Two Americans Try to Say 20 Words from a German Dictionary (Frustrating) 

What words should I try next? comment down below :)

"You make German sound French" The greatest understatement of the year.

Try "tschechisches Streichholzschächtelchen" 😁 That actually is just a matchbox from Czech Republic

You sound super cute when you speak German. I love watching you do it.

"Ehre" and "Ähre" are very close together, that's a high level challenge. Don't learn from the dictionary. Learn from listening. You are confused by the letters, cause the letters have a different meaning for you. Children learn by listen and repeat - writing comes 3 years later. German pronounciation is very easy, cause it's very strict. There are almost no exceptions, the "ch" is sometimes spoken soft or hard, this you cannot know from reading. But there is not such a weird thing like pronouncing the I differently in Illinois or Idaho. Something like spelling-contest is completly unkown in germany, cause it's not very complicated. If you write from listening, there are errors like mixing b and p, or d and t. Nobody is ever mixing up vocals.

really enjoyable to watch :)

We want you to try "Eichhörnchen" (german word for squirrel)!

"Heizölrückstoßdämpfung" would have been a nice one (also notice how no letter is repeated 🤯). Kinda means nothing, though. A made up word, I guess. Heating oil kickback muffler or something silly like that.

In my seventh year of German, I took German literature, which taught us things I didn’t even understand in English. The most difficult word I learned has stayed with me for almost 30 years, and it was fluorklurkohlenwasserstoffen. It was so great to hear you pull that one out!!

"Fluorchlorkohlenwasserstoff" is easy. Eff-Zeh-Ka-Weh. ;-P

I am learning both of them. Therefore, that's funny and insightful for me. 😊 Thanks for sharing 🙏

Good to see you again my friend and how are you. Great video as always, thanks for sharing your life and times with those that watch your channel my friend.

Ich bin echt beeindruckt von deiner Aussprache :) Schade, dass das Video nur 7:34min gedauert hat. :(

lange nicht mehr so gelacht, war wirklich super unterhaltsam! Bitte mehr davon💛

Your roommate dug out some funny words, there :-)

It's a little funny...when there is an a in the word, you speak it as an ä and the same otherwise :) Same with ö and ü. But your german is really good though. Nice Video and good to have you back

Deine Aussprache ist echt süß :) Klasse! mach weiter so

"Kuh" wird im Grunde wie "cool" ohne "l" ausgesprochen 😁 Dass die Umlaute (ä, ö, ü) für Nicht-Deutsche schwierig sind, ist nachvollziehbar. Im Englischen und in anderen Sprachen gibt es diese Buchstaben ja überhaupt nicht 🤷‍♂️ Umlaute sind in der deutschen Sprache aber wichtig, da entsprechende Worte anders ausgesprochen werden (aber keine Angst, meist verstehen wir Deutschen trotzdem was gemeint ist, auch wenn der Gegenüber ein Problem damit hat). Es ist zwar eher selten aber ein Wort mit einem Umlaut könnte ein anderes Wort ergeben, wenn man bloß die Punkte weglässt oder umgekehrt, also wenn man Punkte versehentlich hinzufügt, was den Sinn einer Aussage verändern könnte. Ein Beispiel wäre etwa das Wort "Lösung" (solution) das dann zu "Losung" (slogan) würde. Hat man ein Problem, sucht man nach einer "Lösung" aber es macht wenig Sinn nach einer "Losung" für das Problem zu fragen 😉

Also, to make the ö and üyou just have to round your lips when saying another vowel. The ü is the eeeee sound in English but with rounded lips and the ö sound is the "e" in egg but with rounded lips. If you make a continuous vowel sound and then practice rounding and unrounding your lips you'll get it.

Lmao from my small-medium understanding of Deutsch, that small rant about having to pay for tap water was hilarious.

Loved It!

Loved this!!💞👍

i LOVE your face with the herzrhythmusstörung!! aaaawww :)))

Sehr unterhaltsam - und gut gemacht! :)

Ihr seid so süß. Wirklich entzückend, wie du die Wörter aussprichst.

So witzig und durchaus süß - vielen Dank dafür. Sounds so cute and funny, you made a good Job, thanks for it.

Nice video, this is exactly how I feel when I try to pronounce certain English words.

