Thank you so much. Glad you enjoyed it! 🤗

Your comment really touches my heart. I feel stressed hearing about people wanting so much to sound German, trying so hard to be something called "perfekt", not wanting to "give away" the fact that one is not German, and the idea of having a child also think that their mother needs frequent correction. My God, I hope no one feels that way here in New Zealand about the way they speak English! Obviously, people try their best to learn a language, and want to be able to communicate and be understood. I know very very well how hard it is for people to learn a new language. My Fijian and French friend's could not be understood by Kiwis at first. The enormous emphasis, and the desire for newcomers to become more German, to be Germanized, to not only learn the language but in many cases to sound "perfekt" is beyond comprehension for me. In New Zealand, we don't give a shit if people have accents or construct sentences differently. To the contrary, we are PERFECTLY happy for people to speak the way they happen to speak. I know most other Kiwis will think the same. Actually, when I think about the beautiful friends I have had in my life, some deceased, it is the ones from other countries with the strongest of accents, and the most interesting of life experiences including the courage to emigrate, that have left me with the warmest of deep, deep memories and emotion. I remember having 3 flatmates... they called me Wunda, Wenda and Waanda. I loved their pronunciations, they were all so cute. A 99 year old Maori lady called me Bronda, and other people called me Vaanda. So cute and precious. My friends were from France, Tonga, Russia, Scotland,and are from Fiji, the Netherlands, India, England, and other places, while workmates/"sisters"/friends/colleagues were from Japan, Oz, the Phillipines and dozens of other places. They represented every continent and every religion. A lot of my Chinese friends practise the beautiful Falungong in our public parks. Kiwi gang members wear patches, people wear Muslim attire or Sihk attire, Pacific and Maori men have traditional tattoos and very many Maori- especially women have facial tattoos. I worked in a huge hospital, and quite often I was the only Kiwi nurse on duty. The hundreds of foreign nurses and doctors all have a piece of my heart. Their voices, love and great humour will warm my soul forever. For me, their voices and beautiful accents remain in the memory of my heart longer than what they each looked like. Acceptance, accepting people exactly as they are, is the greatest gift I can give to any person in this world, and to have the humility and wisdom to grow to love their culture, their history, their uniqueness and the gifts they offer to me, is one of the most beautiful of human experiences. This is especially true if we are "strangers" when we meet up and "spark up a conversation" somewhere. Like here. I think your heart is open to reading my rant, so I will add a bit more. My friends are very proud of the places they come from... I am not sure about my best friend who is from the Chech Republic... but the people from Fiji, France, "my little island" (Tonga) and some other places are fiercely proud of their countries. It is their staunch, solid pride in their cultures that also stays in my heart and what they love becomes a part of all that I love. Us Kiwis are really, really proud of our beautiful piece of paradise, our forests, native birds and pristine places. We are proud of our ANZACs who sacrificed so so much, and in such huge numbers. We are proud of our humanitarian achievements...for giving the first women the right to vote, and climbing the world's highest mountain first, because it was there. And also for our Nuclear free Pacific. For kicking out nuclear powered ships, racist apartheid rugby players and the British anti-trans activist. We are far from perfect, but honour the treaty between the Maori people and the British Queen more and more. Every Kiwi learns about and respects the culture and language of the Maori people. We all celebrate the world's only indigenous public holiday which connects us to our universe, ancestors, families, eachother and our future goals. The thought of hiding one's own identity when we have so much collective love, experience and humanity to share, is something that does my head in, metaphorically. I will try my best to understand and respect other cultures and understand the countries that grip tightly to their old ways and prevent variation and a watering down. It is understandable in a way. (It is hard here seeing that newcomers can have zero appreciation for our native trees and birds. Indian people sell alcohol on almost every corner, foreign people buy up our most beautiful land, Pacific Islanders and South Africans can be unbelievably obese. Newcomers seem to like fireworks. I understand some aversion to some foreign immigrants, of corse. Many foreign people exploit the country. That includes Austrians and their slaughter of plants and their inappropriate plantation eye sores. ( Disturbingly foreign and ugly). But speaking with an accent seems far less of a bad thing to me. I thought here that you have the depth and humanity to read a foreign perspective. I know I often seem over the top, but Kiwi culture, and especially our kotahitanga is very much in the same vein. "They are us". Said by Dame Jacinda Ardern. Thanks again for your comment. I hope anyone reading this will understand the culture of acceptance Antoinette has come from, and to click the subscribe button. She is a good ambassador for New Zealand with her humility, and the extreme lengths she goes to, to fit in to a rather different culture, and practising near-impossible pronunciations along the way.

@@barbsmart7373 Oh wow what a lovely and very interesting comment! I agree with them on all Points! I Wish them all the best for their Future! You're right Antoinette ist a great Woman ! And it's nice to See that she feels comfortable herein Germany,even if her Heart longs for New Zealand

@@hans-dieternichau5467 Thankyou very much. You are a very compassionate person. Yes, she is very comfortable in Germany. Making brave moves and being positive is in her blood.

