How do you pronounce Voigtlander anyway?

[DHu]

Is it Voi't-lander or Vog-lander?

 

[Natalia]

voit-lander....."g" is silent

 

[Tom Conte]

I thought it was 'voit lehnder'
since there's an umlaut over the a.

 

[tedwhite]

But the 'A" in "lander" is not pronounced in the American English way, as in "I'm goin' out and land me some fish." That rhymes with band. No, it sounds more like "bond."

 

[doubs43]

I'm a long way from being an expert in ANY language but I've always said "Foit-londer"...... the "V" being pronounced as an "f" as in "volks" and the "g" being silent.

I've spent a total of roughly six months in Germany and it took me some time just to figure out that the really long words were actually several words strung together. I can use the public transportation systems OK and know enough to order food. I can read road signs too but that's about my limitations.

Walker

 

[back alley]

shhh, it's a secret!

joe

 

[o0dano0o]

we should figure out a way to spell it like shaw spelled fish (ghoti)

 

[Natalia]

anyone with German origin....upload a sound file for us to hear the real pronunciation of "Voigtlander", please.

 

[kneedropper]

Walker almost has it. The ä (a with umlaut/dots) however is pronounced as the first e in "slender". The e (Voigtländer) is pronounced in exactly the same way, NOT like the second e in "slender" or "what ever"😉. The r at the end is hard to explain, it can be almost inaudible, just a hunch (something like the Brittish r) or a kind of faint throat sound (light gurgling?), not like the French r but not totally unlike it... So "Foit-lende(r)" it is.

 

[Cloudy]

anyone with German origin....upload a sound file for us to hear the real pronunciation of "Voigtlander", please.

I am waiting ...... 😀

 

[kneedropper]

Well, try this

 

[ddutchison]

Hmm, so it's like "foyt-lendah" , ja?

Eerily reminiscent of a few Linux forums I've hung out at. ;-)

 

[Cloudy]

kneedropper, thank you! 🙂

 

[rover]

Well, try this

Now saved in the "My Music" folder of my hard drive.

Thank you.

I wonder if that will make a good start up sound?

 

[kneedropper]

Did I just get my 15 seconds of fame..? 😱

 

[Roman]

Well, I'm a native speaker of German (OK, some Germans might dispute this, since I'm from Austria 😉 ), but don't know how to record sounds on the computer...
You got it mostly right, but, Natalia, the 'G' is definitely not silent (except with careless, sloppy, fast speakers, or maybe some regional dialects):
It would be foigt-lender (with the last part closer to a British '-ah' than an American '-err'), and the stress on -oi-.

Roman

 

[rover]

If this is going to get confusing I am just going to ask a New Yorker to destroy this pronounciation and just go with that. Anyone from Brooklyn out there?

 

[kneedropper]

The battery on my cam just died, so you'll have to wait a little for the corrected sound file, with the g intact. More like a "k" (ck for english speakers) before the "t". I'm fast, yes. Sloppy, hmm. Not native, but tried hard to study German for 5 years. Difficult grammar. Dialects make it a lot worse, the further south (in Germany) I go the less I understand. And Austria? Oh dear...

 

[Roman]

Dialects make it a lot worse, the further south (in Germany) I go the less I understand. And Austria? Oh dear...

😀

Austrian movies often have German subtitles when shown in Germany...
But then, Swiss German is almost another language.

Roman

 

[kneedropper]

How about this then?