How to pronounce the Swedish K? - Swedish pronunciation - Learn Swedish in a Fun Way 

That is so interesting. Thanks for sharing!

Nice! Great way of training. Happy to help 😁

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@@conyjara6124 SAME

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Same!!

Impressive that you are studying all those languages! And thanks for sharing about your experience. Had no idea that Swedish was the clearest in pronunciation and accentuation. Super interesting!

Absolutly! Great idea :)

@@FunSwedish Du missade: Kåt.

@@FunSwedishbtw it’s true. I have just started learning Swedish, decided to do it with Norwegian at the same time (saw somewhere a piece of advice it might be easier to study 2 languages from the same group in parallel), and I can say pronunciation in Swedish is truly clearer. Maybe once I’ll extend my strength for Danish as well, but not for the time being 🙃

@@daianasheludkevych3335 It seems that after the Kalmar Union was dissolved and Gustav Vasa had defeated the Danes, older forms were purposely re-introduced into Swedish to make it different from Danish and Norwegian. Note that the Swedish name for Sweden ironically is still Danish, though - Sverige. Since the long form is 'Svea rike' it really ought to be 'Sverike', but it isn't. 'Rige' is the Danish form. Alternately it should be 'Sverie', which was an alternative form that still existed to the late 1800s. It might also be a so called hypercorrection, like when older people in the Stockholm region say "Det snögar" instead of "Det snöar" (If they actually still say so. I'm from Bohuslän, so I only know that they said so a few generations ago). But still strange that 'rike' becomes 'rige'.

Aw, I am glad you think so.

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Nose holes 😂. Amazing way of remembering.

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@@FunSwedish ooopssss sorry for the 💋 on your Lips or is that okay by you?

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Great! You got it! :)

Pronunciation in Czech is also quite clear, but there’s difficulty on the level of consonants 🙃

@@daianasheludkevych3335 I was going to put that all Slavic languages sound just about as clear as Swedish, but then I realised I'm not so familiar with Polish and Czech.. and Latvian and Bulgarian.. and a few others, so I just put down my Mother Tongue and the one other Slavic language I did study 😂😂

@@aliceberethart If I haven't remembered wrongly, there is also very slight similarities in certain grammar rules, pronunciation, etc, between Scandinavian and Slavic languages, because of a crossover of introduction of cultures to each other at one point in time, which may have contributed to the above and the clarity or slight familiarity

German, Italian and Spanish also have pretty clear pronunciation. English is totally messed up. It comes from the fact that it went through the Great Vowel Dance, just like the Nordic languages, but partly the Great Vowel Dance is still going on in English and partly authors and printers started changing the spelling to reflect the new pronunciation but then changed it back to the old spelling or changed it to a spelling that words never had in the first place.

I believe more than likely convergent... Like how Latin went from Hard C's to soft, W's to V's. Germanic languages mostly repeated hit replay. How Th became either T's or D's.

You are thinking of so called Church Latin. In classical Latin the C was always hard. Hence 'Kaiser' in German, which is almost as 'Caesar' was pronounced 2000 years ago. The Germans still pronounce it almost like their forefathers being the Roman emperor's bodyguards did. And the V sounded like a modern English W.

I was going to suggest that 🙌🏼✨

I understand that is quite difficult from English, but the sh/kh is the quite soft G in Dutch where we really have a hard G also.

Good one! Don’t they already have that though? We Dutch people find that one easy btw. It sounds exactly like our G sound with a bit of extra air added to it. Lucky me 😊

That one is coming soon 😁

if you can pronounce Juan in spanish, then you are gtg.

can u explain more? with my dialect i see 0% of H when i say this. Can it be the width of the mouth or something? Kolla K is K - no doubt.

@@brickan2 It is hard to explain, but yeah it is how the "k" is pronounced that makes a kind of "h". When people say a "k" both in Swedish and English, the sounds comes from the back of the mouth, and you do almost nothing with your lips when you say it, the sound is aspired. And it is not done only with the "k" but also with "p" and "t" also. In French the sound is unaspired and the lips are rounded just as much as when we pronounced an "o". The "k" is palatalised in French. The k is prononced much stronger, but in French the stress is often on the vowels. If "att kolla" was pronounced in French we would pronounced the "k" very minimally and the stress would be on the vowel like that: "kOlla". To compare Listen to this word in Swedish : en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sv-kon.ogg And this word in English: forvo.com/word/call/ And now listen to this word in French: fr.forvo.com/word/le_cours/ I hope my explanations are clearer. 😊 It is a very subtle difference anyway, but when one wants to be accent-free, it is good to know.

