were those students who simply couldn&#8217;t lose their thick American accents. It has been twenty years since I last studied German formally, and I&#8217;m certain that my own German pronunciation has picked up a Swedish accent in the meantime. <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2004\/12\/16\/317158.aspx\"> My vocabulary has also deteriorated<\/a> (on that page I get the gender of the word &#8220;Person&#8221; wrong), although my grammar at least has thankfully held steady. (Well, except <a href=\"http:\/\/delphipraxis.net\/post419260.html#419260\"> when I lose my senses entirely<\/a> and forget <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canoo.net\/services\/OnlineGrammar\/InflectionRules\/FRegeln-N\/FKlassen\/Adjektivisch1.html\"> how to decline adjectival nouns<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p> If Johnny Cash isn&#8217;t your thing, you can go to the article and click to listen to David Bowie sing <i>Space Oddity<\/i> in Italian, or the Beatles sing <i>Get Back<\/i> in mixed German and French&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When foreigners sing German phonetically, the results are kind of painful. Listen, if you dare, to Johnny Cash sing &#8220;Wer kennt den Weg? (I Walk the Line)&#8221; [WMV] [Real]. If you can&#8217;t get enough, you can grab the lyrics and sing along. Listening to the recording brought back painful memories of my high school German [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-30573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>When foreigners sing German phonetically, the results are kind of painful. Listen, if you dare, to Johnny Cash sing &#8220;Wer kennt den Weg? (I Walk the Line)&#8221; [WMV] [Real]. If you can&#8217;t get enough, you can grab the lyrics and sing along. Listening to the recording brought back painful memories of my high school German [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}