German pronunciation 1 - R

[Philosophie09]

the "rollende R" is more of a austrian thing and if you want to speak "German" you should probably try to avoid it but it isn't wrong just... not used in Germany...

[h16036]

Thank you for the useful video. My schoolteacher, who was Austrian, would often embellish many of his words with ein rollende 'r'. Is this oldfashioned, hochdeutsch, dialectic or just eccentric? I like to do it, I find it's fun for the tongue but I don't wana sound like a weirdo. Btw common English error "pronunciation" not "pronounciation".

[mmim810]

You're welcome

[2starcraft]

@beatlescanner: Its going to be my 3rd language,so its less worse,like for the prononciation,but the construction of words and the long words are complicated !

[Beatlescanner]

I'm living in Germany, is my language really so difficult?

[Oliver8111]

@Beatlescanner ne, schwer ist deine humorlose Welt zu ertragen

[bernis57]

danke shun for your video. i found it very interesting, but the sound is with low quality. i hope that you work on it coz you ve a great videos!

thanks for doing this and im learning german from your videos!

[MrDucko258]

You know, I´m from north germany and there you don´t speak the "r" so good.

In every dialect the "r" sounds different. The more you get to the south, the "r" is more pronounct. Hope I could help you.

[Sexygirl9666]

thank you) quiet easy ;)

[MegaOmareid]

hey just wanna know how r is pronounced in fertig is it pronounced as r in English or not pronounced my friend say try to swallow it but i have no clue how to do it and can you write a transliteration in English like is fehtich or fehitich or how??

[fatmanwalkin69]

Please tell me how to pronounce Etsch? Thank you.

[magauchsein]

@fatmanwalkin69

in English you would say: Atch. This would sound quite similar.

[polishpaul]

thank YOU!

[cukeeanna]

no, i thank you :)

[shanks008]

The Pronunciation of the German Language is so difficult that one should be almost raised in Germany from Kindheit to pronunce it properly. I can actually speak the language almost well, but my pronunciation is catastrophic. It is so nice to hear you speak. You speak so clearly. I love your accent.

[geling101]

I'm really having a hard time pronouncing the R in German language. Is it the same pronunciation as the French? Or just a rolling R?

[hannesthefreakl]

@ geling101

geman language actually has no strict rules on the pronounciation of the 'r'. using the throat (french) or the tip of the tongue (rolling), both is correct. also it does not depend on the position in a word (the closer it stands to the end of a syllable people tend to swallow it but there is no rule), important is only to use it consistently or at least not to switch your 'method' with every word.

[korndavisx]

your voice is great!!!

[crazyteet262]

interesting ad... but a litle long and, Exadata?

[Nemesis816]

SPRECHEN, ES HEIßT SPRECHEN

VERDAMMTE SCHEIßE, DAS SOLL EIN LEHRVIDEO SEIN?

[BorjaBarrag]

0:38 Ein kleiner Furz - A short fart

[loeweDesigns]

i have trouble pronouncing words like mohre and fahren

[frenzaldude]

Your english is good, but you made a mistake at the start. "Today we speak about..." You need to say "Today we WILL speak about", or "Today we are speaking about" -> present continuous. You used present perfect which means you do it regularly, so "we speak about" means you do it once a day or once a week etc. But if you are only speaking about it today, then you need present continuous. D/W, this is something all foreigners have trouble with, I've only met a few ppl who have learnt this properly

[olariugabriela]

you are superhelpful, danke!

[langsteubuisnaamooit]

just a question: did you enable advertisements on your channel? or is Youtube just raping us all?

[magauchsein]

@langsteubuisnaamooit

I have a deal with Google, it is known as "AdSense". I get 60 % of what the advertisement earns. It's not a lot but as I got over 600 videos on my channel and some of them are quite popular I do earn decent money. It always depends on the number of clicks but at the time I earn about 300 € a month.

[chino1922]

This is why I cant learn German, too F'n hard! lol

[DrKillaser]

even the quality of the sound isn't great.. it helped me.. :D

[Trinivalts]

There's no translation for computer, this is outrage! :O

[Crossbowman]

@Trinivalts Rechner.

[Trinivalts]

@Crossbowman but that's calculator. (the first comment was kinda sarcasm anyway :D )

[702freeway]

@Trinivalts well, there is a translation for computer in german, it is "Rechner"

[AlexandraGottlieb]

@702freeway No, we say computer. ^ ^

[Katluver1991]

These are always good to watch to refresh my memory on how to pronounce certain german words. Danke schön! ^_^

[Kreloar]

Ich bin zwar nicht ein Fremdsprachler, aber mein deutsches R tönt manchmal etwas zu französisch. Der einzige Unterschied ist doch, dass das deutsche R etwas schwächer ist, oder? Den ganzen Rest weiß ich aber^^

[mrpepperoriginal]

Thank you! :)

[mrpepperoriginal]

I want to know how to pronounce the R of "Raten"...

