5 HARDEST German words to pronounce 

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I think it's time to stop learning German

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You did great , love how you try to say the words with no fear 😉😁

Actually you did surprisingly well. I taught my Chinese speaking son reading German the same way, breaking it down into syllables like the Chinese characters. Or like Korean letters.

I’m currently learning German and I can 100% relate but the more you practice the easier it gets but overall the pronunciation of certain words makes it very hard but it’s also very rewarding once you can speak the language fluently. Also you did really well but that last word was a little hard to say aloud

Here’s a tip for the ‘ch’ sound! Try saying ‘cute’ but really slowly- the ‘c’ in ‘cute’ is very similar to the ‘ch’ in german!

Hi Christina German is a phonetic language so you need to know some patterns and diphthongs in order to be able to master the pronunciation skill. As a Persian speaker who LOVES German, I'll list some of them for you. 0- THE FIRST LETTER OF ALL GERMAN NOUNS WHETHER PROPER OR COMMON SHOULD BE CAPITALIZED. 1- ei = /ai/ --> as in Fahrenheit 2- ie =/i/ --> as in piece 3- The "h" sound is pronounced only if it is in the beginning of a syllable. Otherwise just ignore it 😉 Like in the word "Hallo" you should pronounce it but in the word "Schuh" you need to drop the "h". Also "Schuh" means shoe:) Hand means hand and "Handschuh" in German means glove 😁 4- Sch = sh in English 5-Tsch = ch in English 6- If the letter "s" is followed by "p" or "t" it is pronounced as English "sh" For instance the letter "s" in the word "Stuttgart" (city) is pronounced as "sh", because it is followed by "t". The famous "Spiegel" magazine follows the same pattern since the letter "s" is followed by "p". BTW "Spiegel" means mirror😅 7- "au" is pronounced as the "o" in the word "brown"😅 8-The letter "z" is pronounced as "ts" as in the English word "hats". I love German Z😅 9-The letter "v" is almost always pronounced as "f" like in the German word "Vater" which means "father". 10- "W" is pronounced as "v" as in "BMW"😁 11- "ß" sounds like "s" nothing different. 12-"ä" sounds like "e", so simple. 13-"ö" sounds like "o" BUT you need to round your lips first and then say it. 14-"ü" sounds like "u" BUT you need to round your lips first and then say it. Hope you enjoy it😅

Everybody is fun with Christina. She seems to draw that out of people.

Yes, they are great together.

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I mean, who actually can pronounce Regisseur?

@@Ggg-lj5zz I'm french and in our language it's pretty easy

@@Ggg-lj5zz I can, it's not that hard

Thats true. I also say it in that way

@@Ggg-lj5zz As an Austrian it's actually pretty easy, I'm surprised so many other people can't pronounce it

Litte correction: Doppelkupplungsgetriebe. There is a "s" between Kupplung and Getriebe. 😉

Ima li posla u de?

@@Dueruemtarget how do you even remember that word

@@Niall69Irish how do English people remember the complicated names they have for ailments and sicknesses? Simple, you just do when you grew up with them lol

That's right. The difficult thing then is to figure out where a single word in that long word begins and where it ends. The next level are compound words that can be separated in different ways, meaning different things. Example: "Rutschendekomposition". You can separate it like this: "Rutschen dekomposition", then it means "Disassembly of a chute". Or you separate it that way: "Rutsch ende komposition", then it means "the composition of different events during the termination of a slip event".

In Dutch we have it too, like in "nachtschrift". We even have "angstschreeuw" and "slechtstschrijvend". It's fun.

But it happens mostly between syllables of compound words, like in your examples. It looks strange, but you never pronounce that combination of letters together. Polish and other Slavic languages are much worse imo with their 'czr" and 'szcz' sounds that are meant to be pronounced as one.

Bro wtf... And after some people still say that french is difficult

Brot --- Brötchen Mädel --- Mädchen 😂

In other words, -chen and -lein are suffixes, like how -ito does the same thing in spanish

It is called a "diminutive"

That’s pretty normal 😅 most Germans think/know that German can be very difficult so most of us are very lenient if it’s about the pronunciation 😂

Germans are just excited that someone is trying to learn German😄 doesn’t happen that often

@@numivis7807 German is one of the most widely taught languages in the world. So your statement is nonsense.

