Basic pronunciation in Swedish

[fecesbomb]

TACK



[pleazzee]

I LOVE FICA !!

[cicisxn]

So...between 4:55 and 5:00 you are spelling or what? :))

[cicisxn]

R in 2:30 is kinda hot :)

[ShoeboxRacer]

Tusen tack!

[crangdaniel]

The most common swedish wordplays in swedish culture are. Men are disposable. Men should have no rights to opinion. give me half of your income after I divorce you and of course the famous, you will never get to see your children again.

[FanYay]

HAHA!!! You used Edward's picture for the word ugly! I like you already. XD

[slimabob]

This was an excelent video, I can't wait to see more!

[Pedrofrombrazil]

OOOOOO MMMMMMMMMMMM GGGGGGGGGGGGGGG! 5:17 to 5:26 What kind of sound is this?????? Impossible!!!! How do Swedes do this sound? You could make a video about how to pronounce this sound!!! OMG O_O

[Swim0n]

@Pedrofrombrazil Try to imitate the wind! schhhhhhhhh....that the sound of the wind! schhhhhhharmig!

[Pedrofrombrazil]

@Swim0n What!? I must imitate the wind /// or I must do schhhhhhh sound together with the imitation of the wind?

[Swim0n]

@Pedrofrombrazil No no! First, try to sound like the wind, that's how you make the "sch" sound! Sound like the wind and say "armig" afterwards. Schhhhh-armig! Get it?

[dearest1029]

I noticed that I used to speak "IKEA" wrongly......

[brandt003]

haha xD seriöst...pedobear? 2:14

[TangoMoodify]

häftigt!

[FreezeboxOfficial]

Marry me?

[no1zippyfan666]

I LOVE YOUR SHIRT!!!!

Also, thanks for the Swedish lesson ^_^

[GodOfUnbelief]

@Blasterwastelander let's have fica then

[logelamutp]

cutie

[Tollaree]

heter det verkligen tekila? inte teckuvilla?

[Bacsilove]

Is she still alive?

[SHER7067]

sloooowwww down!

[realjuvelive]

Thanks for your efforts

[queenOfilm]

Buddy Jesus!



[stillborn2]

Other letter combinations, not included in this video, that have a special pronunciation are "rt" and "rs"(okay, it was included but not explained) when followed by a vowel within the same part of a word. "rs" takes a pronunciation that sounds a lot like a soft k, but isn't exactly the same in standard Swedish, and "rt" sounds like how people from India pronounce their t's.

[stillborn2]

What I said in the previous post has some exceptions though, because we make stick words together into combinations, like they do in German as well. Therefore if k or g is the final letter of a part of a word and the initial letter of the following part is any of those vowels, those rules don't apply. Additionally there are borrowed words that require a hard k or g in front of a soft vowel.

[stillborn2]

In standard Swedish, we make the distinction between the sound of "soft k"/tj and rs/sch, even if this girl doesn't. It's so subtle nobody's gonna notice if you don't understand the difference though.

To clarify what I meant by soft k. The sound of k(as well as g) changes depending on what vowel it is followed by, pretty much in the same manner as c and g in English. The k and g take the soft sound when they're followed by any of these vowels: "eiyäö" but the hard sound when followed by "aouå".

[XxstoopidmonkayxX]

Estuvo muy chistoso la foto de jesus como ejemplo de zombi. Buen video.

[0Ruaiks0]

Jag gillar din skjorta :) (is that a correct sentence?)

[moonlightochsexand]

@0Ruaiks0 Yes it is a correct sentence but because she is waering a T-shirt you could either exchange the "skjorta" for "tröja" or "T-shirt". "skjorta" in Swedish means the button down shirts you usually see on guys. ^__^

[0Ruaiks0]

@moonlightochsexand okay :) tack så mycket!

[TheSverig]

You are so cute so i felt in love(

[bloom4428]

Don't be fooled. Swedish is very difficult to pronounceFor example . Some sounds do not occur in English. For example RT in kort, RG in korg,LJ in fotelj;.. SJ in sju.etc.I am American and lived jn Sweden for two years.I learned to speak Swedish quite well. Swedes notice when you don't pronounce correctly. Swedish is difficult.Insist on a good teacher. Dont hang around with other Americans you will never learn.

[AilenProof]

i learn scandinavian and thanks for the alpha-bet so nice accent :)

[MajorLogica]

this woman is adorable and her accent is sexy!.

[xXRubix21Xx]

Great vid. I'm trying to learn Swedish to get my foot in the door for Germanic languages (also learning Spanish for romance languages). I noticed a lot of the 2nd syllables in the words seemed to be accented. Could someone tell me if this is a trend in Swedish words?

