1. a b c d e f g h i j k l m ah
beh
Guten Tag!
tseh
deh eh
eff
Sprechen Sie Deutsch?
geh
hah ih
Bitte schön!
yawt
kah
ell em

2. Dom Volkswagen zahlen n o p q r s t u v w x y z en oh peh koo err ess
teh
ooh
fow
Volkswagen
veh
iks
üppsilon
zahlen
tset

3. ah a b c d e f g h i j k l m
beh
tseh
deh eh
eff
geh
hah ih
yawt
kah
ell em n o p q r s t u v w x y z en oh
peh
koo
err
ess
teh
ooh
fow
veh
iks
üppsilon
tset

4. ä ö ü ß ah a b c d e f g h i j k l m beh tseh deh eh eff geh hah ih
yawt
kah
ell em n o p q r s t u v w x y z en oh
peh
koo
err
ess
teh
ooh
fow
veh
iks
üppsilon
tset
sounds like ä ö ü ß
mädchen
made
good
schön
fuel
für
hiss
heiße

5. } { b d g p t k End Sounds in the final position of words take the
sounds of } p t k {
in the final position of words

6. Weib
/vipe/
Bad
/baht/
Tag
/tock/

7. ie
/eeh/
pronounced ei
/aih/
Die Sonne scheint. ie ei

8. eu äu /oy/ au /ow/ neu, läuft Haus = = & Sounds like “boy”
Sounds like “how”

9. S S S h z s prechen le en Auto ‘s’ before a consonant
‘s’ before a vowel S s
Auto
‘s’ in final place

10. Z /ts/ Die Zeit Der Reiz ‘Time’ ‘charm, stimulous’ sounds like
As in “Tse tse fly”
Der Reiz
‘charm, stimulous’
sounds like “dare rites”

11. Kneipe Pfeife Psalm Zwanzig Pronounce both consonants
Using only one syllable

12. No silent letters
Köln
Sounds like
‘could’ - D + N
Pronounce the ‘L’

13. Cognates and Stress-shift
English
German
ar-ticle Ar-ti-kel
per-son Per-son
flex-i-ble flex-i-bel
sys-tem Sys-tem
ha-bi-tu-al ha-bi-tu-ell
Shift the stress to the next syllable.

14. To view another presentation on pronunciation:
Aussprache.ppt