Are you kidding? The R is the easiest sound in Swedish. Try the SJ sound or the retroflexive consonents RT or RD as in KORT or BORD. Also the RG in Borg. This so called teacher is picking the easiest sounds,I learned Swedish in Sweden it was challenging. Don't forget the tones. Dont pronounce I like a girl.
This presentation of Swedish phonology is brilliant. The main difference between you and "the others" is the use of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).
My favorite Swedish sentence, in the Värmland dialect, by Gustav Fröding: "I åa ä e ö, å i öa ä e å" - "In the river there is an island, and on the island there is a river"
As someone trying to be fluent in Swedish I can say this is very helpful. I'm a fast learner and can imitate very certain sounds so if I practice it enough I can become eventually fluent.
Tack så mycket! I'm from Australia trying to learn Swedish (always kind of loved the sound of the language/place) Have started to learn words, some grammar and basics from duolingo, but to be honest duolingo is really awful for learning pronunciation, so thank you for the video, really helps a lot. Will definitely be using your course to help :)
I really appreciate that you often point out the shape your mouth creates when you make a specific sound. I suck so bad at copying/imitating the sounds of other languages - and even the dialects of my own language - so it's really useful to have another way to think of the sound other than just trying to rely on my weak natural ability to hear and imitate it. Thank you!
Wow, this video just blew my mind away! Gosh, I didn't understand before the difference between those vowel sounds! You nailed it explaining it so clearly and well that I honestly might say that I finally understood the difference and why some words have weird pronunciation! I can't find words to thank you man! That's great and brilliant content! You have my respect!
My grandfathers were from Sweden but I never learned the language except for a few words. I'm currently learning on Duolingo and this has been invaluable for learning about the Swedish vowels. Tack!
Thanks so much- when you give specific word examples I find it particularly helpful! I have been trying to watch a lot of Swedish television and I can find some dialects confusing so knowing which sounds are “standard” can really help me know what I should be aiming for.
Just beware though, that our "standard" is just a de facto media language and not a real standard. Standard Swedish basically means that we all write the same and use the same vocabulary. However, what I teach is what is normally taught as well.
Say It In Swedish -Good point. Very similar to BBC English here in the UK. Not many people talk exactly like that - but if you did, you would sound fine. I suppose I am just trying to avoid sounding like a buffet of pronunciations from different dialects because I heard them from different people on TV. 😂
@@JayeCole I guess it's not exactly like BBC English since it, today at least, has some regional coloring, mostly from Stockholm. It was more obvious back in the day that it was a media language.
For me, in most cases: A: Spanish A (make an oh sound sometimes) - Sjunga Ä: Spanish E - Vänner E: Spanish E - Studierade I: Spanish I - Springa J: Spanish I (not a vocal tho) - Sälja G: Spanish I (not a vocal tho... sometimes) - Göra Y: Spanish I but makes an oh shape with the mouth - Dyr Å: Spanish O - Någon Ö: Spanish O but pretending you are throwing up - Malmö O: Spanish O most of the times but sounds like U sometimes for example - Ola (very common name) U: Spanish U - Ursäkta I hope it help the Spanish speakers, correct me if I'm wrong somewhere.
Thank you for explaining the “i” sound that I thought I had to master. For two years it has been driving me crazy. I have tried to make this sound and get stressed and angry with myself over it. As if sju wasn’t enough! ;-) which I think I’ve managed now. It makes so much sense the way you explain it, in English it would be like a cockney suddenly mixing in the way our Queen speaks, which would be ridiculous and totally out of place. That’s an extreme example to illustrate the point. I have grown to really dislike that “I” sound now. But I love Swedish, for me it’s the most lovely language. Tack så mycket, Joakim.
I have lived all my life in sweden, but somehow I came across this video and sat through all of it and enjoyed every letter. Funny thing about the swedish letter R. I grew up in a small village of 600 people and yet you could hear all the different pronunciations just by going outside. Småland btw.
@@sayitinswedish Hi! As a French speaker, I am wandering if I should learn from german or english (I am fluent in both languages). As there are some free courses, I will first try both of them. What do you think?
I remember Özz (a standup commedian) talking about when he was new in Sweden and the problems he had with "g" Get (goat) G is pronounced as a "j" Gem (paperclip) G is pronounced as "g" Gelé (hair gel) G is pronounced as "sh"
Tack så mycket Joachim. Din presentation är mycket underhållande, livlig och informativ. Detta är verkligen en snabbkurs och jag har blivit inlagd på sjukhus till följd av detta. Ha ha. Jag skojar bara. Du måste ha en viss språkutbildning eftersom du låter så kunnig. Jag har precis börjat lära mig svenska och kan redan skriva så här! Imponerande, va? Nej, för att vara ärlig använder jag DeepL som ett inlärningsverktyg samt för översättning så det är nästan säkert inte perfekt svenska.
7:09 From the way you explain it, it sounds like a type of pronunciation that is socially regarded similarly to how some Italians perceive the ‘r’ pronounced in the back of the throat in Italian, similar to the French ‘r.’ Some people use it, but others might mock it as well.
