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

For a thorough description of the sounds of German, please see one of my favorite websites: http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonet...
It has the sounds of German, Spanish and English explained in detail

This video shows some pronunciation practice recorded from my first year teaching. Yes, the board is a little disorganized - again, this was my very first year teaching! Also: the accent. We teach students different ways of pronouncing things, but oftentimes in order to overcome an American accent, we have to exaggerate certain sounds to make them more perceptible. I learned German in mostly northern Germany, and I usually teach students to at least be able to mimic the sounds I use, but I always allow students to pick which accents or regionalisms they want to use when they speak. This video is an example of ideas on how to use iMovie to create a short teaching demo, which we require of our graduate students. If I were to create a series on pronunciation, I'd do it a little differently.

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[Jorge Marcillo]

Excellent video, it helped me a lot to understand german pronuntiation. Also I´d appreciate a lot if you can help me with this issue, when should I pronounce CH as j or as CH

[Brenna Byrd]

I'm not sure what you mean. When would one pronounce ch as [j]? Can you give me an example?

[Lars Vinterqvist]

If you're talking about the Spanish J, then yes, German CH is pronounced the same way.

[Brenna Byrd]

Ah, ok, thanks for the clarification, Lars!

[Brenna Byrd]

Hi Jorge, I can't add a link in a comment, so I'll put the link in the video description, but for a helpful website you can also google Iowa phonetics and you should be brought to a website that describes the sounds of Spanish, English and German in great detail.

[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.

[konigreichprussia]

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

[MissMoniMona]

In the city or region of Hamburg we pronunce "ig" like "ich", but that's a regional DIALECT!!!!! Correctly high german ist "ig" LIKE "ig", like the teacher pronunce it in THIS video it's a DIALEKT! In the northern state Schleswig-Holstein (not the state/city of Hamburg) or in Hannover (=the regional capital of the northern state of Niedersachsen), they say "ig" like "ig". I grew up in the northern state, Schleswig-Holstein, but went to school to Hamburg! Greetings from Germany! Viele Grüße!

[Molekularbiologie Graz]

In northern and middle Germany we pronounce ''-ig'' as ''-ich'' . That's actually the correct standard German version. But most people in the south and Austria speak it as it's written ''-ig'' or as ''-ik''. I'd also go for the southern German version of "-ig" although I'm from the middle.

[AgressiveBladingGer]

Als Deutsche ist das mit dem ch echt lustig zu hören :) aber die machen das richtig gut

[Em Ly]

I just can't pronounce "ch"! it sounds like spanish "j". but sometimes like "sh", *CONFUSED

[joshuataurus21]

so CH is pronounced like the j in reloj?

[joshuataurus21]

I love the way you pronounce your german r's. i just can't do it. I can only trill my r's because spanish is my first language. about the ich, is there any special mouth position that one has to do? i try breathing an extra h when I pronounce ich, or nicht, or mich. As for the CH sound I've always read that it comes deeper from the throat and i've been making a k sound, is this right??. or should the Ch be pronounced as a regular Hispanic would pronounce the J, say like in reloj? or jabali?

[Isaiah Garza]

awesomely instructed.

[Michael Smolinski]

Hehe ^^ Wie kann man das "g" mit "ch" vergleichen? Das G wird nicht wie ein CH ausgesprochen Leute, sondern mehr wie ein K.. ein weiches K

Schöne Grüße aus Deutschland ;)

[BCP4Gaming]

isnt it that in northern germany they say "ick" instead of "ich"...and for all of the other ch's cuz my ch is like that or is that jus a bad pernounciation?

[husoal]

Ich gratuliere Ihnen Frau Byrd. viel erfolg..