Language

let me know what you think!
when i had the idea of people submitting words, at first i was thinking i was just gonna do one video, pronouncing a whole lot of words in a short time. but once i started thinking about pronunciation problems in general, i felt it may be a lot clearer if i explained a bit more about the words?
would you agree or prefer a short video with just WORD after WORD?
hope you’re all good,
xx

covering:
Schadenfreude (malicious joy)
grün (green)
Lieblingsfreizeitbeschäftigung (favorite free time activity)
Ärzte (doctors)
Kirsche (cherry)
Kirche (church)
Küche (kitchen)

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Sorry for making such a long video ! Plus, I made some horrible english mistakes (ts, ts, ts NOT GOOD!)

Trying to explain some french pronunciation rules, taking the word “BONJOUR” as an example.

B = pronounced like the english B (baby/ブ)

ON = French nasal sound, pronounced like in the video at 1:32
“ON” should be pronounced that way when placed at the very end of word or in front of a consonant. In front of B or P, the letter N becomes M.

J = pronounced like in the video at 5:05 (j ≠ dj)!!!

OU = pronounced [ue/ウ] like in “true”

R = See video called “Pronunciation of the French R”:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=_b920AesqDs

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The most common words, sentences and phrases for everybody who would like to visit German, start to learn the language or just to get to know its basics a little bit.

It is a project of the Literature Course on Schiller Hight School in Münster.

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New Episode! Subscribe for more! (yes yes, I do mostly other stuff, but a girl’s gotta be able to promote herself, right? My channel, my rules.)

Today we’re gonna go through the alphabet and general pronunciation of the German Language.
Sounds like fun? It is!!

Besides the alphabet we will also take a look at how to pronounce
- Ä (like “ai” in English “fair”),
- Ö (kinda like “o” in English “word”)
- Ü (say a looong English “eeee” and while doing that, form your mouth to say “you”. It should be kind of in the middle of the sound of “ou” in “you” and the long “eeee”)
- ß (basically a double “s”, sounds in general a bit stronger than the normal s)
and combinations such as
- ie (English “ee”)
- ei (English “i”)
- eu (English “oy”)
- äu (same as “eu”: English “oy”)
- au (like “ow” in English “wow”)
- sch (English “sh”)
- ch (two different pronounciations, watch the video and try again and again, I can’t really describe that in words LOL)
NOT MENTIONED IN THE VIDEO:
“qu” is pronounced like “coo” in English “cool”. The Q basically never really stands alone. Hope that helped

Thanks to all the new viewers and subscribers for the support and feedback! It’s overwhelming and I really appreciate it!! This started out as a silly video response and became this big project, and I know it takes me forever to post a new episode, but I will keep on posting more of these!
Just a few sidenotes: I will not tutor you personally, not via email and not via messenger. I cannot go through your homework. If you have questions, you can of course message me and I will try to answer them, but that’s about all I can do. It takes a lot of time to make these videos, and I make them because I have fun making them.
And I really appreciate each and every one of you who supports me with that.
THANK YOU!!!

And since my friend was stupid and deleted her videos, no link to her channel. Sorry : )

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Lecture 18: Word Stress (cont.); Stress in Compounds.

View the complete course at: http://ocw.mit.edu/21F-223F04

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