Hi Zhen, Herinneren actually has 3 "e" ´s. And they don´t all have the same pronunciation. the first "e" is pronounced as a strong "e", as in the English exam. The other "e"´s are what we call "een doffe e", In English the linguistic term is a "schwa". A schwa is a small vowel sound that goes almost unpronounced. You will never find a schwa in the syllable that is stressed, and they are pretty common in unstressed syllables. You would pronounce the word more or less as "herin´r´n". If you see a word that you don´t know, it is hard to know if the "e" is the "e" from exam, or the "doffe e". The rules for wordstress in Dutch are pretty complicated. If I simplify things, the stress falls on the first syllable of the word. When the word starts with the prefixes be, ge, ver, ont, the stress will fall on the second syllable. The prefixes be, ge, ver, all have a ´schwa´ sound. In Dutch, there are 3 ways to pronounce the "e". 1.strong and short as in "bel" (same as the english exam) 2.schwa as in geluk (pronounced g´luk) 3.long with open vowels as in spelen ( pronounced spee-l´n) I hope this helps, Kind regards, Erik

Hello Zhen, I always teach my students during their pronunciation lesson that the 'er' and 'en' are always pronounced as ur and un (as in the word urge). The first 'e' is the 'e' as in the English word leg. So phonetically it would be: herinurrun :) Een fijne dag! Groetjes, Jannette