Your pretty good, I bet if you totally immerse yourself for one year you will be fluent, I enjoyed the video!! 😄

to aunt and you lamblike nice you did pretty well ( like your videos ) pronounciation was nice as well

Sehr gut👌 die Aussprache ist ja quasi perfekt. Häufig hört man es nur an der Betonung der einzelnen Silben, was sowieso schwer zu lernen ist, weil es dafür glaube ich keine einheitliche Regelung gibt. Übung macht den Meister👌

Wow Lämmchen, deine deutsche Aussprache ist sehr gut, es klingt wirklich gut und wirklich super süß. Hier ein Wort für dich, Donaudampfschifffahrts- gesellschaftskapitän Hihihi, viel Spaß 🤭😁☺️ Liebe Grüße 🍀🍻🍀🌹

As a german I can say: You speak absolutly awesome! There are words I think are really hard for non-german speakers. But you just nailed it. 😊👍🏻

aaaw!! you'e back!! :')))

Sie gibt sich echt Mühe, das ist wirklich bewundernswert. Aber mal ehrlich, ist das etwas so tolles? Es werden genügend von euch genauso wie ich die Englisch Prüfung mit einer 1 beendet haben.

Ach, die lieben Umlaute :-). Taught my son to speak German and there are definitely some funny moments when he speaks German with me.

Very sweet, try Baustellenabschnittsbegrenzungshütchen😙

very good! A tipp for German lerners: ö basically is the German 'e' but with pursed lips (the tongue stays in the same position) and ü is the German 'i', again with pursed lips.... It's as easy as that but nobody can explain it tho.... I figured it out because I was bored and thought about a way of explaining it to some foreign friends. Greetings from Austria 🇦🇹 😊

Deine Aussprache ist echt gut. Respekt!

Das war einfach nur süß!!! =) :D

I understood every word you said at the first time except of Bevölkerungszählung. But I've never used this word before. Great job👍

Naaw, i could watch u all day saying German words, it sounds so cute :3

Your aunt had some good pronunciation

Because some of the German commentors suggested that you should try "Eichhörnchen" and mentioned that squirrel is a hard word for Germans. I'm from Austria. And we have a dialect word to drive German in Austria crazy. And every German that comes to Austria get challenges to say it at leat once. ;) It's "Oachkatzlschwoaf". It's really hard to pronounce. It means squirrel tail.

Your friend in the background sounds who didn't have any German class yet, sounds a little bit Dutch! Great video!

Wirklich schnuckelig ☺️👍

That WAS fun! (Not making fun of you!). Another one for you: Zwischen (= between). A it's a tounge.twister, 'cause the german z is so different to the english. I think the sharp z is the most complicated thing about it. Don't worry: I still break my tounge on most "thr" words.(After so many years later.)

The was you pronounce german words is so cute😍😍😍

Don't frustrate, your sound waves much better as 50% of all they living here for generations.

Thats really good

It's interesting that you do so many üs which should be us. In my experience people usually flip it the other way round where it's an u when it should be an ü

Hallo LambLike, dein Deutsch ist schon sehr gut. Vielleicht kannst du ja mal einen Zungenbrecher probieren, z.B. "Blaukraut bliebt Blaukraut und Brautkleid bleibt Brautkleid" ?

Wir haben fast zweihundert Truppen in diesem Dorf stationiert👍 Haut rein, Streitkräfte

yes

you are doing good with the german pronunciation. you won´t need help to pracice your german. With the help you´ve get you are doing it greate I like to see how you are improveing. i have no wishes. I look forward to YOUR videos and ideas

I got a few hard ones. The first is no longer around since they abolished the law in 2013 1.) Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz 2.) Arbeiterunfallversicherungsgesetz 3.) Verkehrsinfrastrukturfinanzierungsgesellschaft 4.) Gleichgewichtsdichtegradientenzentrifugation 5.) Streichholzschächtelchen 6.)Eichhörnchen 7.)Quietscheentchen btw if you didn't know, you can write the ä as ae, ö as oe and ü as ue

So funny to hear you say the words in german :D

@Lamblike Interesting thing is, that your main problem is not really the Umlaute, but the vowels, especially the "a". You sometimes speak vowels, that should be spolken softly, quite harsh. Examples: Your "multiplizieren sounds more like moltiplizieren (with a short spoken o), mühsam (here you speak the second part like the same Sam, Marienkäfer you spak like Merienkefer. In unwahrscheinlich your wa is spoken really sharply). All in all you don't have a strong accent while reapeating words, it is just noticable.

