German Pronunciation Video 1: The German Consonants and the IPA

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This is the first of a 3-part series on German pronunciation. The goal is to quickly familiarize you with the sounds of German and the IPA symbols for those sounds. You'll then be able to learn them faster, either through your own studies or through my pronunciation trainers. Enjoy!

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Finally some quality tutorial without the typical crappy "it sound like in English XX" to try to describe sounds that don't exist in English! Most people have good intentions, but little idea. Great stuff, please do more like this!

jaimebenito

I want to start studying German sometime soon, and I've been trying to find helpful phonetic guides for the German language so I'll already have an idea of what German is supposed to sound like when I start my studies. This video was the most helpful one I've watched so far, the phonetic examples and descriptions are great! Thank you for this.

UnexpectedGamer

One of the best german language videos I've seen

marcoaperezmartinez

That was super helpful, thanks! I've been speaking German for over 6 years now and I still had a few things to learn about pronunciation. ;)

yansimic

really helpful, short and brief, no crap, well-organized, Thank you!

joeyjiang

Finally all these years studying phonetics and phonology at uni came in handy!!! Great video!! Thanks a lot!!! Have you made any video dealing with linguistic variation in German yet? It would be awesome!!

douglasbatista

Currently learning German, so this helped a lot!

You mentioned English not using glottal stops so much?! My native dialect is part of the Cockney (London) continuum, where we heavily use it, especially since we mostly drop the /h/ and /t/ sounds!

ToranJShaw

Since I snore, I find the German R easier to pronounce

dmanakell

as someone who studied English pronunciation through the IPA, this is super helpful! I can easily review the easy consonants and focus more on the newer, more difficult ones. The IPA's helped me so much with breaking down the sounds and get the correct pronunciation in English, and I hope it'll be the same with German!

mphuong

It's very 'klug' the way you explained the sounds of German and compared the 'same same but different' sounds as well. Danke!

maipham

Wow..truly brilliant teaching! Very logical. Well done! I can see your intent was to simplify the process and you achieved that very well...Thanks for posting!

stevenburton

Well done - excellent explanation - I've been studying German for years and some of this was new to me.

corinnew

Thanks for the video, the summary is great. Just a small correction: in BaCH, the phone is a velar fricative, and therefore is not produced in the same spot as the initial phone in Ratte, which is a uvular fricative.

mateustg

You are the first person made me sound german r sound!!
You are awesome thank you :)
Love your book as well im sure it will shorten my journey.

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