Comments on: Accent Improvement #10: Let’s Rumble with L and R! http://www.germanpod101.com/2009/10/27/accent-improvement-10-lets-rumble-with-l-and-r/ Learn German with Free Podcasts Whether you are student or a seasoned speaker, our lessons offer something for everyone. We incorporate culture and current issues into each episode to give the most informative, both linguistically and culturally, podcasts possible. For those of you with just the plane ride to prepare, check our survival phrase series at GermanPod101.com. One of these phrases just might turn your trip into the best one ever! Thu, 17 May 2012 22:07:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 by: Priscilla http://www.germanpod101.com/2009/10/27/accent-improvement-10-lets-rumble-with-l-and-r/#comment-14025 Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:02:32 +0000 http://www.germanpod101.com/2009/10/27/accent-improvement-10-lets-rumble-with-l-and-r/#comment-14025 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:wink::wink: 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 :wink: :wink:

]]> by: Vanessa http://www.germanpod101.com/2009/10/27/accent-improvement-10-lets-rumble-with-l-and-r/#comment-8790 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:51:30 +0000 http://www.germanpod101.com/2009/10/27/accent-improvement-10-lets-rumble-with-l-and-r/#comment-8790 Vielen Dank! Vielen Dank!

]]> by: salivia_baker http://www.germanpod101.com/2009/10/27/accent-improvement-10-lets-rumble-with-l-and-r/#comment-8787 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:10:40 +0000 http://www.germanpod101.com/2009/10/27/accent-improvement-10-lets-rumble-with-l-and-r/#comment-8787 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." 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 :roll: ) "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 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.”
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 :roll: )

“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

]]> by: Vanessa http://www.germanpod101.com/2009/10/27/accent-improvement-10-lets-rumble-with-l-and-r/#comment-8784 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:59:41 +0000 http://www.germanpod101.com/2009/10/27/accent-improvement-10-lets-rumble-with-l-and-r/#comment-8784 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!) 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!)

]]> by: GermanPod101.com http://www.germanpod101.com/2009/10/27/accent-improvement-10-lets-rumble-with-l-and-r/#comment-8777 Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:13:38 +0000 http://www.germanpod101.com/2009/10/27/accent-improvement-10-lets-rumble-with-l-and-r/#comment-8777 How do you pronounce your R? Can you do the German L and R sounds correctly yet? How do you pronounce your R? Can you do the German L and R sounds correctly yet?

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