Norwegian even more so I'd say. Eastern Norwegian and Central + northern swedish is very melodic and elvish sounding because it has multiple tones. Western norwegian and southern swedish only has 1 tone because of danish influences.
This is by far the best alphabet video I have seen. On most I have a hard time hearing the differences but you have made it very clear and given good tips for remembering. Thank you!
Hej! The Swedish alphabet isn’t easy to remember, especially vowels, sounds so similar to me! But you made the best Swedish alphabet explanation in RU-vid, because it’s really working with associations - easier to remember! Tack så mycket 🙏
Also, I cannot tell you how much I genuinely appreciate the praise you give in the video. I’m sat here saying it along with you, practising my letters, listening to your advice, and every time you say “Bra!” I feel encouraged. It doesn’t matter that I am a fully grown woman, encouragement goes a long way whatever your age; you have a brilliant teaching style! 😀
Are there other like buttons to like this video??? I'm in love with your teaching you just make it so easy your passion is felt, you ve earned a subscriber!!!
3 days ago, I start learning Swedish and I'm struggling with alphabet pronunciation due to the website I'm using contain the sound without the lip and that make me guess how to pronounce it correctly. Thanks to this video, I can see the lip and you explain it very clear. I think I fully understand my very first step in learning Swedish eventually.
That is so sweet of you to say. It was our first video ever so it feels extra good to hear you find it useful because we had no experience of doing youtube videos back then.
Really agree with SFI failing on individual pronunciations of the letters. Very little focus on it. I would struggle to clearly spell out a word to someone on the phone for example.... so thank you for this!
I followed you from Facebook,I have to say this video is really helpful!! As a super newbie your pronunciation and explanations benefit me so much!! Please keep up good work thank you!!
What a pleasure to hear your "R" sound ... it 's the same sound in Italian ( ROSSO - ROSA - ORRORE....) Thank your for your very clear sounds teaching!
@@queenogt awesome! We are starting one course on that level in about 1 week! Maybe you should try us out this time instead. Here is the link to the course: elansutbildning.com/product/swedish-for-beginners-iii/
I've been able to speak Swedish to a certain level for quite a while, but didn't know the alphabet until just now, very similar to the German alphabet.
The only letter that I can’t pronounce is the i 😭 I can’t make it sound nasal 😔 I don’t know how to put my mouth and I think that in Spanish we don’t have any sound that can help me to associate the pronunciation 🥺. However, this video was really helpful! Tack så mycket!
The "i" is super tricky 😅. We will be doing a whole video on that one soon with some tips and tricks. But in the meantime, try to do it as nasal as possible 👃. Think of the posh "fresa" / "pijo" / "cheto" (depende del pais 🤔) accent and you might get closer to it.
I am so happy to have found your channel. You are very thorough,easy to follow and so pleasant. I just moved to Malmö from Canada and am struggling to learn Swedish. It's harder than I thought😂
Ouch, well the Malmö accent is a whole lesson itself haha it is kind of Swedish with influences of danish in it so even hard for Swedes up north to understand what they are saying. If you go to Lund you will notice a big difference in the accent, even though the cities are just like 20 minutes apart (by car)
Thank you so much, I'm speaking English as my second language, but French is my native language, and I can spell my name now in Swedish just from the alphabet... Really appreciate 🙏 ❤
Great job! Well done! Happy it helped. If you want to learn more Swedish with us then you should join our online Swedish courses :) Live-courses: elansutbildning.com/courses/ Online video courses: elansutbildning.teachable.com/
I am looking for the pronunciation of the alphabet as they would be written in Swedish. For example in English you could have: A: a B: bee C: see D: dee I am looking for something similar but in Swedish.
Wow! this is great! I have a Swedish hymnal (Lilla koralboken) that I am playing music from, and the pieces all have the titles and words in Swedish and it looks hard! but I'm finding in other videos of many of the tunes being sung by a congregation- what I am able to make out seems to be very phoenetic and pronounced pretty much the way the workds look, with the exceptions of the A with the o and the O with the dots and a few other differently pronounced letters. As a native English speaker I can say that the tendency is trying to "see" and pronounce non English words as we would in English, simply because they resemble the familiar English words and the brain is trying to make "sense" of what we are reading. The book title "lilla koralboken" once you know the translated name seems obvious because it's very similar; lilla= little, and koral= choral, boken= book
Another tune in the book has this for the first verse; Och det hände vid den tiden: till kung Davids Betlehem Josef och Maria rider, men där finns ej rum för dem. När Guds moder föda skall blir hon visad till ett stall. And there is a video where it's sung and I can hear the pronunciation fairly well, the word "rider" we would recognise and pronounce in English as "ry-der" like a horseback rider, but the singing in Swedish it's pronounced "ree-der" The google translate often chokes on words it cant translate, I'm not sure how well it translates and a lot of it seems to be a little "off" but here's the above words it translated; "And it happened at that time: to King David's Bethlehem Joseph and Mary ride, but there is no room for them. When the Mother of God will give birth she is shown to a stable." As it can be seen, google translation maybe does about a 75% job, it's readable, and one can get the basic idea of what the sentence, words or paragraph is about, but it leaves a lot to be desired for an actual proper translation.
Im watching this even though im from Sweden xD. I also love how you just randomly say swedish things like perfekt/bra. Also im from Skåne so if I was to pronounce the letters it would sound different but i dont think a foreigner could tell the diff.
