5 Steps to a perfect German Accent

Always wondered how to do a perfect German accent in English? - Learn it today with Cari and Kapenda 😂

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Camera: Janusz Hamerski
Edit: Kevin Kapenda

[mikeweeber]

Finally a clip who takes the German accent seriously enough to teach us right. I appreciate you describing it first then speaking it. This is the right way to show us people who are hungry to learn.

[IWingEm]

Don't forget Step 6: Make sure you cannot pronounce squirrel correctly.

[mandarinenzeittv]

"Ziss iz right, or?" 😂😂😂 Omg I thought this was going to be a video on how to speak German like a native! But this is even besser.

[samuelhoffmann]

I had half of these steps already only by hearing the German accent at my school. But now I can perfect it 😎

[longshot]

This helped a lot cause I play a WWII Video game and the US side is always full so I’m German all the time and I enjoy listening to people’s reactions when I communicate in German/German accent!

[Asopoa]

Since I came in Germany I started saying "or" at the end of my sentences when I speak English or even Greek (mother tongue) :P

[dunkel]

Wir sind sehr froh, daß ihr diese hilfreichen Videos macht, um uns zu helfen, die deutschen Wörter richtig auszusprechen. Liebe grüße

[saturnalia]

I'm German and when I was little I couldn't pronounce the ths.. I had to go to speech class g
For this. Tahnks for ruining my chances to actually be German school.

[annaweil]

LOLOL I didnt read the description and thought i could use to this to show my German 1 students, we had a good laugh about this. Ve häd a good laf about zis!

[djkaeh]

A little silly, but has everything I need to know about pulling off a (close to) authentic German accent. Dankeschön!!

[sasukesarutobi]

Es gibt jetzt etwas auf Englisch zu benutzen, wenn man "oder" einem Satz zu enden. Das Wort "innit" (kurz für "isn't it") ist populär für einige Leute ihrer Sätze zu enden (besonders die Jugend), aber es ist auch mit anderen Leuten einen "ungebildeten" Wort auf Englisch zu benutzen.

[callumc]

People in New Zealand also add 'or' to the end of everything... you only have too watch one of our great New Zealand safety videos to find that out.

[VJDanny]

ßänk juh for träwelling wizz Deutsche Bahn. :D

[paularuiz]

Hahaha das ist fantastisch! Sehr praktisch 😂👌 I specially love how germans pronounce the word "work".

Liebe Grüße aus 🇦🇷! 💙

[jossay]

Step 6: Pronounce the letter 'v' in english words the same as the english pronunciation of 'f' (the german 'v' sounds like the english 'f') ;)

[jon]

cool :D
Guys, ich komme aus Ägypten und eure Videos haben mir beim Deutsch lernen sehr geholfen. ich hoffe, das mich positiv bei meinem Besuch in Deutschland nächste August und September gut beeinflussen könnte!😄😄
Vielen Dank und habt immer Spaß! 🙋

[legaleagle]

I wonder whether my Berlin-born boss would find this amusing. She doesn't think she speaks English with a German accent (she thinks she sounds more British than German), so I wonder what she would make of a video teaching how to adopt a stereotypical "German" accent.

[drakonyanazkar]

Kapenda ist so witzig, oder? Hahahaha I think that most Germans don't speak English like that. Your English is mostly very good. What we need to learn is how to do German accents in German. Something slipping from dialects but also from Hochdeutsch. Like "this is how they speak in Bavaria" or "This is how they speak in West-Rhine Westphalia", but without the vocabulary (that would make a theme for a whole series).

[dukemasuya]

Cari sah am Ende so lustig aus. Hahaha!
Danke für das Video. War sehr interessant.

[annadimgba]

does anyone else if find kapenda really cute😁😁.... BTW cool video.... funny too..