How Do you pronouce this letter ü??? is it Russian??
i want to know cuz for my skateboarding game…the main sponsor is Ekule skateboards(pronounced Cool and its my friends name backwards…Luke)
Keep your lips in an “O” shape while pronouncing “U”…or whatever letter it’s above.
It’s German in origin, I believe…at least German uses it heavily. It’s called an “umlaut”
a long or short U?
It certanly isn’t russian. (I know a little russian)
Try pronouncing it like the “y” in the word “mystic”.
yep Mystic like in Mühe (effort) or Mühle (mill), but cant give an example how you spell it like in Rüstung (armor), Küste (cost), cause that h means you have to spell it long. So as in the last two examples it is short spelled. It think as like skew but still not a u. It sounds like the horn of steam ships the long one.
Well, there is the long ü and the short ü (vowels that are double, are followed by one consonant, or are followed by h are long).
for words like küste (short ü): pronounce short i (like i in sit) with your lips positioned as in short u (like u in put)
for words like mühe (long ü): pronunce long i (like ee in meet) with your lips positioned as in long u (like oo in boot)
Note that when I say long i, I am using the actual long i, not the English diphthong ai (like ie in pie), and besides, it’s like that in German anyway (Germans have a very good spelling system :D).
Here are the other ones:
short ö: pronounce short e (e in set) with short o (o in not (think British for this one))
long ö: pronounce long e (a in mate) with long o (o in go)
ä: this one depends on where your from, it can be e as in set, a as in hat, or a as in mate (if its long).
Also note that I have a Californian accent (and from the Bay Area no less), so my pronunciation key is probably incorrect if you are European (who learned British English) or even if your from certain areas of the United States.
There’s no ‘oo’ in mühe. It’s more a ‘u’ as in ‘used,’ but even that is far from ü in mühe. Same goes for küste, it sounds a lot more like the ‘u’ in ‘used’ then the ‘u’ in ‘put.’
I could be terribly wrong though.
It’s german. Prolly the hardest letter to pronounce for an english native speaker. French and turkish have it as well. The french u is actually pronounced like the a german ü. If you pronounce it as an english u, people realize your english accent straight. If you can’t say it properly, rather pronounce it as an german i which is an english e respectively ee like in redeemer. Listen to it yourself:
AFAIK what you’re saying is pretty much correct, and it is an easier way to explain it. 
What I have said was based on the properties of the vowels, as ü is i’s rounded counterpart, and ö is e’s rounded counterpart.
And remember, the way you and I speak English may be quite different, so you might actually say ai yst whereas I would say aI juzd (I used).
hm the sound example for Mühle makes me wonder as i pronounce it with an longer e at the end like they have for Gefühle provided @ leo.org
I am curious how the german in Pennsylvania sounds.
