How to Pronounce German Like a Native Speaker

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As a native German speaker and linguist, please note that some vowels shown here are wrong. The [ɐ] sound is completely mispronounced as an [o] sound. The [œ] sound is not the same sound as the u in hurt [hɜ̝ːt]. And in this video, it gets pronounced correctly only when within a word. When it is spoken seperately the speaker mispronounces it as [ø:]. When the speaker trys to pronounce [ə] seperately, she actually pronounces an [e:] sound. The [​ɪ​] sound is also mispronounced as an [i:] sound when spoken seperately. Same goes for [ʏ⁠] and [y:] and for [​ɔ] and [o:] and for [ʊ] and [u:]. Problem is that, in German, to every vowel ( vowel phonem to be correct) there is a long and a short version and Germans are not used to pronouncing the short versions seperately and longer. That's why the speaker here is mispronouncing all short vowels for long ones when she is trying to pronounce it seperately. Keep in mind, that when you have a letter like Ü or O, you always use the long version when you want to adress the letter/ say its name/ say it seperately. And when you want to say just "R" in German, you want to say [ɛɐ] and not an actual consonant sound. Also good to know is that many Germans do not roll their [ʁ] (one version of how you can pronounce the R in German at the beginning of a syllable. (You can choose from [ʁ], [R] and [r] and you only have to learn one of them.) If you find these sound symbols irritating then you should look up the IPA on Wikipedia. There you have listening samples of how the actual sounds sound like. There is also a Wikipedia entry on the German language and its phonetics so you can find a summary of various pronunciation rules. But Germans will understand you even if your pronunciation of R or Ü is not that clear or "native". Oh and last but not least, please, pronounce English words like English. With loanwords from other foreign languages like French or Russian, it's a little more complicated as those words have already been fully germanized over the past centuries.

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Ich spreche Bagel genau wie die Engländer aus. Ich hab noch nie gehört, dass jemand Ba-gel gesagt hätte... und bei Schaare-Waare kann ich gar nicht mehr aufhören zu lachen

Shareware? Seit 1992 wohne ich in Deutschland, aber Schaare-Wahre ist mir ja wirklich neu.

as someone whose been studying German since 2017, i've had a bit of difficulty pronunciation German words and it makes me sound funny, this definitely helps alot more!

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Having watched this video and being fluent in English and German myself, also having a degree in German Language and Litterature, I strongly advise viewers to spend their money elsewhere - and to handle all information herein with utmost care. The mistakes are not obvious to learners but essential!

thank you for this video. We understand that this lesson has the intention to explain the pronunciation and sounds! everything is ok

When we use english words we pronounce them english not german. This is called anglezismen and we use many english words.

Very helpful for beginners. Learn together with my son. ❤️

This sound is identical to /makes a completely different sound/ :D

This was super helpful. Vielen Dank!

Nobody says "Schare-Ware" statt "Shareware". One just uses the English pronunciation.

Danke schön

I like learn 2 language English and German...so this is the best chanel.

It's funny to see this as a German! Really nice Tutorial! Weiter so!

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Amazing. Thanks.

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