@@Spino162 yeah maybe some words in school. But for Germans it is extremely rare to meet a foreign person that is fluent in German.

@@numivis7807 German is one of the most learned languages tho.

When I realized it's Režiser in my language (Serbian) I went like WOOOH

Actually i dont think germans have a hard time to pronounce it. its the first time i see somebody(a german) having issues with it lol. she is focusing too much on the spelling. but in german we would simply pronounce it "Re je sör"(spelled the pronunciation in a german way. but the J is like the english J)

Regisseur in Dutch is pronounce with a scraping Dutch *g* and the rest sortof matches. Ray- *g* - ieeeh-sir (if you keep American pronounciation in mind there.)

@@MikedieONE ne gibt schon viele/nen paar die damit Probleme haben 😅 ich gehöre auch dazu 😂 wenn du es jetzt so schreibst easy, aber sobald ich es einfach so aus dem Kopf sagen will stolpere ich über meine Zunge 😂

The funny thing is us French speakers don’t commonly use that word ourselves. A film director is called « réalisateur »

German is harder to learn than english

@@oliverh. Its easier to learn than other languages due to English's heritage as a language.

@@generalgongthehawkeye557 For english speakers, German is the only germanic languages ranked at Cat II difficulty. Which means more difficult than languages like Spanish, French or Romanian, mostly due to grammer.

Actually the pronunciation is easy

It's true though.

I mean, she's right. "Ch" is pretty much pronounced as the English "sh" (not exactly, but close enough).

Exactly. As someone who was born a grew up in southern/central Germany and now lives in Vienna Austria, I’ve only heard CH pronounced as K in Hamburg and Berlin. Everywhere else it’s pronounced as SH

@@yourwitchbesti It depends I'm from the SWR as well and in words like chemistry, China or character we'd pronounce the ch as a K, but chance as sch (wie Schnee).

If you pronouce Chiemsee as "sheemsay" instead of "keemsay" you will definitely sound like a Preiss.

Three midgets in a trench coat 😆 Drei Chinesen mit dem Kontrabass Try that song 😆

depends ^^ there are a few dileacts difficult to understnad even for native germans themself.

Regisseur is now our word! :D

Reschissör

In Russian, we pronounce it as "Режиссёр". The ж (zh) in this word is soft enough, even though it is not ш (sh). And the stress in the word on the last syllable. So I think we pronounce close enough to the French version.

Wobei sehr viele das g trotzdem original französisch aussprechen, aber das söa stimmt, wer da das r ausspricht trägt wohl bisschen zu viel auf

@@8kw7mx9 ich persönlich spreche das g wie im französischen aus, aber das ende ist mehr ein öä/öer. und ja, das r am ende klingt dann einfach auch französisch und extrem aufgesetzt.

That’s not true we pronounce it the French way in German. The g is a soft sound which is different from sch

@@spaceowl5957 I've never heard anyone say the g the french way. But that might just be an Austria-Bavaria thing.

Mountain German is yet another thing. Would be interesting to get accents and dialects into it for extra fun.

Not at all. Only englis-born people have that big problem with languages

You also don't speak german. Like the Bayern.

To me 🇦🇹 German is easier than 🇩🇪 German!

@@ok-tj7up wassss

If you know the basic words (like wood, thing etc) in German you can describe almost everything and we will understand you. Just stick the words together.

Ik spreek beide talen en ik Vind dat het even moeilijk kann zijn.

@@a.zenelji het is allebei lastig, ik kan duitse woorden slecht uitspreken door mijn Harde Gggg .

@@valeska6434 😂😂😂

🤣 good luck!~ practice makes perfect!

