p r o n u n c i a t i o n g u i d e . o r g

A Guide for Classical Radio Announcers . . .

. . . and whoever else is interested

by Chris Wendl

These pages are meant as a reference guide for native English speakers (particularly North Americans) on pronouncing the various European languages that are often encountered in classical music.

(Name change note: this site has alternately been called pronunciationguide.org and pronunciationguide.info at various times. Here is an explanation.)

Preface

• what you should know before using this guide
• antiperfection manifesto

Languages

Catalán  Czech  Danish  Dutch  Middle English  Estonian  Finnish  Flemish  French  German  Hungarian  Italian  Church Latin  Norwegian  Polish  Provençal  Portuguese  Russian  Slovak  Spanish  Swedish

a big list of names with audio samples

Other Stuff

• how this guide came to be
• displaying Central European fonts on your computer
• links of interest

Please let me know what you think of this site! All questions and comments are welcome at

• me@pronunciationguide.org

In particular, if you find something on the site that strikes you as inaccurate, please do point it out to me. (One caveat: be sure to read my antiperfection manifesto before starting to criticize, for instance, the American accent in my French audio samples.)

© 2021 Chris Wendl, me@pronunciationguide.org
Last update: September 6, 2021.

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