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suvlub t1_j6w5m22 wrote

Reply to comment by munchkickin in Adršpašskoteplické skály, Czech Republic [OC][3024x4032] by barc1n

It's not that hard, you just go letter by letter and sound it out. I get the impression that anglophones are oddly bad at doing this, probably because English has stupidly irregular spelling rules and is frankly a crime against the latin alphabet.

Adr like the beginning of "address", but pronouncing the "a" as it is in languages that aren't English ("ah")

špaš = shpash. Kinda like "splash", but starts with another "sh", without "l" (thus actually simpler?) and again, "a" like a proper Roman

The rest should be straightforward. "c" makes a "ts" sound and the ´s make the vowel longer.

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whataTyphoon t1_j6weqf4 wrote

tbh, for me as an Austrian it's no easy either, despite pronouncing the letters the same. It's the many consonants in comparison that makes it hard. And the Háčeks.

Adršpach is Adersbach in Germam for example. Teplice/Teplitz is easier, altough I was never sure if you pronounce the "c" as "ts" or "tsch".

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suvlub t1_j6wgde0 wrote

Even if you try to read it slowly? German does have words with similarly long consonant combos, like "Durchschnitt" (which looks even scarier, though in terms of actual sounds, its r-ch-sch-n, if I'm not mistaken, which is 4 constants, same as "dršp")

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