How to pronounce EICHHÖRNCHEN in German?

[@boris_horn]

Where's the tutorial for us Germans how to pronounce squirrel??

[@fionien3571]

+Boris A. Horn now, thats easy I think xD Du kannst doch squirrel aussprechen, oder? o.O

[@MrPhippo91]

+Fionien+ seriously? you didnt get the joke?... in the unlikely case your comment was also meant as a joke, it was a really bad one...

[@fionien3571]

Phippo I knew it was a joke, but I wanted to tease him... and seriously, there are Germans (maybe other people too) who can´t pronouce it, so... Oh and beneath: Yeah I know, my jokes aren´t the best xD

[@VR96FE]

+Fionien+ Für mich ist "squirrel" tatsächlich kein einfaches Wort. Hat zu viel "uiuiui" drin xD Ich würde eher Skuiuel sagen... Nah dran, immerhin :P

[@PhellipeDiaz]

Sqorl

[@katjak0717]

"Now pretend that you're a cat and someone's just pulled your tail." CHHHHH!!! "Very good."

[@eisikater1584]

+Katja K The cat will say "mee!" and you will say "ouch!" because you have some claws and/or teeth in your hand. At least MY cats would not just hiss when you pull their tail.

[@rdmytuser6695]

+Katja K love that!

[@sandychestrambo1630]

+Eisi Kater Thats true

[@fvazquez64]

+Katja K Dieser "ch" Ton benutzt man in: ich, mich, dich, euch, nach, fach usw...

[@КристианИлиев-ю8е]

+Katja K yeah thats it

[@kronosaraya]

OH MY LOVE, HOW DID YOU MANAGE TO MAKE GERMAN SO EASY?!?!?! I'm from Brazil and this is the FIRST time that I pronounce a tipical german word SO EASILY and SO FAST! Thank you and congratulations for being SO didactic! ^^

[@shibbyshebang]

"They deserve the 'chen'." Made my day! 😁

[@11mousa]

And now try the Austrian accent for the tail of the squirrel: "Oachkatzlschwoaf"

[@Pholous]

+11mousa Oachkatzl?! :D Geil!

[@sailorcat]

+11mousa Als französische Austauschschüler bei uns waren, haben wir sie das Wort sagen lassrn, das war echt lustig. ^^

[@11mousa]

Sailor Cat Das beste ist: speziell Leute aus östlichen Ländern (die slawische Sprachen sprechen), neigen dazu, Oachkatzlschwoaf besser auszusprechen als Deutsche.

[@sailorcat]

11mousa Echt? Interessant-

[@11mousa]

Waren zumindest meine Erfahrungen im Auslandssemester in Finnland (natürlich sind die Bayern in diesem Fall ausgenommen)

[@ramonfortunomd]

I congratulate you!!! Most people will cherish this video silently. But I appreciate it very much!! Thank you!!

[@echt114]

Your "ch" explanation is the most helpful I've ever seen. Most English speakers seem to think it's like "sh." But the ch in "machen" will require another example.

[@АлександрПавлов-н6у]

The cat defending its tail, and squirrels deserving the "chen" got me cracking. Amazingly well put whimsical vid, I can imagine all the work that went into pointing the finger at the right empty place and overlaying and timing all the subtitles. Kudos!

[@vangrails]

I have seen truly big squirrels when I was in Vietnam, I am not that sure if those big squirrels also deserve the chen.