[SpeakSwedishStupid]

I think you did a good job sharing your video! It is good when people are more exposed to videos about Sweden and its language! Cool that Youtube has channels like Sweden's channel and of course Speak Swedish Stupid that provides with information about the language!

Keep up the good job promoting Sweden :)

[badebaba25]

wat the hell...

[JohannaLovesBlood]

Um.. "Mars" is NOT pronounced with a sch-sound.

"RS" is not a kind of sch-sound in Swedish either.

Just so you know.

[chookiechooks]

Thanks for posting this clear pronunciation guide. Very good presentation. The different sounds of the vowels, esp å, ő, ä, are hard to distinguish at first. Good thing I found this before I practiced my mispronunciations to perfection or people would have thought I was Danish :-)

[biggestFan32]

i'm from greece and i find this a piece of cake.go see how greeks are speeking and how difficult our language is!!

[ThisSaturatedMind]

The "G" can be troublesome. "K" as well.

[grizzlykuma]

Stockholm dialect i see :P

[ninoboeing]

Haha Ikea

[Blasterwastelander]

Fika (fica) in italian means pussy...just saying

[TheCalifornianGuy]

hey omegle sweden girl, its me NARLOCH.. im sry i lost conection that time... talk to me with u see this message

[Pricipi]

@TheCalifornianGuy what girl? are talking abut?



[TheCalifornianGuy]

@Pricipi i dont know her name but she's a nice girl dude

[linnaingmyo]

i like.

you did good

[ajdaroz]

@Blasterwastelander In hungarian fika means mucus... yeah, it is less hardcore, but funny btw

[lxathu]

@Blasterwastelander Well, fika (exactly written and pronounced very similarly like the Swedish word) is the green material you remove from your nose with a tissue (or with your finger under the age of 4).

[MisterAlexadner]

@Blasterwastelander It's figa not fika. Perv

[pleazzee]

@Blasterwastelander si ma ci piace il fika (fica) in svezia ;) sono mezzo Italiano

[ArabianJesus]

you should really keep making these videos!!

[ohmykata]

swedish girls are so beautiful :)

[xXSolomonxXx]

OMFG!!!! Horrible canción has escogido, tu cuerpo te deseo? XD vaya tela, She sings in spanish at the end of the video, WTF!!! that's not serious.....

[MyJupiter92]

Russian???? i love russian girls!

[Ir0nF1st924]

lol @ "problem"

[Ir0nF1st924]

haha kackerlaka

[Psyondrax1]

I'm trying to study while listening to this video..can't do it

[MogleSweden]

*En... naken... nunna.*

[JoshDalzell]

Couldn't bare to learn Swedish now...

[meadowlane37]

nice to listen to.your English is excellent.

[hintertuxsurrey]

Very entertaining. Liked the song at the end.

[TheMostlyEvil]

SHUN THE NONE BELIEVER!! XDDDD

[Lambda25]

Massive T-shirt Win :)

[Tiwaking]

Jeg elsker denne!!

[TranceTips]

tack!

[pepehidrocalido]

Super bien tu español al ultimo jaja saludos desde mexico. You have this almost native english congrats!

[TinyLittleSilver]

Instant sub purely because of your "ugly" picture :D

Thank you for making my day!

[NFLAdam86]

You look just like Taylor Swift. :D

[VannyARTS]

MMMm nada mal con tu español.... not bad with your Spanish =D

[Lurrena]

lol at the zombie

[starsalzman]

so many bad ass references. silent hill, tollin, and everything else i cant remember lol

[epimachos]

I especially liked the Zz with Zebra and Zombie! Hahaha!! That's why I love sweds most of the times! And thanks for the lessons! Great stuff!

[pudutta]

good job!!!!!!! its really good



[JoshskaGeorgeski]

You forgot the "sh" sound for "k."

Like in "kärlek." And hopefully by now you got a new camera! Or at least fixed the background sound in the video.

But very nice video. :D

and I loved your reply about the michael jackson comment ;-D

[gulas0000]

that is hard >_<

[pooonastik1]

Var köpte du din tshirt? är det en enhörning med orden "shun shun"? haha vad fan..

[upiluften]

Yay for Mikael Blomkvist!

[meksikanskatt]

My spanish for your swedish anna!!! :D

[MWizH]

Naken Nunna

[xaxie1]

Your really Pretty :)

[VictorLeSong]

Is it just me or that "zombie" looks like Jesus?

[fredrik1138]

@VictorLeSong He did rise from the dead didn't he?

[VictorLeSong]

@fredrik1138 but he didn't run around screaming "Brain~!"

