How To Pronounce Goethe

[61n64]

the oe is like 'ö'. And it is more like the 'u' in t'u'rn but longer. And the 'e' in the end is like 'the 'e' in 'e'gg.

[Udany147]

wrong

[Willlly61]

Am I suppose to laugh?

I can't breathe!

[GodOfUnbelief]

I'm German and I can say that this is wrong.

The correct pronounciation is hard to explain but it's more like:

'Ghooooooouuuuthththhhthhhh'

[phdiva100]

it's correct :)

[Huettenfreak]

@pronunciationbook I Think its great that u give people the chance to learn the correct pronounce of names or something else. But its nearly Impossible for english people to say "ö" or "ü" correctly so why you dont just ask a German to say words like "Goethe", "König", "Özil" or "München". If you dont know a German, take this as an offer from me to help.

[Ps1locyb1n]

ö is impossible for us English-speakers to pronounce. Let's try to settle on something we can all agree on. But I think we can do better than "Gerter"... haha.

[makk250]

wtf its "goethe" not "gerter"

you have to speak the "oe " like the letter "ö"

if youre not capable to just say gothe

[ffsnametaken]

@makk250 That's a nice arsey unnecessary response.

[Sascopa]

Ghoooooooooooooootthhhhhhhh thh.

Any fule kno.

[EpicClapton]

Gerta, Gerta, Gerta.

[ramonjd]

You nearly got it. No post-vocalic 'r' sound is needed because there is simply no r in Goethe. Why insert an r phoneme where there's none?

[angryafghan]

Why is there an intrusive R ???

[nisbahmumtaz909]

GHOOOOooooOO-THHHHHHHHhhhhhhhh­hhTHHHhh-Thh

[Donkeygamers]

I like how this account manages to troll countless people on every single video.

[Smooth2218]

im german and i still cant stop laugh about x,D

[BlockisticStudios]

No. It's clearly "GooOoOoOOooooooooooooKKHTTTPT­THHT"

[IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlII]

Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooootttttthhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh­hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh­hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh­hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhts

[QWERTYCommander]

I pronounced it "Geeth".

[HrRueben]

Ha, ha, the next I'll watch is Nietzsche. I guess this will be even funnier.

[MissColoradoSunshine]

Granny Gerta, is it you?

[Ryuurik]

I liek to pronounce it gou-they

[LukaDawnhacker]

This channel is so fucking useless.

If you really want to know how certain words are pronounced, then learn the international phonetic alphabet and look these words up.

[Thoexis]

omg u suck "gerta" fffffff

[jacarradicefrench]

You're wrong. It's Go-th.

[TheInformativeGamer]

It's Gurt, or Gert from my understanding

[iLuvSmartCars]

It's almost like "Goo-tuh". The German ö is hard to mimic for native English speakers.

[0incorporeal]

I'd say it's more like Goeta, not Gerta.

[xINVISIGOTHx]

wtf $16 for a chicken?

[darlanxavier445903]

wtf is this??????

[sgetim]

hahhaahaha, GOERTÖÖH ^^ xDDDDDD

[lameWB]

It's actually pretty Okay...

[sabaroth666]

berta

[Tosnoob]

gerte?

[4Stardoll]

Goat tie

[ShadowsOfBlossoms]

very good job on this one! sounds correct! :)

[GermanLetsPlaysZane]

@ShadowsOfBlossoms Except its not. Its actually FUCKINg wrong seen in german. And hes from germany..so yeah.

[ShadowsOfBlossoms]

@GermanLetsPlaysZane er kann das ö halt nicht so gut aber hört sich trotzdem richtig an ich würds nicht als fucking wrong bezeichnen :P

[MrRossBeef]

Goatse.

[newFranzFerencLiszt]

it's gua-tha

guatha!

[RiverOfSteel]

nngooooOOOooOOoOoOOOooOoo-thhh­hhhhe

[EvanC0912]

Lern zuerst Deutsch im Goethe-Institut!!!

[RobinOlsen2011]

Why so many vids with words im sure no one is ever gonna use.

[yugai]

göte

[fridayinlovely]

i thought it was like geuta. oopz

[acsodalatosmandarin]

Grtah

[HanabiNoHana499]

Gerta? I'm sorry, but the pronounciation is slightly wrong.

oe is ö in german, so it's not "Ger" but "gö". the pronounciation of "ö" is like "eu" in french, like in "feu" (=ø). The "e" at the end of "goethe" is pronounced like the "a" in "about". It's this sound in phonetics: ə.

Sorry once again^^ It is really almost pronounced correctly.

[BaskingGrampus]

@HanabiNoHana499

a slight "er" sound is a very close approximation for English speakers to "oe" (oder 'o' mit umlaut) in German. It does not sound like "eau" in French. Sorry.

You're right about the end being pronounced as a schwa, however.

