Get a quart of Listerine and gargle until you are completely
relaxed while doing this exercise ,and then we can
begin.


At 21:12 09 February 2006, Stefan wrote:
Claudia Buengen wrote:

The 'o' sound as in 'Bob' does exist in German (at
least if you think of

Actually, this depends a lot on where the English speaker
lives. (Yes, I
snipped that part of your post.) I tend to believe
that the
pronounciation of an upperclass Englishman usually
slightly differs from
that of an Australian outback farmer. But both will
have a very hard
time to to pronounce 'Grob' as it is done by Germans.

(Shall we start to discuss how to correctly pronounce
the 'r'?)

Stefan