Swedish language course #1 – Introduction, pronunciation and numbers
December 30, 2009 by
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I’m doing a series of Swedish language courses on YouTube for those interrested to learn. Subscribe for more lessons.
December 30, 2009 by
Filed under swedish language
I’m doing a series of Swedish language courses on YouTube for those interrested to learn. Subscribe for more lessons.
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fast vissa utalar giffel “jiffel”
@Konstiin
berg = b-AI-riy (with english pronunciation rules)
in stockholm dialect the r could likely sound very american, i skåne (southern) it would sound french, but in many other (i.e. west coast, northern etc) it is pronounced like a softer scottish r that smoothes over in the j-sound.
@jaxim25 true and all, but english has many more synonyms because of loan words from latin, german, french (massive amount), etc.. I think one of the very few languages that manage to surpass it is sanskrit.
on the other hand I’ve barely heard a single immigrant over 18 with an entirely correct swedish accent (allowing for personal variation). (swedish phonology/melody is difficult because in a vast majority of the world’s languages there isn’t so much variety, which I’m sure you all knew :p)
“kista” är ju “sch”
“kela” är ju “sj”
“get” är ju “j”
“giffel” är ju “g”
hur förklarar du det? xD
Wow great bitesize pieces of information there, I’ve written your tips down for future use to hopefully help me read and pronounce Swedish more successfully in future!
The only thing that I would say is that this video could have been improved by having some audio sounds of the actual speech pronounciations from either yourself or someone else of Swedish origin so that people can practice their accuracy.
This is great!
Yeah – ylw, I agree with Kronstad – just pause it if you need to read it.
But i do agree with ylw that vocal help would be great. The problem with this is that if we think we know what you mean we could be wrong and we have nothing to back it up against. Like Berg. Is it pronounced ‘berry’ or ‘berya’?
I wouldn’t say that. the swedish phonology is much more difficult than the english and swedish has much more exceptions in the language and very few “rules” compared to the english. “en” and “ett” for example doesn’t have any specific rule and all the sje- sounds lack a lot of rules as well. swedish is actually considered to be a very hard language to learn because of those things and a lot of other things =)
yes they are very similar – in fact swedish is much more simple than english.
So cool it sounds so similar to english that even though when learning and trying to say in sweedish i would end up saying very close to english or in swedenglish,lol, it seems not that difficult since is so close to english and my first languague is Portuguese but i live in the US,and think that learning swedish might be not hard after all!
GREAT stuff! Thank you so much i just started learning Swedish a couple of days ago at my university, but this stuff helps a lot!!!! keep up the good work!
Thanks again for the tips.
it would be more helpful if I could here, but this is very useful for the basics and the text.
If you think it´s going too fast, then pause it when the text appears.
thanks!
Hmm. Not very helpful as its going too fast to catch and there’s no speech for demonstration.
Stämmer, engelskan har inget y-ljud. Det bästa tipset för uttal (om nu videon måste va utan ljud) tycker jag är att uttala i (eller engelska e) men truta med munnen! Det lär ska funka.
Att säga att y uttalas som y i lonely stämmer inte. Y i engelskan uttalas mer som i. Jag tror inte det finns nån motsvarighet i engelskan.. du borde ha ljud istället så folk hör hur det uttalas. Sje-ljudet är också omöjligt att förklara utan ljud. Annars tycker jag videon är bra!
Awesome keep it up…I really want to learn swedish! :p
for 1:36 I will use scientific notation