[AngryLookingBanana]

@VictorLeSong Yes thats the joke Jesus is a zombie somthing dead that resurrected

[HoldThisHandTightly]

WTF is up with the pics

[HesseJamez]

Swedish / German: Enhörning/ Einhorn - Kaffe /Kaffee - Geni /Genie - Kackerlacka/ Kakerlacke - Kakel/ Kachel - kall/ kalt - Wellpapp/ Wellpappe -

[kayuso]

@HesseJamez swedish is an Indo-European language and comes from the branch of the Germanic languages

[Chikotka]

Ay, ¡qué bonito! cantando en español. ¿te gusta el español?

[TheCoreLeader]

i found this easy to masturbate to :p

[VictorLeSong]

@TheCoreLeader Your love for languages is admirable, my good sir.

[Moo2566]

I saw a trollface in that ----- 1:48

[s28vnt18]

Thumbs up if you think Edward Cullen was a great representative of Ugly!!!

[EspritDeBottineQc]

lol ''Zombie'' = Jesus

[699backstab]

Can you fall in love by 0:06 ?

[ProkofievRules]

This was actually very helpful. I'm trying to learn swedish using rosetta stone and a few other resources. However, swedish pronunciation is very demanding so far as vowels are concerned. Listening to these sounds isn't enough you actually need to see someone making these sounds to see what the hell they're doing. Make moar videos plz n thanks!

[empoeta]

Great lesson! Thank you!

[Fonzidaboy]

Hmmz, skåning som jag är, så föreslår jag, att du omedelbart gör det lite svårare för dig själv och lägger upp en video som visar skillnader mellan dialekterna. :) Kom och tänka på det där med ordet "Mars" Där vi här nere (the deep south) uttalar R:et" mycket tyngre och hårdare än så, vilket gör det INTE till ett SHH" ljud. :)

[AlexanderScorp]

jejeje..I kike the final..." El cuerpo del deseo es todo lo que quiero cuando yo me entrego.."

[9Elle2]

Ahhh hard for me :D !!

[BelgianGeneral]

I've subscribed to Swedish evening classes because of this :)

[Freshbott2]

Haha I speak Swenglish with my Scandinavian friends, as I live in Australia and there aren't really any opportunities to expand my vocabulary. But next year I'm doing school in Sweden. Can't wait. You've got a strong Swedish accent but it sounds like there's a bit of British influence in it. Did you learn English in school?

[andreosterlindh]

naken nunna :D hahaha

[ericxxxl]

Mikle jakson forever!!

[apoct]

Jättebra, tacka! Jag kan inte gör 'r' riktigt, jag fuskar... Men jag lärde mig svenska från morsan och hon är en smålandare... Så hon kan inte gör det heller :P thanks again!

[withhe]

I am afraid swedish is very hard., but not so hard like Czech or Chinese. But what does it seem to be in 3:55??Jesus is called zombie in Sweden?..real surprise for me :o

[Olovlig]

Bra upplägg! Blev inspirerad av strukturen och effektiviteten. Good job

[nikhilgotmail]

Thank you for uploading this ! :) I recently moved to Sweden and I'm trying to learn Swedish. This is of great help !

[wahinesurfergirl]

So that's what IKEA for! Never knew it was abbreviated.

[teddyboysmith2]

was you on dawsons creek?

[NephosVG]

You sound Australian at the start of the video, you sexy beast you.

[b0ilhawk]

that was really helpful, tack sa mycket.

[GerardoMontalvo]

Tack så mycket! greetings from Mexico :) 

[KuyaBibi]

Hahaha tack så mycket!!!! Det är häftigt!!! Så roligt xD

Can't wait to move to Växjö i september!!! :)

Keep it up!

[NoFaithInFolklore]

They have free Swedish audio-books at librivox dot org for anyone who may be interested.

[NoFaithInFolklore]

Jag älskar zombie Jesus!

[yxoozo]

you have a pretty smile. And tack for the lesson

[VashTheStanpede1]

nice thanks and shalom

[jaimelamusiquebill]

Hi there! Really great video! =) It was realy helpful especially since I'm trying to teach myself Swedish. Does anyone also know any swedish bands singing in Swedish? I think that'd help a lot. Thanks in advance!

[lsy04083]

@jaimelamusiquebill

first that comes to mind is this

watch?v=Wtg5cTQ1WTs

Lycka till :)

[jaimelamusiquebill]

@lsy04083 Tack! =D Thanks loads for the recommendation!

[marhen4283]

@jaimelamusiquebill

Kent,

[jaimelamusiquebill]

@marhen4283 Thanks alot. If you know of any other simliar bands, do let me know cheers! =)

[mike11742069]

Beautiful girls with cute european accents. sighhhhhh :D

[theanonymoussynonym]

Hey, nice video, but I need help with something: sometimes you pronounce 'i' with that weird mouth position and sometimes like 'e' in english, also, sometimes you pronounce 'g' at the end like, let's say, in english word 'gum' and sometimes you pronounce it as 'y' in 'yellow'. why is that so? When and how to pronounce that?

