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The German Alphabet: Every Letter, Sound and Combination Explained

The German Alphabet: Every Letter, Sound and Combination Explained

German uses the same Latin alphabet as English, which makes it look reassuringly familiar until you meet a word like Schwierigkeiten. Four extra characters, five vowel pairings and a handful of consonant clusters carry sounds English does not have. Learn those, and you can read any German word aloud before you understand a single word of it.