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[โ€“] d00ery@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yes, and a Polish person tells me this is the correct way to make the Yah sound at the start of the English word, yacht.

I imagine it's the same for the Germans, Dutch, and Scandinavians. Though perhaps not for the French or Spanish.

[โ€“] Allemaniac@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago

fun fact: the word "Yacht" derives from old german "Jagd", which means hunt, it was used by the dutch as "Yacht" and the fast sailing boats got their names from there. But basically, all germanic, slavic and romantic languages pronounce the vowels the same way EXCEPT english, where they fuck up literally every single vowel