Re: How to Speak German

Although she's dong a good job here're some tips to do it better.

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Education

Tags:

• letter
• alphabet
• german
• english
• speak
• pronounce
• pronunciation
• abc
• talk
• say

[greenkit77]

Thnx for the video! It makes me feel better knowing that its coming from a true German! This is my first year of German so i trying to learn as much as I can, this will help a lot! Thnx again! :)

[LueMcBruce]

@greenkit77 Glad I could help. Viel Erfolg! :)

[Irishborne]

Do elucidate me, my German friend, as to why you would make this video. I find that more and more people are becoming increasingly tedious. The asininity of this video is nigh overwhelming. The way you were pronouncing things are, sorry to say, wrong. The Germans don't say ABCDE, Ah, beh, seh, deh, eh. At least this is how my instructor from Dresden always says them.

[LueMcBruce]

Hi, Irishborne. Thanks for your comment even though I find it neither constructive nor substantiated. I don't know who your German instructor is, but I'm afraid to say that he is obviously wrong. I AM a native speaker of German and coincidentally I'm from Dresden, too. Believe me, this is exactly how we pronounce the German alphabet! By the way, your language sound a little too made-up for a 14 year-old, don't you think? How about using your own knowledge instead of dictionaries next time?

[Dantesdoom]

@LueMcBruce I hear you, but because you ARE a native speaker you are being bias. People who are native speakers rarely speak the language to the "standards". In the US, each coast and the north and south speak English differently and most of them are not correct to "standard". So don't rip that dude a new one because he is telling you how he was taught based on the standard found in books. I bet if you open them you will find your German isn't exactly spot on either. Have a good day.

[LueMcBruce]

@Dantesdoom Hi there, thanks for your comment, although I'm surprised that it's mostly non-native speakers of German who critisize my German. Anyway, you are right about what you say about non-standard pronunciation, but I can assure you that the letters, as I pronounced them, represent the standard variety of German. If they had a dialectal touch, they would sound a bit more like English, since we also tend to saying 'ay' where there should be long monophthongs instead.

[opeth4life69]

but hey, isnt english a germanic language... anyone plz answer my Ques

(if im wrong, plz dont respond negatively)

[maxandmister]

I'm an English teacher, don't mess with me. :-) I just don't speak as "posh" on my messages sent via internet. Excuse my being so blunt about your grammar errors. You would surely earn an "A" in my class. My apologies.

[zenwolf1]

@opeth4life69 English is a Frisian decended language. English is the closest language to Frisian. Frisia is considered the four northen islands of todays Germany. the language is still very much alive there, though the nation is no more.

[TransientSylph]

Thank you for this video.

[ScruffyBread]

Mit einem besseren Mikrofon waere es sicherlich besser zur Geltung gekommen. Trotzdem gut (:

[Dantesdoom]

@LueMcBruce Ok, fair enough. Thanks for giving me a civil response and not being a dick like a lot of people are on here. And i wasn't criticizing your German, its far better than i could ever hope to do. I was just making a statement.

[bloodcrazyvamp]

thanks for being a genius in the art of german, i was trying to learn but the pronunciation sounded a bit off in the other video for i have visited germany many times and heard how the natives pronounce words, thanks for correcting me good man

[WCiossek]

@EarlyRave84 It comes from the north part of Germany from Angeln near the danish border! There they speak low german wich is very similar to English and different to german! Also the celtics have their roots in Bavaria!

Fore example the 3 languages English, low German (Plattdeutsch), German

make, moken, machen

alike, alik, ebenso

above, bowen (baben), oben

Great Britain was celtic and teutonics migrates to England!

Old English is more similar to low german and also to Frisian!