This module comes before grammar, before vocabulary, before everything. Here is why: if you cannot recognise how German sounds, listening exercises will feel impossible no matter how much vocabulary you know.
Good news first: German is almost perfectly phonetic. Once you learn how each letter sounds, you can read any German word correctly — even words you have never seen before. English is not like this. German rewards you for learning its system.
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Lesson 1 — German is Phonetic
The 5 key differences from English · Learn to read any German word
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Lesson 2 — Vowels, Length & Umlauts
Short vs long vowels · ä, ö, ü — the sounds English doesn't have
LESSON 2
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Lesson 3 — Consonant Combinations
CH, SCH, SP, ST · The sounds that trip up learners most
LESSON 3
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Lesson 4 — Rhythm, Stress & Sounding Natural
Word stress · Compound nouns · Full introduction practice