It sounds like in your throat, and its a bit hard for me... :'o

[magauchsein]

@mrpepperoriginal

please wait three or four days. I already recorded a lesson on this. I just need to edit and subtitle it.

[easyonlinegerman]

@mrpepperoriginal If you are still practising the German r, watch my video about it. It explains exactly when the German r is pronounced like a guttural r and when it is pronounced like an unstressed e sound or reduced a sound. By the way, the -er endings are always pronounced like a reduced a sound.

[easyonlinegerman]

@mrpepperoriginal This r is a guttural r. You find two pronunciation videos in my channel easyonlinegerman.

[horriehomepage]

Gut gemacht!

Aber... wo steht der Buchstabe 'c' in ,,. Sprechen?"

Na, leider ist die Qualität des Videos so niedrig daß ich nicht wirklich gut hören kann. Ich kann's verstehen weil ich schon Deutsch spreche. Wenn ich nichts über Deutsch wüßte, wahrscheinlich wurde ich die Unterschied nicht verstehen. Vielleicht bin ich einfach Taub :-P

[carlo893]

Thank you :) This was useful and rather sweet!

[mymymyweb]

Excuse me, can anyone tell me what is the technique of pronouncing a trill r?

[magauchsein]

@mymymyweb

I'm working on this, just wait a few days :D

[mymymyweb]

@magauchsein

thank you very much

[supermiimi]

and you have forgot some: After A isnt pronounc:

Arbeit = Work .,,, the a is long ! so

Aaaabeit

[Drexl0r1]

@supermiimi

Only in a few dialects. I think if you want to learn standard German and no dialect, you should pronounce the "r".

"Aaaabeit" sounds kinda gay to me.... ;p

[supermiimi]

@Drexl0r1 ähm ich bin deutsch! Und in der offizielen Aussprache wird das R nach A nicht gesprochen

[Drexl0r1]

@supermiimi

Das r wird natürlich gesprochen. Es gibt unterschiedliche Arten, das "r" zu betonen, aber es wird auch bei Arbeit, Art, Armut, dort, fort, Hort, Sport, Herd, Gert, Hirte, Birte, hurtig, Gurt etc. betont. Mehr wollte ich nicht sagen. Den vorhergehenden Vokal einfach nur lang zu ziehen klingt für mich sehr nach Dialekt (und/oder geschwollen/"tuckig") und nicht nach Hochdeutsch.

Mehr wollte ich nicht sagen.

[supermiimi]

@Drexl0r1 Ne nur bei R nach A ^^ bei R nach O wird s ja ausgesprochen

[Drexl0r1]

@supermiimi

Sagst du auch statt Armut "Aaaamut" ?

naja, ist mir ja auch im grunde voellig egal. wollte das nur loswerden, da es in meinen Ohren seltsam klingt, das einfach komplett langzuziehen. aber im grunde ists mir wurscht.

[supermiimi]

@Drexl0r1 Ja ich sag Aamut

[horriehomepage]

@Drexl0r1 Ich kann das 'R' in Armut jedes Mal hören. Was ist mit Drexlor1 los? :-P

[Drexl0r1]

@horriehomepage

dann ist ja gut. es wurde behauptet, man zöge das "A" einfach lang und ließe das "R" wegfallen.

[supermiimi]

sprechen not sprehen -.-

[bloodyfication]

Ir Lover Your

is that correct? Lol

[EifelMorii0]

you forgot the "C" of "sprechen" ^^

[nauka5]

Danke!

[eikoma]

Word initial r is an alveolar trill r_>+trill

After a consonant r asssimilates in place to preceding consonant [*place]Cr>[*place] ex.bilabial after Sp_ and velar after K_

mid-vocalic ?

word final the r is deleted Xr# > deleted

[eikoma]

@eikoma on second thought, probably voiced uvular trill for the word initial r

[kupa2612]

I have a big problem with German "r". I think I won't say this. I do my best but I stll can't :/

[budgybear100]

@ReachFiDesky do you really have to be a dumb smartass?

[stickernation]

Do Germans ever choke while chewing gum or eating doeners and talking because of stuff like this ? I ask not to mock, just for safety's sake. i think the answer @bnatri88 is "fau" or basically F.

