主题：奇袭Granville--德军的"诺曼底登陆" -- benho

Hans might be the most popular name in Deutschland, like the famous German folk song, Haenschen klein.

有个同事(美国人但大概是德裔),一次跟一个同事说起另一个叫Hans的同事,人家半天没听懂是说谁,我的发音是跟"汉斯"同音,后来经过一阵描述弄明白是说谁后,对方发出的音让我目瞪口呆,"航斯",航是四音,心想这样不是应该拼成 hangs了么,但似乎我就是发错了那么一点点音,让人家半天没明白过来.回头想,这个奇怪的发音是不是因为德语中就是这么个叫法?

但后鼻音是没有的，德国佬喉音比较重而已:P

"汉斯" could be you pronouce it according to American accent.

If you pronouce it according to European accent(Or BE), it could be ""航斯". Similiar words like can't.

In German, the pronouciation of "Hans" is close to the way of European pronoucing.

This famous folk song Haenschen Klein was used in the beginning of the anti-war movie Cross of Iron to claim the theme. There are two types soldiers in German army during the War II, one is Feldwebel Steiner, playing the role of cross of iron and always lead the platoon to win the combat. Another is bad guy, captain Hauptmann Stransky who simply needs cross of iron to decorate his uniform and wants to play a dominant role in the army.

Please not try to sing in English.

海峡群岛就在眼皮底下，又是自己唯一被占领的领土，英国佬也沉得住气。就算不登陆反攻，弄几条老战列舰老远的轰一轰也好啊，反正有制空权，也不怕岛上火力的反击。估计是怕伤了岛上的平民，这些人基本是德国人的人质。

这要换了中国人的思维，恐怕诺曼底登陆的同时就得找一大票人拼死夺回泽西岛，这叫不叫一寸国土沦入敌手！

Pronoucing Hans as “航斯”is not so typical in States, least in West and South. However, Boston accent is similiar to BE, which is supposed to spoken by well educated people. Basically the difference comes from the pronouciation of a in Ameican accent and British accent. Check the difference between British accent and American accent in pronouncing "understand"

Not that simple. Bascially the way of speaking is totally different.

所以德国佬常常看起来很严肃，笑起来很可怕……

That is caused by pronouncing words such as "ich", "zwanzig", and "nein", which require mouth to have large motion and close quickly.

德国人发音还有个独特的地方大概还有他们l作为结束音的发音方法，他们不是舌尖上翘而是舌面上拱，因此发出来的声音就有点像喉咙被掐住的感觉，比如发Halt，英语的发法和德语的发法就区别很大。