Du wirst immer schöner 😊 Mittlerweile richtig gut dein Deutsch

Its so sweet how you learn to speak this words! :-) Come back to the south of germany and i´ll show you the nice Baden-Württemberg and a lot of funny words:-D and very good food! Try to say the word "Herrgottsbscheißerle" zu sagen...

i watch not many chanels, this is one of it, and an freaking good freestyle german chanel that cooks german food in half german and half english, the frank BS Show, rly 2 cool chanels

Sweet

Try "Eierschalensollbruchstellenverursacher" It literally means " Eggshell predetermined breaking point causer" and it really exists :). It cracks the shell of an egg as you can imagine

I love your voice

The most important word is missing - Oachkatzlschwoaf :D

By the way, *ö* , *ü* and *ä* aren't umlauts. They are graphemes with a trema on each. *y* is also an /ü/. And UMLAUT means that a vowel changes when the word changes by inflection. As in *old* > *elder* > *eldest* . But the youth don't do umlauting anymore that often.

I always liked 'Igel' and 'eagle'

Vorfahrtsstraße richtungsweisend Fluoreszenz Erörterung Märchen Kaulquappe

Sweet Görli 😁😊

Die Streichhölzer in einem tschechischen Streichholzschächtelchen beinhalten Fluorchlorkohlenwasserstoff in höchstem Maße.

Some other languages with ö and ü are Hungarian, Turkish, Swedish and Finnish.

Try 👏 in the silben helps me by writing in German

Wie süß :-)

Hey LambLike :) I have one question for you. How did you manage that your Boyfriend was able to visit you ? Or did he visit you already before the Pandemic started? I hope I'm not bothering you. I ask because my fianceé is a US Citzinen living in Kansas and we are just trying everything we can that I can visit her and we don't know what we can do anymore. I appreciate if you could help us. :) Your Videos are very nice. Keep up the good work. Best Regards from Germany Lars

Perfect sweetheart love how y try it sooooo great 💝😊🙏☺️✨

Adventure has umlauts in it. Abentöüier

My Fair Lady!

There is this wired military vehicle, called hummer. And that stupid -me, a long time thougt that it is named after this lobster -animal.. 😑😙

Dangit, ich wollte nicht lächeln

"not many germans like to be on camera" WTF? im dying!

Was war das letzte Wort? Aaah, das ist Höchstgeschwindigkeit, ich hab verstanden

Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung

sooooooo cute!!!

Aww, you're so cute! I have... uhm... abonnented you, greets from Germany

you deals whit it good :D thanks from a german frend. " RICHTIG" XP

The "ü"-sound may be a little tricky for native English speakers. But the "ö" shouldn't be a big deal. "Ö" is just pronounced like the second "e" in "emergency", the "u" in "urgent" or the "i" in "James T. Kirk". 😀 Tough your pronunciation is nearly perfect!!!

Try "jäääär" (edge of ice), "öötöö' (night job). Estonian language.

You are such a cutesy bunny, ...and actually pronouncing FCKW better than Daniel, compliment!

Iam from Germany and Try Touristen-Informationsstand

Kann man so gelten lassen

Typo Abenteur -> Abenteuer

You could try, "Schwer." Das ist Schwer. 😉

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Das wird "Abenteuer" geschrieben.

Wow she sad Fluorchlorkohlenwasserstoff quite PERFECT the first time and was a bit confused by the camera guy afterwards!

1:58: It is Abenteuer with three E. 2:47: Kuh is neither queue nor Küh nor coup. :-D English native speaker tend to make the ou sound rather than a straight u. 3:11: Hebebuhne. :-D Funnily, you make the u in Kuh to an ü and the ü in Bühne to an u. 5:55: Make it easy and say FCKW for chlorofluorocarbons. 7:18: Daniel does it wrong as well and says "Högst" instead of "Höchst". That is either dialect or laziness. In Baden-Württemberg it would be "Högschd".

Sag mal "Oachkatzlschwoaf".

you are not as loud as you are supposed to be as American. Very nice ;)

Hey your aunt was good pronuning, she should train you :).

What a beautiful and charming girl!

02:30 mühsam = arduous