[HanabiNoHana499]

@BaskingGrampus

I didn't mean the sound like "eau" in french, that is just like "o" in german, but the sound of "eu" which is pronounced "ö" in german.

[zesaima123]

@HanabiNoHana499 look at his chanell its comedy not real thing

[TheRyowyn]

@zesaima123 ...it's a real thing.

PronunciationBook is real.

PronunciationManual is the comedy one.

[ewhite3746]

@HanabiNoHana499 shut up

[superclaydude]

@HanabiNoHana499 so... gyeuth-uh?

[greenghost2008]

@HanabiNoHana499 Gerta is way easier to say for americans.

[LurkerPatrol5]

I thought it was pronounced "Go" "eth" "thee"

[akitajap]

I always thought it was pronounced "Go-eth"

[zombierobopirate]

do Noether and Erdos

[controllerbrain]

I always thought "Gerth"

[Warxoth]

GOATSE



[KhaledAlAsad]

goethe fuck yourself.

[sweetstephana]

thats fat in spanish.

[NarratorRS]

@sweetstephana no... thats gordo lol

[Aaron65111]

Try pronouncing Porkchop Sandwiches

[Hraesvellger]

Dörte?

[BobifyYou]

goatee.

[TonysTactics]

Goatse

[rencrow]

i thought it was gothe lol

[hackforloser]

Gerta?

I thought it was like Guther

[Inominifia]

i'm german and the way he pronounces it is acutally not bad!

[Inominifia]

@FlameOfAnor17 was mit dir los? ein tippfehler o.0

tut mir leid, dass ich nicht perfekt bin...

[FlameOfAnor17]

@Inominifia Ja tut mir leid, mir war halt grad langweilig.

[janitarjanitar]

Yo-Han-es Vulf-geng von Gehr-ta

[edmarksbury1234]

maaaaan i been pronouncin it as "goauldth"! I think this guys wrong i want a second opinion

[Roksonixx]

Go E The ?

[V45844]

Goethe a place where you can learn the correct pronunciation.

[LilMsLakers]

Gerta? o.e

[endurance619]

Gerta? -.-

[becauseiamworthless]

ok, now do Proust.

[DragonicGod]

goatse

[SakutheKQ]

You made the r sound too audible, incompetent ass fuck.

[4nc3st0r]

@SakutheKQ true to the point, fine madam or sir

[270Akio270]

Göthe

[UncaBee518]

You pick up an extra R from one of those French words that have one but don't pronounce it.

[xxremix1]

where's do you get the "r" sound if there is no "r" in the word.

[TheOriginalDogLP]

haha, its without an r

[thegreatmabel]

I always thought it was pronounced "Geth".

And for everyone hating on these foreign words, the point is to give the commonly accepted American pronunciation, so that you don't sound like a complete moron in your own country. Nobody cares if you sound like a moron in the word's country of origin, and he isn't attempting to teach an accent. He's saying the word with an American accent. That's the point.

[NeoTStyle]

@thegreatmabel

I don't think Goethe was a geth. :3

[Pimpmastahanhduece]

@thegreatmabel

Shephard- Geth? I better go...

[Zen420919]

@thegreatmabel I don't know any American who would use this word in any practical sense...if you do, please kick them in the balls.

[worldofdraculas]

@thegreatmabel Ghehth-uh, actually. It's like Goebbels. It sounds like someone with a non-rhotic dialect saying Gairth-uh or Gairbels, respectively, so the Rs are added by extrapolation from that.

[riadtel22]

@thegreatmabel but one you pronouce it with its accent that the point of speaking and studing other languages!

if you were respectible it would add yr popularity

but as looser it is worst even that you might be right

danke

[zoolakid]

who the hell is Gurtah?

[taureandoll]

@zoolakid He wrote "Faust."

[georgidinin]

grow-a-tuh

[chickendance3333]

Görthe? Amerikanisierter Scheiß!

[NewYorkFlavour]

@chickendance3333

It's the closest approximation we have to the "ö" sound in German. What other vowel should we use? Are you suggesting we pronounce it "goh-tuh" or "gee-tuh"?

[NeoTStyle]

Haha. Sounds fucking retarded.

GUR-TAH

[TheHitmanteam]

Potta

[sloytary97]

Go...Tha...

[frangolupo]

It is NOT a good idea for a non native speaker to try and demonstrate the pronunciation of a language. This attempt must fail. And so it does.

[Secession1900]

While incorrect, this pronunciation is not too terrible for a speaker of American English. The sound of the German phoneme oe or an o with an umlaut does not exist in English. Most Americans cannot produce the vowel properly and stick in an r sound that should not be there as was done here. I have heard much worse mispronunciations. There is a Goethe Street in Chicago. many of the locals pronounce it "Go-thee ".

