In general, German is pronounced "as it is written". I.e. the same letter or letter combination is (almost) always pronounced the same. How to explain pronounciation in a language, where letters/letter combinations have many different ways of pronounciation? Some examples: "tough", "though", "thought", "trough", "thought", "thorough" all have the combination "ough" - but in each word it is pronounced differently; or "read" vs. "read" - depending on whether it's present or past time; or "north" vs. "word"; cu, MudGuard a/k/a Andreas (from Munich/Germany) or "either" - depending on British/American/Australian English; or ...
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