Uploaded November 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago

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I am not a native German speaker, so sometimes when I speak German my pronunciation is slightly off. But the strange thing is that what Germans tell me they hear me saying is not what I'm actually saying.

To understand what's going on, we have to dip our toes into the world of phonetics and try to make some kind of sense of vowel sounds in English and German.

Chapters:
00:00 Hämburg?
01:10 The International Phonetic Alphabet
02:00 The vowel chart
02:46 Putting them together
03:06 English and German vowels
03:41 Theory and reality
04:23 Individual pronunciations
05:10 Narrowing it down
05:44 Regions, not points
06:09 Substitutions

Music:
"Style Funk" and "Hot Swing"
by Kevin MacLeod incompetech.com
Creative Commons Attribution licence

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