The Swedish J sound and HOW it works - Learn Swedish pronunciation
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2025
- The Swedish J sound is a very common. The Swedish letter J has a different pronuciation than the English J.
And the Swedish J sound also comes up in some Swedish letter combinations.
For example the DJ in Djur is pornounced as the Swedish J sound. The D is silent.
Also the combinations -RG is pronounced with the Swedish J sound. Like in the Swedish word Berg.
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I chuckled every time when I encounter the word "älgen" during Duolingo session. It sounds so ALIEN to me.
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Aaaaah, same here 😅
I love how im from Sweden but I'm still listening to this
lmao same
@@himfromscandinavian5354 sur?
I always am reminded of this when I see the word “hjälp”. You “yelp” for help! I love languages. Thanks for the video.
Thank you so much for this video and the others. It really helps to learn Swedish and you know how to do it fun way :) Tack så mycket :)
Glad you enjoyed it!
The change G -> J before front vowels has in fact happened in English as well. For example, YELLOW. Its cognates in other Germanic languages often still have a G.
Yes, true. Also “garn” is “yarn” and “i går” like days of “yore”. Or “gestern” and “yesterday”
Amazing....Every time I watch your videos, I always learn something new about the Swedish stuffs😅😅...Thank u so mch!!!... Saludos 🇵🇪🇵🇪!!
Happy to hear that!
¡Saludos a ti también! 😊
She sounds so positive and kid friendly until 2:17
Changed your image after talking about 😈
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Dina videor är såå hjälpsam! Jag lär mej så många nya saker när jag tittar på dem!
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Please keep making those videos
Best comment ever! That is exactly our goal. Make Swedish fun to learn 😊.
Happy to hear that you can already read books!
If I was not from Sweden looking at this shit i'd want to be as far away from the Swedish language as possible.
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Gracias por este video, Daniella!
De nada 😊
Dina videor är så tydliga. Tack så mycket.
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Fin video, eftersom att många uttalar bokstaven "J" med ett litet tyst "D" framför, som engelska ordet "jeans" där folk säger "djeans" - - vilket då vore helt inkorrekt på svenska - - eftersom bokstaven "J" härstammar från boktaven "I" (i).
Så skönt att någon kunde klargöra detta en gång för alla
4:21 Hehe that is one of my favorites!
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6:50 I don't blame y'all Swedes for feeling that way -- not one bit. I may be a Texan from the U.S.A., but I must admit that I too get sick and tired to you-know-what of hearing things mispronounced correctly.
I hate to brag, but it's better to be honest -- I love learning foreign languages so much, and I do get very stickler-like with pronounciation, hehe.
Tack för den här videon, den är mycket hjälpsam :)
Vad glada vi blir 😊
Dina videor är roliga, men de vore bli mer hjälpsamt och du gjorde dem på svenska.
Kul att höra! Vi väljer att göra dem på engelska så att fler kan förstå och för att vi även lär ut kultur och inte bara språk. Däremot finns det jättemånga andra youtubers som är bra som endast pratar på svenska 🙂
Hey I’m from Finland and we always pronounce every single letter. So, I’ve always wondered when I can drop the r sound. I heard you not saying the r every time. Like when you were saying ”här videon” the r was silent. Or ”gjorden” which sounds ”joden”. hälsningar från Finland! 🇸🇪🇫🇮
Happy to help! I also think that Finland has a quite particularly strong R in every case.
Which is one of the things that is the quickest tells for Swedes, when the person has that accent.
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When you introduce nouns, please tell use the appropriate article. Tak så mycket!
That is good feedback! WE will try to do that in the future.
Yet another Great video ;) Tack Tack
Glad you enjoyed!
Vinjetten till denna video fick mej att skratta lite... ;-)
Thanks for your videos! They are well done.
Glad you like them!
About moose and elk; here in Canada they are two different animals. An älg is what we would call a moose, whereas elk are.quite different, although they are in the same family as moose and deer and caribou. (I just started tutoring a couple of months ago to learn Finnish, and my teacher was so surprised when I told her that they aren't the same. 😂) Elk are also called Wapiti in some First Nations languages.
Swedish has some issues with the difference between animals 😂.