Hey Joakim! I'm a German who visited Sweden 3 times already. I think you are very kind people and I'm fascinated in your language. So I decided to start learning Swedish and hope do be able to communicate in Swedish when visiting Sweden next time. I'm very glad you made this video, due to the fact that pronunciation feels like the hardest thing to learn for me. Being able to speak German (as my native language), English and having learned Latin in school, grammar and many words aren't that difficult to learn. Structure of sentences is very similar to German and I guess grammar is easier in Swedish. When it comes to pronunciation it is more difficult. In Swedish you don't pronounce every syllable written while German is very precise about that. Tack och hejdå!
Hey das ist ja cool! Es freut mich, dass du dich für Schwedisch entschieden hast. Im Deutschen kann man auch ganz schön reduzieren. Leute sprechen ja normalerweise nicht immer 100% Hochdeutsch aber es ist richtig, dass es im Schweden etwas extremer ist, besonders da wir Wörter mit einander verbinden. Welchen Dialekt sprichst du?
@@sayitinswedish Hey. Das stimmt. Ich spreche allerdings fast ohne Dialekt, obwohl ich in Sachsen geboren bin und in Bayern lebe, wo es ja sehr prägnante Dialekte gibt. Irgendwie habe ich davon aber (bis auf ein paar Ausdrücke, die man in den Dialekten sehr häufig verwendet) kaum etwas übernommen.
Really enjoyed the video! If you don't mind a suggestion, something that would be helpful for the more complex letters and pronunciation would be if you spoke words as example? Could help the listeners understand the difference when it's in context. Thanks for sharing!
The reason I didn't add that is because the video is long as it is and I already have a pronunciation course that you can find here: www.sayitinswedish.com/course/pronunciation/
Okay, that makes a ton of sense about the different sounds... my cousin's husband is Swedish, and can speak English quite well... but I always wondered why it sounds like he's talking in a cave or tube... it's the vowels... Thank you for this realization!!!
There are some similarities as in the etymology of the word decides how it's spelled. Any Swedish word with as sh-sound can be spelled Ch, c, sch, sh, g, and maybe something else that I've forgotten. The sh- and Ch-words are usually integrated loanwords from English, just as such are from German loan words
Hey you know the swedish and norwegian languages are way closer in pronounciation of the letters and their sounds (think phonetic aphabet) than english.
@@theidioticbgilson1466 Achievement? It's just a fact man. You know, not every utterance of information is meant as a propogandic attitude of egotistical opinion;-)
@@bellybutthole what does that mean? i know what you meant by that but why did you feel it necessary to word what you were saying that way? i was litterally saying english's spelling system is so bad that it isn't really something to be impressed about that your orthography is better than english. french is more phonemic than english. thai is more phonemic than english.
Hej! I am from Bangladesh and I have studied in Sweden (Stockholm University). I have tried to learn to Swedish, but it didn't work out for me, because effort was not there! After watching your videos during this quarantine time I am thinking to learn Swedish with some sort of seriousness. You are doing amazing job here.Thank you
Good lord, man! This is great content. I think it makes me a bit disheartened because I’d like to be able to get it close to right. It’s tough to learn because some Swedish friends just laugh and go into English rather than help with corrections. Again, great content. Tack!
I think people think they are being helpful, I consistently get the same result with Spanish speakers, they instantly switch to English. For a while I thought it was a “that’s our thing” reaction, but I guess we have to give them the benefit of the doubt.
I gave up learning Swedish because of the same situation, swedes laughed and never appreciated the effort of me trying to speak their language. It’s unfortunate.
Im not english, my native tongue doesnt have those issues you were talking about, but i gotta appreciate the effort and how effective your explanation was
Hi! Great video and I love the IPA symbols! In a scale from 1 to 5 where 1 is English and 5 is German, how PHONETIC is Swedish orthography? Are there reliable rules or clusters that respect always the same sounds? Is there a real connection between the writing and the speaking? I'm not sure if my question is clear xD
german is terrible at being phonetic... just take devoicing at the end of a word "Hund" becomes "Hunt" "ch" can be [ç] after i, e, ü, ö, ai, eu, äu but in every other case it's [χ] and while I'm at it, eu and äu sound the same and are [ɔʏ̯] in IPA
The R sound isn’t a probleme. If you can’t use the R using the tip of the tongue you can talk as us in the south of Sweden were we use the R futher back in the month (as in French).
Hej Joakim, great video! I was wondering if you could explain the sound that the letter "g" would make at the end of words/names like "Göteborg" or "älg" or basically any surname ending in "-berg". Tack så mycket!
That was a funny lesson! All these swedish sounds . I try to learn a bit of Swedish from Dutch. I already discovered myself that some letters sound different if they are followed by certain letters. Your explanation is usefull. I think it's a pretty hard language to learn because of the pronounciation. It is very unique. 👍
Guten Morgen, Herr Joachim. You use phonetic symbols during your class. They help us a lot in our basic stage of learning. I am accustomed to International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). Moreover, you speak English in explaining Swedish segmental phonemes. I like your class.
Excellent tutorial and teaching style. I have trouble with the "i" sound. I heard another Swede on another channel say it and it sounds like they are squeezing the i.