[@tommyhaynes521]

I love it when you do the cat sound

[@iamrichlife]

I love your videos. Please keep putting them up, Been needing motivation to get back into learning German for a while now

[@matthewjackson378]

I laughed out loud when you got all intense close up to the camera and said "Let's be honest, squirrels are f****** cute" xD

[@ThePhi96]

Streichholzschächtelchen :D

[@Arphd]

+ThePhi96 yeah, I think this is actually the most difficult one! Even better in combination with the german word for czech --> tschechisches Streichholzschächtelchen

[@kleschtremania]

+ThePhi96 Try some more interesting words such as: Chuchichäschtli Chüdderchorb Aupemiuchriguhüue (If you guys pronounce this correctly I offer you a beer in Switzerland)

[@annamuller3940]

+kleschtremania I just can say " I don't have a profil pic, but I'm very hot. I promise." with a switzer accent :D shame on me, I really want that beer

[@kleschtremania]

Anna Müller hmm... we might have a deal there xD

[@bennytolkienfreund7182]

+ThePhi96 Im dichten Fichten Dickicht sind dicke Fichten wichtig. Must be terrible for English people, its even a german tongue-twister.

[@MarkRevill79]

This is probably the BEST language instructional video I have ever seen!

[@pianightwater]

ist schon interessant, was für uns normal ist, ist für die kompliziert :)

[@crashbangdb1032]

+Pia Nightwater Deutsch ist von der Aussprache halt mit die schwerste von allen :D

[@misterm7225]

+CrashbangDB Deutsch ist eben eine Kunstform

[@crashbangdb1032]

+Mister M so kann man es auch nennen :D

[@AlryFireBlade]

+Pia Nightwater ja bei geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung muss ich nur immer genau überlegen wie sich die scheiße schreibt. Am besten in englisch schreiben, ist so viel kürzer und leichter^^

[@lizvttr6180]

Ja😂💪🏼

[@kasztelan461]

Trixie, Gratulation! Deine Clips wurden von meinem Kollegen Metodiker in unserer Sprachschule empfohlen :))) Good Job, weiter so!

[@elf1158]

thus is so funny to watch as a German :D

[@elf1158]

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[@Analena1502]

jaaaa😂😂😂

[@Analena1502]

Yes most of the time. We have english in school so we understand a lot. Germany is a very nice country :)))

[@Leon-pu6fz]

Lol was habe ich gerade angeschaut

[@liz-gj1vz]

i'm german but i can't say these words ._.

[@Azahrak]

I'm a german native speaker and this video was so funny. more of it pls! btw, i'm starting to trust the rabbit.

[@Elektronik-1]

Einfach nur gut! Genial! Für einen Deutschen mit mäßigen Englischkenntnissen (wie ich es bin), ist dieses Video unfassbar witzig und pure Unterhaltung. Danke dafür! Ich schaus mir gleich nochmal an...

[@kor_di]

So good that in Polish we have ś (ch). It's easy to say Eichhörnchen. Maybe I'd give special "certificate" to those who'll challenge to pronounce simple name: Grzegorz (name) Brzęczyszczykiewicz (surname). Trixy, maybe you'd try to challenge pronouncing some Polish words? 😉 Dziękuję, serdecznie pozdrawiam 🙂

[@DontTrustTheRabbit]

+Orange Jack That would be a mess, haha! :D

[@sonofdeat14]

I think its more difficult to read your variaty of letterpronouncuation

[@sonofdeat14]

+Johann S. 😅

[@kor_di]

It's not that hard. You just have to memorize the way you compare pronounciation of letters in Deutsch like in Polish, zu beispiel: TSCH = Polish cz, SCH = Polish sz, CH like in ICH pronounced in Nordgerman accent or G like in 20-ig 30-ig = Polish ś, then the Polish letter Ł you pronounce like English W, Ń is like Spanish Ñ, etc. etc. Trust me, German is not this easier language at the beginning too, for example for us Polish Deutsch EU = Polnisch OJ, AU = AŁ, EI = AJ, etc. 🙂 Now it might make sens? 😉

[@kor_di]

BTW, it's so nice that's while I visited Hamburg this Saturday, I saw "Eichhörnchen" walking along the Judisch Cemetery. And more, I had a fun thinking why the channel is called "Don't Trust the Rabbit", just look around Alt Elbspark where are a lot of cute rabbits 😍 and you'll get it 😉

[@stanley526]

These are the type of videos you should do. Short, concise and funny. While you are always enjoyable to watch, sometimes I think the videos are too long and people loose interest.

