WTA GERMAN SPEAKING CHALLENGE 🗣️🇩🇪 Gauff, Osaka, Sabalenka, Rybakina, Jabeur & Pegula in Berlin! 

You simply love Rybakina but it's OK. None of them got any right but some did worse.

@@trommelbiel You don't need to be a Rybakina fan to acknowledge that she was the best one. Her pronunciation of Linsengericht or Mückenloch was quite OK, whereas these words were basically butchered by Gauff, Pegula or Osaka.

@@trommelbiel Liking Rybakina and her being good a German compare to the others don't have to be mutually exclusive.

She was ok but she blew Katzenelnbogen badly. The Russian in her came out when she said that. I guess it was the length of the word. 😅

You clearly don't understand German or Deutsch as they would call it.

ons is hilarious 😂

What did she do?

You"re kidding. They all (save for Elena R. as mentioned) were unable to pronounce one syllable correctly. As one who speaks German.

@@charvaka9526 Das stimmt nun echt nicht. In wie vielen Sprachen ist deine Aussprache genau richtig? Wenn du nicht zweisprachig aufgewachsen ist, dann wahrscheiner in keiner. Und wie geht es dir in Sprachen die du nie gelernt hast? Gut waren sie nicht, aber "keine einzige Silbe" ist übertrieben.

@@zweigackroyd7301 Nach 20 Jahre wohnen in Deutschland kann ich eine gewisse Fähigkeit behaupten.

@@charvaka9526 Du kannst alles behaupten. Das hat leider mit der Realität absolut nichts zu tun. Und die Formulierung der "Behauptung",... na ja, etwas mehr Arbeit an der Sprache könnte nicht schaden

@@zweigackroyd7301 Realität ist relative. Ich bin zweisprachig aufgewachsen.

Does Katzenelnbogen have anything to do with cats (Katzen)?

@@dctrbrass Those names of the smaller towns all mean something, it's rather amusing for a German. Linsengericht = lentil dish Kuhbier = cow beer Mückenloch = mosquito hole Katzenelnbogen = cats elbow I didn't know any of those districts/cities existed before doing a bit of research, but they're legit.

I agree. I had a lot of German in college and practice my Deutsch most days but I still struggle some.

Nah, it depends on the person. I speak German fluently with hardly an accent. I’m American but have German on my mom’s side, although I wasn’t taught it growing up. First I learned Spanish in junior high and high schools, then I took German intensively in college and spent summers in there (motivated by having a German girlfriend). Being immersed in it I picked it up very quickly. In uni I read Goethe, Mann, Kafka, Hesse. Mastering “literary” German is quite tough of course, and I have forgotten a lot of advanced grammar and so on. Use it or lose it. But conversational German has always come quite naturally to me. I’m not sure why, except that I think I have a good ear for hearing sounds and reproducing them. I’m learning Russian now and although the grammar is daunting, the pronunciation is actually very regular and the standard accent is easy to reproduce. I think what many students of languages are not taught well enough or forget to do is *listen* - listen, listen, listen all the time to native speakers. Start speaking with them and put down the books. Book learning can be important, but isn’t strictly necessary just to become conversant. And you’ll be able to pronounce any place names for sure! English (especially UK place names) can be one of the biggest challenges, as they’re often pronounced non-phonetically and sometimes you just have to ask someone who knows! /long rambling comment…got carried away 😊

She pronounces it like she would in Russian but she also knows how to read ch, ie, ü etc it seems. All the English speaking girls were pronouncing the words with English pronunciation. Buuurlin

Most ethnic groups of people in the US lose their ethnic language after one generation, certainly by the 2nd generation born here. In general there's little, if any, use for those languages here, especially German, plus the vast majority of Americans don't even have passports, and legal immigrants often know some English when they get here. I enjoyed learning a little German when I lived there, but Italian is much more useful in the US in the long run, plus it sounds so beautiful! Spanish is our second language by default because of illegal immigration from countries close to us, but many of them lose their language after 1-2 generations, too.

They are place names. Maybe you should practice your English, this was said at the beginning, Streber ;)

Ok. They really dug deep for this one ;-)

55% of all Tunisian diaspora live in France, only 6,6% live in Germany. That's almost a million in France to around 100 thousands in Germany. Tunisians are extremely versatile and able to integrate anywhere unlike most other nationalities where you always hear trouble.

Let me ask is Poland enemy to Germany? They way in this comment shows it.

Thinking that someone is "dumb" for failing to pronounce words of a foreign language they aren't familiar with, is true stupidity. This is coming from someone who lived in Germany, speaks German, but have a great unfamiliarity with other foreign languages. Go touch grass.

Who's the Mother????

@@sueannwashere Ich bin nicht überrascht. Man kann von sozialistischen Weinkindern nicht mehr erwarten. Da fehlt einfach das Gehirn.

why so salty 😂😂

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