Good video, makes my brain wanna implode with a massive fart noise that breaks the sound barrier. I find it really helpful that you include verbal descriptions of mouth and face positions. I unfortunately can’t use the onscreen information . I’m totally blind and use assistive technology to access my phone etc. I’m basically going to have to rely on descriptions of how to make particular sounds, example words and sentences, and probably some very wonky associations with similar-sounding English equivalents. Sorry for the long post, I just wanted to raise some awareness of non-visual language learning issues and vent a little at the same time.
I understand that it can be a struggle. It's visual medium after all. On www.sayitinswedish.com, I've got lessons that are audio only. There are also lesson notes for each lesson.
1. Hello from California. 2. I love my DuoLingo, but you are helping resolve a lot of confusion on sound versus spelling (said the woman raised in the spelling tangle of English). 3. I was pretty sure I was going to subscribe but the "gnome in the microphone" sealed the deal. 😆 Thank for all this.
Hej, Joakim. Jag lyssnade på din podcast och älskade det 😁👍 Jag hoppas att min svenska är okej, för jag försöker... Men lära mig väldigt långsamt. Den här videon var jättebra👍 I'm trying to stop translating to English in my head when listening to swedish, but damn that's harder than putting the words in there in the first place. 😄 The podcasts are extremely helpful! It sounds like you're teaching us what humans would actually say to each other instead of just a bunch of random words and phrases. Tack för allt och hejdå 🙃
French here, just some thoughts about kör (the one meaning choir), in french it is called a "chœur" (from the word chorale) which is pronounced the exact same way. Do not confuse it with "cœur", meaning "heart" and also pronounced the same. Well.... Hejdå I guess ?
Hej, Joakim- ‘bra’ crash course! Tack- and wanted to assure you that your pronunciation of ‘pronunciation’ is fine actually in English as either sound is used unless you are worried about the proper London BBC announcer accent but that is only a small demographic for that and pretty much not emphasized anywhere else out of London
I remember when I learned to say sju. My gf was so excited that I could pronounce it. She said even the Norwegians couldn't do it. I could pronounce her name: Gunnel. And thirty years later, I can still do that, but I could not carry a conversation lol.
Hey, great video. I have a question about the letter "R". At 14:59 you said that Swedish people do not pronounce it like very roaring R, and rather soften it a bit, adding a bit of a "zh". I would like to know whether I will sound completely weird if I don't soften it and really use hard "R"? It's just because my native language is Russian, and for Russians it is common to use this unsoftened "R", and I kinda know that Spanish people have pretty much similar rough "R". It is hard for me to soften the "R" and add a slight "zh" to it. So will I sound strange if I don't do that?
this is the only video ive watched that makes me feel like danish pronunciation may be easier ahhahahahhhhahhah thank u for your hard work and your explanations are helping a ton
I am a Swede, and so I can say that learning from a Swede is much better than learning from a foreigner how well Swedish they ever have learned to speak. Yesterday I felt I needed to give a correction to a foreigner giving a course in Swedish, as he told that in sentences, "jag" is only pronounced as "ja", and other ends are "always" left out, which to me as a Swede more sound like a teenager talking with buddies, so this was incorrect standardized in that video, which is my oppinion as a native speaker. This guy is Swedish, so he knows a lot more about small differences, as you probably don't wish to sound like a teenager talking with buddies, if you are a grown up maybe planing to make a speach in front of an audience, struggeling with details in pronounciation. This guy is Swedish, so he knows. Recommended, even if I only have seen this video.
Saying that endings are left out only in colloquial conversations with your teenage buddies is wrong on so many levels. That's pretty much standard in spoken Swedish. However there is a continuum and one ending might not get dropped all the time even in the same sentence.
the vowel quality thing is confusing to me because in my native language, dutch, we also have vowel quality, but the "dark" vowels are the ones that are short, as opposed to swedish in which case they are the long vowels
Tjena, just a wee question to the "apostrophe" on the è: does the whatever you call it always imply that you pronounce the e like a kind of double vowel "ie". Hope you know what I mean....🤔
As a German the swedish A and Ä are tricky for me. The german Ä and swedish Ä are not quite the same and your swedish A sounds like a mix of A and O to me. Also the Å… whenever I see it my mind automatically makes a german A out of it, them I‘m like „oh no, the swedish A is like a mix of A and O (or just the english word „awe“)“ and THEN I‘m like „oh WAIT this is Å not A, damnit!“😂 And then I read O and have to say „U“, I read U and have to say „Ü“… understanding what is written is easy but saying it out loud is so tricky sometimes😄
How about "kanske"? Why sometimes I hear "kan-hweh" and sometimes "kan-sheh"? Like in "Det kanske inte är så farligt" is with "sheh" and in "Det bäste kanske inte hänt än" is "hweh"
Firstly, the sj sound can be pronounced as tj in a bunch of dialects. Second, "kanske" is a weird word since it doesn't follow word order rules. I also pronounce the word in both ways, totally at random but I think I'm leaning towards "kanhweh" here ;)
@Mikael E You can put it pretty much anywhere. It's just an adverb. You're right, it means 'can happen' or 'may happen' - there is a synonym 'kanhända' which means the same thing.
Both are valid. The latter is very common, it's a lazy minimum-effort exhalation sound that is easier than the 'sh'. It's how everyone says 'sju' (seven), 'shu' sounds posh.
That was fascinating. My first language is French and I studied English at uni so I'm no stranger to phonetics. Can I ask though: am I right in thinking that the letter 'ä' in the conjugated verb form 'är' is pronounced [e:] even though it is placed before an 'r'?