[@thechristianred5714]

1:14 Actually, English has that sound in words like "hew" and "human", it's just not considered a separate sound.

[@TheFallenShin]

Und jetzt bitte nochmal mit Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung :D

[@snuffeldjuret]

hm, didn't seem nearly as difficult as Eichhörnchen.

[@dr.jihadal-qudsi6764]

I like the way of cat's defense to pronounce CH in German. Thumbs up

[@rcookie5128]

I didn't get the achievement! :/ Do i need the addon "german wildlife" to get it?

[@ThomasTee]

+Mr Kirito Must be a bug then. You can get around this by opening your console and typing "addachievement.player squirger 1". Without the quotationmark of course.

[@rcookie5128]

Thomas Tee ahh thx.. :D Now it worked! ;) haha

[@muschibubu7375]

Ich finde,daß haste super gemacht. Die Idee mit dem ch, daß es wie das Fauchen einer Katze klingt, hatte ich auch schon, um jemandem die richtige Aussprache beizubringen. Sehr charmant und humorvoll präsentiert

[@ronmeijer1305]

trixie,Du bisst SUPER! Immer mit Humor und so klug!!!! Ich frohe mich auf diener neuhe Nachrichten Grussen aus die Niederlande!!!

[@alexprado1666]

That's awesome! No, I still cannot pronounce the word yet because there are two problems to solve: the first one is pronounce each syllable correctly, while the second one is to perform a fast switching from one syllable to the next one. You helped a lot to get the first one solved! Danke!

[@ibrahimissaissa6627]

Best teacher online I enjoy your lessons

[@lewis72]

Yeah, I used to get called "Poopschen". In English, we used to have something similar, by adding "kins" at the end. e.g. Karl would be Karlykins or one could be one's "sweetkin". A quick search: Suffix-kins Forming (often intentionally childish or twee) diminutives of nouns.

[@richardhart3751]

Or as in Harry Potter : "Diddykins" for Dudley! I think that's how she spelled it (J. K. Rowling), but I forget which book that's in.

[@BrunoSantos-sb6vh]

I watched this video and it changed my life! Thank you Trixi!

[@samoelsimplicio9442]

Today I'm so proud of myself! Today I've learned to pronounce "Eichhörnchen", for this I looked for videos like the yours. Your video is incredible, it's the most explicative I've found!!! Danke for anything!!! I think it's hard to speak German because I'm a Portuguese native speaker.

[@jeopardynerd]

Thank you so much... My grandfather loved squirrels.. He began teaching me German when I was younger, this was nostalgic

[@HiiragiTia]

Daumen hoch, wer in der Schule immer ausm Fenster gugte und die anderen auf ein Eichhörnchen aufmerksam machte :> "Eichhörnchen! :D"

[@funch357]

German as 2nd language speaker here. Fellow English speakers: Our word "acorn" is "Eichhörn" in German. Squirrels eat acorns; therefore can you see how Germans "came up with" this "odd" word for an acorn eater? See how the words look and sound similar? This helps me remember what the proper word in German is. They're what are called "cognates" -- words that are quite similar in 2 languages *because* the 2 languages come from the same language family. German & English are siblings in the Germanic language family that also includes the major Scandinavian languages, except Finnish.

[@ArmeeDerSterne]

The word even sounds adorable. Danke. 😂 Sie sind ein großartiger Lehrer. I think that is correct. 😊

[@LiebensteinMovies]

And next time make the master with Bavarian's "Oachkatzlschwoaf"

[@reginaschuster2238]

Lol! That’s what I thought

[@patriciarossman8653]

You are so funny! You parse the words so well! So schoen. 😂 Thank you.

