Comment by vaskebjorn

My point was that what Nabokov said about Russian "When you speak Russian your mouth ought to distend laterally at the corners" also applied to German, and that saying "ich" properly in German was an example of this.

Yes, one does not NEED to have the mouth open wide to express the "voiceless palatal fricative" but if you do not do it with a "slight smile" as described in that video it will not sound right.

I truly hope you know something about German pronunciation, otherwise I don't know what would compel you to even comment on the thread.