Thank you!! I definitely will!

I’m so happy to hear that 🫶🏼🫶🏼 thank you for taking the time to comment

Thank you for watching!!!

Pronunciation is the foundation of any language. Once you have that down, then you can learn the generic platitudes spoken but barely understood in this video because the pronunciation was so wildly off, I couldn't even understand it... And as a native English speaker, I know all the ways we mispronounce German and can normally understand. Instead they had her rolling her "R's" from the jump, which for an English speaker should be reserved for advanced German (rolling "R's" is hard for most English speakers, and German has 2 primary types that differ on the palette dramatically from say, Spanish). The letter "R" in German is pronounced just like the English word "air," but they apparently taught her to roll the R in the alphabet. That R shouldn't be rolled, ever. The alphabet is core to pronouncing German because the letters, while the exact same as English (not just sharing Latin characters, but they're identical - unlike Spanish which has more letters), are pronounced exactly the same as they're spoken. A = "ah" - making all "A's" have an "ah" sound unless there's an umlaut (ä), which requires practice to pronounce correctly. E = "ay" or "hey" without the "h." B = "bay." C = "say," D = "day." This is me spelling out for English speakers exactly how these letters are pronounced in German, something I've never done before because the alphabet was hammered into us - at the beginning of every single class for years we collectively recited it. That's how it became second nature to me, so much so I can sing it to the tune of the American alphabet while doing the letters in sign language. Just something fun I came up with while bored, as a beginner in German in Junior High School. This class rushing thru the alphabet like it's pronounciation is irrelevant is setting up their students for failure. Just like learned to read any language, you must be able to sound out the word yourself based on the language's rules, so you can read and pronounce anything regardless of knowing it's meaning. And in German in particular, they love making crazy long words, some as long as an entire sentence - and the only way thru that is to know how to read and pronounce it (slowly & likely over a few tries for even the most seasoned non-Native speaker), which usually reveals the meaning as you recognize the individual words being mashed together for no reason at all. The teacher(s) also had her start out pronouncing German the most common/"official" way, then suddenly she swapped to speaking the Southern (or Bavarian IIRC) way with the "ish" & "mish" pronunciation of "ich" & "mich." This sounds like the most frustrating way to "learn" a language. Learning comprehension would mean she wouldn't be dependent on her notes to say "bitte langsam" to the teacher (which they had her say in a really long, weird way btw). Also, the phrase "Vielen dank" (many thanks) really stuck with her, when they should've taught her to simply say "thank you" or "thanks" in the most common, useful way: "danke" ("thank you"/"thanks") or "danke schön" (thank you very much). With that comes learning "bitte" (your welcome/please) and "bitte schön" (you're very welcome). They also didn't teach her how to handle plural adverbs, which makes it vielen _dank_ *not* vielen _danke_ . There's no "e" at the end. Ever. I get this video was most likely just a 22 minute sponsored ad for the language platform, and thus she may not be truly trying to learn German for the long run, or well, but this just demonstrates the weakness of the product... At least to those who've at least taken a formal beginner German class. For the rest, sure, they might be sold on it because they wouldn't know how incomprehensible and incorrect it is. This is more likely to demoralize a beginner than anything. It's a frustrating program rushing thru so much without explaining any of the rules or logic, with "teachers" who don't care about pronunciation or students knowing the words they're just being taught to repeat verbatim, instead of adopting those words in conjunction with it's English counterpart. It's hard to learn a new language if you weren't raised bilingual, especially as an adult, and this app/service seems to only be making the process more overwhelming and frustrating. She's going to have to relearn everything, because she wasn't taught how the fundamentals on pronunciation - starting with the alphabet. This is the easiest part of German for a native English speaker - reading, pronouncing, writing, and spelling. Grammar, gender, and tense is where German goes completely off the rails for us. That's when people are going to get so frustrated they give up, because these lessons are incoherent, and there's no foundation to build off of to feel like there's real progress happening. I hope this KZfaqr finds a much better resource if she's trying to learn German beyond this video, because it's clear she could easily get the pronunciation down pat if she was simply taught it. Instead, they've made her feel insecure in these online classes because she's lost as pronounciating new words, and learned ones, and likely being corrected a lot in the classroom chat we couldn't see/hear. It doesn't feel good to need to be corrected every time you speak. Overall it was very hard for me to watch for this very reason. That and them switching her to a very narrow dialect's German pronunciation, changing the "ch" to an "sh" sound. Idk who teaches on this app, but they're not teaching according to the standard. You don't want to teach a new speaker a small regional subsect of the German population's accent - you wanna teach the standard pronunciation. I'm assuming some of these "teachers" are native German speakers (e.g. teaching to roll "Rs" to an American on student day 1), or they're native English speakers barely fluent in German and/or have no idea where to start with teaching it to another person so they're following some really odd lesson plan - which would explain their focus on teaching basic phrases to say to the teacher rather than how to say the alphabet. Pronunciation is the foundation. This app/service truly failed this student by depriving her of that foundation before rushing her into mispronounced phrases she will never need to use/are seriously outdated or are rarely used only in specific contexts... Like vielen dank. Nobody uses that. I'm sure this is sponsored, if not - girl, please get a refund! You're fully capable and this app being plugged ain't it.

