Haus / raus in German

Kelly   Sat Dec 30, 2006 12:25 am GMT
How do you pronounce Haus / raus in German?
For me, at times, they sound the same

although I know it should be:

Haus [haus]
raus [xaus]

many thanks
Fredrik from Norway   Sun Dec 31, 2006 9:21 am GMT
Interesting. I think the problem might have something to do with your native tongue. Which is?
Pauline   Sun Dec 31, 2006 1:29 pm GMT
hallo Kelly,

For me, Haus / aus soudn the same, but raus begin with r so it's different.

Has your language r ? You can pronounce the r like in french (I think it's called uvular r ) or it can be like in spanish - trilled. If you say raus with one of this r it will sound differently that Haus. :-)


P.s. hallo Fredrik :-) God jul ! (it's correct ?) if not, Frohes neues Jahr !!!
Pauline   Sun Dec 31, 2006 1:34 pm GMT
Fredrik,

I've discovered that I've put happy Christmas but of course I wanted to say happy new year !!! so :

Godt Nyttår !!!!
JR   Sun Dec 31, 2006 11:23 pm GMT
It's another /x/&/R/ topic

I did not think that differentiating between /x/ and /R/ was such a widespread problem, but I guess it happens.

They can sound the same depending on the speaker, but they shouldn't.
Haus should be haus, raus should be raus.

Haus should he [haus] but I can see how it can sound/come out as [xaus], since the two sounds are similar.

And I can see how [x] can get mixed up with [R], since those two sounds are similar.

I'm guessing whoever is saying Raus says the R as /R/ (uvular R; standard French R, widespread German R). The R in German can also be trilled, if it is there will be no problem understanding because /R/-/x/ is not similar to /r/ at all.