I just ran across this phonetics site from the University of Iowa:



You can hear the pronunciation of vowels, consonants, and diphthongs and see how they are articulated in American English, German, and Spanish.

I missed this. Very nice! I had fun clicking through all the fricatives and the like. I also had a good time listening to the German sounds. Some I'd not heard before like the uvular one. Thanks, Tinman!

I keep looking at this site. The fricatives in German seem different from any of our sounds to me.

The fricatives in German seem different from any of our sounds to me.

I guess you mean the four (of eleven total) that only occur in German.

Well, I listened to all 11, and they sounded different to me from anything in English. However, it must be that the sounds are spoken too slowly, thus making them sound different.