Comment by 1718627440
2 days ago
To me the pronunciation of the first letter of the English word water and the German word Wasser sounds the same, but maybe my English is wrong.
2 days ago
To me the pronunciation of the first letter of the English word water and the German word Wasser sounds the same, but maybe my English is wrong.
Apparently it varies, but German-W pronounced as English-V (or at least nearly so) is the most common variation?
Many sources on the net, but this one has the most nuanced discussion that I could find:
https://old.reddit.com/r/German/comments/53ws8q/are_ws_alway...
Ok, as a German, I think we just don't care about the distinction. We only have the two letters/sounds W and F, the first representing various sounds between [w] and [v]. I think it isn't even a dialect thing, i.e. it is more like unspecified behaviour not like implementation-defined, it can change by time-of-day by a single person, because we just don't care. The letter V can represent either the German W or F sound, I think you just need to know that for every word.