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Aspirated consonants are one of the more subtle differences between English and German, the kind of things that can give you a foreign accent no matter how well you’ve mastered all the individual sounds. So, study this lesson not just to master the distinction between aspirated and unaspirated variations of the same consonant, but also to learn where to apply them in German. GermanPod101’s Accent Improvement Series gives you all the tools you need to perfect your German accent.


Are you comfortable pronouncing the German diphtongs AI, AU and EU? You may think you know them from English, but in fact there are subtle differences. If you don’t want to have an English accent in German, you better pronounce these diphtongs like a German would. Study this lesson to get a detailed introduction to the German diphtong vowels, including the 5 ways of spelling these 3 sounds.