Vielen danke!!

Eek!! So I've had two different native german teachers teach me the alphabet differently!! Definitely a tough language to learn

Remember, in English, the German "e" makes an "a" sound. Adding just an "a" at the end of a word, however, would sound like the German "a," which we would spell out as "ah." Thus, the best way is to add an "ey" at the end of the letter in the German alphabet, which for English speakers is pronounced like "hey" without the "h". *Here's the whole German Alphabet written for an English-speaker's pronunciation* Note: F, L, M, N, O, S = exact same pronunciation as English. A = ah B = bey (or "bay" would be the English word equivalent) C = cey (or "say") D = dey (or "day") E = ey G = gey with a hard-G (she pronounced it with a soft-G which makes a "j" sound like in the word "joke"... However, the "j" in German makes a "y" sound. Note: there is no soft-G nor English "J" sound in German - it's _always_ hard-G no matter the word.) H = ha I = eeh J = yoht (or the word "yo" with a "t" at the end OR like "oat" with a "y" at the beginning) K = kah (like a crow) P = pey (or "pay) Q = qoo (or "coo") R = ehr (pronounced exactly like the word "air" in English) T = tey U = ooh V = fow (f + "ow") W = vey X = icks Y = oopsy-lahn (or oop-zi-lawn) Z = zet (but the "z" makes a "Ts" or "Tz" sound, like the "Tss" sound the symbol makes on a drumset, not an English "zzz" sound) This is why it's so important a native-English speaker teaches beginning German to English speakers. It's too hard to communicate how to pronounce the alphabet if you can't break it down using the English pronunciation. Further, the German accent is too hard for a beginner to overcome, and most English speakers can't roll their "R's," especially not the German way, or pronounce "ch." The second teacher taught the Southern German dialect pronunciation of "ish" & "mish" instead of "ich" & "mich" - which isn't widely used. It's better to work with professional teachers who will stick to the standard, and not make their students confused or have to relearn things again and again. Learning from a native German speaker only helps when you're quite Advanced - mostly to learn more of the accent, the most commonly used vocab, and the modern abbreviated speaking style & slang.

Thank you!!

yea i was wondering this too!

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I get what you're trying to articulate, but this isn't correct to tell native English speakers. It's a soft-rolled R at the end of a sentence - but for non-native speakers, especially English speakers, nobody should be messing with the pronunciation of the "R" until they're advanced in the language. Just like how Germans can't pronounce "th," Americans raised only speaking English have to be taught how to roll their R's. German rolls it's R's very differently from Spanish as well. Much softer, and at the end of the word you don't even realize you're rolling that R in the back of the throat. The R's definitely not silent, it's soft. The letter "R" spelled out in English as it's properly pronounced is "air." This is why it's key for new speakers to learn the correct pronunciation of the German alphabet inside and out, so they can properly sound out and read words. Anyone going from English to German is going to struggle with the R's and the "ch" (except at the end of this video someone on that language app got her pronouncing it the Southern way, "ish" instead 🤦🏻‍♀️), so it's important to let them pronounce it as their pallette allows until they've learned the language. Then it's easy to pickup a German accent pronunciation simply by listening to native German speakers speak/sing. But I'm telling you, I was the only one in school who could do the "ch" because I grew up speaking some Hebrew, and later on I learned to roll my R's simply by listening to native German speakers, which we were never taught in my 4.5 years of German in junior high and high school. Most Americans and Brits will also say "ick" instead of "ich." Again, when you learned English, you had to pronounce the "th" as a "t" (or a "z") until you could get the hang of it. It's no different for us when it comes to learning to roll our "r" the German way (Spanish is almost easier because they fully roll the R in the middle of the pallet, not at the back of the pallet and throat). The German "teachers" should've never taught her the German alphabet with a rolled R. That's not helpful to an English speaker, nor realistic because Germans roll the R two different ways (3 if you speak German with an Austrian accent... Which is different from the type of German most Austrian's speak anyways). For example: the word "Der" is pronounced exactly like the English word "dare." That's not a silent R. Not at all.

Thanks for correcting me☺️☺️

Can I ask which country do you belong to?😅😅

@@learnwithananya610 America :)

@@Living_Dead_Girrl cool !

Will practice that! Thanks!