[e:] or [æ:] are common depending on the region, sometimes it does become an [æ:r] and sometimes that R turns into a retroflex consonant if the next word starts on an S, T, D, N, or L.
You're as good as this one Swede called GoSwedish! Sadly, GoSwedish closed her account, though I don't know why the hell she did. Nice to have another Swede to help me learn Swedish! Thanks a lot, dude!
Though I interested in Norwegian studying I know this video is really super, SUPER cool. Like from me 👍 Moreover Scandinavian languages so intelligible with each other.
Muy bien. Si entiendo bien este video está hecho para los anglófonos, o ¿es que primero hay que aprender inglés para luego aprender el sueco? ¿No es así?
I think it is a little confusing to tell people that "b is voiced" (and similarly with other consonants). Even though this is true, it is not a special feature of Swedish pronunciation. It is the same exact quality as English b, French b, German b, etc. In all these languages the letter b represents the voiced labial plosive [b]. Might be better to just say, "b makes the same sound as in English" and leave it at that
Sure, it's just an extra piece of information. Maybe it's confusing to some. The video is already out there however and cannot be edited. It's however important to know when we talk about assimilations and reductions.
It can be, but for people who have a more difficult time grasping concepts and connecting things, it could be useful to them. My sister and I both grew up bilingual, but over time she never kept up with her Spanish so it’s OK but not where it should be for someone who is a native speaker. She can play ice hockey I can’t, even when she tried doing other languages, she just doesn’t get it. She does not have a disability it’s simply we’re not all good at the same things. People often say that trying to make connections between a native language and one you want to learn is a big mistake, but for some people it’s a useful tool.
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I was becoming stressed about the "r" sound but then i remembered im hispanic😂😂😂
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Hahaha you're right! XD
@@dangercat9188 I don't know about the other languages you mention but there is no such rolling r in french.
Are you kidding? The R is the easiest sound in Swedish. Try the SJ sound or the retroflexive consonents RT or RD as in KORT or BORD. Also the RG in Borg. This so called teacher is picking the easiest sounds,I learned Swedish in Sweden it was challenging. Don't forget the tones. Dont pronounce I like a girl.
My thoughts exactly
This presentation of Swedish phonology is brilliant. The main difference between you and "the others" is the use of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).
And actual linguistic training in phonetics/phonology as well
Vowels in any language can be tricky, and having the IPA definitely helps to pin down the sounds.
It’s phonetics.
My favorite Swedish sentence, in the Värmland dialect, by Gustav Fröding: "I åa ä e ö, å i öa ä e å" - "In the river there is an island, and on the island there is a river"
As someone trying to be fluent in Swedish I can say this is very helpful. I'm a fast learner and can imitate very certain sounds so if I practice it enough I can become eventually fluent.
Same
I am native speaker, and still learned a lot...
@@niclash the more you know…?
your laugh as you describe things that don’t actually make sense is so sweet to hear
Finally some good videos about Swedish pronunciation and grammar, thank you so much, so helpful!
Thanks for watching :)
Yes, a few years ago Swedish pronunciation guides on TH-cam were extremely superficial.
Tack så mycket! I'm from Australia trying to learn Swedish (always kind of loved the sound of the language/place) Have started to learn words, some grammar and basics from duolingo, but to be honest duolingo is really awful for learning pronunciation, so thank you for the video, really helps a lot. Will definitely be using your course to help :)
Hej! I'm also learning Swedish on Duolingo....Good luck!
@Bulat he is 100% right i can learn in 20 mins more then duolingo ever can.
Old comment, but for anyone reading, in "thanks so much" it's just "tack mycket" and the "så" is not used or necessary.
I really appreciate that you often point out the shape your mouth creates when you make a specific sound. I suck so bad at copying/imitating the sounds of other languages - and even the dialects of my own language - so it's really useful to have another way to think of the sound other than just trying to rely on my weak natural ability to hear and imitate it. Thank you!
You're welcome 😊
Wow, this video just blew my mind away! Gosh, I didn't understand before the difference between those vowel sounds! You nailed it explaining it so clearly and well that I honestly might say that I finally understood the difference and why some words have weird pronunciation! I can't find words to thank you man! That's great and brilliant content! You have my respect!
Haha, wow, I'm glad you found the video helpful! How are you typically learning Swedish?
My grandfathers were from Sweden but I never learned the language except for a few words. I'm currently learning on Duolingo and this has been invaluable for learning about the Swedish vowels. Tack!
Your name sounds very Swedish
Thanks so much- when you give specific word examples I find it particularly helpful!
I have been trying to watch a lot of Swedish television and I can find some dialects confusing so knowing which sounds are “standard” can really help me know what I should be aiming for.
Just beware though, that our "standard" is just a de facto media language and not a real standard. Standard Swedish basically means that we all write the same and use the same vocabulary. However, what I teach is what is normally taught as well.
Say It In Swedish -Good point. Very similar to BBC English here in the UK. Not many people talk exactly like that - but if you did, you would sound fine.
I suppose I am just trying to avoid sounding like a buffet of pronunciations from different dialects because I heard them from different people on TV. 😂
@@JayeCole I guess it's not exactly like BBC English since it, today at least, has some regional coloring, mostly from Stockholm. It was more obvious back in the day that it was a media language.