Thank you

[duhhybrid]

naken nunna o.0

[Maidenfairy12]

o forget this its to hard im staying with german

[Hollenvaen]

@Maidenfairy12 German Advance Grammer < Swedish. Plus, Swedish is far nicer to listen to.+

[Raichely]

"ugly", "zombie"... I love you! hahahahahahaha

By the way: you are amazing! I love the final differences between all the vowels you do ;D

[Guayabadulce20]

Did she just sing" El Cuerpo del Deseo", as in, the soap opera? Lol!

[MrChantelleA]

LOL the Ugly picture!

[huevopanqueque]

i want more videos! i learned to say jag heter emilio och jag är nitton år gammal! :)

[amanda31416]

It is a good video. For the next one, I advice you to stress on pronunciation, repeating the word a couple of times and giving sometime for the student to practice. I know it will take some more time but you can direct your video, for example, in this way: "After watching the video, I want the student to be confident in both the meaning and pronunciation of about -for example- five words and have an idea of 10". ...Tack!!

[REDCLOUDX]

Haha I love the ugly with Edward

[halo3forlyfe]

lol pedobear and the trollface, good video.

[theprisoneroflove]

Thank you so much....you are really gr8! better my swedish course am taking...I understood from you the difference of Y and I ... Keep on

[theprisoneroflove]

Thank you so much....you are really gr8! better my swedish course am taking...I understood from you the difference of Y and I ... Keep on!

[8271652]

Thankyou, But the damn vowels still silting my throat, Can you please do another video in which you emphasis only on vowels? please.

[cabaq]

En grönsaksalien på "nyttig", det var även det första jag tänkte på!

[MadridHopper005]

wow you dont blink at all! haha and you speak spanska at the end? jag talar spanska! och im learning Swedish! tack for the vid.

[Svettjodd]

Varför inte använda den korrekta symbolen ≠ istället för != från språket C?

Vi är ju faktiskt inte begränsade till tvångströjan ascii längre, nu på 2010-talet.

MVH!

[EmptyHero]

i would like to cook my swedish meatballs in her dutch oven

if you know what i'm saying

[sondano]

LOL Jesus as zombie.

[Sorcererno]

hmm det står fortfarande F däruppe när du byter till G ^^ men bra jobbat :D

[skatebordstephen]

Nossa !essa menina esta gostosa e quente ,eu gosto dela!

[DBSKfan2009]

Jag har inga problem att läsa och förstå svenska lol oavsett hur mycket jag titta och lyssna på din video Jag kan inte uttala orden>. <Lol

[MsVinod87]

Thanks for uploading video..... it is very useful and clear

[unknown26041973]

When will you talk about time and days ?????

[SrslyLeeroy]

That smile.

[EllaSjoblom]

LMFAO UGLY EDWARD CULLEN JAG ALSKAR DIG OCH OCKSA TACK :)

[hurryupche]

do you come from africa?

[abulinixwhv]

Hey, that really helped me with the y, and its funny ;) Why does my swedish teacher doesn't look like you? :D

[Achilles94627]

Why do all you Swedish people speak such good English!? I really want to teach English in Sweden but I can't get a job!

[zeger88]

@Achilles94627 cuss we are influenced by american culture, movies, music, games, internet etc etc

[Horrorifico]

For a spanish speaker is so difficult to learn Swedish! :-S but I really like this language. Thanks for the video ;-)

Sebas.

[OgeronimonominoregO]

Kan du förklara regeln för att uttala sk inom "sked" som

sj inom "sju" kontra uttala den som "skola", vilken är en hård k ljud?

Tack.

[chuFFisTwo]

simply awesome. firefly, pedobear, napoleon, calvin and hobbes, seriously greatness with the references.

[MaxTheGhost]

I've always been interested in the swedish language cause of swedish friends I made through games and listening to them speak to eachother on skype/ventrilo. I don't know if I'll ever make the full step to learning the language fluently, but I know this video seems like a great place to start to get the basics :)

Thanks for this awesome video.

[MillionthUsername]

Jag är glad att du inte är längre en svårt man. : )

Thanks for the video. Please do more. I like the style

with the pictures.

Swedish pronunciation is a bit tricky for us English

speakers, but this was really helpful. I've also heard

'sjunga' pronounced with an F sound for the SJ.

Why is that?

[MillionthUsername]

Oops. That should be "en svart man." I always

confuse those two words. Perhaps when you

were a black man, you were difficult as well?