German Pronunciation Video 3: The German Spelling System

This is the third of a 3-part series on German pronunciation. The goal is to get familiar with the sounds of German. You'll then be able to learn them faster, either through your own studies or through my pronunciation trainers. More links below:
Flashcard Designs for Teaching Yourself Pronunciation: blog.fluent-fo...
My Pronunciation Trainers: fluent-forever...
Anki Language Learning: ankilanguagelea...
More Anki Decks, including German Pronunciation: speakada.com
Reddit's Anki Language Learning Community: www.reddit.com/

[@2699030]

I've been living for 20 years in Germany, and am actually fluent in German, but I 've learned something new, thanks

[@all_consuming_images]

Every time I want to start learning a new language I pray to god there is one of these fluent forever ipa walkthroughs. They are always my first best step and help me improve my pronunciation and get me started on my language journey

[@FluentForeverApp]

Hi Stella, we are very happy to hear this is been helpful for your language learning journey! 😊

[@roydollins]

There's probably one more thing that needs mentioning: 'progressive devoicing' in word clusters. It goes as follows: ''Sie gab dem Mann die Tasche''. Normally you would want to say /ga:p/ /de:m/, but progressive devoicing takes places and changes the cluster to /ga:p/ /te:m/. The same applies to ''Seid bloß leise!'' /sait plo:s laizə/, ''Das Fahrrad gehört ihm'' /'fa:ɐra:t/ /kə'høːɐt/ or ''Der Pullover ist aus Wolle'' /aus / /fɔlə/. I am mentioning this because it's key to understanding spoken German and I have just happened to discover it and found it incredibly useful.

[@Emile.gorgonZola]

roydollins danke

[@GrammarBootcamp]

Only true if it is a regional variety of German language. Depends on what "dialect" you speak. Progressive devoicing only happens at the end of a syllable not at the beginning.

[@jaimealbertodomingo6839]

Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz

[@Slick411]

Grad student who had to do a speedy review for a college placement exam. This helped get my brain working again. Good tips, especially on the "H" before a vowel making it long. Thanks. Whose textbook do you prefer? Wall and Caldwell? Odom?

[@jaimebenito620]

Gab, have you uploaded this video several times, or is it just my imagination? Anyway, I would like to request again that you do a similar quality overview of Russian sounds and spellings; most resources ignore IPA and just try to encourage you to try (to sound crap), oversimplifying the whole picture and giving you inaccurate advice.

[@asteraki88]

Loved this video, it is really clever!!!!!!!! Thank you!!!!

[@jotmuller_]

gut gemacht und durchaus hilfreich! ['daŋkə ʃø:n]!

[@bigzmoak7897]

Hey Gabriel, are your pronouncing [ɔɐ̯] in the word 'Dorf' or is it in fact ɔR like in the transcription?

[@zerosubscriberswithoutsubs7542]

BigZmoak transcription is wrong

[@bigzmoak7897]

@@zerosubscriberswithoutsubs7542 Thought it might be. Thanks.

[@pezos5]

O myyyyy rindfleischetikettier..........

[@ramzy-6566]

Thank you for German Pronunciation.

[@Abcdhello123]

I need subtitles 😞

[@darkseed2k9]

"wählen" is an exception to these rules of short/long vowel? As "ä" precedes an H, it should be pronounced as a long "ä" (/e/) but it seems everyone pronounces it as /ɛ/ or /ɛ:/ ...

[@ThePassingVoid]

It seem to be pronounced both ways en.wiktionary.org/wiki/w%C3%A4hlen

[@fernandobanda5734]

/ɛː/ IS a long vowel

[@valentinarodena]

estoy aquí por el curso de refold

[@FluentForeverApp]

Hello there, we appreciate your interest! You can find more information about our app here: fluent-forever.com/. And you can also find our pronunciation trainers and word lists here: fluent-forever.com/shop/.

[@feynstein1004]

Deutsch ist sehr kompliziert! :(

[@GrammarBootcamp]

Nein. Das stimmt nicht. Deutsch ist sehr logisch. Alles was logisch ist, ist kompliziert ;-)

[@feynstein1004]

@@GrammarBootcamp Wenn du so sagst 😅

[@NamNguyen-jh9zl]

vielen danke!!!

[@user-sf3pi8ox7g]

Great video. The picture at 4:09 is probably the beautiful city of Zalishchyky in Ukraine.

[@deathbysqueegee6848]

That's Boppard, Germany

[@yichentao8488]

This is way easier than dutch

[@rahulkrishna7256]

Thank you very much

[@FluentForeverApp]

You're welcome!

[@CeciliaMM]

Excellent explanation. Thank you!

[@jrgarza87]

Great work

[@vitalymarynenko9648]

You said that a short vowel is followed by 2+ consonants. But in the transcription of the word montags [ˈmoːntaks], you wrote a long o. Is this an exception or a transcription error? Tell me please

[@gabrielloureiro2832]

Hey, I hope I'm not that late to answer you. Here's the big deal. Montags is a compound word. Take 'Wegweiser' as an example. The 'e' of 'Weg' is long even it following 2 consonants. That's because Weg is a word by itself, and it preserves its original sound in the compound. That's the same if 'Montags'. The more isolated words you learn, you'll see clearly which vowel is long or short.

[@vitalymarynenko9648]

@@gabrielloureiro2832 No, you are not late. Thanks for the answer!