The uvular r's of French and the fricative, glottal ch's of German (and Scots) are essential to one's imagination of these languages and their speakers.
So THAT is the challenge that Shakespeare faces, and it’s also the challenge that you face whenever you write for an audience, whether it’s a novel or a pedantic YouTube comment about the accuracy of our Gallifreyan.
She began to sing, and our three sons joined her, bellowing the song with uninhibited enthusiasm. " Gut, gut, " shouted the Germans. They jumped on their chairs and began singing the first in German.
They included several terms that came from other languages like French, German, and Italian and for many of them their pronunciations and meanings maybe as illusive as their spellings.
If you're having a night where like you're feeling particularly on it, you can attempt it in German and usually there's no one around to tell you that you're wrong.
According to the analysis of more than two thousand states' secondary schools, the number of students taking exams such as French and German at the age of sixteen has dropped by almost half in that time.