German Pronunciation Tutorial [FJvid005Ten]

German phonemes pronounced, each with example words. I tried to cover all letters and letter combinations which learners of the German language need to pay attention to.

One thing I forgot: Words that start with "Ch": here the CH is either pronounced as a K (Chor = choir, Chaos, Chamäleon, the city Chemnitz) or as a soft CH (the country China, Chicoreé = chicory).

"CHS": pronounced as "KS"! As in the words "wachsen" (to grow) and "der Lachs" (the salmon). Attention with compound nouns, where a "chs" is actually a "CH"+"S", and the CH is therefore pronounced as explained in the video!

And of course I could not talk about the many many many exceptions (the German language has many rules - and even more exceptions *g*). Most exceptions in pronunciation have their origin in the German's habit of using foreign words in their original spelling and a near-to-original pronunciation.

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[ElectraLara]

I've been studying German by myself...it isn't easy, but I really want to learn it. I use a book called "Teach yourself German" and there are audios too. Do you know this book? I think it's good to beginning...and I liked a lot your video! Beautiful pronunciation!

[itekisan]

@ElectraLara I don't know any books or other material teaching German. I do not work as a teacher. An being German myself, I have lots of other language homelearning courses, but not German. ;)

[svmyle]

Would you recommend me a book with cd so I can learn? Can you recommend a good one for me to buy? We at home need to learn very soon ... Pls respond me thank youu

[itekisan]

@svmyle I can't recommend one, since I am a native German speaker and thus don't know any learning materials for those who wish to learn German as an adult. But I hope someone else here can help you.

[letshaveabreak]

Very good tutorial on German pronunciation - I've recommended it to a American friend, who just starts to learn German!

[andrewquinn413]

Excited to be learning such an awesome language! :D

[chabi3000]

@kkumarx 1. Listen only to Rammstein and Kraftwerk 2. Watch all your movies and Sitcoms completly in German ( WITHOUT SUBTITLES) 3. Play all your videogames in German ! 4. Go into german teamspeak servers and just try to talk with the german people there . 5. PROFIT

[Orangemongoose1]

Danke!

[LyraHeart]

Thank you so much. This is incredibly helpful! I really, really appreciate that you went through the time and effort to make this. I'm trying to teach myself German before I take any formal classes, and this is soooo helpful! So... Thanks again!

[leochu100]

Wow, the more I watch the more I see that the German R (mostly) are somehow like the French R.... but in German there's the trill...

[ShockinglyRelaxing]

you talk so fast that camera of yours is unable to catch up with you