Also, "richtig" is pronounced as "chrichtich" and "Lehrerin" as "Leacharin". Those "chr"s make it doubly hard for native English speakers.

@Henry Loenwind Where did you get this idea from? The "H" in Lehrerin is not spoken, it's just making the "e" a bit longer.🙂

Thank you so much!! 🤗

When I learn a foreign language, I definitely want to master the pronunciation (among other things, of course). It’s got to do with perfectionism but also with the fact that you reduce misunderstandings by proper pronunciation. I know that some people find it charming to hear different accents in their mother tongue. And while I agree to some extent, accents are at the same time proof of how deficient most human brains are when it comes to learning languages as an adult. If you think about it, MOST migration related problems would vanish into thin air if it were possible for an average adult to absolutely master a language in let’s say a year or two so that you couldn’t even hear they grew up somewhere else. Much less discrimination against foreigners then, much easier access to the labor market, much easier for them to feel like a part of the new society, much easier for their kids to do well in school, and so on and so forth. But in reality, most people will NEVER be on the level of an (educated) native speaker, try as they might. Now isn’t that frustrating? That is why I support everyone who’s trying to perfect their foreign language skills instead of telling them to keep their accents even though they obviously don’t want to.

In the north people roll less the "R" than in the south. They have issues to imitate the rolling "R" of Bavarians. The rolling R is one characteristics of Barian accent.

I have a problem with the psy sounds, Psychologe etc any tips?

@@scarbaMaybe try with an inserted "e" like "Pesychologe" and try to make the e as short as possible. Funnily, the onset "ps" is not German but Greek. Usually, people have issues with the German "z" and "pf". This is particularly painful if your last name is Zapf.

@@mizapf pf is not easy either, luckily being Scottish my pronounciation is quite good, so I’m told but I think Germans like to compliment a lot when it comes to the language, except my daughters who just laugh and laugh and laugh and do the same to their German father when he makes English mistakes! Well, I’ve laughed at myself a lot too. It can be very funny sometimes. Thank you for the tip, I will try it out.

(See my comment below.) I pronounce the R like a very soft version of the CH in “kochen”. I’m from Lower-Saxony. The further South you go, the more trill you need. I can’t trill to save my life! But my R is perfectly fine. I’m sure yours is too. :)

Laut Duden wird die Endung -ig im deutschen wie -ich ausgesprochen. Google, Tochter und Ehemann machen es also richt-ich😊

@@barbarossa7231 Wohl wieder ein paar richtich mächtich wichtiche lustiche Reformen, die mir entgangen sind... :)

@@petebeatminister Erstens wird Aussprache nicht einfach mal so "reformiert" wie die Rechtschreibung, zweitens handelt es sich hier um regionale Standards, weil Deutsch eine plurizentrische Sprache mit mehreren Standards ist (wobei die Aussprache mit "-ik" eher dem süddeutschen und die mich "-ich" eher dem norddeutschen Raum zugeordnet wird), drittens ist gerade diese Variation "-ik"/"-ich" in verschiedenen Standardisierungen schon seit mindestens 60 oder 70 Jahren so, und viertens hast du mit "richtiche" oder "wichtiche" eine falsche Analogie, denn hier handelt es sich um den phonologischen Prozess der Spirantisierung im Silbenauslaut; folglich betrifft es auch nur Konsonanten im Silbenauslaut, also zum Beispiel am Wortende, und nicht etwa im Silbenanlaut wie in "richtige", wo der entsprechende Konsonant im Anlaut der Silbe "ge" steht.

Leider falsch. -ig wird standardsprachlich -ich ausgesprochen. Könich, heilich, richtich, aber Könige, Heilige, Richtige. Im Dialekt ist freilich vieles anders und auch Könik, heilik und richtik kommen vor... Im fränkischen Dialekt kommen Besonderheiten dazu wie das rollende R ->rrr und die Weichen "Ts" total -> dodoal. Antoinette hat aber Glück: Da die Würzburger Gegend relativ zentral in Deutschland liegt, kann man relativ viele Dialekte dort ganz gut verstehen, weil es eine Mischung von eher nördlichen und südlichen Einflüssen gibt.

@@florianmeier3186"Standardsprachlich" vieleicht, aber nicht auf Hochdeutsch. Viele sagen auch Fuffzich, ist aber trotzdem falsch.

Wow thank you! Your feedback means so much to me 🤗

Super interesting, thanks for explaining all of that to me, it really helps!

On the other hand German struggle with "th" Sound. A lot of Germans pronounce it more like an "s".

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Ask an irish person to say "Charles the third" ;-) Or maybe don't as they're not monarchists. :D

Führerschein aber Rührei are quite different. In Führerschein the r is at the beginning of the syllable 'rer', so it's an actual r, maybe just give yourself enough time between the ü and the r. On the other hand, Rührei is indeed a bit tricky, if I start thinking about how I pronounce this as a native speaker I start questioning myself. Anyway, the r is at the end of the syllable, and those usually are not pronounced with r-sounds but just become a schwa.

and the "Lehrerin" literally sounded perfect. like 10/10

Are you from the south or from Austria ? The "richtich" seems to be the official pronouncation in Germany. To me it sounds funny. I'm in Austria and say "richtig".