[@abakers1374]

Now someone needs to make an equivalent video to teach German speakers to say squirrel :)

[@sebastienlopezmassoni8107]

You are very creative « the idea of the cat » very funny video. Thanx Trixi .

[@ButterflyisNabi]

My entire Family pronounce our name sooo badly. This video is perfect! We've been using I-Corn. "Hi I'm Mathew I-Corn" but now I have a certificate so I can hiss like a cat at people in public!! Great video :)

[@wilhelmvonbirkhausen5071]

Trixi, another great video! Im not German native speaker and I like to listen as you explain some words. Small request - do it a little bit slower. Frohe Ostern!

[@GegenDenStrom25]

Wie kann man seine Mimik nur so gut im Griff haben. Dir ist schon bewusst, dass du eine Schauspielkarriere hinlegen könntest? Abgesehen davon ist das Video auch noch wahnsinnig witzig! Daumen hoch!

[@itsjoeylina]

THIS IS REMARKABLY FUN TO WATCH! 😄

[@koelle4ever]

Für mich, als Kölner ist das "ch" auch schwierig - klingt bei mir wie "sch" : Eischhörnschen :D

[@PhellipeDiaz]

Oooh, thanks for that. As a Brazilian, I also have real problems trying to mimmick that "ch" sound :D

[@MichaelBanditt]

+cologne4ever :DD Wie die Schwaben

[@VampireSombre]

+RaumklanG Studio Die Schwaben können das problemlos richtig aussprechen, bei den richtigen unter uns ist das nur kein "Eichhörnchen" mehr sondern eher ein "Oichhörnle" :D

[@olencia_martyn]

😄😄😄

[@davidlawn6576]

I fuckin' love how you shock me in every single video with smth I don't expect... A certificate?! ... Print it and frame it?! :D Trixi, you're fuckin' genius!

[@vernkay.]

Awesome teacher you are.

[@drdal]

Yes, Eichhørnchen is very difficult to pronounce even for us in Scandinavia. In Norwegian we say EKORN.

[@VoidGenome1326]

damn Trixi, you are a really good German teacher. I try to explain the ch sound and you hit it right on the dot.

[@Terinka14]

... I am so grateful for being czech... it makes the other languages such as english or german seem so easy :D I mean, I could pronounce eichhörnchen without a tutorial, and I have never seen that word before (I did learn german a little bit, but I am a "beginner")

[@isbestlizard]

IT's very cute especially because the little dots above the o look likes his eyes, and ends with chen which enhances the cuteness also

[@cbclaudia01]

What a random video. Thank you! My one year old baby keeps calling squirrels dogs. I say "das is kein hund, das ist ein squirrel". So now I can learn AND teach her the German word! Vielen Dank!

[@timhabboub6888]

I love your sense of humor :)

[@charlesharrison4077]

Dieses Video ist sehr lustig. Gut gemacht Trixie.

[@TheHibener]

Awesome explanation - ich habe gerade das Wort Eichhörnchen neu gelernt ;-)

[@abrahambankhead2968]

I love it when you hiss like a cat

[@ich2928]

This is very funny, vor allem, wenn man Deutsch als Muttersprache hat :D

[@christygangwer4732]

I love your videos. They are so cute, and it also helps me with my pronunciation issues! Danke.

[@jessi8315]

This video is very good. I'm a german People and i found the word eichhörnchen so so so very easy :) Have a good day

[@DasIllu]

2:48 i totally lost it... great i tought this would be a simple comeback at the 'germans can't say squirrel' vid... but yeah... gotta change pants now ^^

[@carolinechurch9164]

My husband can't pronounce "Ch" at all :p thanks for giving me a way to teach him (y) the cat hissing analogy's a good one!!

[@junepark1003]

This was an excellent tutorial. Thank you

[@claramaesm]

Love this explanation!!

