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I'm just curious' date=' how do you pronounce that phonetically? Looks like a mouthful...[/quote'] It isn't that hard to pronounce...for someone who is familiair with Dutch :D The phonetics are quite hard to explain, since there are some sounds which aren't featured in the English language, like the 'soft g' as we call it. Anyways, I'll do the best I can to explain the phonetics. First word: Wie-ge-dood, if you split it up. 'Wie' is just basically as 'we' in Engelish. Nothing hard about that. 'Ge' is a bit harder, since there is no English word which has the same phonetic as the way you pronounce the 'g'. The closest I can think off is just 'get' without a 't', so it would be just 'ge', as it is written. 'Dood' is a bit easier again: 'Doo' is pronounced the same way as the English word 'though' and the 'd' on the end is pronounced as a 't', like at the end of 'get'. So phonetically, you would pronounce 'Wiegedood' like this: 'We-ge-though-t' Now the album title :D 'De' is just 'The', easy. 'Doden' is the plural form of 'dood', which means the first part of 'doden' ('do') is just basically the same is 'doo' in the way I explained above. So the first part ('do') is again 'though'. The second 'd' of 'doden' is pronounced the same way as 'th' in 'the' or 'though'. The 'en' part is also easy, it's just like the 'en' in an English word like 'given'. So 'doden' would be: 'Though-th-en'. 'Hebben' is basically the same way as you write it down. The 'h' is just the same is in 'have', the 'e' is like 'ten', the two 'b's' are pronounced as just one 'b', like in 'birth' and the 'en' part is again the same as in 'given'. 'Hebben' would be just 'Heben'. But in Dutch, there are two b's written, otherwise the 'e' would have sound different, like the 'a' in the English word 'haven'. 'Het' doesn't need any explenation I think; basically the same as 'hebben', with the 'bben' part replaced by a 't'. 'Goed' does feature the same problem as 'ge': the 'g' sound doesn't exist in English, so I leave that one for what it is. The 'oe' sound is pronounced as in the English word 'youth' and the 'd' at the end is pronounced as a 't' again. Goed will be 'goud' then. The sentence is then pronounced as this: 'The though-th-en heben het goud' And in the end, it's like this: 'We-ge-though-t - The though-th-en heben het goud' I hope this helped, haha :D
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Thanks, that was very thorough! Without guidance, I would have said "wee-guh-dood: duh doh-din hebbin het gode"... I actually used to have massive fun taking one of my roommates' Polish books and subjecting them (and her) to my most atrocious English pronunciation. :D
I imagine the fun coming from that :D
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