That was a bit harsh, wasn't it? - but on the level of Antoinette, it is the only thing that one can do, be conscious of the tiniest details, that is possible for the listener to hear out. It is a sign of 99,9% native level, almost the same as if somebody, native, moves from one neighbouring region to an other! They always hear that you are "not from this village"! Haha!

@@DNA350ppm I don't think it was harsh to make a funny pun about it. It was to point out which detail can actually change the meaning of a word. For a beginner i don't see a point to get lost in the nuances that have so many regional variations to the point of insignificance. I wrote it with a big grin on my face, if it makes any difference. 🙂 And i ran into this speaking English with natives, being misunderstood because i focussed more on sounding good than making sense... 😄

@@madrooky1398 You were absolutely correct - also I did hear that the difficulty was the Ü. When I had reached her level my then boyfriend (German) teased me (Swedish) for an accent suitable for a Circus-director - with a big grin! He said that I spoke like: "Bitte scheen mine Damen und Heerren. Nun stelle ich Ihnen vor: unsere wunderscheene Seeleewin, die freeliche Deerthe!" So funny! But I cringed. Genug im Englischen: Ich war sehr verletzt, aber habe trotzdem, seine Ironie für immer mich gemerkt, so dass ich die eine von den Schwedishen Ö's nicht verwenden sollte, die in bröd, söt, öga, död (Brot, Süss, Auge, Tot) - eher die andere "hintere" Ö - wie smör, höra, dör (Butter, hören, stirbt). Im Hessischen jedenfalls etwa so. Danach wurde ich mehr vorsichtig, horchte besser zu, und tatsächlich hat es mir geholfen. Es kommt also nur darauf an, wie viel Humor man hat - Humor is sehr hilfreich im Sprachlernen, nur bin ich sehr kritik-empfindlich. 🙂Hoffentlich du nicht! 🙂 Sorry for all my mistakes, in any language, of which I know none to perfection.

@@DNA350ppm So wie du das erzählst hätte ich dich wahrscheinlich auch aufgezogen. Aber das klingt auch voll süß. Und hätte ich gemerkt, dass es dich verletzt dann aber auch ganz fest geknuddelt und dir Mut gemacht. 😄 Eine Sprache zu lernen ist was super schönes. Es öffnet dir eine neue Welt. Irgendein amerikanischer Philosoph hat mal gesagt: "We don't live in a country, we live in a language." Und wie ich sehe, bist Du ja schon in mindestens drei Sprachen zuhause. Für Scham sollte da doch kein Platz sein. 😎👍 Ich hatte angefangen Russisch als dritte Sprache zu lernen, dann hat Tsar Wladimir der Dumme angefangen die Ukraine anzugreifen und seit dem hab ich keine Lust mehr^^

@@madrooky1398 Ich bin mit dir völlig einig. 🌹 Und freue mich über deine Aufmunterung und trost - im nachhinein. 🙂 Merkwürdig, ich habe auch mit Russisch angefangen, aber dann als der Dumme so offensichtlich mit seinen Mordplanen angefangen hat, verlor auch ich die Lust. Trotzdem, die russische Romanzen sind mir sehr lieb. Deswegeb habe ich daran gedacht, doch wieder mit der Sprache anzufangen, aus Solidarität mit allen diejenigen Russen, die von diesen selben Diktator unterdrückt oder gefangen, geplagt oder verjagt geworden sind, und werden. Hier ein Beispiel, wie Musik über allen Sprachgrenzen uns vereint - ich kann nicht aufzählen wieviele mit verschiedene Sprachen hier mitgemacht haben! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nKt8bK6Lu93OYYU.html

Thank you so much😊

With Hähnchen you had a bit too much of a s or sch sound in it.

Ja, deine "Lehrerin" war perfekt, die Aussprache Deiner Tochter leider nicht (Lährärin). Nimm lieber Aussprachelektionen, es gibt nur noch weniger Deutsche, welche richtig gut deutsch sprechen.

I'm not sure how people from Cologne pronounce Köln in their dialect (Kölsch). But in carnival they chant "Kölle alaaf" which sounds a little bit like Keule(n). So maybe the Dutch pronunciation is closer to the local pronunciation than Standard German.

Da muss man wohl aus Süddeutschland /der amerikanischen Besatzungszone kommen, um es so zu sehen, dass die meisten Deutschen das Amerikanische bevorzugen. In der britischen Zone aufgewachsen ist mir Oxford- bzw. BBC-Englisch 1000-mal näher!

Right. Your husband indeed has a Franconian accent, whereas your daughter is much less affected by it. You can tell the difference by listening to their pronunciation of "R" in "Lehrerin": Your daughter clearly uses the High German voiceless and throaty R; your husband seems to roll it with his tongue.

Not voiceless. Both use a voiced consonant. What you mean is that he has an alveolar r whereas she has a uvular r.

Und das P wird gern weggelassen.