Bläckfisk work for all "fishes that have ink" like octopus and squid as well. So there is a lot of confusion 😂😅🙈
@@FunSwedish Haha, well in this case the confusion is understandable; "Älg" sounds a lot closer to "Elk" than "Moose", which I believe is also another First Nations word for the animal that made its way into our English.
Can you make a video about the Swedish g?
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Tack så mycket för videon, grazie tante per il video :)
Prego! 😊
Hola Daniela! sin dudas el mejor canal para aprender sueco! Sos muy didáctica y simpática tambien :) estaría bueno que hagas videos sobre la pronunciación para hispanohablantes. Saludos desde Buenos Aires!
Muchas gracias por tus palabras 😍 Buena idea. Lo haremos sin duda en el futuro. Saludos a nuestra querida Buenis Aires desde Suecia!
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Can you discuss the "sj" combination. Always thought it was the same as English "sh", but seems to be more of a "hw" sound (?).
She already has. th-cam.com/video/RG_INusqsUY/w-d-xo.html
it depends on the dialect. Stockholm pronounces it closer to a hw sound, whereas some others will pronounce it as a sh. generally the lower you go in Sweden, the closer it is to a hw
Exactly! We did a video about it. Just here: th-cam.com/video/RG_INusqsUY/w-d-xo.html
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Wait, can gärna be used swedish questions too?
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Well done! Very helpfull, thank you! Bra, att jag har prenumererat pa kanalen! Hey da!
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Vivo en Suecia y siempre que me preguntan si pronuncian bien mi nombre necesito explicar que la pronunciación de mi nombre (Jimena) en español es más una H en sueco. Con los hablantes de árabe es común que me llamen Jemina (suena a Yemina), así que es caso perdido en cualquier idioma jajaja. Sencillamente les digo que la pronuncien como quieran, porque me da flojera explicar lo mismo mil veces.
Saludos y buen video! :D
Jajajaja... puede pasar. Es díficil sacarse de la cabeza las cosas con las que hemos crecido. Tanto para los Suecos como para los que buscan aprender sueco 😊
Hello, I have a question! In the word "Borg" why do we pronounce as bOrg like the "O" in english? I thought the letter "O" in swedish was pronounced as "U" so following the alphabet rules I'd say "bUrg" ... I'm studying swedish on my own so I'm sorry if it sounds like a dumb question. Thank you.
That is a GREAT question! You just stumbled upon a KEY rule of Swedish pronuciation. EVERY vowel has a "short" and a "long" sound.
The long "O" sounds more like U. (And you get the long sound when you only have 1 consonant after).
The short "O" sounds more like O (in Spanish). (And you get the long sound when you only have 2 consonants after the O).
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Hur många svenskar som bor i Sverige är här och tittar? 🙋♂️
Vad roligt
I picked up German and English easily....but svensk is more difficult exactly cuz a pronunciation.
Swedish pronunciaiton is the trickiest part of Swedish for sure!
I think many of us Swedes pronounce /j/ in the letter's name exactly or almost exactly like we pronounce it in ordinary words. I never pronounce the name of letter J with a sound as fricative as the one you teach.
We have many different dialects in Sweden :) Some might do it more our way and others your way. Non is more correct than the other. I can only teach the dialect I have but feel free to add more ways of pronuncing things.
I also ignore all of the L's only take W's 4:26
6:14 💗
Någon som pratar "muminsvenska" kan uttala "d" i djurgården. :)
0:33 sounds like ssjjjieesshh or just zzzzzsjiee 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
As someone who was an exchange student in Norway many years ago and learnt Norwegian, some of this sounds similar to Norwegian 😀 and some of it sounds just plain weird 🤔😏😮
Or maybe Norwegian sounds similar to Swedish 😂.
To be fair, Norwegian and Swedish are like brothers.
So learning Swedish, you will get a lot "for free" from your Norwegian knowledge. You just need to sound less happy 😊
Weird? Compared to what?
Awesome! I love learning the very first ever heard new language, like a baby! I wanted to know Greta Thunberg pronounced correctly and this almost did it. One thing, I've laso heard what sounds like Thunberya...a slight "a" so is it that or just a straight up Thunbery? Thanks!
It’s ”Tunbärj”
Kollar på detta ändå om jag är svensk
... what about this : och ( akk ) också ( akksa ) som ( sam ) där o ut-talas sam a i alfabetet akk inntte sam o i oljud eller oxe ,även å i också uttalas som a.
