5 HARDEST German words to pronounce

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Christina and Nele had fun time sharing 5 HARDEST words to pronounce. The exploration to different cultures is always meaningful, right? We hope you have enjoyed our video today. Don't forget to follow our new instagram account for upcomings, as well as our casts'!

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🇺🇸 Christina

🇩🇪 Nele

[ChristinaDonnelly]

Ohhhoo this was so difficult 😆 Thanks Nele for being so polite and patient with me while I completely failed 😅 Non-native speakers let me know how you did if you tried it too! -Christina 🇺🇸

[Arthur-vvpu]

Kind of disappointed that I didn't get to hear Christina try to pronounce

[henri]

Nice to see Nele from germany on the channel again, she is funny enjoyable, especially with Christina

[ybncarrygold]

Never heared a german pronouncing "Regisseur" that wrong because she pronouced the "Re" like in the "reborn" for example. But if I had to describe the word, I'd go by "Re" like the german pronunciation of "Re" from the german word "Regen", which means "rain" and then "Je" like the actual french word, which means "I" and "sir" or "seur". So Re-je-sir/seur.

Edit: Just google translate the word, the pronunciation is pretty much perfect.

[matemarijan]

I went through the pains of learning German and most of these long words are compound words formed by other words. So when you know the meaning of them its easy to pronounce the long ones.
Example: Doppelkupplunggetriebe = Doppel + Kupplung + Getriebe

Meaning: Double clutch gearbox

[VioletRiha]

Only in german, there are letter combinations like 'chtschr' (Rechtschreibung) or 'ngstschw' (Angstschweiß - record for the highest amount of consonants in a row in german)
Tho polish also has its specialties in this regard

[Baka_Crazy]

To be fair: :"Schächtelchen" is a cute word for "Schachtel". In German we put the ending -chen and -lein (this ending is not that common I noticed) for making things small and cute. Some German words who have the letter a o or u und it sometimes transform to an ä ö or ü because it sounds better or something like that. That's why it's "Schächtelchen" instead of "Schachtelchen"

Also seen in

Häuschen for Haus (house)
Kätzchen for Katze (Cat and it's also kitten)
Höschen for Hose (pants or panties)
Hütchen for Hut (Hat)

[TMIATC]

German was my favorite class in high school. I had a great teacher who made trips to Germany quite frequently. I can say with confidence he was at native speaker level. At least compared to the Spanish and French teachers at my school.

[flopjul]

the breaking down works really well in germanic languages since many words are just pulling words after each other. in dutch you have for example telefoonhoesje telefoon hoes je(telephone case little) if you put 'je/tje'(depending if it has a harsch ending) behind a object it makes it smaller for example Broer(brother) it ends on a harsch r so little brother becomes Broertje

[individualofuniverse]

Didn't know German word are that difficult to pronounce. Christina did break it down really well. Nele is a challenging teacher out there, making Christina almost drunk in the process haha!

[PEEWII]

Regisseur is from French, even though we rarely use that word in French, we prefer réalisateur (for films) or metteur en scène (for theatre plays).

[Serenity_Dee]

My German professor in college, a remarkable and memorable woman in so many ways, grew up in München (Munich) and had Opinions™ about how the language should be pronounced (and also about English, for that matter). She **hated** the Berliner accent, and so told us to pronounce German "ch" as English "sh" if we couldn't do the sound properly, but never EVER pronounce it as "k".

To give you an idea what Frau Decker was like, in telling us how important grammatical gender is in German, she told us, "if you don't get the sex right, nothing works." And, yes, that was very much on purpose.

[dofire]

"Regisseur" is a French word that's why even in Germany you have difficulties to pronounce it.

[karllogan]

Ironically the German teacher has been the most lenient so far, the Spanish teacher was the strictest.

[flowerdolphin]

Regisseur is from French. If you want the correct German pronunciation, the g is pronounced like sch (schreiben, Schachtel, Schein... That sch) and the seur at the end is pronounced like söa. And obv in French it's pronounced differently.

[saraisabelroler]

Watching this as an Austrian person is so interesting, because I didn't know that our language is so hard for people to pronounce.

[YourstrulyAM]

Haha! I love Nele she's so patient and supportive!

[pinkdragon]

1:56 I really love the way the Frucht sounded so sweet, especially after the other girl tried to pronounce it so harshly

[EdgarRenje]

Christina really found the right technique quickly by separating the single parts.

[kumawickham]

German is a cute language. The word for glove (Handschuh) is literally the words hand (Hand) and shoe (Schuh) together. Racoon (Waschbär) is wash (Wasch) and bear (bär).