“ch” in German actually represents two different sounds: e.g. the one in “ich” and the one in “Bauch”. I’m a native English speaker and I find those extremely

“ch” in German actually represents two different sounds: e.g. the one in “ich” and the one in “Bauch”. I’m a native English speaker and I find those extremely difficult to distinguish. But the French r is fine. (I spoke French to a near-native level 15 years ago; it’s probably decayed to “advanced intermediate” by now).