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Predicting Swedish Vowel Length

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2024 ж. 13 Мам.
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This video explains how to predict vowel length from Swedish spelling. Conveying whether a vowel or a consonant is long is a central part of Swedish spelling, and knowing how to tell this is vital to understanding written Swedish.
Through this video, you will learn not only how to spot long vowels (and consonants), but you will get a better understanding of how the Swedish spelling system functions.
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  • this is so far the best explanation on swedish sounds. you pointed out the subtle features and that makes things a lot clearer.

    @oozzziiii@oozzziiii8 жыл бұрын

    • Thank you very much for your kind words!

      @AcademiaCervena@AcademiaCervena8 жыл бұрын

  • This channel deserves more attention!

    @rein1@rein19 жыл бұрын

  • "that's essentially it for the most part but... we have a lot of exceptions..." - And I'm like : Oh, no. not this, please :( "...and a lot of alternative patterns to go through..." Oh my gosh, please, no, stop it. Lol

    @sealkeen@sealkeen5 жыл бұрын

    • That's pretty much every language, we just don't think about it in our native language because it's instinctive but, they'll all have tons of exceptions, overlapping sounds and a lot of accepted mistakes and contractions on spoken language :)

      @eduronqui@eduronqui4 жыл бұрын

  • Your class is of immense help. I've been learning Swedish for a month now since I intent to move to Sweden sometime in 2017. I speak German and this is both helping and confusing at times. Tack så mycket!

    @alarmingproximity@alarmingproximity7 жыл бұрын

    • Thank you very much!

      @AcademiaCervena@AcademiaCervena7 жыл бұрын

    • Did you move to Sweden?

      @LOrco_@LOrco_4 жыл бұрын

    • @@LOrco_ I went to Norway for a year and now I am back. I did visit Sweden though :)

      @alarmingproximity@alarmingproximity4 жыл бұрын

  • Tack så mycket. De flesta hjälp förklaringar av svenska på KZhead.

    @CollieNike3@CollieNike38 жыл бұрын

  • I watch all of your videos just because I like hearing you pronounce Swedish words.

    @ilyakogan@ilyakogan3 жыл бұрын

  • Nice. The m and n spelling exceptions explain why we have "man" but also "mannen", or "vän" but "vännen". p.s. Swedish vowels can be long or short but they are always painful. ;)

    @NaumRusomarov@NaumRusomarov6 жыл бұрын

  • Awesome and clear video. On 5:50: "kanon" comes in both a long and a short form with altering meanings. And then kanel, kanyl, manet, manege etc, as well as sifon, senil, keton, niacin, palaver, multiplikator... anytime you have a stressed long vowel at second place or later, the one just before it is *short* by rule regardless of consonants.

    @perarheim1255@perarheim12555 жыл бұрын

  • tack så mycket

    @megaelliott@megaelliott9 жыл бұрын

  • i am attending a swedish classs for about 4 months nnow because i wanna go to sweden for an intership. i get the language feeling now but there are sooo many exceptions its infuriating. thank you for pointing all the pronunciations :)

    @Answerisequal42@Answerisequal426 жыл бұрын

  • Thank you for your video!!!And a vokal followed by RT(in the video you just say RL,RN,RD,LN) ,is it also pronunced long?

    @juliogdufs@juliogdufs8 жыл бұрын

    • No, before _rs_ and _rt_ the vowel is usually short! :)

      @AcademiaCervena@AcademiaCervena7 жыл бұрын

    • Wouldnt that depend on where you live though? Here in the south words like ort, bort, snart the vowel becomes long as we often make the "r" silent. (ååt, bååt, snaat)

      @cuffzter@cuffzter6 жыл бұрын

    • @@cuffzter Teaching accents is way more complicated. I live in Northern värmland e.t.c and we chopp off the words. Kasta - Kast Springa - Spring Vad hadde du för dig idag då? - Va haddu förä ida ra. Buske - Busk Stationen - Statioon Typ som att lära ut helt nya språk :D

      @OliverPerssonMusik@OliverPerssonMusik5 жыл бұрын

  • Hi, I have a question! When in a word there is more than one vowel, from which one I have to look how many consonants there are? For example, in word like: Potatis - ( Do I have to count consonants from "O"" or "A" or "I"? ) P.S. Thank you for this video.

    @ilutacakova8154@ilutacakova81547 жыл бұрын

    • The stressed vowel is the only one relevant for length!

      @AcademiaCervena@AcademiaCervena7 жыл бұрын

  • I know in 4-6 years to late but you should make more swedish vids so I can learn more XD

    @poe_the_hoe4617@poe_the_hoe46174 жыл бұрын

  • I did not get the thing with R, L, N 6:52, you say that this rule doesn't cover "mr ml mn gr gl gn" as the G and M are long? I don't get the point of this. Why G and M are always "long"? And what does this "longness" mean ?

