Posts Tagged ‘pronunciation’
The Best of German – Quick Tour
The most common words, sentences and phrases for everybody who would like to visit German, start to learn the language or just to get to know its basics a little bit.
It is a project of the Literature Course on Schiller Hight School in Münster.
Duration : 0:3:54
Working with the German “r.” Enjoy! ^_^German Pronunciation Tutorial [FJvid005Ten]
German phonemes pronounced, each with example words. I tried to cover all letters and letter combinations which learners of the German language need to pay attention to.
One thing I forgot: Words that start with “Ch”: here the CH is either pronounced as a K (Chor = choir, Chaos, Chamäleon, the city Chemnitz) or as a soft CH (the country China, Chicoreé = chicory).
“CHS”: pronounced as “KS”! As in the words “wachsen” (to grow) and “der Lachs” (the salmon). Attention with compound nouns, where a “chs” is actually a “CH”+”S”, and the CH is therefore pronounced as explained in the video!
And of course I could not talk about the many many many exceptions (the german language has many rules – and even more exceptions *g*). Most exceptions in pronunciation have their origin in the German’s habit of using foreign words in their original spelling and a near-to-original pronunciation.
Duration : 0:10:9
Learn German Pronunciation with Deutsch Happen – st sound
http://www.deutschhappen.com In this video lesson you will learn about the two different ways of pronouncing an “st” in German.
Duration : 0:1:57
Learn German – the ABC
This is the German ABC with some examples for each letter. At the end of this video you’ll find some useful pronunciation tips (i.e. letter sounds in words, diphthongs and grouped consonants). I hope you’ll find this video helpful. Feel free to leave comments so that I can improve any further videos. If you have wishes of topics I should go through in a further lesson, please leave a comment on my profile. Thanks for watching and don’t forget to subscribe if you wish to keep up-date.
Duration : 0:8:56
Learn German with SpeedyConkiwi #8.1 [difficult words - please see sidebar for detailed info!]
let me know what you think!
when i had the idea of people submitting words, at first i was thinking i was just gonna do one video, pronouncing a whole lot of words in a short time. but once i started thinking about pronunciation problems in general, i felt it may be a lot clearer if i explained a bit more about the words?
would you agree or prefer a short video with just WORD after WORD?
hope you’re all good,
xx
covering:
Schadenfreude (malicious joy)
grün (green)
Lieblingsfreizeitbeschäftigung (favorite free time activity)
Ärzte (doctors)
Kirsche (cherry)
Kirche (church)
Küche (kitchen)
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Duration : 0:9:49
The Best of German – Easy Tour
The most common words, sentences and phrases for everybody who would like to visit German, start to learn the language or just to get to know its basics a little bit.
It is a project of the Literature Course on Schiller Hight School in Münster.
Duration : 0:12:20
Learn German with SpeedyConKiwi! #3: Pronunciation Fun! Alphabet Joy!
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New Episode! Subscribe for more! (yes yes, I do mostly other stuff, but a girl’s gotta be able to promote herself, right? My channel, my rules.)
Today we’re gonna go through the alphabet and general pronunciation of the german language.
Sounds like fun? It is!!
Besides the alphabet we will also take a look at how to pronounce
- Ä (like “ai” in English “fair”),
- Ö (kinda like “o” in English “word”)
- Ü (say a looong English “eeee” and while doing that, form your mouth to say “you”. It should be kind of in the middle of the sound of “ou” in “you” and the long “eeee”)
- ß (basically a double “s”, sounds in general a bit stronger than the normal s)
and combinations such as
- ie (English “ee”)
- ei (English “i”)
- eu (English “oy”)
- äu (same as “eu”: English “oy”)
- au (like “ow” in English “wow”)
- sch (English “sh”)
- ch (two different pronounciations, watch the video and try again and again, I can’t really describe that in words LOL)
NOT MENTIONED IN THE VIDEO:
“qu” is pronounced like “coo” in English “cool”. The Q basically never really stands alone. Hope that helped 
Thanks to all the new viewers and subscribers for the support and feedback! It’s overwhelming and I really appreciate it!! This started out as a silly video response and became this big project, and I know it takes me forever to post a new episode, but I will keep on posting more of these!
Just a few sidenotes: I will not tutor you personally, not via email and not via messenger. I cannot go through your homework. If you have questions, you can of course message me and I will try to answer them, but that’s about all I can do. It takes a lot of time to make these videos, and I make them because I have fun making them.
And I really appreciate each and every one of you who supports me with that.
THANK YOU!!!
And since my friend was stupid and deleted her videos, no link to her channel. Sorry : )
Duration : 0:8:15
