Swedish Pronunciation Rules

"I åa ä e ö, å i öa ä e å" is a complete, grammatically correct sentence in Värmland dialect. (Standard Swedish: I ån finns det en ö, och på ön finns det en å.)

Why does the Swedish woman on Duolingo pronounce "de" as "dum"?

What kind of keyboard is that in the background, Joakim?

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Me: I can speak Italian, English, French, Spanish… I completed the A1 Chinese curse in a single month and I didn’t even enjoyed it…Swedish must be easier! Nothing can be harder than Chinese accents, right?
Me after 3 pages of the grammar book:
åh skit.

Säger man inte T-tröja längre

Det här är fan nyttigt för mig och jag har bott i Sverige hela mitt liv 🤣

Super helpful, but also very worried…

If it makes anyone feel better, I learned French from scratch and it’s 100 times harder to spell than Swedish. I think Swedish spelling patterns can be picked up pretty easily just by reading and memorizing.

Man, u are Brilliant!! Im sooooo glad Ive found u just in time, bcuz I have started to learn swedish 2 days ago. U explain and pronounce letters and words so good I can actually understand the differences. My teacher and u are very much alike in teaching, I will keep watching u and practise my swedish, wish me luck :D Tack sa mycket!

Sju skona sjukskoterskor :D

LOL. I love how LOUD you talk. I can HEAR you !

Wait! Was that FIka paus.....did you have a TEA bag in that FIKA CUP?????

Thank you for your videos!❤️

SJE Sound: pronounce a K but keep the second part longer, the breathy part

Hi,
I would like to ask you a clarification on the aspiration of p. You mentioned that p, as well as t and k, is aspirated when it is in the beginning of a word and when that syllable it belongs to is stressed. And you mentioned as an example the word polis. And although in ''polis'' the p is in the beginning of the word, the stress is not on the first syllable but on the second.
[pol'i:s]
So why is p still aspirated?
Thanks.

loving your faces where almost about to burst to laugh when you explaining something weirdly about to happen hahahaha taaaack så mycket

Jag älskar dina videor! Tack så mycket.

Thank you.

Jag gilla när du uttalar Ung och Ugn. Det lära mig.

Din förklaring är inte tråkigt. Tack så mycket. 👍👏🖐️🏆

You are talking about very important detaljer i svenska språk. Thank you. 👍👏

reglerna är inte enkla 😲

sju sköna sjuksköterskor

Tack så mycket! I started learning svenska about a month ago. I have books, and books and more books. None really come out and just say what you did in this video. When you said (paraphrasing here) "There aren't really any rules, you just have to learn it." Okay! And WOW this video has done more for my pronunciation than anything so far.

"The legendary sjuksköterska "🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

DJ BILLYBOOL brought me here

I AM GETTING A HEADACHE

Finska undrar varför ni spelar "ä" men du säger "e"?

It's funny that "dusch" means "shower" in Swedish, because "una ducha" is "a shower" in Spanish, and, if I'm
remembering correctly, "duchar" is the infinitive "shower."

Does Swedish have contractions like English?

The easiest way (for me) to get the SJ/SI etc. sound right is think of how you say "wh" in white, then stick an H on the front of that.."hwh".

As a French speaker learning German, I find Swedish pronunciation both extremely fascinating and impossible

Would "hagel" have a G or J sound? It has been some time since I studied Swedish but I remember that there are some words containing ...age... that have a G sound while others have J. Or maybe, just maybe, there is a difference between some dialects again.

While us Finns get taught "mandatory Swedish" in school, we are often given a very approximative pronunciation model, by which our speech will mostly be understood, but which doesn't necessarily go into nuances between dialects, and may make it hard for us to understand some of them.

I just started to learn swedish yesterday....although i dont know why but i found myself like this alphabeth Å...OA....look like smart A...but your video make me want to give up....those rules that you mention...seriously....how did u say "diskussion" ......."journalist" ...."station"........"kika".....thats why i got difficulty to pronounxe "skit" yesterday.....further, i should sleep with the swedish dictionary

Asså, jag blev mer förvirrad 😫

I think, many of those words can be pronounce a lot easier in some places in Sweden, because as we all know, Swedish can be very different in different places. I think that words like "diskussion" or "stattion" can be pronounce like it's spelled..without this H sound. Let me know what do you think 'bout that.

There is a logic if you know the origin of the word. But pronounciation has often changed with time.

Interestingly all these sounds are very easy for Arabic speakers.

What I have learnt from these videos is that instead of getting into the rules just memorise the pronunciation.

What I have learnt from these videos is that instead of getting into the rules just memorise the pronunciation.

I grew up with a dialect of American English where wh is pronounced as an unvoiced w. Is that roughly what sj should sound like?

I am particularly struggling with the pressed "ij" that is appearing everywhere like in "fika" for example.... I am fluent in German but it's so hard to pronounce this hahah.

Hi how can I pronounce the word “How” hur in Swedish? It’s so difficulty to pronounce this word!

Cool video. Tackar så jättemycket. Jag Subbed2 nu!!

At first I thought du -> ru was odd, then you gave the example sentence and I was like OH. At least when I speak quickly in English I don't know turns into I dunno which turns into I rro (hard to explain without audio but it feels similar)

I give up. I'm going back to Norsk bokmal.

I lierally can't understand what is the sound in words schach and chef, is it [h] with super intense attack (or aspiration?) sometimes it seems to me I hear [u] sound besides [h] or even [ua] /[ue]

As one of the ancients, let me say you are wonderful and I love all your videos. Tack!

I was looking for a pronunciation video I could watch multiple times, because like you said - it all comes to practice. And honestly, your video so far is the only one I could watch and rewatch again and again until I get my pronunciation level on a sub-optimal par!!! Thanks to that commentator, we got a really nice video from you