# Question about German pronounciation

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 25, 2005, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-german-pronounciation/286543 "2005-01-25T05:30:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2005, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-german-pronounciation/286543/21 "2005-01-26T12:15:48Z")

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> [@Johanna](#):
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> I’m confused by some of the posts here that talk about certain German dialects using a “sh” or “sch” sound. Do you really mean the identical sound of English “sh” like in “champagne”? Or are you referring to the palatal fricative [ç] as in Hyundai? They’re not the same.

Can you give a different word (more common) word for an example? I’m not sure what the correct pronunciation of Hyundai is… a Korean word/name might not be the best example.

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**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2005, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-german-pronounciation/286543/22 "2005-01-26T15:20:24Z")

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Once I was friends with a girl from Inch‘on whose name was Hyun-Hye. She pronounced both syllables with this odd consonant sound that sounded almost like “sh” but not quite. Then when I learned phonetics better I realized it was the same sound [ç] as in German _ich_.

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