For me, in most cases:
A: Spanish A (make an oh sound sometimes) - Sjunga
Ä: Spanish E - Vänner
E: Spanish E - Studierade
I: Spanish I - Springa
J: Spanish I (not a vocal tho) - Sälja
G: Spanish I (not a vocal tho... sometimes) - Göra
Y: Spanish I but makes an oh shape with the mouth - Dyr
Å: Spanish O - Någon
Ö: Spanish O but pretending you are throwing up - Malmö
O: Spanish O most of the times but sounds like U sometimes for example - Ola (very common name)
U: Spanish U - Ursäkta
I hope it help the Spanish speakers, correct me if I'm wrong somewhere.
came to hear Swedish pronunciation lesson and was surprised to see a Roland Gaia in the background. Awesome.
I love the way you teach your language, you really are a good teacher❤❤❤
Thank you for explaining the “i” sound that I thought I had to master. For two years it has been driving me crazy. I have tried to make this sound and get stressed and angry with myself over it. As if sju wasn’t enough! ;-) which I think I’ve managed now. It makes so much sense the way you explain it, in English it would be like a cockney suddenly mixing in the way our Queen speaks, which would be ridiculous and totally out of place. That’s an extreme example to illustrate the point. I have grown to really dislike that “I” sound now. But I love Swedish, for me it’s the most lovely language. Tack så mycket, Joakim.
I have lived all my life in sweden, but somehow I came across this video and sat through all of it and enjoyed every letter.
Funny thing about the swedish letter R. I grew up in a small village of 600 people and yet you could hear all the different pronunciations just by going outside. Småland btw.
your videos are so helpful! :) tack så mycket!
Tack!!! I try to learn Swedish at an age above 60 :-) ... and this video is very very helpful for me (a German native speaker)
Weiter so! Es gibt auch deutsche Lektionen und Videos unter www.sprichmalschwedisch.com
@@sayitinswedish Hi! As a French speaker, I am wandering if I should learn from german or english (I am fluent in both languages). As there are some free courses, I will first try both of them. What do you think?
I remember Özz (a standup commedian) talking about when he was new in Sweden and the problems he had with "g"
Get (goat) G is pronounced as a "j"
Gem (paperclip) G is pronounced as "g"
Gelé (hair gel) G is pronounced as "sh"
Timestamps:
A - 1:15
B - 2:53
C - 3:16
D - 3:34
E- 3:46
Tack så mycket Joachim. Din presentation är mycket underhållande, livlig och informativ.
Detta är verkligen en snabbkurs och jag har blivit inlagd på sjukhus till följd av detta. Ha ha. Jag skojar bara. Du måste ha en viss språkutbildning eftersom du låter så kunnig. Jag har precis börjat lära mig svenska och kan redan skriva så här! Imponerande, va? Nej, för att vara ärlig använder jag DeepL som ett inlärningsverktyg samt för översättning så det är nästan säkert inte perfekt svenska.
Jag har ingen språkutbildning men jag har läst många böcker och uppsatser om svenskan.
This was so incredibly helpful! Thank you so much!
Cheers!
7:09 From the way you explain it, it sounds like a type of pronunciation that is socially regarded similarly to how some Italians perceive the ‘r’ pronounced in the back of the throat in Italian, similar to the French ‘r.’ Some people use it, but others might mock it as well.
Hey Joakim!
I'm a German who visited Sweden 3 times already. I think you are very kind people and I'm fascinated in your language. So I decided to start learning Swedish and hope do be able to communicate in Swedish when visiting Sweden next time.
I'm very glad you made this video, due to the fact that pronunciation feels like the hardest thing to learn for me.
Being able to speak German (as my native language), English and having learned Latin in school, grammar and many words aren't that difficult to learn. Structure of sentences is very similar to German and I guess grammar is easier in Swedish.
When it comes to pronunciation it is more difficult. In Swedish you don't pronounce every syllable written while German is very precise about that.
Tack och hejdå!
Hey das ist ja cool! Es freut mich, dass du dich für Schwedisch entschieden hast. Im Deutschen kann man auch ganz schön reduzieren. Leute sprechen ja normalerweise nicht immer 100% Hochdeutsch aber es ist richtig, dass es im Schweden etwas extremer ist, besonders da wir Wörter mit einander verbinden. Welchen Dialekt sprichst du?
@@sayitinswedish Hey. Das stimmt. Ich spreche allerdings fast ohne Dialekt, obwohl ich in Sachsen geboren bin und in Bayern lebe, wo es ja sehr prägnante Dialekte gibt. Irgendwie habe ich davon aber (bis auf ein paar Ausdrücke, die man in den Dialekten sehr häufig verwendet) kaum etwas übernommen.
Really enjoyed the video! If you don't mind a suggestion, something that would be helpful for the more complex letters and pronunciation would be if you spoke words as example? Could help the listeners understand the difference when it's in context. Thanks for sharing!
The reason I didn't add that is because the video is long as it is and I already have a pronunciation course that you can find here: www.sayitinswedish.com/course/pronunciation/
Okay, that makes a ton of sense about the different sounds... my cousin's husband is Swedish, and can speak English quite well... but I always wondered why it sounds like he's talking in a cave or tube... it's the vowels... Thank you for this realization!!!
