Oh, okay then. Thanks for the praise, I was literally just being lazy.
Technically, there are two different ch-sounds (in standard German, that is). One is softer and more akin to hissing, like in Milch, and one is sharper, like in brauchen.
If we’re sticking with the Spanish comparison, you could say the first one is kinda like Juan, and the second like José, though I guess that also depends a lot on the dialect. I don’t really know much Spanish tbh, so it could also be more like the difference between Spanish Spanish and Mexican Spanish. Basically what I’m saying is that the way j is pronounced in Spanish is the closest equivalent to how ch is pronounced in German that I could think of.
IDK if there are any specific rules, but which one is correct seems to be mostly based on the accompanying vowel.
A, O, U all generally use the harsher one: Bach, Buch, doch, Koch, Drache, Fluch
I and E generally seem to use the softer one: ich, dich, Blech, Pech
Oh, okay then. Thanks for the praise, I was literally just being lazy.
Technically, there are two different ch-sounds (in standard German, that is). One is softer and more akin to hissing, like in Milch, and one is sharper, like in brauchen.
If we’re sticking with the Spanish comparison, you could say the first one is kinda like Juan, and the second like José, though I guess that also depends a lot on the dialect. I don’t really know much Spanish tbh, so it could also be more like the difference between Spanish Spanish and Mexican Spanish. Basically what I’m saying is that the way j is pronounced in Spanish is the closest equivalent to how ch is pronounced in German that I could think of.
IDK if there are any specific rules, but which one is correct seems to be mostly based on the accompanying vowel.
A, O, U all generally use the harsher one: Bach, Buch, doch, Koch, Drache, Fluch
I and E generally seem to use the softer one: ich, dich, Blech, Pech
HTH