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Hello everyone! Welcome to my new tutorial
It's about the umlaut ö today, the long and close ö sound [ø:] like in my name "Fröhlich"
First I tell you something about the theory of the umlauts
Sometimes it's really important to differentiate the umlauts from the other vowels
because words can get a totally different meaning then
For example, like in the words
So you can say:
This is a completely different meaning
Sometimes singular and plural can be differentiated by the umlaut, for example:
der Ofen, die Öfen (the stove, the stoves)
Or tenses kann be differentiated, as you see, for example, in the verb "fliegen"
The past of "fliegen" is "flog" and the subjunctive is "flög", so:
Here the tense only differs because of the umlaut
So, now you hear three words which also just differ in the vowel
lesen, losen, lösen (to read, to draw lots, to solve)
Once again
Well, this means these words only have another vowel and a completely different meaning because of that
The ö sound is a mix of E and Ö
Well, for the e sound the lips are spread and the tongue lies about at the palate
With the o sound it's the other way round, we pucker our lips and the tongue lies below
Well, Ö is something in between, we leave the tongue at the position of E at the palate and purse our lips just like with O
In the next exercise we connect these single sounds. First we begin with E and O
Once again
Now we connect E and Ö, and it's important to leave the tonge at the position of E and we only round our lips to O
Once again
Now we practice the change from Ö to O, this means the lips stay rounded and we only change the position of the tongue
Once again
Okay, now let's practice this with the help of the words "schon" and "schön" (already/yet, beautiful/nice)
This means we say alternating first "schon", then "schön", "schon", "schön"
First slowly and then we get faster and faster
And you should really keep your lips rounded the whole time, so that you really can make the difference only by the tongue
Well, you can do this until you're sick and tired of it, but it's a good exercise
Okay, then we differentiate these vowels again with the following expression
Repeat after me
Now we exaggerate this and lengthen the vowels
ein Prooobleeem lööösen
ein Prooobleeem lööösen
ein Problem lösen (to solve a problem)
Finally here's a short sentence which you can practice the three different vowels with
Once again, slowly
Well, I hope this tutorial helped you a bit! Thanks for watching and see you soon!