Ever since the holidays, I’ve been slammed with work from my graphic design business. My wife and I are also raising a beagle puppy, and, as a bonus, I caught a wicked cold this past weekend. In short, I had no time to write a proper blog post for you this week. Instead, I slapped a pair of my wife’s panties over my head (in a half-assed attempt to retain some form of anonymity) and recorded this video, wherein I attempt to speak the German language and point out one aspect I find particularly difficult to deal with — the guttural “R.”
Here’s the video. I hope you dig it. ***WARNING*** I think I dropped an F-bomb in there somewhere…
Thank you for watching and have an awesome day!
— OGM
Oh God, My Wife Is German. 
I have the perfect solution for you. Just move to the Wetterau region of Hesse. They pronounce the “r” just like Americans do. Move there and you’ll feel like you are surrounded by Americans with perfect German whose ONLY mistake is mispronouncing the “r”
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I just realized that you should not move there since that would make you sound like the village idiot who is obviously a local (what with your perfect Wetterau “R”) but makes all these weird mistakes.
Joking aside, I think your German sounds quite good actually and if you just shortened the “r” sound a bit it should be near perfect.
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Why thank you, Freddy!
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Hey Stranger,
As far as the R pronunciation goes, just relax. I’m surrounded by Germans during the day, and I’ve rarely heard “Rot” spoken with a rolled R. OK, it’s not an Ami “are” sound, more like forcing air past the R when you say it (at least in the Ruhrgebiet), I’m sure it’s different in Bavaria and other regions where the dialects are different.
Ich wünsche dir gute Besserung!
Chris
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I’ll give that a try. Thank you for the tip, Bochums!
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