Learning swedish
So I finally started learning Swedish. Learned a few words, verbs and sentence contruction.
Jag, du, hon/han, vi, ni, de
är, äter, dricker, har
Kvinna, pojke, flicka, man, bröd, vatten, mjölk, äpple, smörgås, tidning, brev, bok,
En, ett
But I am a little lost on the pronunciation yet, wondering if the G in Jag is spoken and if ä, ö and y are the same as in german, any swedes around to help me with that?
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The G in Jag is a bit tricky, when native speakers use jag in a sentence we usually don't say the G, but if you just say the word alone the G is spoken. I guess you can compare it to the word "especially" when you read it alone you pronounce the e but in a sentence you usually don't. It's not wrong to pronounce the G in jag but native speakers usually don't.
I'm not sure how ä å and y are pronounced in german and it's very hard to explain how we pronounce it, I recommend trying to find a video or something when someone speaks slow swedish.
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The Wikipedia article about Swedish phonology is a pretty good resource to get an inkling about the vowels (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_phonology#Vowels). It has some good examples, using minimal pairs (-ish) to show how the vowels change with regards to length (short vs. long).
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Using this site: https://www.thoughtco.com/the-german-alphabet-1444644, I'd say that å = German o, ä = German umlaut ä, ö = German umlaut ö and y = German ü. We also use either short or long vowels in Swedish, where the long vowels are just elongated similar sounds.
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Thanx for the help Tomas!
I was wondering because I can't hear the g in jag when it's in a sentence.
About the vowels, what I mean is, in German ä = ae, ö= oe and y = ui
Is it the same in Swedish?
I can't pronouce grutural sounds anyway *lol*
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Great question! As you will hear when listening to Swedish people talking they most commonly omit the "g" in Jag. That is useful to know for your listening comprehension. But the correct way to pronounce is including the "g".
When it comes to Ä, Ö and Y, they all are a bit more throaty in german just like the the german "R" is completely more down in the throat. Therefore I would try to look at the Swedish letter as a new framework of making sounds to get the pronunciation correct.
Hope this helps, Cheers!
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