The Swedish Vowels, Part 1: Preparations
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This is part 1 of a 2 part video series introducing the Swedish vowels.
In this video, important features of the Swedish vowel system are presented, to allow for better understanding of the actual sounds, that are later presented individually in part 2.
Part two is available here: • The Swedish Vowels, Pa...
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I love this, it's like a teacher with never-ending patience 😃 Thank you so much 😊
I'm eternally grateful for the IPA! (It's terrible that sometimes one can't find any good phonetic guide for some languages, rather than those bawn-ZHOOR'y ones) Thank you for such a great explanation of the vowels, too. I'm just starting learning Swedish and can you believe I'd never known before (nor encountered any explanation of that) that it had this short/long dichotomy (similar to German)? I'd rather thought it was quite a mess somewhat like the Danish phonetics. Tack så mycket!
Thank you for your kind comment! Length is such a central part of the Swedish sound system, and it keeps amazing me that it is so often completely left out... I agree with you on the phonetics too. Any guide to pronunciation that tries to explain foreign sounds using only English (or whatever language it happens to be in) approximations should be avoided or viewed with caution! (Also, although I haven't looked into Danish phonetics thoroughly yet, I remain convinced that it isn't so bad either, just less transparent! ;) )
Adam, these videos are absolutely the best. So lucid, with just the right amount of information necessary for truly understanding how to pronounce the sounds of Swedish. I started out by watching the series on the 'sj' sound, and now I can't stop myself from watching all of them. Thank you so much -- Tack så mycket -- Go raibh míle maith agat!
I'm very happy to hear that my videos have been helpful! Thank you for your kind comment!
Tack så mycket! Jag älskar den här serien
Tack för att du skriver det! Det är alltid roligt för mig att höra :)
What an amazing resource! Thank you! Your use of "boat" to demonstrate rounding in English is totally apt, though because I find it fascinating, I wanted to note that many American English speakers, myself included, pronounce that vowel with slight rounding (and definitely not with protruded rounding like in "boot"). But I think it does vary a lot: [ɔ̜ʊ̯̽, ɘʊ̯, ʌɯ̯̽, ɤʊ̯] are some examples, where I would use the last one to describe my usual pronunciation. I'm excited to keep going through your series :)
Thank you very much for your kind words! You might be right about the pronunciation example, I'll make a note of it!
i say boat as /bəotˀ/
Great work!
Det är kul att va svenne och se den här videon bra jobbat
Length, Roundedness (Compression, Protrusion) and Schwa were explained in this video in that chronology - but what is the Quality in the last list?
18 vowel sounds! Daunting to say the least for those of us whose native languages only have 5, like Spanish or Greek.
As a native English speaker learning Spanish, I have so much respect for people who are learning a language with a lot of vowels like Swedish when their native language only has five. It's hard enough for me and English has a shit ton of vowels, I can't imagine that struggle.
More, more Adam! (saying that with rouned 'o' hee hee) - at last it's explained in the way that I understand. Are you gonna make more Swedish vids? :)
I'm glad it helped you! There are more videos about Swedish on the Academia Cervena KZhead page, if you haven't already found them! Here is a link to the playlist: kzhead.info/channel/PL5uGqWoFgvd1SBExRyHuuVxiLiU8u8-PN.html I am making more videos, currently at an approximate pace of 1 video every 2 weeks. Subscribe if you want to be notified when they come out! :)
How do you even pronounce a vowel with the lips pursed inwards? 🤔 I’m trying to picture it but I just can’t
I keep on thinking that /ɪ/ and /ʊ/ are actually /i/ and /u/, I mean, even though we're talking about phonemic transcription those symbols do not seem to represent the way they're generally realised as. And great to see that you've chosen /ɒː/ instead of /ɑː/!
It's kind of a judgment call, but /ɪ/ and /ʊ/ are what Swedish phoneticians use, so I stick with that. What might be confusing you is that their not entirely similar to English /ɪ ʊ/, which tend to be more centralized. The Swedish ones are front, but still not identical to /i u/ (they're somewhat more open)! As for /ɒː/, that's less commonly used by phoneticians, but I find it helpful to indicate the (weak) rounding, so that's me being pedagogical :)
Sure but I wasn't saying that you got em wrong XD! I was just saying that they really sound pretty far from what they represent
Thank you for using IPA!!!!
I share your feelings!
I've heard that Ä and Ö can adopt 2 more sounds (1 long vowel and 1 short vowel each other) how's that? (IPA symbols would be great)
Nothing I can come up with on the fly at least, I am swedish but no linguist so very possible there is something I don't know
I want to write swedish Ä using only the letters in the English alphabet using two letters. How do I do that and how was this conversion/"translation" called?
I don't know of a special term for it myself (not saying it doesn't exist though). The more official way would be to substitute å ä ö > aa ae oe, which is done in e.g. passports. More casually, they're just substituted for a a o, which is common in e.g. website urls. So it depends a bit on context.
Academia Cervena Hi. Thanks. What is transliteration of letters? Or maybe there isn't transliteration for letters.
I believe that exactly is transliteration, not sure though
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Hej ! Jag vilde fråga någon språkvissare, och hoppas att du kan också säga mig ja, att i svenskan "k", "g" och "r" är en lite palataliserad framför "a" och på ändet av ord ?
Hej! Jag känner igen det för /k/ och /g/ i södra Sverige, men inte annars!
@@AcademiaCervena tack för svaret ! Finns det verkligen ingen särskilt mellan "k" i svenskan "tack" och engelskan "black", eller "vägg" & "leg", "vecka" & "taker" ? Svensk k, g och också r låter för mig jätteannars än vid oss i tyskan eller på engelska, inte bara i södra dialekter. Konstigt
My favorite emoji is the long vowel (phonetic) of ä
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I am from Sweden
The only thing I don't like about these videos is their sound level which is too low even at the max volume level.
I'm sorry to hear that :( Luckily I think this is limited to my older videos.
Acadamia Cervena - Thanks for taking the time to reply, but even more for sharing your knowledge with us. It's definitely what DuoLingo would have never been able to accomplish in terms of pronunciation, hence being able to actually speak Swedish. I think learning languages is extremely easy, it's just that there's not many good teachers out there, and also people don't have the discipline of hacking away at it on a daily basis. Repetition and practice are the key in my opinion. It's really all about discipline, there's no way around that. If you ask me, pronunciation and phonetics are what can make the language learning process a true challange, but as long there's people like you out there laying things flat out like this, learning a language can become an easy "piecy". I only speak English, Spanish and German, but Swedish, Dutch and Italian are on the way. Swedish being the hardest due to the actual pronunciation, but I think that will change thanks to your videos. Thanks again!
We seem to agree on a lot of things! This is one of the reasons I wanted to start with pronunciation videos. Thank you for your kind words!
Good video, but I think you missed the point by not adding examples of actual swedish words containing the respective vowels.
The actual vowels are presented in the second part of this video, which is full of examples! The link is in the video description :)
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