    @sealkeen@sealkeen5 жыл бұрын

    • I mean that since M is usually written only once even when it makes no sense, this creates an exception to the rule, since we for some reason don't want spellings like -mmr- or -mmn-. The G is only for GN, when the pronunciation is NG-N, because the NG part is pronounced long.

      @AcademiaCervena@AcademiaCervena5 жыл бұрын

    • Alright, I got it but when does "GN" becomes "NG-N"? Since I've watched your videos iteratively from the beginning, there was no preceding "how to spell (or treat) consonants in Swedish words" (or have I missed it?)

      @sealkeen@sealkeen5 жыл бұрын

    • You haven't missed anything, I just never made it to the video about the ng sound yet... The combination 'gn' is commonly pronounced [ŋ:n] (ng-n), especially in native words.

      @AcademiaCervena@AcademiaCervena5 жыл бұрын

    • Bra, Jag forstar nu! Tack för lektionerna

      @sealkeen@sealkeen5 жыл бұрын

  • why did you pronounce "saker" with acc.2 at 0:38? i've never heard that in my entire life

    @eljestLiv@eljestLiv3 жыл бұрын

    • 'saker' can have either accent in the standard language. Both sound equally fine to me, but you're not the first to comment on it! It seems that accent 1 has grown more common over time.

      @AcademiaCervena@AcademiaCervena3 жыл бұрын

    • @@AcademiaCervena then again, i come from up north and i have acc.1 in 99% of words that have any sort of optionality :p

      @eljestLiv@eljestLiv3 жыл бұрын

  • Du borde göra en video om särskrivning.

    @Officialhelpkenet@Officialhelpkenet8 жыл бұрын

    • Hurdan vinkling tänker du att en sådan video skulle ha? :)

      @AcademiaCervena@AcademiaCervena8 жыл бұрын

    • Vet inte, kanske en på engelska då engelska har särskrivning, eller på svenska där du visar hur man undviker det, kanske också att du visar ordkombinationer där det är viktigt. Du vet nog bättre än mig hur man gör en bra video.

      @Officialhelpkenet@Officialhelpkenet8 жыл бұрын

  • what does it mean stressed and not stressed?

    @ai4nlp@ai4nlp5 жыл бұрын

    • Added length, volume and sometimes increased pitch, for emphasis. In English, "-ige" in "prestige" and "-git" in "illegitimate", are stressed. One is long, the other one short.

      @perarheim1255@perarheim12555 жыл бұрын

  • can you introduce us an online dictionary with phonetic symbols? the best one i can find so far is folkets-lexikon.csc.kth.se/folkets/folkets.en.html#lookup&spela but it's not good enough since it doesn't include the pronunciation of inflected forms of a same word.

    @oozzziiii@oozzziiii8 жыл бұрын

    • I'm sorry to say that I don't know of anything better available online :(

      @AcademiaCervena@AcademiaCervena8 жыл бұрын

  • 0:38 saker is not pronounced with that intonation.

    @DrSegatron@DrSegatron8 жыл бұрын

    • It can be, it's one of those few words where both accent types are acceptable.

      @AcademiaCervena@AcademiaCervena8 жыл бұрын

    • Academia Cervena Sounds dialectal

      @DrSegatron@DrSegatron8 жыл бұрын

  • I didn't really get it :/

    @maxiemo8675@maxiemo86757 жыл бұрын

    • Anything in particular that wasn't as clear as it could have been?

      @AcademiaCervena@AcademiaCervena7 жыл бұрын

    • Academia Cervena I don't get how you recognise what vowel is long or short

      @maxiemo8675@maxiemo86757 жыл бұрын

    • Apparently I'm not the only one. I heard much more about long and short consonants when expecting vowels. I'm sure there's a relationship, but it wasn't made

      @balisong46@balisong466 жыл бұрын

    • Can you give me an example of what is unclear? From what I can see when glancing through the video, every time I mention specific consonants or consonant length I relate it to the preceding vowel too, but maybe I'm missing something?

      @AcademiaCervena@AcademiaCervena6 жыл бұрын

    • I have no idea what consonant length is and after 2:50 I'm lost. The penknife penny explanation didn't clear anything up. Both syllables in each have the n sound when pronounced so I'm not sure what your trying to contrast there.

      @balisong46@balisong466 жыл бұрын

  • Great lessons, but hard to hear.

    @bramblebop1904@bramblebop19045 жыл бұрын

    • I am aware the volume and sound quality in my older videos aren't quite optimal. It's a lot better in my newer videos!

      @AcademiaCervena@AcademiaCervena4 жыл бұрын

  • RIP immigrants. XD

    @mullvaden83@mullvaden832 жыл бұрын

  • OMG! With so much exception swedish has no rules

    @sakicasakic782@sakicasakic7825 жыл бұрын

  • what a mess of a language..

    @ayeyebrazorf7527@ayeyebrazorf75273 жыл бұрын
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