Should have moved here in France 🇫🇷. Germans language is so gibirish 😆

@@ChristinaDonnelly Christina. I have a question for you. Would you rather speak French, German or Spanish. Which one of those languages you seem more comfortable to speak ? By the way, the word "Régisseur" is French 🇫🇷

@@christophermichaelclarence6003 My guess is she’d say Spanish because it’s the most widely spoken in her home country after English

@@anndeecosita3586 Noooooooooooooooooooooooo

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@@HappyBeezerStudios lmao xD

You are exactly correct and thanks for informing people about it! Keep on doing it. It's one of the biggest myths. The long words in German serve the exact opposite of complexity. It's about efficiency. But simply not all language are capable of it because it actually would complicate things too much for even native speakers. Having long words in languages like German is not actually a negative, it's a positive and simplifies alot. But it's also not a necessity. You could speak without them but then you would just have to say a whole lot more in the end and would need to create a whole sentence (which is what languages like english do that do not posess the same compound word ability).

She was SO SWEET!

If you say restassured fast enough it sounds like that could be correct, I have no idea how to say sister in French.

Wow, I thought it was so weird because it's "re-she-sseur" in Swedish and I was surprised German didn't pronounce it the same. Guess it just turns out it's a hard word to say. 😅

@@thespankmyfrank I used to mispronounce it myself, but in a different way. I used to say "reseasheur": "re-", "sea-", "sh-" (as in ship" and "eur-" (as in the French word "heure"). Basically as if the word was instead "Ressigeur".

@@thespankmyfrank thats the way it should be pronounced in German as well because its a French word. But like she said herself she cant pronounce it correctly.

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The literal translation is spot on. Wait until you learn about all the "zeugs" (="things") we have in German like Flugzeug (fly thing = plane), Fahrzeug (drive thing = vehicle), Spielzeug (play thing = toy), Feuerzeug (fire thing = lighter), ...

@@SuppenDfg Thanks for confirming. Glad some of my German courses stuck in my memory. I also remember there being a lot of "zeugs" when I studied German. I think the closest we come to that in English is the raw, aggressively utilitarian efficiency of the word "fireplace."

streich is the motion and it means to stroke. Thats what it means

"-let" is another somewhat common English diminutive form (taken from French, I believe), e.g. "booklet", "droplet", "leaflet", "piglet". Though overall, English just doesn't use diminutive forms nearly as much as German. @SuppenDfg I'd say "gear" or "equipment" is a more fitting translation, i.e. "flight gear", "fire [starting] equipment", "driving equipment". The meaning of "Zeug" by itself has changed quite a bit, from "equipment" to just "stuff" (often derogatory), but those terms were coined before that. Also compare "Zeughaus" ("gear house"), meaning armory. Though "fly thing" *is* funny.

It is. It sounds ugly.

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Man I know how to read the Russian alphabet but that 2nd word just looks like a bunch of tridents put together 😆 Also a little English tip: if by "your Russian language in a pretzel" you mean the thing in your mouth, that's a tongue, not a language 😄

@@janslavik5284 Damn, I just noticed "language". 😱 What a shame, because I know the difference perfectly well 😅 As for the second word, I won't say that it is used quite often, it's just a cool way to show how strange Russian words can be. Translates literally as "the cone peeler" or "the man who peels the cones". For example, to get pine nuts. 😉

@@Doctor.Whommm Ah i see, we have the same word for pine cone in Czech: "šiška" 😄

@@janslavik5284 On the topic of "strange Russian unpronounceable words" we have an interesting story. I don't know if it's true or an anecdote, but here it is. "Lewis Carroll, driving through Russia, wrote down the wonderful Russian word "защищающихся" ("thоsе whо рrоtесt thеmsеlvеs", as he noted in his diary). In English letters. The sight of this word causes horror... "zаshtshееshtshауоуshtshееkhsуа". No Englishman or American is able to pronounce this word." 🤣 (Let's be honest, the way it's written here, with extra T letters, even Russians won't pronounce it)) 😆 Also, in Siberia there is a wonderful fur-bearing animal - шиншилла. A fur coat made of the fur of this animal is called in Russian - шиншилловая шуба. Oh, I wish I could show you how it looks in handwriting. In this (typewritten) version, it's not so terrible 😂😂

@@janslavik5284 Yes, I think it's even pronounced the same as ours. "Шишка" 😀 P.s. Greetings to the slavic brothers in the Czech Republic. I suspected, by name, that you were from somewhere in a slavic-speaking country. Привет братьям славянам в Чехии!

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