[bnatrl88]

here's a question. in german the W is pronounced like a V. So...what does a V sound like in german?

[lailinde]

@bnatrl88 V is pronounced like an "F" in english

[bnatrl88]

@lailinde oh okay...thank u :)

[LokianEule]

@bnatrl88

the word 'viel' in german means many. But it's pronounced 'feel'. the V is an f sound. To say the letter itself it's 'fau'.

[bnatrl88]

@LokianEule thanks :)

[budgybear100]

I'm German and I can pronounce these so easy

[ReachFiDeSky]

@budgybear100 Would you like a cookie for that? (=

[DavidParkerAction]

German accents are hawt.

[A3onstorm]

oh dear god you have to roll the r as well -_- thought that was only spanish...

[Gaeilgeoir]

@A3onstorm It's not a rolled R, it's like a gurgled R :-) (in the back of the mouth, part of the throat). But some people in the Alps regions do roll their R's...

[YakobusRO]

@A3onstorm

I strongly prefer the rolled "r" (alveolar trill) over the uvular sound. Although there's no rolled "r" in my native dialect of my language, it's the way I chose to pronounce "r" in German, as it's also tolerated as a standard pronunciation of Hochdeutsch (though unfortunately not so common as the kinds of uvular "r": trill, fricative and aproximant) and it makes German sound more beautiful and far more epic.

Ich RRolle geRRn das ERR!

[horriehomepage]

@YakobusRO I agree with the epicness. Past tense words like "gerochen" sound so great. I started with the uvular R, but fell into that epicness and started using both types of R when speaking. It threw people off haha to hear both in the same sentence.

The rolled R does however just sound non-standard to me, because I only heard it while in Bavaria, Switzerland, and coming from Austrians like Arnie. If I'm going to speak seriously I'll stick with the frenchie-style R.

[YakobusRO]

@horriehomepage

Naturally, I'd readily switch to "je'st haʔ'm sie ʁuhe" -like pronunciations whenever I feel it's highly advisable. But now German is a pluricentric language, unlike centuries ago when German litterates took the dialect of Obersachsen as the basis of a common linguistic standard that has by now taken roots in different important centers. Then there's nothing non-standard with Schweizerhochdeutsch, or with a little influence of that in the German Bundeshochdeutsch.

[YakobusRO]

Correction: "whenever I felt"

[whitestar002]

meine aussprache ist sehr gut

[AppleUploader]

you forgot the "c" in sprechen :P

[helmut1307]

Hello - I am a Kraut and I say too, its very correct. Don´t rrrrrrrroll the R´s too much. Jou!!!

[wuniz]

du hast bei dem wort sprechen das C vergessen.

[TheWhiteOtaku]

wow look at all those ppl criticizing a native german prononciataion, i once was going to learn some german but i found its people are very unfriendly to foreigners who are learning the german language, so thats why i learn japanese instead where proncication is very easy and laid out.

[KentuckyFriedCthulhu]

@TheWhiteOtaku You are a dumb asshole. That is the dumbest way to choose which to learn a language I have ever heard.

[japonfeudal]

I have BIG problems pronouncing R when it is preceded by G, for example "Großer Preis von Deutschland"... can you put a video with that? I speak spanish as native language.

[HoraceScope]

@japonfeudal Try to pronounce it like a Spanish "r" but without your tongue touching the pallet. You just have to make that thing in your throat wiggle, as if you were gargling with water. ¡Buena suerte!

[SaturnMerlin]

Das Internet lernt uns Englisch deutsch und manchmal auch Chinesisch

[liebemimi97]

sprechen not sprehen :D

[ananaspokind12]

sprehen^^

sprech is ja auch egal

[alemon22]

welcome thank u as well i learnt something:)):)

[BlueLeafx]

I'm finding it very difficult trying to pronounce those Rs like the ones used in 0:18 for Regel =( x

[hardav12rhs]

Ich lerne Deutsch in Schule. Im America. Wohnst du Deutschland? I honestly have no idea if I said that right I am only in german 2

[JasonBiochemist]

Wait eine Minute! Didn't she spell "sprechen" wrong?

Today I want to teach you how to say "this" and "that".

Its "this" and "that" not "zis" und "zat".

Just like Canadians and Americans can't say "Ich" or "nicht" (they say "ish" and "nisht") so too can Germans not say "th" as in "the". Its very funny and cute.

[2d181]

Ich bin Deutscher und nicht viel Englisch sprechen kann mir jemand beibringen?

