To speak German confidently, it’s helpful to know how to pronounce words correctly. German has lots of similar phonemes to English, which should help when pronouncing a lot of German words.

Click on each word to listen to its proper pronunciation, spoken by native German Stephan Kaiser. Streichholzschächtelchen German is world-famous for its unbelievably long compound words.

Struggling to improve your German pronunciation? It turns out that Germans are having the same problems trying to learn English. Think the German language is hard to learn? Long German words can ...

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Photo: DPA We recently looked at the English words that Germans can’t pronounce. And now we are turning the tables and discovering the German words which native-English speakers struggle to say.

The German pronunciation of Audi ... The letter V is actually an F sound in German, while the "olks" part of the word has a noticeable soft sign alter the letter L, followed by something closer ...

(For those curious how in the world you might pronounce the word, check out this recording.) Compound words exist in many languages, but German's grammar construction in particular lends itself to ...