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Alphabet exercise: Spelling your name Includes sound files!

Listen to the audio clips of people spelling their name by clicking on the real audio icons. Write down the name that they are spelling out. Then place your cursor over the word "Antwort" and a box will pop up revealing the answer. ("Die Antwort" is the German word for "answer".)

Deutsche Vornamen    Buch der Vornamen

1. Click here to listen! Ich heiße... Antwort
2. Click here to listen! Mein Name ist... Antwort
3. Click here to listen! Sie heißt... Antwort
4. Click here to listen! Ich heiße... Antwort
5. Click here to listen! Mein Name ist... Antwort
6. Click here to listen! Sie heißt... Antwort
7. Click here to listen! Er heißt... Antwort
8. Click here to listen! Mein Name ist... Antwort
9. Click here to listen! Ich heiße... Antwort
10. Click here to listen! Sie heißt... Antwort
11. Click here to listen! Er heißt... Antwort
12. Click here to listen! Mein Name ist... Antwort
13. Click here to listen! Ich heiße... Antwort
14. Click here to listen! Er heißt... Antwort
15. Click here to listen! Mein Name ist... Antwort


Web links  Alphabet and Pronunciation Exercises  Web links

  Alphabet exercises
German abbreviations Read out some German abbreviations and then hear how they should sound.
MFG - mit freundlichen Grüßen Watch a video for a German rap video made up of abbrevations and then sing along to the instrumental!
 
  Pronunciation exercises
Anglicized German words How to pronounce German words that have made their way into the English language.
Similar words in English and German These words in this exercise may look familiar to us, but are spoken very differently in German.
Anglicized German names How should the names of these famous people from the German-speaking countries actually be pronounced?
German names for cities How do native German speakers refer to the following towns and cities?
German tongue-twisters Listen to and then try to repeat a collection of German tongue-twisters.



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