Funny thing is that yes this mostly true. Though I know I don't speak standard American and notice a slight favortism of vowels in Southern or over rhotic due to where I live has more Irish influence. So words with two stressed vowels lose a consonant when there's two so a city becomes from a standard cidy, to ci'Y. Butter turns into bU(y)ER A y semi-vowel not combination. Due to more contact with Romance speakers and 2 non standard varieties if English being spoken in the same area... It makes saying dental fricitives difficult to discern thought and fought with a change of vowel pitch and stress. Also I swear everyone is speaking faster these days leading to these changes. Also it makes pin and pen annoying

Me alegro saber que te ayuden nuestros videos para resolver dudas :) Tienes razón que "ost" es la palabra general para queso pero hay otro tipo de queso que se llama "keso" (más como cottage cheese) y se pronuncia igual como en español.

Super intressant! Tack, då vet vi att kex med k-ljud även funkar i Norrbotten. Kanske mer i södra Sverige som man säger shex?

Same in Russian...

Then this will be easier for you I guess! 😊

Yes, I agree! Could be that we borrowed it from French like many other words.

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Yes! Very close 😂

I understand the feeling. If we knew Dutch we would make one for you!

Hej hej! Not Danielle herself, but I've been learning Swedish for a while so I will help) IKEA is pronounced as ee-kay-ah, with a nasa 'ee' sound. Köttbullar is pronounced as you wrote, chicken as spelt as kyckling) The difference here, why 'k' has a 'k-uh' and 'sh-uh' sound is because of the vowels that come right after the k. It has to do with where the vowels are produced from within the vocal cavity)

Haha, ja. Även om jag säger k med k-ljud så håller jag med om att det nästan borde vara sh-ljud eftersom det följer regeln. Tack för att du delar med dina engelska vänner. Ja, vi har pratat lite om det i denna video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-17jcpsyDgII.html&ab_channel=FunSwedish

And one of those sounds that could be written with the less ambiguous Tj and the other with Q (without U).

Awesome! happy to help! 😊

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No, that is standard Swedish.

It's because it's a compound of Blek+inge. Blek is Swedish for "pale" and might mean "white". Blekinge was called so because of the water along its coast is almost "white" by sunny weather. It's cognate with 'Bela' in Belarus ("White Russia") and Belgorod ("White city"). BTW: Blekinge was mistakenly given to Denmark when drawing up the first border between the countries in the 1200s. It's not an original part of Skåneland but would rather be a part of Småland. This is not commonly known, I think.

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Yes, the Swedish u sounded like the German until around 1400 or so.

Exactly, it is an exception because it is a borrowed word from another language (romani I think).

Rather English "cakes" but yes, still true.

Great question! Kö is a borrowed word from French originally. And those have a tendency to break the normal Swedish rule since they are borrwed words :) Same thing with "keps".

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Thanks for sharing! That is very interesting.

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Haha , yes 🤣

Wikipedia says that it's a Swedish but onomatopoetic word.

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French : mon chéri, charité. English : I care for you, charity.

Precis, troligtvis så är det så (det finns lite olika teorier varifrån det kommer).

@@FunSwedish Det troligare är att det gamla uttalet på något sätt har bevarats eller att k:et är hårt för att det finns ett kortspel med samma namn med mjukt k. Wiktionary säger att det kommer från 'killing', ungefär som 'kid' på engelska. Vi har ju kvar det gamla uttalet av o i ord som 'sova' och 'kort' (adjektivet), som är helvenska ord.

Great question. Names can sometimes break the general k-rule because they are not Swedish names originally. Kikki is (normally) a nickname for Kristina / Christina.

@@FunSwedish tack! And there are also some words like enkelt, the k is a k-ljud

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😂 That is great to hear