German: g vs. g

Hey guys, can anyone tell me how to figure the pronunciation of “ig” at the end of a German word? I had been doing it like “ich” in all cases, but I watched a video where a guy (Rainer Joswig, the Lisp programmer, as it happens) pronounced his name like “ik”.

Have I been doing it wrong, or is this just dialectical?

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I'm not sure if I understood your question and what you mean with hard and soft. To me "ch" sounds pretty much the same in every position and I don't know how one could pronounce "ch" in schlecht in different ways.

But according to the pronounciation rules, there really are two different "ch" sounds. One is spoken at the front of the mouth (like Becher, Recht, Pflicht) and another at the back (like Bach, noch, Tuch). The latter is considered unaesthetic and should rather be pronounced like the former.