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The German ABC. Absolute Beginner #3

The German ABC. Absolute Beginner #3

Slow German vor 16 Jahren

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A podcast for all those who try to brush up their German and want to learn about German culture and everyday life.

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The German ABC.Show Podcast Information Hello and welcome to the
third episode for beginners – the long summer break is finally over
and I hope I can produce more shows for you these coming weeks. Not
only episodes for beginners, but also for advances learners. Today,
I want to pick up a topic that listener Burt asked me to cover: The
German alphabet. I will go through the 26 letters now slowly so
that you can hear how they are pronounced. A B C D E F G H I J K L
M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Then there are the „Umlaute“: Ä Ö Ü and
we have a special „s“-sound, the ß. You don't hear a big
difference, I know. Don't worry about that now. While we are at the
topic of pronounciation: JJ from New Zealand asked me to tell him
the difference between Z and S. There's a big difference there! For
example: We say Sahne, meaning cream, but Zucker, meaning sugar.
The Z is pronounced like a t and a s. TS. More word with Z? Let me
think. How about Zahn for tooth, Zeppelin, Zimt for cinnamon or
also words with the Z in the middle like Beziehung for relationship
or Katze for cat. And one last thing: We have another sound in the
German language, that is quite hard for beginners to pronounce. The
CH-sound. It is either ch or ch. I'll give you some examples: Koch
for cook, Buch for book, wach for awake. Or kichern for to giggle,
Becher for cup and seicht for shallow. So much for this quick
lesson in German pronounciation – we'll end with a repetition of
the alphabet. Hope you tune in next time and tell your friends
about this podcast! Bis bald, Eure Annik. A B C D E F G H I J K L M
N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z