Lebkuchen

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How is it pronounced correctly?
I have a feeling Leb-cooch-en is wrong as that that doesn't sound very German. Leb-coo-ken? I love the stuff and would like to know how to actually say it properly

I say Layb coo then the 'ch' from the Scottish word 'loch' then un

Layb-coo-chun (but the ch is more a hard guttural h than a ch-for-church)

Leb - kooch (german ‘ch’) - en.

This sounds about right to me (if a bit soulless!)

www.howtopronounce.com/german/lebkuchen

leeb like leeds with a b and no s
cuch, a bit like loch
enn ...more of a nnnn like the beginning of no, rather than like the start of england.

leebcuchen emphasis on the cuch leebCUCHen

@lunarlandscape

I say Layb coo then the 'ch' from the Scottish word 'loch' then un

Layb-coo-chun (but the ch is more a hard guttural h than a ch-for-church)

Now you've said it like that I can hear coo-kun which sounds a bit likely cooky and they are a bit like a cooky! So its layb not leb. Layb coo-kun?

the ch is quite soft though. more like gargling than trying to wretch out a slallowed fly iyswim

they leb bit is very flat.
similar to leyb but more 'glaswegian'

the 'e' in the 'en' at the end is very short, often not pronouned at all but if you do it more like the 'i' in ''nibbles'.

this is correct I think

@mafted

this is correct I think

Thats helpful thank you. His sounds like layb qu hen. But said softer than its spelt.

I have lots of German family, visit there twice a year, was brought up on the stuff and have always called it lay - bur - coo - kun and now I'm second guessing myself

Layb koo (quite short oo) khen (kh like Loch) - I’m a German speaker

@DowntownFrown there’s no second e after the leb. (Like eg Leberwurst)