Das Alphabet | Learn the German alphabet Quick and Easy

Hello and welcome to your German teacher. In case you are new to this channel and we haven't met before, my name is Johannes. If you want to learn or maybe review the German alphabet fast just by practicing pronunciation along with the teacher without any schnick schnack, then you just found what you were looking for. This video is about pronunciation practice. Of course we will also practice the four special characters and in the end of this video I will give you some tips and tricks how to pronounce the more difficult letters properly. To make the most of this video, I recommend for the next five minutes you just follow my lead and repeat after me. Starting right now. A wie Apfel. A like apple. B wie Bett. C wie Computer. D wie Deutsch. This is the language. It's not the country. E wie Elefant. Now let's repeat the first five letters. And again we repeat. We move on to M wie Mann. N wie Name. Mein Name ist Johannes. Mein Opa. We repeat. P wie Pullover. Q wie Quarantäne. R wie Regen. I will come back to this one later. S wie Sonne. T wie Telefon. Let's repeat the last five. U wie Uhr. V wie Vogel. W wie Wein. X wie Lexikon. Not many words starting with X. So yeah Lexikon. Y wie Yoga. Z wie Zahn. And now the last six again. U V W X Y Z SZ wie Fußball. It might look like B but it is a special kind of S. We have another name for it. The next three characters are special vowels. They have two dots on top of them and there's a name for this. It's called Umlaut. You can make use of this word and I'll show you how. This is kind of hard to pronounce. So make it easy for yourself and just say You can do the same here. Third and last one. Here as well. So now let's repeat those four special characters. Now I'll try to help you with the difficult ones. A lot of students they struggle to find the difference between If you pronounce You can try this. It looks stupid but try it. You stretch your mouth a bit. It makes it easier to produce this sound. The other one, this one here Here is a bit like down. Let's talk about This one might be the most difficult one for a lot of students. There are different ways to pronounce this letter. You can pronounce it like Pretty soft. There's nothing happening here. That's what I normally do. For this video I forced myself to make it more to make it a bit stronger like So this is what you also can do. This sound is produced here. It's not produced with your tongue. So the next two I want to talk about they are actually not difficult. They are just often mixed up. So this one is And this one is You can remember this a bit easier if you just keep in mind there's some kind of car brand which we have in Germany. We are talking about spelling so much but maybe you still don't know how to ask someone to spell a word for you. So here you go. Here's the question you need. So this is the easier version. How do you write this word? There's a more difficult one too which is That's it for the alphabet today. Please let me know in the comments which letter is the most difficult one for you. And if you want to know more about special pronunciation in German language for example if you have two vowels or a c and an h and so on I will make another video about that which will follow soon. Or you just watch this playlist here which is all A1 level videos. All right. That's it.