[Dunaiii]

@imwithMindfreak

It's just that she pronounces it in a very strange way.

Is she a native speaker of German?

In "verrückt" the /r/ sounds almost.. American to me.

Then first two words, both beginning with "r", are pronounced totally different - when she says "Raten" for the first time I'd never say it's in German...

[magauchsein]

yes, it's correct.

[imwithMindfreak]

I am learning German, and after all the pronounciations i have heard, I['ve come to this conclusion. Please correct me if I'm wrong. When the R is in the beginning of the word, or the r sound is first, or imediately following a cosonant, it's usually prnounced with the uvular r roll, and if it's in the middle, or after a vowel, then it has a slight English r sound. If it's at the end..usually in -er endings, then it's an english a sound. Am I correct?

[Dunaiii]

Never like an English "r". You could clearly see it by comparing Eng. and German words transcribed - written in API signs.

In -er- or -ur- the r-sound is a so-called "vokalisiertes R", mit Stimmtonverlust, which isn't like the English one (well, for some may resemble the British at the end - like in "here" or "bear" but it's still a different sound). I recommend PONS dictionaries, they have transcription and pronounciation. Btw. with "bear" not only /r/ is different - the e-sounds sound, too!

[ApoBoy]

lol "Sprehen" ist falsch..es heißt "sprechen" (ist klein, denn: was tut man?.. sprechen) "to guess" ist abgedeckt... lern den leuten doch nix falsches !!

[chiorina]

my instructor didn't tell me that!

[knorkeBitch]

ich magen deutscheslande

[AVIATIO]

Danke fuer's hochladen. Dennoch habe ich eine Frage.

Is the r at the end of German words pronounced? Zum Beispeil, VateR, BotschafteR, WeckeR

Is the r pronounced whatsoever, in that position?

[deathmetalhablo]

If you wanna speak German like every normal German does, you simply replace the -er by an -a.

Wenn du Deutsch wie jeder normale Deutsche sprechen willst, ersetzt du das -er einfach durch ein -a. ;)

[AVIATIO]

Thank you, that was quite helpful.

[AVIATIO]

I despise the horny ass holes on youtube who have to make a pass on every video made by a female!

Get laid, ass holes!

[TSM9356]

danke

[lildeath0x]

guten tag means good day

[puchademono]

wow you're hot!!

you have boyfriend?

[QueTerco]

HEY WHAT DOES GUTEN TAG MEANS?

[blackbook114]

good day

[reindeertigerteam]

Why can't people pronounce the letter r ? Why do people have so much trouble with r's? Australians are horrible with the letter r. They always replace r's with an a, (computa) and replaced the words ending with an "a" with an "r". (Cuba Cuber.) I don't get it. What's so hard about pronouncing the word as it's spelled?

[chiefxyx]

0:34 Steht da sprehen xD ach ja ihr dummen amerikaner oder was ihr auch seid xD haha

[HananColours]

thank you !!

[BirgerDahlerus]

0:34

da hat sich ein kleiner Fehler eingeschlichen :)

SpreChen

[SCHREITillie]

ich bin learne dustch

komen sie mir helpfen?

danke!!

x

[HullioProductions]

Deutsch*

[SCHREITillie]

I always forget how to spell that!!! :P x thankss :)

[Jow45metal]

At the end, the letter R it's the same thing as in british english!!

[caiocollalto]

What a beautiful lady...

[dablacksolja]

yep thats what im talkin about

not these ugly ass japanese hoes lol...

[JohnF30Music]

Ich habe dein Video geliebt. Danke. Ich brauche mehr!

[Adeltraut]

beside that, dont imitate her german s

[PeitzerFunke]

@gekkomatic:

it means: it´s clear since the beginning..=)

[gekkomatic]

What's in English -' dit war schon am anfang klar'' ?

[1BABEH1]

Sie hat "sprechen" falsch geschrieben..

sie hat nur "sprehen" geschrieben..

und "sprehen" ist schon wieder ein ganz anderes Wort in Deutschland..

[Adeltraut]

@1BABEH1 was wäre ein synonym für sprehen?

[1BABEH1]

Alle die ich kenne..für denen heißt Sprehen..

hier dieser Graffiti kack und alles.

Oder was willst du von mir ?

[Adeltraut]

@1BABEH1 sprayen? Sprehen kenne ich nicht als deutsches wort

[1BABEH1]

Kann sein das du recht hast..

aber ich habe heut in der Schule herumgefragt..und die immer aufn Skaterpark rumhängen haben geantwortet.."KP..SPrayen ?!"

andere sagten.."du meinst sprühen oder was weiß ich ?!"

und der janz dumme dachte da an Spreewald !!