Å has an official English dictionary description: Pronounced like the "o" in "more". The Ö sound varies dialectally; she uses is with a more open mouth than I would.
Best video for the topic, thank you so much really helpful! I'm interested in learning the northern accent, please let me know if there exist any resources online for the same as most of the media I find is in the southern and stockholm accent.
Oh, the northern accent! I dont know of anything specifically about learning northern accent. Not related to teaching the language at least. But we have a video about accents in the works 😁
Tack! But I think vowels are very important,hope you could do some separated vowels pronunciations like how to make trilled R or long short version etc. thank you :)
Tack så mycket, Daniella (sp?)! I think you have a real talent for teaching: lots of people know information and share it, but many fewer can understand the learning experience and reverse it into teaching (anyway, that's how it seems to me). I came to this one looking specifically for knowing rules about the different ways to pronounce "ä." I'm using Duolingo, too, and I hear this letter sometimes pronounce as I hear you say it (kind of like 'aah' at the dentist) but I also hear it pronounced more like 'ehh,' I think. (Supposedly the Duolingo TTS lady is from Uppsala, so maybe that has something to do with it?) . Like when I hear 'använder' it sounds a bit like 'ahnvendahr' to me. Are there rules for when it's 'aah' and when it's 'eh?'
Thanks for the comment and great observation! We are doing one video for each vowel. The Ä is coming out soon. But like you said, there is variation in the sound. Every Swedish vowel has a "short" and a "long" sound. Which sometimes differ not only in length. As a general rule, vowels sound "long" when followed by only 1 consonant. Like "päron". Which has the long sound of this video. If followed by 2 vowels, then the sound transforms. Like in "äpple". The double "p" makes it sound short. And in the case of the Ä, the short sound sounds more like an "e" in other languages. :D
@@FunSwedish Thanks! Also, just this week, Duolingo changed the TTS voice (!) and she has a *different* way of pronouncing words, too. Like the original TTS lady said "har" usually as "hoar," with an "oh" sound and the new lady says it with a long "hahr" sound similar to the American pronunciation of "far." Can't wait for the "ä" video!
Just Search Hindi Alphabets, You will find so much similarity in pronunciation same as Swedish.. Swedish is a Germanic language which has roots with Sanskrit
Изучение алфавита оказалось для меня сложным делом! Я записала всё, но до сих пор толком не поняла произношение некоторых букв (и тут одно из двух - или они действительно настолько сложные и нужно тренироваться - или не нужно запариваться на эту тему так сильно и произносить, как произносятся))). Благо, что их не очень много.) В любом случае, спасибо за Ваш прекрасный канал, улыбку и желание научить нас шведскому языку!!!
Det är väldigt bra för min bonus mamma för hon är finsk och pratar engelska och vill lära sig svenska hon är ganska bra på det! This is very good for my bonus mom. She is finish but talk english she is ok on swedish!!:):)
0:30 Thanks to Sweden, we have same letters in Finnish Alphabet (Å, Ä, Ö). :'D I don't know why, but youtube suggested this video to me (maybe RU-vid thinks, my Swedish sucks or I need to learn more Swedish [before you ask, my native language is Finnish, not Swedish]).
Welcome to the next level 😁. Särbo is really a compund word made up of 2 words: sär-bo. So there is an exception there... the rule does not apply right there, where the 2 words meet. Check out this video about that: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6IIPA9JeIBo.html
All great vids on the channel! One question about this one. The letter "J". Why do you pronounce it like "zheezh", while some other native speakers on YT pronounce it more like "yeiy" (or smth like that, I'm not strong in transcriptions), but definitely without two buzzing "zh" sounds...?
Hi, in the example you gave of “Jag är här nu” it sounded like you were saying “Joer här nu”. So, the jag as the Spanish “yo” and the “är” almost like together with the “yo” and taking the “er” sound instead. And this is one of the things I’ve been struggling with
Good! So the answer to your question has a lot of parts. The G in Jag is almost always silent. Then letter in Swedish are not the same as in Spanish. Then the Swedih J is a lot like the English Y. And maybe the Spanish Y as well (in most cases)- The A in Jag is also a Swedish A. Which is not really an O and not really an A (thinking spanish here). Is somewhere in between. The Är in Stockolm accent can be more like a Swedish E. Check out this video we made that has things like that: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-it1jbrsLLFg.html
@@tiagorocha3378 happy to hear that! If you ever feel like trying our blueberry video course, I am sure it will solve most of your pronunciation questions. elansutbildning.teachable.com/p/swedish-for-complete-beginners
Hej! Kul att du gillade videon. Jag har gjort en video om tj-ljudet. Här är den ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-RG_INusqsUY.html&ab_channel=FunSwedish
Together with Japanese, this is a ridiculously difficult language. I can speak some Dutch, Afrikaans, Spanish, German and even some Arabic. In most languages I can remember words because of some Germanic or Latin similar root. But just like French which supposedly has a Latin root like Spanish, I find nothing in the Nordic languages and can therefore remember nothing because there are almost no similarities to associate new words with. Sad but true in my case.
I am from Sweden myself and I can get what you mean. The swedish language can be pretty difficult but over time it will get easier the more you practice. I am sure one day you can master it!
Ok to be honest, after a long time dealing with the Swedish alphabet, this is the first time that I learned how to pronounce them correctly! Very very beneficial video!
