How to pronounce Æ, Ø and Å

How to pronounce the letter Æ, Ø and Å in norwegian.
A lot of people wonder about this, and not many knows that they do it in english all the time.

So, I made a video using FRAPS and Team Fortress 2 showing some things that has the right pronounciation of those three letters.

Feedback is welcome!

Music:
Black Debbath - A Brief Guide to Norwegian (Pocket Translator) from their album Welcome to Norway.

Team Fortress 2 is made by Valve.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Norwegian
• Team
• Fortress
• Pronounce
• AltF4
• Black
• Debbath

[SpudJunk]

Baller av stål! :)

[hellbrendy]

Javisst!

[th3warr1or]

å is pronounced like taunt so au? åstralia?

[hellbrendy]

Yes, exactly :) The "au" sound in many english words makes the "å" sound.

[theoroc]

hvorfor er jeg norsk og ser på dette?

[Cromag3]

That would be something like:

"Eyy!" like in "Eyy! Stop touching my balls mate!!". But you just replace the "E" in "Eyy" with "Ø" so it would be "Øyy!"

[DomanglianEmpire]

Ah, so å is "au", Ø is "u".

[JohnAbroBoi]

Æ=eh

Ø=u

Å=o

[zEMGx]

hvorfor er eg ser på dette =/

[silverblue73]

am i the only one who thought long a and said, "taint"?

[BeakyRed]

It costs 400,000 dollars to teach accent pronunciations for 12 seconds

[Endelite]

@lorax121323 Why "American English"?

It's called "short a" in British English too, it's only regional accents that make them sound different, but the official recognised pronunciation is still like the As in "whack that cat".

[Endelite]

Å is best represented as "aw", I would say, but not too long and with a bit of a long "o" feel instead. Kind of like "or" in horse but stretched to be longer and with no "r" sound, maybe with a curl to the mouth, but I think the "aw" idea helps with this.

"aw" as in "hawk" or maybe as if you are about to say "or what?" with the "orwh" merging into the one "å" sound.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I've tried to clarify all of these many times in different places and these all seem spot on to me. :D

[Endelite]

German and I believe Swedish use ä instead of ae and it sound similar to the English word "Air" (with no remaining "r" sound at the end though), whereas Finnish (ä), Estonian (ä), according to you, Norwegian (æ) and probably also Danish (æ), all use ae to sound more like a simple short "a" sound, like in "Apple", "sandwich" and "cat", although often more stretched, as if pronouncing that sound to a doctor with your mouth kept open.

Ö and Ø symbols = similar to "ur" in hurt, "er" in "fern".

[Endelite]

@hellbrendy In Australia, only those with the most thick (and unpleasant) accents pronounce the "Au" in Australia closely to the "or" sort of sound of å, so it's actually more like Ostralia than Åstralia.

Just a short "o" sound, not always emphasised either. U.S. Americans do I suppose try to pronounce it with more of a stretched "Aw--" sound to the au.

[xenover]

In Estonian, Ä is used instead of Æ, Ö is used instead of Ø and Å is simply O :D