| In the German language, there are at most 39 | | | | Figure how the sentence below can help you |
| useful German words that are commonly used | | | | remember it. |
| for both conversation and written communication | | | | The man who throws confetti each town festival |
| purposes. The German words consist of German | | | | has extremely big hands that can hold any huge |
| vowels A, O and U and those that have umlauts. | | | | object in one grip and uses jam to help him hold |
| Umlauts or to be specific, Germanic umlauts are | | | | any object in his hand. |
| the fronting of vowels in the German language | | | | So what is the relevance of the story to the |
| caused by assimilation to an original front vowel. | | | | example words given? The German word |
| The vowels in Germanic language appear as: | | | | selected for this sentence is Konfiture which |
| Ä, Ö and Ü. | | | | means "jam" in English. The English word used to |
| Ä is pronounced similar to the e of the | | | | represent Konfiture is confetti. You can also |
| English language as in the word "bed". This is the | | | | locate the word "jam" somewhere in the |
| short form of pronouncing this vowel. The long | | | | sentence. The purpose is to choose a similar |
| form is similar to how the English word their /eir/ | | | | sounding word to link to the English translation of |
| is pronounced. Ö is similar to how you | | | | Konfitur. Also, the example appears ludicrous, but |
| pronounce "bird" /ir/ in the English language. And | | | | it's meant to appear that way so the reader (and |
| lastly, Ü is similar to the French language u | | | | the human brain) can easily recognize the |
| and the English way of pronouncing the words | | | | difference above other sentences and remember |
| "mule" or "music" /yu/ and the German place | | | | the sentence easier.even easier. |
| Munich. | | | | Five chunky hotdogs didn't make it on time for |
| Germanic Umlauts are just a small bit of the | | | | packaging because there were humors about |
| German language. But the way you memorize | | | | them that they should be on the chicken dog |
| German words doesn't require special classification; | | | | section because of their cream color instead of |
| just a method to help you remember them. | | | | juicy red. |