I made one by accident once, and noticed it is like trying to say a normal i with the tongue placed like you're about to say a T ^^

It drives me crazy when people use it for every single i sound - definitely have noticed it the most in teenage girls like you said. I call it the Stitch sound

I have struggled with this sound so much and I'm happy to hear it's not necessary :D Thank you!

Thanks for letting us know. As a someone who's just starting to learn Swedish, I literally thought I had to pronounce this sound for every single "I" hahaha

The voice in the Duolingo Swedish course pronounces the "i' like this, so that might be a reason why so many people are asking you about it! I also got a sore throat trying to pronounce it.

Working with this one Swedish girl on a project at the moment, she even uses the Viby-i when she speaks English, I didn't think that was possible lol

Oh hell, he's addressing it 😄 It is pretty interesting how that happens in languages.

Thanks for clearing that up! I was watching a Swedish movie with subtitles and I was wondering what that sound was.

Stockholm has entered the chat...

Thank you for this video!🙏 I was one of the people who requested you explaining the pronunciation of i, I noticed that mostly girls do this here in Gothenburg.

Thank you! I was just watching a Swedish Netflix show (love and anarchy) and noticed the main character does this a lot and I hadn’t noticed the sound before. I tried searching what the sound is and it brought me here!

omg I hear this so much especially in the word 'tiden' and I've been making an effort to pronounce that letter... I will stop haha

Wow. I had noticed all sorts of different i and y sounds but I had never noticed that they buzzed, but I do think girls around my age (30s) or younger tend to really compress their Is and Ys, and by "compress" I mean it sounds sort of like they've sucked on helium but without the super high pitched thing... I've never really noticed a buzzing. But yeah I think a lot of people in every endeavour worry about things WAY about their level. Like I've never heard of it by name, and I'm probably more fluent than most people who haven't lived in Sweden... so yeah... more time reading and listening people!

Svensk Radio Klartext uses this "I" all the time. I thought it was a stockholm thing

Thank you!! I literally ( literally! ) got a sore throat trying to learn this sound ( unsuccessfully ).

I've been living here in Sweden for about 9 months now, and man it's a tough language to learn. But the vibey-i is so bizarre! It seems to be used heavily on TV. I find it so strange that it often makes me lose track of concentrating on the sentence being spoken. It's really, really common on TV, particularly with females. The ingressive gasp is strange enough, but the vibey-i... man it's weird. I looked into it and even found scientific papers written up on it. I don't even try it.

Joakim will you try to do some swedish dialects impression videos next time? Would like to know further about dialectal differences in sweden like people in Skåne doesnt have a thrilled-"R" sound and people in Göteborg always end their phrases with "-eller?!" And people in Varmland sounds very much like almost Norwegian and so on😄

I was like "what's the sound already!?". Finally at 3:40.

I think it's almost equivilant of vocal fry in valley girl american speak. I have a bizarre accent, having grown up in NZ with speaking swedish to my dad only, my english mother and learning latin at school lol

I noticed this for the first time when I was watching Bonusfamiljen on Netflix. Bianca (the daughter did this), and my Swedish bf at the time didn't do it, neither did his parents or anyone else I met, and I was like, "what is that weird buzzing sound??"

Thanks for this video!!! I was literally practicing this sound recently cause i thought it is the normal swedish sound🤣🤣 i wont practice it anymore!!

Wow Thankyou! We (as foreigners) hear it so often in teaching videos!

thanks! many thanks! this is what I have been wanting for year of learning good Swedish pronounce.

Thank you! I literally cannot make this sound, at least not intentionally. I’m so glad it’s not a usual pronunciation!

When I lived in Stockholm, I swear everyone did this sound!! I definitely accidentally picked it up haha

Glad to know I don't have to learn how to make this sound, but I also have to say that this "i" sound is something I really love about the Swedish language! Anyway... You're just amazing, grazie❤️

The sound is super annoying. Seems to be common in Stockholm

What's funny is that I never heard this while in Stockholm, and even asked some Stockholmers about that sound and they weren't sure what I was talking about. Kind of funny. But my friend from Gothenburg does it all the time. I've tried and simply cannot do it.

Even if that was a Native sound, sounding like a native is not my priority when learning a language. I prefer to focus on grammar and clear pronounciation (clear doesn't mean "like a native")

A sound I have trouble with is the -rg sound at the end of words like berg or arg. I dont know if it's just me but I cant really figure out what's happening there. Doesnt really sound like Barry or Arry. Something happens with the "r" that I dont know. Maybe I'm thinking about it too much.

Thats a relief. I had no clue how I was going to keep up pronouncing it. I have'nt attempted it.

Ah I have never been able to make this sound! As I'm learning Swedish, I've heard this from so many Swedes, it always sounded so nasal to me! I also can't do a rolling "r", but it's easy to manage without.

