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where's the difference?

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royksopp

Roik Sopp

how about.....

Sven Vath

is it:

vaff

or

vaith

or somit else?

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I would say Sven Veht, with a kind of shallow "e" sound as is "get" and a hard t at the end, cos most european languages don't have the th sound.

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it's Väth, so pronounce it like an ä, dammit! :D

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i thought Ian speaks norwegian, so he should be able to tell us how to pronounce 'Röyksopp"

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and an ä sounds like what, if it is not the e sound in get?

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hard to explain in english, since you don't have that native sound, and therefore no words with it.

it's like the 'e' in get, but longer and you need to open the mouth more

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something like this:

http://www.personal.uni-jena.de/~x1s...e/IPA/cv03.wav

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ha ha, i soo get what you mean, eik ;)
although i have to say, that one/we (swiss) sometimes pronounce it a bit like the 'a' in "about"...



question from me: in another thread (and i also stumbed across it a few other times) there was a band mentioned called "abfahrt hinwil". how do you guys pronounce that?

as an explanation for my curiosity: "hinwil" is a town in switzerland, and "abfahrt" - which is obviously a german word as well - has various meanings in english: departure/descent/ski-run. so I know how to pronounce it in german, but how did the band intend it to be?

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yeah, i had the same problem, but it's definitely soof-yon, i heard him say it myself :)