Basic German Pronunciation Practice - using iMovie to edit a teaching demo

[111iAm111]

Thank god for this video, literally the only one i could find breaking the ch sound down like that. Dankee

[Chlamydialight]

Very useful, thank you for posting!

[shesascha]

i really love the vedio i learned german langguage more

[seanmolley1]

ICH LIEBE DEUTSCH!!!!!!!~!!@

[SuperDamon1985]

she is a very good teacher wish i had her....

[Michael10391]

i love english accent :D

don't get a german accent :(

(Im from germany)

[badabadaboom7]

omg this is really good!

[maxflyingcowboy]

this is a very good teacher

[piacs04]

Thank you teacher ;).. Danke!!

Her Chilean student!!

[konigreichprussia]

Whay is the difference between 'ss' and 'ß'? I am feeling confused...

[fignitz]

@konigreichprussia after the spelling reform, ß is written after long vowels or diphthongs like in weiß, Straße, but ss is written after short vowels as in dass, müssen

[albedoshader]

@konigreichprussia: it’s originally a ligature of long s ( ſ, also known in English texts set with Antiqua typefaces) and round s or z: ſs or ſz. After long vowels and diphtongs you use ß, after short vowels you use ss, so it’s Maße ['maːsɘ] (long “a”, measurements) or Masse ['masə](short “a”, mass), for example. Mase (not an actual German word) would be pronounced ['maːzɘ].

[Niklo74]

Hmm, in the Southern German you speak "-ig" as "-ig" or "-ik". So for "richtig" I would say "richtik". The Duden prefers a mixed norhtern German pronunciation. In middle and northern Germany man "g"s are spoken "ch". Duden mix the pronunciation a little bit so there is e.g. "richtich" but "richtige". I would prefer to teach the southern "-ig" pronunciation.

[fignitz]

@Niklo74 We teach students all the different ways there are to pronounce it, but then remind them that each instructor has their own accent. While they can stay with a Southern accent if they choose, they need to choose one accent. I let my students know that I learned German in Köln, Berlin and Kassel, so those are the accents I tend to have when teaching. However, if the goal of the student is to sound as fluent as possible, any accent is fine as long as they pick one.

[fignitz]

@Niklo74 We teach students all the different ways there are to pronounce it, but then remind them that each instructor has their own accent. While they can stay with a Southern accent if they choose, they need to choose one accent. I let my students know that I learned German in Köln, Berlin and Kassel, so those are the accents I tend to have when teaching. However, if the goal of the student is to sound as fluent as possible, any accent is fine as long as they pick one.

[nepotiums]

Das ist gut....sehr gut :)

[stormtrooper571]

sehr gut

[moonfanaras]

O_O its so much harder than japanese.... my family is mostly german and im taking japanese as a language even though im english (american) but i wanted to learn german as a 3rd language side from japanese and english but its so much harder O_O

[Blitzbok]

@moonfanaras It depends, writing in Japanese is much more difficult. Honorifics, verbs, particles are all very difficult. Pronunciation in Japanese I found very easy, much more so that German. But Japanese is so far removed any Western language it is definitely the more difficult to learn to with a high degree of fluency.

[TimBublitz]

great to see some people learning my mothertongue language! Btw, it's very flat german to pronounce g like ch. it should sound like the first g in garage. cheers :-)

[VioSnaibaf]

-ig can also be pronounced like "ick". For example "-tig" (from Richtig) can also be pronounced like the english word "Dick".

[fignitz]

@VioSnaibaf Of course, and we teach this as well, but it's important for students to focus on one accent at a time.

[TheStella1313]

THANK UUU GREAT

[PsYcHo4MuSiC]

Very helpful!

[Batzenwerfer]

.....dankeschön! ....bitte sehr! ....i liked it very much!

[Hando1933]

That was a big help, thank you!