[@zzyzx686]

This was very useful. I was not even aware that I was pronouncing the German "ch" sound wrong until I did your cat hissing experiment. It is incredibly difficult, however, to actually try to incorporate that sound into a word. If I get the first part right, it's almost impossible not to fall over your tongue when you attempt to say the rest of the word.

[@Yotun-of-the-WWW]

Ha you can pronounce Eichhörnchen, but you can't pronounce squirrel. We in Holland used to trick germans by making them say Scheveningen, a beach resort near the Hague, they can't.

[@koelle4ever]

My grandfather was from Scheveningen :D

[@Hairysteed]

It's not Sche-ve-ning-en then? :/

[@VirusZNM]

Hehe, even I, from Serbia, know that. They have a weird system of pronouncing words over there. :) It's nothing like it's written.

[@TaranTheGiant]

S-ch(like food stuck in your throat and you are trying to dislodge it)e-veninge?

[@tubybubi]

upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/55/Nl-Scheveningen.ogg

[@dandamerville]

Wonderful lesson! Quite the co-inky-dink that the name of the animal is particularly difficult for native speakers of German or English in the other language.

[@norman3605]

I don't know if this point has already been posted here, but the "ch" sound still exists in the English language. One finds it as the opening sound of the word "huge": "ch-yooge". For instance, to say "Ich", simply say the opening vowel of "ich", then attach the word "huge" to it: Then simply drop the "yooge" part of the word and you are left with "ich"!

[@timweber4318]

It's not the same loud.

[@timweber4318]

Same sound

[@Stephen-dm2cj]

I've never felt more proud to get my Eichhörnchen certificate!

[@tjl.5102]

very funny. being a german native speaker i am learning german again but from a different point if view. thanks you are very creative. another example for Passion creating amazing things.

[@UhuStick]

Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung? There is no ,,Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung" in germany. Booyaaaaa >=D

[@avissilber]

aber in Österreich XD

[@philippflipper7728]

+Uhu Stick hoooohohhhoo dat burst!!! GG

[@Varibam]

Unfortunatelly not true. There are a lot of road sections on the different "autobahnen" that have a "Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung" because of bad road conditions etc.

[@UhuStick]

Vartanis Oooch Vertanis. Sag das doch nicht so laut. ;)

[@charbelsaliba5292]

+Uhu Stick There is, but you realize that a few weeks after you break it, even though you don't remember where!

[@luridape7486]

We do make this 'ch' sound in the English language: It is the first sound of the word 'huge' - before the 'u' is sounded at all, if you drag the 'hhhhhhh' of 'hhhhhuge', you make the 'chhh' sound.

[@SteveSmith-os5bs]

Thank you for such a wonderful video.

[@mluizavp]

Me and my boyfriend are learning german and for me was very very hard learn how to pronounce "Eichhörnchen"! thanks a lot your video really helped me :3

[@TheComentatorCZE]

As a person from Czech Republic, this is easy. When watcdhing your videos i realized that we have much closer to german than english. The same pronounce of vowels, a,e,i,o,u , not ei, ii, ai, ou, iu (i wrote it how i hear the english vowels). We also have CH (hissing cat) and we have R the way germans have it. Not that ahrrr (again, i hear it somewhat like that) but just, R. I think i should learn more German.

[@roundsout1557]

You know when u have a special vid to pronounce a single word ! In any language! 2 things need to b understood 1 it has to b difficult ! , 2 it's funny ! Thank you for posting the video ! German is a hobby language for me and with your explanation it helps huge ! GOD bless Germany ! 4/ 22 / 18 SPOKANE WA !!! 2/11 A.C.R. Bad KISSENGEN 81/83 !! Peace !!!