Hi, I started to watch your videos recently, I like them cause I wanna learn swedish. Could you talk about how people in Skåne say "yes", I watched Bron and I fell in love with this language (and Sofia Helin's slang). Grettings from Mexico 🤗

Thank you. I hear it often but I can't make this sound. Your video is very comforting ...

Thank you so much for explaining this, I got so frustrated hearing it in lessons and I had no idea how or why to use it. I'm happy to just ignore it from now on.

I know it's not. I started hearing women using it in films . I learned to speak Swedish in the 60's and I only heard it in certain dialects. It is similar to the verbal fry in American English.

I'm so glad I found this!! I thought I was going crazy. One thing: it would be super helpful if you made at least a whole sentence using the sound. Then it really has a chance to come across! 😉

I was wondering if that was the sound made by the young blond woman on SVT Rapport. She's really emphatic about the I sound. I was thinking, "how am I going to learn that?"

So, that's like the Turkish i-without-the-i-dot, they have an extra letter for that, together with the "normal" i with the dot. I noticed that already in the 1990s, but the Swedes I met then (in Southern Sweden) did not know how to explain that to me, they did not use it. But on SVT it was there very often ...

Even when you do your normal e sound.. my Australian e sounds nothing like that, I find it super hard.

Jag funderade så pass jätte ofta på den här "I sound". Är det har bara helt enkelt den rätta "I sound"?? Lyckligtvis är det inte sant och övar jag inte på den så här än, men jag tycker lite om "ljudet" ;-). Tack för förklaringen!!

I've noticed that the Google translate Swedish voice audio uses this i sound. This is probably why a lot of people are confused

I knew the sound before you even did it 😂 my teenage cousin uses this sound all the time, very frustrating

Thank you for saving me that many hours of my life trying to practise that sound

I pretty familiar with Norwegian so I was excited to watch Love is Blind Sverige but there were a couple women making this sound EVERY sentence and it was driving me insane. Thank you for explaining this.

I fist heard this viby i in Love is Blind Sweden. I thought it was such a strange, unpleasant sound-like someone talking when they are gagging. I thought it was a normal part of Swedish.

oh my Gosh! Tack så mycket! I were thinking så much about this sound.

is the é a swedish letter? i'm seeing it sometimes in names but it's not in an alphabet... i'm confused wait is the é the same letter you talked about in the video

I couldn’t make this sound at first but then it became natural and now i just “IIIIIIIJJJJJJJJJJJ”😂

For some reason, when I started learning Swedish, I would always pronounce "precis" with that i. My friends got a kick out of that since I was learning västgötska mainly :') no idea where that came from!

Thanks for letting me know. ;__; I have family in Värmland, who none of them making that i-sound, and I couldn't explain to them what I've been hearing on the TV (those who were making the Viby-i)... My attempts that trying to produce this sound was hilarious to them. LMAO

I love the Stockholmska i.. As a talare of Swedish som undra språk, Swedish vowel are difficult to differentiate.. Så when I use it for my i's, I feel it makes it cleared what word I'm trying to say.. I know I don't have to do it.. I sound more rikssvenska.. I still use it..

I sound very weird when I talk a lot and my Russian accent gets out of control😂 and in combo with this ”I” and skånish ”å” (öa) cause I live in Malmö. Omg 🙈that doesn’t sound good at all😂So ur absolutely right 😂

So I don't need to do it but now that I've learnt how to after hearing you on the video I think I will lol

I like the long /i:/ in swedish, but not this "very strong compressed" version you presented in this video 😂😂 it's a very exaggerated version to me. The version I like is just a little bit different than a normal long /i:/ , as you explained: a more open /i:/ but without buzz 😂

Why is swedish so haard 😩😩 sometimes I feel like I could never learn

I’m not even studying Swedish but have noticed this mildly when watching Swedish shows. But I just finished watching Baracuda Queens and it was SO prominent I had to google “what the F is this weird Swedish throat sound” And how funny because the show features rich teen girls ! Honestly it’s a relief I don’t need to make this sound if I ever want to study Swedish. It’s kinda gross sounding. Love this video - it’s awesome and spot on!

I am so relieved to hear this!!! It sound just awful. Spent half of the day researching it. Thank you, man.

Google TTS seems to love this sound 😆

I spend 3-6 months in a rural farming in the Kopparberg area and everyone has the vibe-y i to some degree, more common with women. I hear it in TV talk shows, regular TV, movies, basically everywhere. Most people I hang out with are over 30, mostly over 60. I have no contact with under 30’s. You're the first Swedish language KZfaqr that rags on the sound that it's a poser thing to do. I've asked my friends about it and they have no idea what I'm talking about, they're unaware that they're making the sound.

The sound is standard to my Swedish. A lot of the materials I used to learn had this sound in them and I learned to use it. My partner cannot make this sound and will be happy to know it’s not necessary! :)

The buzzing "I" Stockholmers make is totally different from the buzzing "I" locals on the Swedish west coast uses. Stockholmers pronunciate the "I" in the front of their mouth, while people from Bohuslän articulate it in the back of the mouth. 🙂

Sounds like the Korean eu ㅡ, the Japanese u and the Mandarin i (in some phonemes), the sound people make when they feel gross about something, it's almost like a schwa but with a narrow lips that shapes like when pronounced an I.

