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Proust: prow-st or proo-st
Goethe: goth or gowth or ???
Faust: fahst or fowst

>> No.765013
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765013

>Goethe: goth

>> No.765012

forvo.com

stop bothering us.

>> No.765017

Prowst.
Go-eth.
Fawst.

>> No.765020

>>765006
Proost
Goe-teh
faust

>> No.765021

>>765017
>Prowst.

Les francaises ne sont pas d'accord avec toi, mon pote.

>> No.765026

PROO-st (proo like shoo)

Go-EFE (efe like beef)

FOW-st (fow like pow)

>> No.765030

>>765026
actually Goethe is Gur-tah.

>> No.765033

no, faggots, it's GUH(R)-TUH.

>> No.765035

Proost
Goe-teh, Gö-teh, gœ-teh, gø-teh etc.
Faust

>> No.765039

in b4 neecher/neechee

>> No.765038

>>765021

Les francaises sont merdes

>> No.765050

>>765038
Veut-tu dire gue nous sommes de la merde? Tu as oublie l'article putain trisomique de merde

>> No.765056

and yet another thread about pronounciation that has no phonetics in them...

... you guys are appalling.

>> No.765058

>>765039
En francais c'est 'neetch' bueacoup plus simple qu'en alglais.

>> No.765066

>>765056

you try convincing /lit/ to learn the IPA.

>> No.765070

>>765050

артикли тоже - говна

>> No.765071

>>765039

You mean Nitzscky?

>> No.765076

Knee etch.

Cam uss.

>> No.765078

>>765006
goethe- gher-ta

>> No.765080

>>765058
peut etre cest plus facile, mais faux aussi

>> No.765081

I think we can call these stupid threads officially a meme now...

>> No.765086

there are 6 different ways of pronouncing Goethe's name in this thread. None of them are even remotley related.

>> No.765095

>>765086
and none of them are correct.

>> No.765110

>>765095
Here you are: /ɡøːtə/

That's Gö-te

>> No.765117

Van Gogh - van GO or van Goff?

They're both wrong. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLTQv8RH1TE

>> No.765119

>>765117
van gock but with a gutteral sound on the end of gock

>> No.765120

goethe=gur-tey

>> No.765123

>>765119

No, that's wrong too. It's more like Van Hoch. Watch the video to see a Dutch guy say it.

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765124

>>765120
you needed me, sam?

>> No.765127

>>765124
haha exactly

>> No.765128

proo-st

gur-tuh (barely pronounce the r)

fa-ow-st

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765132

as an American, i couldn't care less how people in their silly little home 'countries' pronounce their names.

>> No.765139

>>765110
>Here you are: /ɡøːtə/

Or /ˈɡøːtə/ to be exact. Anyway there's a sound file in the English Wikipedia article:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/De-Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe.ogg

>> No.765140

>>765021
>francaises
your pretty good

>> No.765142

>>765140
Quoi, les françaises n'ont pas droit a la parole ? Misogyne.

>> No.765148

>>765132

We Americans get shit for not pronouncing things right, but every other country does the same thing.

>> No.765154

Prow-st
Go-eth
Fahst

Amerifag FUCK YEAH!