Audiobook Narrator Matt Haynes SWEDISH ACCENT 

What a great, easy tip. I'll be incorporating this into my weekly practice time.

@Mi thank yew for the ree-yin-forceeng coemment

He is speakign with a German accent. Not Swedish.

And yes, i would know. I´m a Swede. Get on my level.

hejmeli If he was talking with a German accent then his w's would sound like v's, and his and's would sound and spell like und. His the's would sound he's sounding it out with a z. I recommend watching a video either from the anime Hetalia with Germany in it or looking up a video with a German person speaking in English.

Well its NOT at all a Swedish accent xD

To be fair, same. Seriously, it sounds like a mix of Irish, Scottish, German, and Norwegian to me.

It sounds like a Scottish mix between German and Dutch

How did it go?

If this were my Chicago video, I'd go Blues Brothers on you and correct your wording to "Gad's Work"

Tyckte du oxå det var skummt ? Btw mitt namn är ett skämt

ja, haha

Thelma Shirin är inte det I skottland

I heard that some parts of Sweden don't roll the r:s that true?

@@reaver8338 Yes south of Sweden

agree

Sebastian P thanks

Swedish? For Shrek? Explain!

Niklas Svedenlind He isn't doing a pitch accent, he's doing one that actually came into existence after the world wars. I speak an accent nearly close to his fake one, but he still got the r's wrong.

It never was. Sure, we got many Plattdeutch and Dutch loan words via the Hansa league in the middle ages, but Sweden and Swedish is much older than Germany as a state as well as the so called standard German that is spoken today.

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Oh goodness, is that his accent? I thought he was doing rural American south?

Wonderful specific feedback. Thank you!

Also, do you have any examples I can go to for Swedish people with a distinct accent when talking in English? Most of the ones I have found have such good English, it's hard for me to find qualities to latch onto.

@@narratormatt Hmm.. maybe you could check out LEMMiNOs videos, he has a pretty destinct accent especially in his older ones. Katrin Brendt also has a rather audiable accent, not as thick as LEMMiNOs, but still pretty obvious. She also made two quit funny videos about the language. One is called "swedish language: stupid pronouncuations"and the other is "swenglish: how to spot a swede speaking english". Also, there is a swedish series on Netflix called "quicksand". The series is of course origianlly in swedish but it has an english dub done by the original swedish cast. I usally wouldn't recomend a dub, but it's an alternative if you just want to listen to the swedish accent. There is also the norweigan comedy series "Norsemen". The actors are norweigan (or atleast scandinavian) but they all speak in english. I know you wanted swedish, but the norweigan accent is quit similar to the swedish one, just more extrem in pronouncation and a slightly more distinguishable melody. In fact listning to a norweigen accent might help you quit a bit with the swedish accent. Just to really hear the difference in melody and pronaunciation. I hope this helps.

@@rebeccaosser4907 eeexcellent.

@@rebeccaosser4907 veeery helpful. I've just added those names to my notebook.

Wolfie54545 Jag är filippinsk👍

That sounds German.

Most of it is wrong tbh.

Well, let's chip away at the hard truth in the name of progress. What suggestions do you have?

I think you base a lot of the accent on German (mixed with other European accents) and that is false. Firstly, Swedes elongate their vowels, and some of the Swedish pitch accent may be present, as it’s a sing-songy language.Some consonants are pronounced differently, so that for example cheap and sheep are pronounced the same way (“this discount makes it very sheep” can be heard. Corresponds to tj sound in Swedish). The sound g is softened to yee (this actually happened in English historically, compare yester/day to German hard g gester/n)Then there comes the terminology. Swedes believe that their language is more similar to English than it actually is. So you may hear “I will learn you” instead of “will teach you”, because lära/learn is used with a pronoun, “I learn” is “jag lär mig/I learn me” with a reflexive pronoun and that makes “jag lär dig a natural extension of that rule. Same thing with “I loan you” when they mean “lend”. They also use the word “funny” when they mean “fun” (the Swedish word rolig has both senses). It’s just the tip of the iceberg, but I hope it’s somewhat helpful in reorienting yourself.

@@fredjanelidze5481 This is wonderful. Thank you! We're all stand to benefit from this as a resource.