The German Professor

After describing in detail how to pronounce ö and ü and providing some words to practice the sounds, here are some minimal pairs to help you more closely hear and practice the differences: Long ö and ü Short ö and ü schwöre flöge Söhne blöde zöge töte höhnen Schwüre Flüge Sühne Blüte Züge Tüte Hühner [...]

The most difficult sounds to pronounce are typically the ones that do not exist in your native language (or in languages whose sounds you have already mastered). For English speakers these include the umlauted vowels ö and ü. Fortunately, there is a very effective method you can use for arriving at these sounds. To pronounce [...]