How a person pronounce [ɧ] and our letter "u" is the most easy way to hear if you are a native Swedish speaker or not. Those sounds are more or less unique to Swedish and Norwegian. And I think those sounds are what foreigners struggle with the most when learning Swedish.

In Czechia I know of „koberec Höven“ - the rug named Höven. The funny thing is, that in Czech „koberec hoven“ means a rug full of shit.

@AuthLing

Жыл бұрын

Oops! That's really funny for many other Slavic speakers as well! 😁 And now you know that Swedes pronounce "Höven" quite different from "hoven".

I wonder if it was IKEA's evil plan to leave the original names for their products so they can make all the world learn Swedish 🤔 Svenska soft power 😂

@AuthLing

Жыл бұрын

I think so! And imagine how I ask a shop assistant to help me finding "Skärefly" or "Stjärnbräcka". The first time in life when someone hears the [ɧ] sound 😀

@gaukharbokanova3860

Жыл бұрын

@@AuthLing I imagine the poor non-Scandinavian salesperson who hears it 😅 For me the name "Skärefly" looks like "scarefly", something that scares flies away from your house (like scarecrow does with crows on the crop field)

This video leaves out a very important bit in pronouncing Swedish - Pitch accent and stress.

Great content! Thank you!

@AuthLing

Жыл бұрын

I am glad that you liked it! Thanks for watching!

One of their carpets is called HOVEN, which is funny for Czechs, because of words "koberec hoven" mean "carpeřt of sh*ts".

@AuthLing

10 ай бұрын

That's funny! Thanks for the comment!

Personally as a native Swede my accent is not very different from just standard. I’m from jönköping for reference. Also you didn’t go over pitch accent and stress which is a big part in Swedish But really good video overall Love from Sweden

I for one say sj as a deep throaty hhh. Love it😁

@AuthLing

Жыл бұрын

It's the most authentic Swedish sound that helps you to defrost a frozen window! That's why Northern Swedish uses [ɧ] in all positions 😀

As a Chinese, I have to say that IKEA did well in localization so that we can completely evade those complex Swedish names, since they have found everything a Chinese name with enough similarity to its original one in Swedish. E.g., Stjärnbräcka/欢布莱卡(huan bu lai ka), Stajlig/斯塔利(si ta li), etc. Thus, we can simply call those stuff in our mother tongue LOL😂Anyway, thank you so much for teaching me the authentic way to pronounce them, rather than using an approximation👍

So cool! Well done, great fonetical performance also!

This is the best video about Swedish I’ve seen by a non-native. Very well done! Although I noticed there was an error at 6:14. The y in kylklamp is long because it’s a compound word of kyl+klamp. You pronounced it with a short y which implies a compound between the nonsense words kylk+lamp. Also you really exaggerate the pitch accent at times but I think that only sounds strange to me because I’m from the north and we generally pronounce things with a falling tone more often.

@AuthLing

Жыл бұрын

I'm glad you liked my video! Several years ago Swedish motivated me to study phonetics and I enjoyed making a video about this wonderful language. All Swedish voice samples belong to my Swedish friend Alexander. There are five pitch accent types, depending on region, so I can suppose that his accent is different from yours.

@AuthLing

Жыл бұрын

I think you may appreciate this excellent video that describes dialectal variations of pitch accents. kzread.info/dash/bejne/aJNqkrGek5CeoMo.html

@AuthLing

Жыл бұрын

By the way, do you pronounce the short u and the short ö differently? E.g., do you distinguish words fördömande and fördummande?

@eljestLiv

Жыл бұрын

@@AuthLing They’re the same in my dialect

I speak Stockholm😊❤

Can you make Jawi because Jawi spelling is bit complicated.

@AuthLing

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the idea! I can mention Jawi in some of my next videos.

Will there be another video about Slavic languages? They're more interesting than Romance and Germanic (except Gothic and Icelandic) languages.

@AuthLing

Жыл бұрын

Try to guess what my next script is about 😉

@modmaker7617

Жыл бұрын

Let the man make videos he wants to make.