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How To Sound German when speaking English

Dave Huxtable 12,630 9 months ago
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A humourous but scientific look at what German pronunciation sounds like in English. If you want to sound more German when speaking German, or less German when speaking English, this video is for you. It's also for you if your an actor portraying a German speaker. 00:00 Introduction 00:19 Hard attack - glottal stops at the beginning of words 00:53 Ja, Nein und Und 01:22 W and V 01:59 R sounds after vowels 02:27 R sounds before vowels 02:58 The NURSE vowel 03:32 Trap and bus 03:54 Consonants at the ends of words 04:18 Syllabic nasals 04:43 Comedy sketch Neuschwanstein - By Thomas Wolf, www.foto-tw.de, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=27899216

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