Tack så mycket! Jag studerar svenska språk och du hjälper mig 😊
Im from sweden
@The Jedi Master it's ok it's no different on who you are you are beautiful the way you are and I dont care if your not from Sweden your yourself
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Im from sweden = jag är från Sverige:)
Correction - it's "I am from Sweden" or "I'm from Sweden".
So, if My name in latvian is Gatis, i am more like Jatis for swedish? :D
Fortunately, the G does not always have the J sound.
Most times it has a regular G sound. The RG combination is what makes it have a J sound.
(Also... G with eiyäö can be a bit wierd 😅)
But with A is fine 😊
When I was a teenager and my brother moved to Sweden from the US, he lived in Göteborg and I heard it before I ever saw it spelled. Even I, as an American, cringe when I hear "Gothenburg." Like fingernails on a chalkboard! Oh... that's a good question, is there a phrase like that in Sweden? An idiom for when something is awful or painful to hear (or see)? Great lesson, as usual!
I guess you could say "Naglar mot en griffeltavla", ie the literal translation.
Gothenburg is from the Latin form Gothoburgum. If you go back in time, it would actually have sounded similar in Swedish too. If the city had existed 800 years ago, it would have been "Gautaborg" and at least the first g would definitely have been hard.
@@francisdec1615 Correct, but we can also and mostly just use the verb "rysa" ( = shudder)
danish is much easier. we dont skip the letters so much in swedish like DJ and GJ combinations.
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Why in most other "Alphabet videos" they pronounce the letter "J" as "Yee" and not as "Zheezh"? Are you sure that the official pronunciation of this letter in the modern Swedish alphabet is "Zheezh"? Also, if you listen to yourself carefully in this video, then on 0:28 your are pronouncing it as "zheezh", then on 1:15 you're saying "Yee", and on 4:26 it's like you're saying "yzh" (hard to write it, bit definitely neither "zheezh" nor "yee"). So this all is very mixed up. Since the Russian language (my native) has the letter "й" which is the same sound as in the word "Gjort", it's easy for me to say these words that you provide, however, I don't understand what is the correct way of saying the letter "J" in the alphabet (my teacher says it's rather "yee" and you are saying it's "zheezh") and why do you say something like "yzh" on 4:26.
[ʝ] (the wheezing j sound, in linguistics called "voiced palatal fricative") and [j] (as in "yee" - "voiced palatal approximant") are so called "allophones" in Swedish, i.e. neither of them are more correct than the other and they are more or less interchangeable. And as you heard she used both of them, most certainly unconsciously. I'm sure that I make use of both too without even thinking of it (I'm from the Gothenburg area) 🤷♂️ Anyway there doesn't really exist an "official pronunciation" of Swedish. But I suspect you think of rikssvenska (Standard Swedish)?
@@joniskahavet Yes, that's right, standard. And thank you for the interesting response!
I am here for the fun, not for the Swedish... My girlfriend forbade me to say anything in Swedish (she considers my pronunciation a cultural crime).
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Check out our pronunciation playlist. Might help apeace your girlfriend 😊
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@@FunSwedish I think I checked everything you have and, honestly, I enjoy it all. It's a lot of fun for me... On the other hand, you have the accent I need to understand (South of Stockholm). It is helping me a lot.
Swedish: jöteborj
French: goteborgue
Swedish: * facepalm * 🤦♀️
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I can't pronounce SJU 😢
yeEEeey 0:28
Yesterday I dreamt that I was living in Stockholm... Very weird....
Du låter som att du uttalar "J" som "jij". "Ji" säger man.
Entertaining video, although I do disagree with you when it comes to the pronounciation of the letter J! I would argue that it actually should be pronounced more the way you said the letter's "name", at least in front of vowels, and the same goes for the letter G in front of soft vowels. I would also argue that the combination hj should be pronounced more like an i (in Swedish), like i-elp (hjälp) and i-ärna (hjärna). That way you're able to hear the difference between words like "jul" and "hjul", as well as "gärna" and "hjärna".
I do disagree with you as regards the pronounciation of the combination 'hj' - it should NOT be pronounced like an i (in Swedish), like i-elp (hjälp) and i-ärna (hjärna). I have never ever heard anyone pronounce it that way.
You speak too fast!
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mojang is pronounced mojheesang, okay i got it