German pronunciation R -- how to get it right?
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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2025
- The German R comes from the back of the throat.
You can feel it if you touch your throat. You get the R at the right position by trying to clear your throat. If it hurts in the throat, the place where you make the R is right.
The R is a little tricky. There are basically two pronunciations. One is the throat R and the other one sounds very similar to A. I recommend to use only the throat R in the beginning. If you don't pay attention it will soften by itself and become smooth and non-hurting "A"-R over time.
Training words:
Rote Rüben
Kartoffeln
groß
drei grüne Regentropfen
Zungenbrecher:
Ich bin 33 Jahre alt.
33.333 durstige Räuber bedrohen Robert.
Hannover /hanova/
-er at the ending of words are usually pronunced "a". The throat gets tighter when producing the sound for -er.
Words with a soft R:
sondern
Kiefer
Lärm
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I think the hardest combination of all is r+e, as in "andere, weitere, mehrere". I find myself overpronouncing the R sound or hissing it, whereas it should be a "dry"and clean gurgling (by dry I mean that it shouldn't be heard any liquid/water/spit vibrating to help amplifying and getting the sound right) with a hopping intonation; if I go with the Italian R, I can get the rythm right, otherwise both rythm and pronounciation escape me. Dunno if anyone else has the same issue like me
Even coming from a Slavic language, I have a huge difficulty pronouncing the basic number "drei". It feels like the r sound is supposed to be somewhere between the Slavic sharp r and the English rolled r, and I just can't strike that sweet spot. I keep adding "ch" to the r sound.
This is why i prefer this kind of video when it comes to language teachers... Not one done in a proper studio with a nice suit n tie.
The wisest english teacher I had was a santa looking man with an unkempt beard, despite his appearance or his attire. He gave me more than what I expected. He didn't give me perfect english, no, perhaps I wasn't that good of a student either... But he gave me something more important that I didn't know I need when learning a language, an authentic perspective of an average Englishman.
Yeah so I grew up speaking German both at home and at school and have not been able to learn the R completely correctly, it's always sounded very off.
I think this video helped. Not sure why I even clicked on it, but I think it worked.
The best class!! Dankeee😊🙏🏼
As long as I know, before World War II, German speakers and Dutch speakers employed an alveolar trill 'r' when speaking German and Dutch. Take the word 'recht' and 'vier". Germans pronounced them [rɛçt] and [fiːr], the Dutch [rɛxt] and [viːr]. After World War II, however, Germans and the Dutch have started to use a French 'r' [ʀ] at the beginning of words and syllables.
Hmm...
I wish you were still making videos on here because I find them useful.
I'd find myself adapting a new voice for learning how to to speak german. Letter R is sooo hard.
I hear the difference; I understand the directions; I still can't quite make the sound....but I am getting better...I'm going to my first German conversation group in years on Friday, so I'm dusting off old skills....wish me luck! 🤞🏿
Yeah, this was good. I’ve always had problems with the rolling of my “r’s”.
2:15 dreiunddreißig Tausend dreihundert drei und dreißig durstige Räuber bedrohen Robert ?!
Dankeschön 🙏🏻
What would you say in German to your dog or cat, for them to “go!”, “come here!”, or “let’s go!”. Could you please provide the pronunciation in English? Danke schön!
I am Czech here but I love the German language. My ancestors came from Germanic/Nordic tribes so I would like to learn the language most close to me.
"Komm!", pronounced almost the same way as "come" but with a bit more emphasis on the k
I'm happy about, that we don't have it in Austrian German. We use the standard "r" pronunciation like in spanish but a little gentler.
Is it similar to the French R ?
My husband’s name is Rolf and he makes fun of me because I cannot say it correctly. 😂I’m trying to learn now.