Also ich kanns mir jetzt auch nicht mehr abgewöhnen statt sprehen sprayen zu sagen..weil i.wie einige so sagen..

dann hab ich noch ne Lehrerin gefragt und die hat nich gewusst was ich wollte..

also hast wahrscheinlich recht..;)

[ShadowKeyKnight]

@Adeltraut vielleicht meinen die 'sprühen'? welches to spry bedeutet!

[ShadowKeyKnight]

ich mein to spray ^^

[1BABEH1]

Ich weiß man sagt sprayen oder wies geschrieben wird..aber mir hat einer mal am kopp geknallt.."is doch das selbe"..

für mich damals nicht..aber jetzt sag ichs schon selber!

Aber das kann ja auch was anderes heißen..

kp jeder denkt sich dabei was anderes.

[gr8Sweetfox]

@1BABEH1 sprehen ist kein wort... was du meinst ist wohl "sprühen"

[1BABEH1]

@gr8Sweetfox

Ich weiß..schon bescheuert von mir xDD

[elizapimp4life]

Thank you! This helped alot.

[NEMSLO]

Krawall und Remidemi xD

[altersaltar]

thank you .

[HANSMKAMP]

If you hold up the pieces of paper with German - English examples, make sure you don't cover parts of the words with your fingers.

[MsChrisWe]

..bei "sprechen" fehlt das "c"

[DBoVolente]

:D...

[zeick350tuber]

like sesame street in germen lol

[sabsi00000]

nobody in germany speaks like that but good to learn

[carisafari]

so how do you know? seems like you have been living all over germany to judge that thing? :-P

[TheBreidi]

doch, die Deutschen halt..

[LovesBFR]

are you from germany? i am, and i DO speak like this!

[sabsi00000]

not germany i'm from austria but i live in la for 6 years..

[sukay200]

que buena r¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡

[thatlazyslacker]

Thank you so much!! Now I know how to pronounce the dredded letter!

[affeno]

Nice tips. But notice there's a "c" missing in "spre'C'hen".

[septip123]

i just wish your audio was a bit clearer

[bertouoft]

you are pretty!! thanks for the video..

[lschwei]

Thank you! Out of curiousity, does our tutor here have a non-regional German accent? There's a wide variety of ways to pronounce, say, an 'er' at the end of a word in English.

This is very obvious in, say, Cockney vs Scouse (in Britain) or Brooklyn vs Chicago. This if I learned this perfectly, is this guide the German equivalent of an American news anchor or received pronunciation?

[bergulme]

To me this sounds "Hochdeutsch" (which means no dialect) and I consider myself not to have a dialect. It is not news anchor quality, as she tend to "nuscheln" a little and to shallow the "en" like most germans do. If you want to listen to news anchor quality, search for "Tageschau" on here on youtube.

[scabw]

@bergulme

Tagesschau

[shamatroot]

the tone of german pronounsation is so weird..but i feel it's more masculine than the english..

[rodolforodriguez70]

Thank you very much for this lesson

[littlecozette]

German is a good swear language but has no change in front of English. GOD SAVE QUEEN!

[Adeltraut]

lol Krawall

[scabw]

@Adeltraut

I agree. Peculiar choice of vocabulary.

[gabrielsteckelberg]

Sprehen = wrong

Sprechen = right

[mac44x]

Sauber - Clean

also ich würde sagen gute arbeit :P

[ilikehairbands]

lol Krawall. You might as well have put remmidemmi on there as well lol. Anyway thanks for the video. I've been having trouble trying to pronounce the R in German.

[stifla23]

WATA FAKA BE HIA :DDD

[thecarrotdude]

why cant it be easy like english where they are usually pronounced the same way everytime

[NeuzeitJesus]

@ the carrotdude: English is much more non-systematic in pronounciation than German. Take for example the "e" in he and how it occurs in written language: see, sea, seize, people, key, Caesar, believe, amoeba, machine, silly. (e, ee, ea, ei, eo, ey, ae, ie, oe, i, y --> 11 different realizations of one phoneme/sound). Mainly we have one realization of pronounciation for one particular sign or sign combination.

[thecarrotdude]

you have made my point clearer, we may have different spellings, but they are the same sound. in german you have the same spelling but different sounds. but yea, ive been learning german, and compared to learning Latin, it is much easier.

[angelchen1111]

English is so darn hard besides the r sound.

[kakaze]

Wow. Quite weird. You say -er at the end just like in northern england (computA not computerrr)]