In this course, you will discover all the vowel sounds of Standard German --as well as the R sound-- and their representation using the symbols of the international phonetic alphabet. For English speakers, the distinction between long and short vowels tend to be losing importance. In German, besides long and short vowels, it is also important to distinguish between rounded and unrounded vowels.

You will also discover that the most difficult consonant -- the R sound-- has actually several realisations: all of them daunting for English speakers.