[@TheKBDestiny]

"squirtle"!! Love it :)

[@heliumbiscuits]

"Hey, rabbits it's Trixi and in today's video I'm going to explain to you how to pronounce the German word for a SKREER-WRILL.." haha :10

[@Ida-Adriana]

My name was Mokus when I was growing up, that's squirrel in Hungarian :)

[@Zockergirl1]

as a non- german- speaker you should really try "Wurst" (means sausage) and "Propfen" (means plug or stopper). I heard that pronouncing one consonant after another is the hardest challenge for them :D (I am german)

[@julienb.2210]

Ich liebe dein "Mäuschen" ! So süß !!!! :p

[@AgentinnenNet]

abartig genial Trixi, neue Karriere als English Teacher?

[@nyoob8790]

Durch das Video ist das Wort "Eichhörnchen" für mich jetzt schwer auszusprechen geworden xD

[@leni2331]

in the austrian german dialect we have a word for the tail of a squirrel which is called "oachkatzlschwoaf" and like every austrian person thinks its quite amusing if not-austrian people try to say "oachkatzlschwoaf"

[@OliverNispel]

Ich bin sehr gespannt auf dein "Streicholzschächtelchen"-Video ;-)

[@skyblueskyish]

thats so funny, i never thought of this word as a difficult one to pronounce. i just find it DELICIOUS to pronounce. it's def my favorite word in german. "brötchen" on the other hand seems a lot more difficult for me (the "br" in german is crazy)

[@the_it_guy3626]

Das Zertifikat ist der Hammer :D "Hier ist mein Abitur, und mein Bachelor Abschluss... ach ja, und das hier bescheinigt mir, dass ich Eichhörnchen aussprechen kann."

[@annaschmidt7161]

Das ist total witzig wenn man Deutsch spricht 😄 weil dass dann klar ist aber das ist ne gute Erkältung 😄

[@nichka7968]

the best tutorial in my life

[@ib9rt]

The trouble I have with Eichhörnchen is the same trouble I have with München, which is the transition from the "n" sound to the "ch" sound. It seems that "n" and "ch" are formed in completely different parts of the mouth, and rolling them together in one word is not easy.

[@Helo735]

I'm sitting here at 5am confused as fuck. lol

[@heliospear]

Super erklärt ;) btw: Ich hatte schon viel Spaß Engländern "Milchbrötchen" beizubringen :D Ins Extrem steigern lässt sich das wohl nur noch durch Schweizerdeutsch. z.B. Küchenschrank=Kchukikäschli

[@ecpanzer99]

Well done and much appreciate :-)) Thank you !

[@zerasiana]

ich könnt jetzt mit verschiedenen linguistischen problemen für "hern" ankommen aber nee lassen wir das. Tolles Vide

[@EpicAly21]

The CH part of the word.Made me think about how in movies and other things where the woman is in labor and she is making that breathing sound. :D

[@maybenaught]

Another way to think of the "ch" sound in for words like this for English speakers is to say the word "hue" or "hew". That h sound is the same as this kind of ch sound in German.

[@scottabroughton]

Several years ago two Germans challenged me to pronounce this word, and really got a kick out of my inability to say "Eichhörnchen". May we meet again.

[@fanwick]

Saugut! Ich hab' mich weggeschmissen. *thumbsup*

[@matt3ominer]

2:19 oder in österreich, erl, erle, ale, len oder nur LNiedlichkeitsform von Schuhe ist Schuhelen. Die von Füßen ist Fiaßlen (normal wäre es Fiaß).Aufkleber: Pickerl/Pickale

[@chaosprinzessin111]

Verrűckt.... (crazy) Aus Zeitgründen konnte ich mir nicht alle Videos ansehen, deshalb ist es seht gut mgl, dass du meinen Vorschlag bereits umgesetzt hast. Wie waehre es denn mit einem Spezial-Video ueber deutsche Redewendungen (und was sie im englischen aussagen) ?!

[@rdespradel]

Vielen Dank, Trixi, for this video! It was helpful and funny at the same time. =)

[@sacredlight6495]

" ahahah I got so frustrated hearing you pronounce it correctly and I can't ahahaah. This video was so helpful, thank you (or dankh, is that correct ahahah XD ) "