"Macht nichts" is exactly the same idiom as the French "ça ne fait rien". The pronunciation I learned (Palatinate, age of about 2; my father studied at Heidelberg for a year) uses a front ch which is very un-English, and an English speaker without training would probably assimilate it to an x (or possibly to makt nikts by way of a back ch).
Odd what gets preserved. I grew up referring to a Volkswagen using the German pronunciation and "Entschuldigen Sie mich, bitte" but little else (other than some remembered children's stories like Max und Moritz) untill I studied German formally in High School.
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Date: 2019-02-22 11:27 am (UTC)Odd what gets preserved. I grew up referring to a Volkswagen using the German pronunciation and "Entschuldigen Sie mich, bitte" but little else (other than some remembered children's stories like Max und Moritz) untill I studied German formally in High School.