In article <slrnbf2l7d.5a.peter@eepjm.newcastle.edu.au>, Peter Moylan
wrote:

>>Isn't that pronounced "shayn" and not "shahn?" Or should I stop taking
>>German lessons from Wayne Newton?
 
> Wayne Newton sang it in Yiddish, not German.
 
Neither "shayn" nor "shahn" are the correct pronunciation of German
"sch$(D??(Bn", not even approximately. One should indeed stop taking German
lessons from either Yiddish or Japanese speakers.

Helmut Richter