Your videos are gold!
Aw thank you
Thank you for allowing for good humor while we are learning. 😁
swedish; weird spelling rules
english; speling anarchy
There are some similarities as in the etymology of the word decides how it's spelled. Any Swedish word with as sh-sound can be spelled Ch, c, sch, sh, g, and maybe something else that I've forgotten. The sh- and Ch-words are usually integrated loanwords from English, just as such are from German loan words
Hey you know the swedish and norwegian languages are way closer in pronounciation of the letters and their sounds (think phonetic aphabet) than english.
@@bellybutthole that's not really an achievement lol
@@theidioticbgilson1466 Achievement? It's just a fact man. You know, not every utterance of information is meant as a propogandic attitude of egotistical opinion;-)
@@bellybutthole what does that mean? i know what you meant by that but why did you feel it necessary to word what you were saying that way?
i was litterally saying english's spelling system is so bad that it isn't really something to be impressed about that your orthography is better than english. french is more phonemic than english. thai is more phonemic than english.
Some fun additions; Å and Ö is not only letters, they are also words. Fan vad duktig du är på att förklara! Very good video pal!
Hej! I am from Bangladesh and I have studied in Sweden (Stockholm University). I have tried to learn to Swedish, but it didn't work out for me, because effort was not there! After watching your videos during this quarantine time I am thinking to learn Swedish with some sort of seriousness. You are doing amazing job here.Thank you
That's cool! Good luck! Thanks for watching :)
Good lord, man! This is great content. I think it makes me a bit disheartened because I’d like to be able to get it close to right. It’s tough to learn because some Swedish friends just laugh and go into English rather than help with corrections. Again, great content. Tack!
Yeah, I've heard that Swedes aren't as encouraging as I thought with people learning Swedish.
I think people think they are being helpful, I consistently get the same result with Spanish speakers, they instantly switch to English. For a while I thought it was a “that’s our thing” reaction, but I guess we have to give them the benefit of the doubt.
I gave up learning Swedish because of the same situation, swedes laughed and never appreciated the effort of me trying to speak their language.
It’s unfortunate.
Tack så mycket. Det var mycket hjälpsamt. 👍👏🏆
Perfekt
Now I just feel like giving up, but that's on me thank you for your work, you are great
No need to give up, a perfect pronunciation isn't what makes a language useful.
Thank you for this video! I just started to learn swedish and I struggle most with the Rrrrr lol
I'm trying to learn Swedish English accent and this video helped me a lot
Then you should check out this video: th-cam.com/video/2T7kvXuytIs/w-d-xo.html
The word I always wanted to learn to say is: bil because I have only heard it pronounced using the i you explained at 6:45
Im not english, my native tongue doesnt have those issues you were talking about, but i gotta appreciate the effort and how effective your explanation was
Incredible content!! A deserved like and subscription. Tack så mycket!!!
Tack så himla mycket, Diego!
Hi! Great video and I love the IPA symbols!
In a scale from 1 to 5 where 1 is English and 5 is German, how PHONETIC is Swedish orthography? Are there reliable rules or clusters that respect always the same sounds? Is there a real connection between the writing and the speaking? I'm not sure if my question is clear xD
German isn't super "phonetic" either but Swedish might be just a bit more inconsequent, so maybe 3.5?
german is terrible at being phonetic... just take devoicing at the end of a word "Hund" becomes "Hunt" "ch" can be [ç] after i, e, ü, ö, ai, eu, äu but in every other case it's [χ]
and while I'm at it, eu and äu sound the same and are [ɔʏ̯] in IPA
As a person from the US hoping to move to Sweden one day, thank you for making this :]
The R sound isn’t a probleme. If you can’t use the R using the tip of the tongue you can talk as us in the south of Sweden were we use the R futher back in the month (as in French).
Astonishing! Thank you, that was pretty straight-forward guide :)
Loved the traditional Swedish music in the intro! Who is it by?
Music from Epidemic Sound, where lots of creators go for music.
Hej Joakim, great video! I was wondering if you could explain the sound that the letter "g" would make at the end of words/names like "Göteborg" or "älg" or basically any surname ending in "-berg". Tack så mycket!
Not much to explain, it's a half-vowel which we usually write as J. Like Y in You basically.
It's the preceding consonant that softens it up. L and G together is not comfortable.
That was a funny lesson! All these swedish sounds . I try to learn a bit of Swedish from Dutch. I already discovered myself that some letters sound different if they are followed by certain letters. Your explanation is usefull. I think it's a pretty hard language to learn because of the pronounciation. It is very unique.
👍
Perfect pronunciation is not required :)
Excellent. I love your energy and humour:)
Guten Morgen, Herr Joachim. You use phonetic symbols during your class. They help us a lot in our basic stage of learning. I am accustomed to International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). Moreover, you speak English in explaining Swedish segmental phonemes. I like your class.
Thank you so much for this! 😊
Awsome explanation! And funny too! Thank you!
Thank you for adding IPA it helps a lot ⭐️
Thank you so much for this crash course.
Very good, thank you very much
can never learn how to pronounce a trill sound but i love the retroflex sound hahahaha
Great video, so what’s the connect pronunciation of IKEA?