[MABCME]

lol, you sound like a damn sheep :D

[Viktir666]

LOL the Germans are making fun of you on this video :)

[supersherbert101]

@Viktir666 the dutch speak almost the same to but slightly different

[kechu723]

GOAT

[mrtalkative91]

o.O wasnt expecting that. i thought it was "go-eth" or something

[XXDDDDDDDD]

i goethe go

[eIchristo]

Where the hell is the 'r' in that word?!

Crazy foreign languages...

[haupper]

Pride Goethe before the fall.

[hoofdstadmeisje]

More like " how to pronounce Goethe with an english accent"

[420chilldude]

@hoofdstadmeisje considering it's mainly English speakers who will be watching these videos, and the word will be used while speaking English, he's correct. You don't pronounce word in their original language when you say them in English. These videos get thumbs downs because of fucking morons who think that's how languages work.

[filozovs]

@hoofdstadmeisje its american accent

[MW2FreakonPS3]

In germany we don't sound like a flock of sheep but you do...

[MW2FreakonPS3]

Das ö hört sich an wie ein schaf :D

[Korvan1993]

Dörte.... Döörte.... Dörrte.

[NarutoXFanpire]

Haha. I laugh at all your vids...at least that´s something for like 0.06 minutes vids ,D

[xknowledgeisfreex]

Wrong! 

[tauwilltriumph]

Gurtah? Seriously?

[Z0mbieS1ayer]

i'll goethe store

[artem2922]

GOATSE

[danix30001]

like Porche?

[asdfasdsfsa]

It's nice that you do this kinda stuff but the pronounciation is still wrong..

[emslifee]

Im going to Geothe the store ;)

[Hotsumoto90]

GÜRTEL

[Josef040]

Wrooong :D

[1wimeo1]

im german and all im saying is, thats not it...

[need1992]

Goethe=Göthe you have to pronounce the ö right.

[Lprd2007]

GOAT

[happyman]

it's pronounced gooot....



[ireneismad]

if English speakers from North American can drop the "r" sound when they attempt to pronounce foreign words, they are more likely to get it right. This "r" sound rarely appears in foreign languages.

[themayor787]

goatse

[furQ]

non-prevocalic /r/? In MY Goethe?

[JonMcGrawMusic]

Goethe hell.

[hellojoe777]

gerta?

[UshiromiyaReiji]

Gurrter.

Okay.



[MikeeyahKikushima]

goataah. How do u really say it?!?!?!

[dreamerx360]

goatse?

[TheCitroenn]

goat.

[xXbreakfastXx]

LOOOOOL EPIC FAIL ...

[Pomelopeel]

gurrtah?

[NightQueen1313]

I always pronounced it something like Goata with like a lot or emphsis on the go part lol

[LambChowder1]

he probably thinks schön is "schurn"

[juggalojack13]

Girdle

[HauCanYuuPossiblyBe]

i... always thought this was go-eth... like Shakespeare... it finally makes sense...

[rolf778]

lol



[yitzchak13]

Goath

[Kabbible]

@yitzchak13

Nope

[newFranzFerencLiszt]

@yitzchak13 goat

[lesliekwan80]

This guy should make videos on how not to say certain words.

[StoneageDinosaurs]

There's no R in it! It's not Gurr-ta at all.

[FrederikkeLykke]

@StoneageDinosaurs No, but there is an o and an e, and they pronounce oe or ö like that mostly.

[LordShandor]

I don't think this guy is German.

[tm7776]

the pronounciation of the German "e" is truely is a major problem for native English speakers :)

[jancivil]

@tm7776 it's 'truly' btw.

[CssGermanTutorials]

Wrong 0o

[MDesigner]

BTW, this is another example of Americans butchering other languages inconsistently. Americans can't pronounce "oe" or "ö" so they often assign it a long 'A' sound (as in "fame"). Boehner, Koenig. But Goethe they pronounce like "gertuh". Mind-boggling. For the record, "er" IS a closer approximation of ö than "ay".

[254fds]

@MDesigner

its not butchering another language, its adopting words the way they make sense to us

do you think the way germans pronounce pommes sounds like the 'real' way to say it french?

do you think the french language sounds anything like latin from which it is based?

/rant

[AV3NG3R00]

There is no "R" in Goethe. You can make the "oe" sound by first making an "eeeee" sound then pursing your lips as if you were about to say "oooooooohhhh"...

The rest is okay.

[MDesigner]

@AV3NG3R00 You've got it a bit wrong. The "oe" or "ö" sound is made by making an "aaa" sound (as in 'apple') with the lips shaped like "oooh". It's "ue" or "ü" that is made by sounding an "eeee" with the lips rounded.

[JT5718x]

great video, by now i must goeth elsewhere.

[fergie232]

go-er-teh

[TheEgg185]

GOATH

[bullygotowned]

goatee

[videodude1298]

I thought it was Go-ETH