[pwdisswordfish2]

As a German that name sounds suspiciously German, in which case it should be “Hügelkultur” (hill culture). I don’t know why the article gives a completely fantastical pronunciation. If it’s a loan word you can pronounce it however you want, if the article wants to make it look like a foreign word whose pronunciation needs to be explained, I feel like it should do it right.

The English wikipedia article has some PIE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%BCgelkultur

Unlike ö (pretty much the i in girl) and ä (pretty much any English a), it’s hard to find an example of the ü sound in English. I guess it’s somewhere on the gradient between the “ee” and “oo” in “new”.

Usually the most familiar ü-word English speakers are familiar with is “über” (over, about, above, also fig. in the sense of superior). I believe this is the fault of “Übermensch”…

[gen220]

I was taught to make the sound as (1) make a long “e” (as in leek) shape with your mouth, (2) pronounce the “e”, (3) leaving the tongue and rear part of the mouth in place, change the position of the lips to make the shape of “o” as in “oh”.

This configuration doesn’t exist in normal English, but it’s not too far away! Once you know what it’s supposed to sound like, the next trick is combining it with consonants.

[hcho]

The first wovel in "deuce" is the closest English comes to that sound.