Quote Originally Posted by Mark75H View Post
That's alright, the previous generation of Germans could not say "zoo"

There is no long o sound in German, their closest is our sound for a very short "zuh" kind of pronunciation. My step-mother says the long o was the last English sound she learned to correctly make.
Zoo in German is not pronounced like zoo in English. Spelling is the same. In fact, oo in
German word Zoo is pronounced exactly like the English long o (as in English 'ho').