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Tür / Tour: long ü and u

CEFR A1

Tür

/tyːɐ̯/

door

Tour

/tuːɐ̯/

tour

What tells the two sounds apart

  • /yː/Long vowel: tongue forward and lips rounded.
  • /uː/Long vowel: tongue back and lips rounded.

Why it is hard

Do not make ü the vowel of English too or add a y sound before it. Keep the tongue forward and the lips rounded for Tür, then compare with the back vowel in Tour.

Die Tür ist grün.

To practise

  1. grün/ɡʁyːn/green
  2. gut/ɡuːt/good
  3. fühlen/ˈfyːlən/feel
  4. Schule/ˈʃuːlə/school