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Good day! I am Alexander.

And what is your name? My name is Alexander.

What is your name? In the beginning, when you learn a language,

It is very important to master the alphabet.

And now we start with the alphabet.

A, such as monkey or ant. Or, of course: the alphabet.

It is very important in German, always the Articles,

When one learns a noun.

The alphabet, the monkey, the ant.

The second letter is the B. B. The banana, the boat, the bus.

The B is pronounced [be]. The banana, the boat, the bus.

The third letter is C. The C is sometimes pronounced as a [ts]

And sometimes like a [ka]. The CD, Caesar, the camp.

It is sometimes a [ts] such as e.g. The CD and sometimes a [ka], the camp.

Why this is so, you will learn later.

The fourth letter is the D,

Pronounced as a [de], [de]. The roof, the lady.

The fifth letter is an E.

The E is usually spoken openly in German,

It is not a [a], it is [e]. The elephant, the donkey, the strawberry.

The sixth letter is the F, mostly Pronounced [f], e.g. the window,

The factory, the Ferrari. Simply a [f].

In the seventh place the G is pronounced Quite simply [g].

The violin, the gittare, and the spirit. [G] .

The violin, the gittare, the spirit.

The eighth letter is H.

The H is usually at the beginning of the word is pronounced as an [h].

If the H is in the middle of the word, It is usually not pronounced.

The heart, the dog and the house. Just a [h].

Do not pronounce too strongly, that is important.

The next vowel is the I.

The I will be as in other languages ​​as well Simply [i].

The hedgehog, the island, the igloo. Simply [i].

The J is normally pronounced as a [i] It has a little bit more [j] than connotation,

But it is very similar to the I. The boy, the jacket, the yacht.

The boy, the jacket, the yacht.

The eleventh letter in German is the K.

The K is pronounced very much like the C, Simply a K.

[K] - The cook, the cheese, the king. Simple [k] - cook, cheese, king.

The twelfth letter is an L that becomes L [1].

The teacher, the lion, the lamp and the lamb. Very easy.

Teacher, lion, lamp, lamb.

The thirteen letter is an M, pronounced [m].

Very simple [m].

Such as. The moon, the mantle, and the mouse. The moon, the mantle and the mouse.

The fourteenth letter is in German The N.

The N is pronounced [n]. E.g. - the night, the side, the nose.

[N] - the night, the fog and the nose.

The fifteenth letter and the fourth vowel

Is in German the O. Very important in the pronunciation of the letter

O is, it is an open letter, it is [O], it is not [eau]. [O].

The fruit, the grandpa, the orange. O - The fruit, the grandpa, the orange.

The sixteenth letter is the p. The P is pronounced [p].

Perhaps you remember the second letter Is the B, [b], and the sixteenth letter

Is the P, it is pronounced more strongly: [P].

The horse, the paprika, the pope: [p]. The horse, the pepper, the pope.

In the seventeenth place comes a somewhat heavier Letter, it is the Q.

The Q is usually pronounced as [ku] It is a K with a U - [ku]

The quark, the square, the jellyfish. Sometimes it is also referred to as KW - [kw]

Such as. The jellyfish, but, the square. Sometimes it is K U, sometimes it is KW.

The quark, the square, the jellyfish.

The eighteenth letter is R.

The R is usually in German The neck.

In many languages, it is a German language It is a [hr].

You can imagine this, you take A glass of water, drink it,

And then just do [hr]. And in time you will be the pronunciation

Of this letter. It is not a [r].

E.g. - the slide, the radio, the rain, The Red Riding Hood.

It is not the chute, the radio, the rain, The Red Riding Hood.

[R] - the slide, the radio, the rain, The Red Riding Hood.

The nineteenth letter is the p. The S is usually pronounced [s]

Or [z], depending on the context Letter appears.

The sun, the sack, the juice.

The twentieth letter is in German The T.

The T is pronounced [t]. The tomato, the table, the door.

Very simple [t]. The tomato, the table, the door.

The last and fifth vowels in German, At the twenty-first, the U.

The U is pronounced [u], which is very very easy.

Hungary, the clock, the subway.

The U is a very simple letter. In the twentieth place the V

The V is usually like in German Pronounced a F, [f]

It is therefore not a [we], but it is a [f] from the pronunciation.

The bird, the vase, the father, the Volkswagen.

Have I just said "the vase" or "the bevel"?

There are sometimes words in which the V is pronounced as a [w]

But in 95% of cases, the V is pronounced as a F.

The bird, the father, the Volkswagen. But, the vase. There are exceptions.

The twenty-third letter is W in the German language.

The W is usually pronounced [w]. The wine, the water, the forest, simple [w].

The wine, the water, the forest.

The twenty-fourth letter is the X.

The X is usually pronounced as a [ks]. The xylophone, Roxana, Alexander.

The xylophone, Roxana and Alexander.

The penultimate letter at twenty-fifth is the Y.

The Y is usually pronounced as an I or like a Ü.

It's a bit complicated.

E.g. - the yacht, the yoga, the yard.

The Y is normally in over 90% of cases An I.

And the last letter in German is the Z.

The Z is pronounced like a [ts], very Very similar to the third letter, the C.

Maybe you remember.

Simple [ts]. The zebra, the tooth, the zoo.

[Ts] - the zebra, the tooth and the zoo.

There are three extra letters in German,

Which we call umlaut. Umlaut means that from an A

We make two points, and then it becomes one A.

From an A, if we make two points, It is an A, ie a closed E.

Such as. The trouble, the English Channel, the Aesthetics.

Unfortunately, aesthetics is expressed as an open E, But this letter is normally closed,

A. The anger and the channel.

But the aesthetics.

The letter O with two points is pronounced Ö.

Ö - the oil, the edema, the Ötzi.

The Ötzi, by the way, comes from Austria. This is a country south of Germany

In Central Europe. Austria.

And the third umlaut in German is, are Two points above the U, that is the Ü.

The raid, the exercise. Ü.

And the last special letter in German

Is the so-called Eszett or Scharf-S, or sharp S.

It looks like a B, you need a bit But it is a p.

And it is pronounced [ss]. And therefore sharp S.

The foot, big. Important for this letter is,

The Eszett is never at the beginning of a word.

It stands either in the middle or

It stands at the end of a word.

And what is also very important with this letter is,

The vowel, before this letter Is pronounced long.

A sharp S, an escort, never stands behind A short vowel.

That is why it is the foot and great, it is Not Fus and gros.

It's the foot, big.

Goodbye!