Definitely down with a new pitch accent video, btw🙃
I'm probably doing one on Tj and Sj sounds and one on pitch accent + stress.
Excellent tutorial and teaching style. I have trouble with the "i" sound. I heard another Swede on another channel say it and it sounds like they are squeezing the i.
Good video, makes my brain wanna implode with a massive fart noise that breaks the sound barrier.
I find it really helpful that you include verbal descriptions of mouth and face positions. I
unfortunately can’t use the onscreen information . I’m totally blind and use assistive technology to access my phone etc. I’m basically going to have to rely on descriptions of how to make particular sounds, example words and sentences, and probably some very wonky associations with similar-sounding English equivalents.
Sorry for the long post, I just wanted to raise some awareness of non-visual language learning issues and vent a little at the same time.
I understand that it can be a struggle. It's visual medium after all. On www.sayitinswedish.com, I've got lessons that are audio only. There are also lesson notes for each lesson.
@@sayitinswedish absolutely. Don't mind me, brain was on overload yesterday. Thanks again.
I would love to learn Swedish because is really beautiful and also is the second official language here in finland.
1. Hello from California.
2. I love my DuoLingo, but you are helping resolve a lot of confusion on sound versus spelling (said the woman raised in the spelling tangle of English).
3. I was pretty sure I was going to subscribe but the "gnome in the microphone" sealed the deal. 😆
Thank for all this.
Haha!
tack så mycket, Joachim.
Var så god!
tack så mycket! started learning 3 days ago! i'm starting college and want to learn a language! :)
Good luck!
Hej, Joakim. Jag lyssnade på din podcast och älskade det 😁👍 Jag hoppas att min svenska är okej, för jag försöker... Men lära mig väldigt långsamt. Den här videon var jättebra👍
I'm trying to stop translating to English in my head when listening to swedish, but damn that's harder than putting the words in there in the first place. 😄 The podcasts are extremely helpful! It sounds like you're teaching us what humans would actually say to each other instead of just a bunch of random words and phrases. Tack för allt och hejdå 🙃
That's the plan! Glad you're finding it helpful :)
Bra jobbat. Den är bra, man fattar vad det står. :)
The long i is one of the ones that gives me trouble, I'm glad to know it's not too big of a deal :)
Stress and length are more important than vowel quality anyway ;) What's your native language?
@@sayitinswedish I'm a native English speaker.
French here, just some thoughts about kör (the one meaning choir), in french it is called a "chœur" (from the word chorale) which is pronounced the exact same way.
Do not confuse it with "cœur", meaning "heart" and also pronounced the same.
Well.... Hejdå I guess ?
Hej, Joakim- ‘bra’ crash course! Tack- and wanted to assure you that your pronunciation of ‘pronunciation’ is fine actually in English as either sound is used unless you are worried about the proper London BBC announcer accent but that is only a small demographic for that and pretty much not emphasized anywhere else out of London
Haha! Just wanted to make sure people know I know. I've gotten comments in the past. So you're from England?
tack för fantastiskt lection
I remember when I learned to say sju. My gf was so excited that I could pronounce it. She said even the Norwegians couldn't do it. I could pronounce her name: Gunnel. And thirty years later, I can still do that, but I could not carry a conversation lol.
Hey, great video. I have a question about the letter "R". At 14:59 you said that Swedish people do not pronounce it like very roaring R, and rather soften it a bit, adding a bit of a "zh". I would like to know whether I will sound completely weird if I don't soften it and really use hard "R"? It's just because my native language is Russian, and for Russians it is common to use this unsoftened "R", and I kinda know that Spanish people have pretty much similar rough "R". It is hard for me to soften the "R" and add a slight "zh" to it. So will I sound strange if I don't do that?
Just use your R. It's within the spectrum of a Swedish R.
this is the only video ive watched that makes me feel like danish pronunciation may be easier ahhahahahhhhahhah thank u for your hard work and your explanations are helping a ton
danish use glottal stops and some weird d sounds that you won't find in swedish, think again :D
stød..... yes.. :o(
@@gwendolyndokbua3999 for instance
Ha! Danish pronouncation, ain't nobody understand that sh1t 😅
Thank you! I have subscribed to your channel!
Vad trevligt!
I am a Swede, and so I can say that learning from a Swede is much better than learning from a foreigner how well Swedish they ever have learned to speak.
Yesterday I felt I needed to give a correction to a foreigner giving a course in Swedish, as he told that in sentences, "jag" is only pronounced as "ja", and other ends are "always" left out, which to me as a Swede more sound like a teenager talking with buddies, so this was incorrect standardized in that video, which is my oppinion as a native speaker.
This guy is Swedish, so he knows a lot more about small differences, as you probably don't wish to sound like a teenager talking with buddies, if you are a grown up maybe planing to make a speach in front of an audience, struggeling with details in pronounciation.
This guy is Swedish, so he knows.
Recommended, even if I only have seen this video.
Saying that endings are left out only in colloquial conversations with your teenage buddies is wrong on so many levels. That's pretty much standard in spoken Swedish. However there is a continuum and one ending might not get dropped all the time even in the same sentence.
the vowel quality thing is confusing to me because in my native language, dutch, we also have vowel quality, but the "dark" vowels are the ones that are short, as opposed to swedish in which case they are the long vowels
Oh yeah, that's right! Explains a lot 😁
amazing video. Thank you.
