Learn German A1 | Umlaute (Ä, Ö, Ü) | German Pronunciation | Deutsch Für Euch 40

A1 Pronunciation help for the German Umlaute ("Umlauts" as English speakers like to say :D): Ä, Ö and Ü. What do they sound like and how do you get there?
This has been requested a few times by now - other pronunciation help/tips coming up :)

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[Jhonmz]

A lot of these. Sound like french sounds too.
Ä sounds like the "ei" in "hein?"
Ö sounds like "eu"
Ü sounds like the general french "u" like you mentioned

[RagingInsomniac]

Whenever I see the Ü it reminds me of a smiley face, and Ö reminds me of a shocked face. That’s how I remember them.

[ibrahimmohmmed]

Just started learning German days ago. für is one of the first words l encounter. I tried to pronounce it using google translate, but with no success I watched many videos on German umlauts, and your video was the one that make google translate recognise my pronunciation from the first time, so thank you so very much. You are really brilliant.

[zmiydojdey]

It seems German Ä is very close to Russian Э. Good to know. The bad thing is that in Russian we don't give a damn about vowel length.:D So it is something I have to practise.

[NipkowDisk]

LOVE the randomly-organized background- makes me feel right at home :) !

[tuschman]

This is the best explanation of German umlauts I've found on youtube. It should be very helpful. Especially since getting an umlaut wrong is one of the most common mistakes that Americans make who try to speak German. I'm always impressed when Americans do it right.

[MaDOS_dsplyName]

My family has been in America for about 8 generations now and we spell our last name as Oost. In Dutch my last name is Öst (I do understand this is a Deutsch lesson and does not necessarily work for Dutch). This helped a lot though.

[NyorexDC]

Don't worry about your room, I mean, Einstein once said, "If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?'" ... well, I really don't know if it applies to a whole place haha, but you get the point .

Tschüss und danke vielmals !

[MrCantStopTheRobot]

The note that studying French makes German umlaute much easier is SO TRUE! the French Connection also applies for the German R-sound, btw. But you probably already know that.

[brendan]

Your understanding of all the sounds involved is phenomenal. So glad I found this video. Thank you!

[efox]

This really helps. How you explained the O, as "bIRd" minus the r sound...really helped.

[gameratortylerstein]

By Ä it's the -e from every! (e)very --- = every (...)Every... dog is sweet.

[joserafael]

Wow I didn't know that German has 15 vowels according to the International Phonetic Language. Spanish, my native tongue, just has 5 vowels which are very different from each other (plain a e i o u). That's why it's so difficult for me to even recognize them. I think having Spanish as first language is some sort of handicap when it comes to learn foreign tongues (at least phonetically speaking) since we don't have that wide variety of vowel sounds. On the other hand, foreign speakers can learn Spanish phonetics quite easily. I've met foreigners that after just 3 months learning Spanish can speak it fluently! Meanwhile, I'm still struggling with my French and my German. Sometimes I feel nobody understands what I say.

[hopst]

Respect from Morocco, you're really helped me, thanks a lot. .

[williamdodge]

Katja, You are such a great teacher. It blows my mind that you don't even seem to have an accent where as I've spoken to so many german speakers who have strong accents and can be hard to understand.

[ionelac.]

Hi Katia! I have a really big problem with the german ''R''...I mostly do it like the French one.. So, I want to ask if you can upload a video where to show us some rules about it.. :D 

[andreamartinez-andrweiitha]

Great video. I'm practicing my English and now learning German, so... this was awesome. It helped me to understand more the spoken English and the pronunciation in German, with the umlaut vocals. Thank you 😁😄

[EnglishwithSAYAR]

very interesting lessons I am so excited

[garrydolley]

It would be awesome if you made a video on pronouncing the German "r" :)

[nebelung]

Ä and Ö are no problem, we have those in Swedish also and they sound exactly the same!
Ü kinda sounds like a Swedish Y when used as a vowel, maybe just a tad longer.

The hardest sounds for me are the the German -ch and -sch!
Especially when these sounds appear several times in the same sentence! :)
For example "Du sprichst schlecht" breaks my tongue!
I'm not sure if that sentence is even remotely correct, though! :)