The secret is, you gotta bug out your eyes when you say it!

So glad I saw this! Tack Joachim

Thank you!! I'm glad I can stop trying.

OMG TACK!!! Detta uttal var över hela Stockholm men min svenska lärare visste inte vad jag pratade om nar jag frågade! Också hur stavar man det? "vibu i"?

I finally got to know the truth about this sound. Tack så micket! Greetings, from Argentina

I'm so glad it's non-standard cuz I find it grating on the ear. That and the way people from Skåne do something like a Danish stød. The thing that irks me to this degree in English is uptalking or High Rising Terminal (HRT) amongst the linguists. It tends to get associated with dumb valley girls from California but has become more widespread and it makes people sound really stupid imho.

hearing that sound gives me an image of someone twisting their tongue sideways in their mouths to do it. No idea why, but that's the image I have. also, it kinda sounds like the noise people make for yuck or disgusting ... "eeew!" I’m Rather glad I don't need to learn that thing though because for someone at the most basic beginner level you can get, those vowels are kind of intimidating.

Can you recomend me Swedish movies? It always helps me to improve

i remember first figuring out how to pronounce it and using it with practically every word but then i listen to northerners and barely say it these days lmao

Thank you so much! I don't like that sound at all, I find it soooo annoying!! It's great to know that I don't have to use it! :) You are the best

I am struggling with it and I hate it and I 'm glad to hear, its not necessary.

It was nice to learn the story behind it! I find this sound very funny and I noticed as you said, that mostly girls use it, I was wondering if I had to use it haha, thanks!

Thank youuuuu, I don't feel so stupid now. Lol

I feel like im on a gameshow where they take so much time to open the envelope and say the name of the winner! What is the sound??

You know what... I started coughing trying to make that sound...

Even as far up north as Västerbotten, young teenage girls use that horrible sound. They try to sound as upper-class as they possibly can. So frustrating to listen to. 😑 I think a thick Swedish accent when someone speaks English is about as ugly as English can get - but this is a complete nightmare 😱

Thanks. I feel much better now 😄

THANK YOU! This is exactly what I needed to know! I don't care for that sound at all.

I hate that sound too and I think it's fairly common in central Sweden right? I only saw people in the north not using it.

That´s a big one, thanks.

When I arrive I thought exactly that. But one thing: google translate reads Swedish with that accent! Or?

Thank goodness! I've actually not only had problems with this sound, but had extreme difficulty not even knowing what to call it when asking my spouse (a native Smålandian) about it. You just saved us a ton of time on "you know, THAT sound!" "What sound?!?!?"

But I love it and want to learn it lolol ;) Funny how my girlfriend is from Malmö and she doesn't produce it often lol

som norsk så har jeg lurt veldig på denne lyden ! høres veldig rart ut XD strange sound !

Thank you, I definitely don't want to make that sound. 😝

I love that sound so I'm going to do it anyway

Some of my Swedish relatives do this, I thought it was just dialect but now I want to know if they're just trying to sound posh. I can't do it for the life of me, no problem with sk/sj ironically.

Thank you!

FUN video - tack! :)

Tack 👍 Du är ❤️

Hahaha I think in many languages there is that “wealthy sound” that some people use and sounds annoying... so I totally get you haha also in Italian sounds strange when not native speakers (I am not a native speaker) try to use the dialects...at least sounds weird to me

Please don't use this if you're trying to make friends from traditional working class areas. Particularly in the north. It's a sure fire way to get "norrlänningar" to think you are from "fjöllträsk"..

Thank god!

🇸🇪🤣""" ÅH!!!! SOUND""" 😲...Lol 😆 . I am mexican and I live in the south of Sweden where I study in SFI. My classmates and me have noticed that swedish here make a sound while they talk that is like showing they are surprised. My husband is Swedish and he only makes this sound while he speak his language, never during a conversation in English. When I ask to Swedish people about this, nobody knows what I meant even if me or some of my classmates (mostly from Germany, Syria, Poland) show and imitate that sound in front of them. For example , My husband is going to the apotek and asks for a medication and the woman there explains that he needs prescription because of many reasons so while she is speaking to inform him ,he makes like a short " Ååhh!!! " ( like inhaling) at the time that he open his mouth and eyes and raises the eyebrows ( surprised face) . Then he answer to the woman and tells her that he has called the doctor but the receptionist said that he is not available until Monday-so now is the pharmacy woman who makes the sound while he speaks, she makes like :" ÅH!!!😲 ,too. My husband got it now because he recorded a conversation and I could show him how and when people was making that sound. Note: It's not the sound they make instead of saying "Ha", which is also like inhaling, I mean a very different one.

As a Swede I didn't even know this sound existed

I can't even make the sound and I am from Västerbotten's County

Oh thank God