How to Pronounce the r Consonant (r ʀ ʁ) in German PERFECTLY 

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@@LearnGerman4Life no he can’t.

​@@LearnGerman4Lifeim learning german and i must say STOP MAKING EVERYTHING SO COMPLEX Dare (the manly) Das (the neutral) Dein (the manly but affected) And female which i forgot meanwhile in english: The

​@@jammin5563Der not Dare 😭

​@@RS-xb9loyou get the point

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I speak hebrew and russian, so for me it's easy

Just whistle and spread your mouth. The whistle should move towards the back of your mouth and create the perfect soft ch Sound.

​@@diesesphilyo this very helpful

​@@diesesphilthanks

the Spanish rolled r can be found in Austria, Bavaria and Switzerland

A very simple and difficult word for this: Traurig

thanks, i'm not the only one

You can find the trilled R in some dialects, especially in the south (also all of Austria and Switzerland)

​@@LearnGerman4Life It's the traditional variant/stage German.

yeah it is, but you'll sound a little bit better with the German / French r in my opinion :)

​@@LearnGerman4Lifethey can adopt the swiss accent, I think that would be okay

yes

The alveolar trill is particularly common in places where Low German is still vivid (a.k.a. the [very] north).

@@anonymousxxx9513 In Indonesia, Indonesians, including lecturers in universities and teachers of German in senior-high schools, employ an alveolar trill in speaking German. This is one of the features of Indonesian-German pronunciation. Here in this country, we are not well informed that today's standard German for the letter 'r' is just like French-r. Therefore, most of us pronounce 'r' with an Indonesian or Spanish 'r', which is an alveolar trill 'r'.

@@ramamonato5039 That's the traditional variant, and it's fine. The go-to standard for theatre plays, classical singing and so on, also called "stage German". And it's still used in informal settings, even if not as the most prevalent realisation anymore - which is now [ʁ]. On the other hand, the actual French uvular trill [ʀ] is plain uncommon. In fact I've only ever stumbled upon it as a stylistic device, and not frequently either. I have no idea where that myth comes from but native speakers do NOT burble their rs.

@@anonymousxxx9513 Like I said above, Theodor Siebs standardized the pronunciation of the so-called Bühnendeutsch in 1898. Yes, I know it was the first standard pronunciation and used formally in Germany until 1950s before the coming of the next standard pronunciation "Deutche Hochsprache", which is now called 'Deutsche Aussprache'. Most Indonesians still make good use of old handbooks while learning German. Moreover, it happens because today's standard pronunciation is considered to be more difficult if compared to stage pronunciation. Indonesian learners are very easy to be demotivated in learning foreign languages if difficult pronunciation is taught to them. So, as one of the teaching strategies to avoid their stopping learning German is by allowing them to employ Indonesian/Spanish alveolar trill 'r' all the time, pronouncing German 'ch' with the voiceless velar fricative [x] in all positions, like Dutch 'ch', pronouncing the letter 'z' like Indonesian/Italian 'c' as in 'cinta/città', pronouncing German 'w' like Indonesian/English 'w', pronouncing all long vowels short, etc. Yes, luckily, although I am not a linguist, just a man who loves German and Dutch, I know that standard Netherlandic-German r's today is [ʁ] in initial position, but in final position, it becomes American-English 'r' for Netherlandic Dutch and it becomes [ɐ] for German German. The term 'French-r' is used to make people in general understand the point easily since not all people understand specific phonetic terms, like voiced uvular fricative. Some teachers of German and Dutch in RU-vid videos use a glass of water and they gargle with that water in their videos. I also know this is just an easy way of teaching to make regular people understand the basic method for producing the German 'r' easily, which is actually not 100% accurate. Well, year by year learners of German/Dutch will find out the correct way of pronouncing today's Dutch-German 'r'. Long time ago these two languages were considered one language and employed the same traditional original alveolar trilled 'r', but not anymore now due to changes within German-Dutch societies.

Cardi b*

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Tongue towards upper palate :)

Practice, practice, practice. And sing German songs :)

All will work because German has just one sound so they can't identify all 3

Essentially like saying gross with the German R, and only saying the first part of the letter O. So like Oh, without the H

yes, drei

hahahahahah then you have to roll your Rs haha

/ru:ich/

no, there are actually 3 : vocalic r, voiced and unvoiced uvular r ;)

@@LearnGerman4Life I try to confirm that by listening to my R in trotzdem and my R in Reis, but I really don’t see the difference.

the difference is that r + vowel (such as rot, or Reis) the r is voiced = having a slight vibration in your throut. In Preis, or trotzdem it is unvoiced = no vibration. And then there is the vocalic r = a such as besser - "bessa" @@SkyDarmos

@@LearnGerman4Life Ok, thanks, though I would probably not notice it if someone were to use a voiced R in trotzdem. And then there are those dialects that use a Spanish R, and in those this distinction cannot exist. Anyway, interesting to know, but it would maybe just confuse the learner if they were told.