Thank you!
Tjena, just a wee question to the "apostrophe" on the è: does the whatever you call it always imply that you pronounce the e like a kind of double vowel "ie". Hope you know what I mean....🤔
If you are talking about é then yes, it implies that its a long /e:/ sound :)
My brain is melting. Overall I appreciate your videos they are very helpful
Then watch the video in chunks and only learn those sounds in that section first.
You're an excellent teacher
Thank you, I'm doing my best.
Benny is pronounced Benni, right? Bennue...I learned that in (Martin) Beck on TV.
As a German the swedish A and Ä are tricky for me. The german Ä and swedish Ä are not quite the same and your swedish A sounds like a mix of A and O to me. Also the Å… whenever I see it my mind automatically makes a german A out of it, them I‘m like „oh no, the swedish A is like a mix of A and O (or just the english word „awe“)“ and THEN I‘m like „oh WAIT this is Å not A, damnit!“😂
And then I read O and have to say „U“, I read U and have to say „Ü“… understanding what is written is easy but saying it out loud is so tricky sometimes😄
My first day learning svenska hopping to learn more
How about "kanske"? Why sometimes I hear "kan-hweh" and sometimes "kan-sheh"? Like in "Det kanske inte är så farligt" is with "sheh" and in "Det bäste kanske inte hänt än" is "hweh"
Firstly, the sj sound can be pronounced as tj in a bunch of dialects. Second, "kanske" is a weird word since it doesn't follow word order rules. I also pronounce the word in both ways, totally at random but I think I'm leaning towards "kanhweh" here ;)
@Mikael E You can put it pretty much anywhere. It's just an adverb. You're right, it means 'can happen' or 'may happen' - there is a synonym 'kanhända' which means the same thing.
Both are valid. The latter is very common, it's a lazy minimum-effort exhalation sound that is easier than the 'sh'. It's how everyone says 'sju' (seven), 'shu' sounds posh.
You know, you cleared for me pronounciation of word sked in swedish.
Great!
19:27 - ohh, so that's where old minecraft damage sound came from
That was fascinating. My first language is French and I studied English at uni so I'm no stranger to phonetics. Can I ask though: am I right in thinking that the letter 'ä' in the conjugated verb form 'är' is pronounced [e:] even though it is placed before an 'r'?
[e:] or [æ:] are common depending on the region, sometimes it does become an [æ:r] and sometimes that R turns into a retroflex consonant if the next word starts on an S, T, D, N, or L.
Swedish is probably frustratingly challenging, but rewarding too! (Better quality of life than most countries...Hopefully...)
Great video. Thanks
I’m Swedish and really enjoyed this movie. Haven’t really thought of all these tricky sounds since I’m native. Tricky for a foreigner 🤔
The ordinary Swede is usually clueless about their own language. It's great of you to learn more about this!
thank you so much!! also my english teacher also say pronounciation instead of pronunciation so i say both HAHHAHHA
The letter A has three sounds in English as does I and O. These are the diphthongized vowels.
You're as good as this one Swede called GoSwedish! Sadly, GoSwedish closed her account, though I don't know why the hell she did. Nice to have another Swede to help me learn Swedish! Thanks a lot, dude!
Haven't heard about her.
Please make a video on OM and SOM, very confusing...The way you explain I am sure will be easier for alla
OM and SOM are not related so do you mean that you need an explanation for them both or do you mix them up?
@@sayitinswedish .. I get confused on both of them. So if you can provide examples in your own very style..
Your name in Spanish is pronounced Hoh-ah-keen and spelled Joaquín, great video BTW, Tack så mycket.
Though I interested in Norwegian studying I know this video is really super, SUPER cool. Like from me 👍 Moreover Scandinavian languages so intelligible with each other.
More or less, yes :)
18:02 Yes!!! And that's exactly how you get an Indian to like and subscribe to your video immediately!
Tack så mycket 😊
Muy bien. Si entiendo bien este video está hecho para los anglófonos, o ¿es que primero hay que aprender inglés para luego aprender el sueco? ¿No es así?
I think it is a little confusing to tell people that "b is voiced" (and similarly with other consonants). Even though this is true, it is not a special feature of Swedish pronunciation. It is the same exact quality as English b, French b, German b, etc. In all these languages the letter b represents the voiced labial plosive [b]. Might be better to just say, "b makes the same sound as in English" and leave it at that
Sure, it's just an extra piece of information. Maybe it's confusing to some. The video is already out there however and cannot be edited. It's however important to know when we talk about assimilations and reductions.
It can be, but for people who have a more difficult time grasping concepts and connecting things, it could be useful to them. My sister and I both grew up bilingual, but over time she never kept up with her Spanish so it’s OK but not where it should be for someone who is a native speaker. She can play ice hockey I can’t, even when she tried doing other languages, she just doesn’t get it. She does not have a disability it’s simply we’re not all good at the same things. People often say that trying to make connections between a native language and one you want to learn is a big mistake, but for some people it’s a useful tool.
Thank you so much .. that was verry useful for me .
I just subscrip you are very good in teaching ,thank you
Thank you 🙏
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