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6 Responses to “Accent Improvement #10: Let’s Rumble with L and R!”
Tuesday at 12:00 am
Tuesday at 8:13 pm
How do you pronounce your R? Can you do the German L and R sounds correctly yet?
Wednesday at 11:59 pm
L ist einfach. Ich kann R gut mit dem Zungetriller aussprechen. Manchmal kann ich R mit dem Hals aussprechen. Es hängt davon ab, was kamen vor. Übung macht den Meister!
(L is easy. I can pronounce R well with the tongue trill. Sometimes I can pronounce R with the throat. It depends on what came before it. Practice makes perfect!)
Thursday at 6:10 pm
Hi Vanessa.
Some correction for you:
“Ich kann R gut mit dem Zungetriller aussprechen.” -> “Ich kann das R mit dem Zungentriller gut aussprechen”
I would put das in front of R to emphasize you mean a specific R (the one with the Zungentriller). However an article is optional here.
Zungetriller => Zungentriller you put in a n so it’s easier to say.
mit den Zungentriller is a explanation which R you mean therefore it belongs to R and you put gut either before R or afterwards (Ich kann gut das R mit dem Zungentriller aussprechen or Ich kann das R mit dem Zungentriller gut aussprechen)
“Manchmal kann ich R mit dem Hals aussprechen.”
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Actually a perfect sentence, but I have some thoughts about this. maybe someone else has an imput on this.
R mit dem Hals would be actually R aus dem Hals. You make that R in the throat so it’s from there (aus) and not with (mit) the throat. It’s a very lame explanation, I know. I would rather “nickname” the R as Hals-R. Although I like to call it Rachen-R because Rachen (troat) itself is a word that uses the troat a lot but that’s just me.
Anyway I am not sure about aussprechen since the R in the throat is not really spoken.. it’s not wrong but if I had to build such a sentence I would probably try to avoid that word. Sadly I cannot think of something better
(I am very helpful this time
“Es hängt davon ab, was kamen vor” -> Es hängt davon ab, was davor kam.”
if something comes before something then you use davor.
kamen is the past form of kommen for 1st&3rd person plural but you use 3rd person singular here.
past forms of kommen:
ich kam
du kamst
er/sie/es kam
wir kamen
ihr kamt
sie kamen
Thursday at 10:51 pm
Vielen Dank!
Saturday at 6:02 am
I think this one was fairly easy for me. I speak spanish, it was my first language until I was 5. So the R comes very naturally to me…the ROLING rrrrrr’s!!!! Like in GRRROOWWWW…LOL
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