0:51 i dont know why this is so funny
This guy so unintentionally funny 😭✋🏻
Gut erklärt
Danke :-)
:-) @@sprachrolfdeutsch1091
So with the gr combination I imagine it’s more about getting used to emphasizing the G briefly before the R. I have the problem of my Gs disappearing into my R or the R dragging on an obnoxious length of time.
One-shot video. You're goog! I think my main problem is how to get to Germany, not the pronunciation of 'r' and other sounds... My pronunciation is pretty ok
Aber was mit bayern Dialekt? In Bayern haben sie ein ganz normales "R ", nicht wahr?
Dankeshön
cooles Video...aber im Sueden benutzen die Leute mit dem "R" die Zunge, nicht wahr? Sie verwenden eine Zungenrolle um den R Laut zu machen? aug englisch-- 'Voiced dental trill"...
2:17 I doubt any native speaker naturally pronounces /r/ like that.
[ʀ] ("gargled" /r/) was not considered correct until 1957 when it got implemented as an alternative to the traditional [r] (alveolar trill) for stage acting purposes. It was meant to be a substitute for the much spreading [ʁ] (uvular fricative), which itself is seen as too soft for plays. Up to today it can only be found as a stylistic device (overstress), usually in contemporary music, plays, readings etc., and even as that it's not very common.
Therefore I advise against picking this up as regular realisation - unless you want to be mistaken for French. LOL.
As a spanish learning german from english, it was quite easy to pick up the new R sounds, but sounds too sharp for now!, it clicked now!, grillen is hella difficult to say, ive been speaking english for the last 3 years and their R is different to spanish R and Germany R too, i wonder if germans could say my name right? Im alejandro, english speakers struggle too much with the J, J in Spanish is similar to this german R, but without vibration
Do you have a video on how to pronounce 'rechts'? I am in Florida, USA and it is so difficult for me to pronounce the 'ch'... 'cht' in a word. I can pronounce 'Ich' just fine but when it is the middle of a word it is more difficult. And i cannot find a video where they are pronouncing the word slowly and giving a breakdown of how i need to hold my mouth to pronounce. Thanks in advance!
Wer die Runkelroiweroppmaschin' mitsingen kann, ist ein Profi im R rollen
I'm having such a hard time saying 'groß' well. The back-to-back of a hard g and this r that I still don't understand is incredibly difficult for me
Actually, I find some vibrations in my throat, so it doesn’t match that sound the native make. What should I do, teacher? 😢
It hurts🥺
i… dont think its supposed to hurt 😭
i mean, he said it would but j think that was only the first time 😂
@@eggynuts tht comment was about 6 months ago😌 now i can speak fluent german😌 rrrr ist jetzt ganz einfach für mich😊
Fluently? Cool! Gut gemacht!@@haishamofficial1165
Any advice for someone just starting?
When you demonstrate the sound at the beginning by "clearing your throught" most of the time you don't realize a "r" sound but a "kh" sound like in Arabic or "j" like in Spanish.
Ich lerne seit über 5 Jahren Deutsch und spreche die Sprache schon gut, ziemlich fließend würde ich sagen. Allerdings kann ich das gutturale R nicht aussprechen. Ich hab's weiß Gott so sehr geübt!! Nix! Ich habe mich irgendwie damit abgefunden, dass ich das nie hinkriegen werde.
Similar to the French 'r'
Rrr haha, Danke dir!
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@@sprachrolfdeutsch1091 太感谢您了！！！对我来说这些信息非常有用！谢谢您🥰🥰🥰
👍👍
:-) Danke
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I think U make slight error with " pronunciation "....of this word. Don't say NOUN.. not pronounciation. Common error by Germans. There is a NUN in pronunciation.
This video is about French R, not German R. (Some) Germans copied the French R. Others copied the Italian R. There is no German R 😅
PS. I would have not told you this secret if the presenter in the video was not so annoying.
Bei "Hannover" liegst du leider nicht richtig. Die einzig korrekte Aussprache auf Deutsch ist [haˈnoːfɐ]. Das "v" ist stimmlos (f).