How do you pronounce "Rohrau" (the town in Austria)?

[bbernardini]

[Beware the Beast Man]

1. Like Scooby-Doo or Astro Jetson saying "uh-oh"???

:shrug:

[Richardo]

11. "Rohrau Reorge"

<--- Astro says that works!

[kick-ass-bob]

2. row-row-row-your-boat?

[bbernardini]

3. That was my theory, and what I told my students...

But I'm still not quite sure. :)

[mcscajun]

4. I'd pronounce it this way.

First syllable as in "row, row, row your boat"

Second syllable as in "they had a row" (fight) rhymes with OW!

[MrScorpio]

5. Row - Raaal

[Dzimbowicz]

6. If this is serious...

I am a German teacher and can tell you how to pronounce it.

Rohr (1st syllable) au (2nd syllable)

Rohr (just like roar) au (just like 'ow') = roar-ow

Did this help?

[bbernardini]

9. Yes, actually, I'm serious.

I'm teaching my music class about the classical music period, and Rohrau is Haydn's birthplace. Thanks for your help!

[Dzimbowicz]

28. I'm glad I could be of assistance

:)

[MrModerate]

7. Me? I never do.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

8. I don't know, but afterwards you spit. (nt)

[neweurope]

10. Just why is it Americans make fun of other people's language so

often?

Especially since most Americans know no other languages... Other people are proud to speak a foreign language or more than one. I really wonder. And I don't like it if I may say so. For me that's not a sign of respect.

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[LeftCoast]

13. This American speaks German

and some Spanish plus a wee bit of French and Russian. I find that most Americans have an anti-German bias. It's pretty sad, but we are a 'knee-jerk' people after-all.

[da_chimperor]

14. Some people I was with on a trip to Germany kept making fun of a bank

Sparkasse, they kept laughing and saying 'spark assey'. It was mildly amusing at first, but it got old real quick.

[Kellanved]

19. heh

Good thing that they didn't see Assmanshäuser Rotwein then....

[da_chimperor]

20. LOL, now that's amusing.

Assman . . . hah. Good wine?

[Squatch]

21. Or "Ausfahrt"

[neweurope]

22. "Ausfahrt" is really just a normal word. IF you speak the language...

:spank:


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[Squatch]

24. Na, jah. Was kann ich den sagen?

Es ist eine recht lustige Wort.

[da_chimperor]

25. Exit for cars . . . or anything that drives . . . kinda

The thing that gets my goat about German is often it's hard to nail down the meaning in English. So much depends on the context and all that . . . it's a pain in the ass, but I still enjoy learning it. I've got a test next week I'm NOT looking forward to. :scared:

[neweurope]

26. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you. Or "press my thumbs" as we say.

:hi:

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[Kellanved]

27. one of the very best

Assmanshäuser Teufelsberg.

[neweurope]

15. So you are better than most :) please tell me what "knee-jerk" means?

And I don't really so much look down on people who don't speak other languages than their own as I dislike it when they look down on other languages.

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[LeftCoast]

16. Knee-jerk

knee-jerk (njûrk)
adj. Slang

1. Easily predictable; automatic: “quick, easy laughs and knee-jerk responses” (New York).
2. Reacting spontaneously in the expected manner: a knee-jerk cynic.


:)

[neweurope]

18. Thank you!

*repeats three times*

Knee-jerk
Knee-jerk
Knee-jerk

:hi:

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[amazona]

29. not an anti-German bias but...

I am of German heritage but they kind of discourage you from learning German with all this talk of low German, high German, Bavarian German, etc. Another traveler told me that when she tried to speak German in Bavaria, they just took pity on her and said, "Please stick to English!" I figure I am just going to have to bumble by with a few basic words and sign language and hope for the best.

On edit -- am hoping I get a chance to scoot over to Austria during my visit but who knows.

The conservation movement is a breeding ground of communists
and other subversives. We intend to clean them out,
even if it means rounding up every birdwatcher in the country.
--John Mitchell, US Attorney General 1969-72

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

23. This is universal

In Brazil we make fun of every language in the world, with the possible exceptions of Zulu and Inuit.

And don't get me started on Portugal's variant of Portuguese.

[da_chimperor]

12. Row (as in row boat, low 'O') - row (the 'ow' pronounced as ow, high 'O')

More or less, you'll still sound like an Auslander, but they'll understand you . . . :D

edit: Dzimbowicz's explanation is better than mine, go with that one.

[Squatch]

17. Roar - Ow

[trogdor]

30. ROAR-ow

Interesting name. 'Rohr' means pipe, as in sewer pipe.

[neweurope]

31. True it means pipe. But it also means reed while an "Au" is a meadow.

So Rohrau probably means a moist place with a brook or river.

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[CarpeVeritas]

32. i don't.

never been there, no plans to go.

[LiviaOlivia]

33. kick