How to read names in IKEA?

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Күн бұрын

#ikea #swedish #spelling #alphabet
Hej! Welcome to IKEA - an exotic place where you can find sotnätfjäril, förhöja, and långfjäll!
How do you read all that stuff? And how do you say "meatballs" in Swedish?
Special thanks to Alexander for his audio samples!
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Photos from Wikimedia.
00:00 Introduction
00:58 Long and short sounds
02:05 Vowels
05:09 Consonants
07:48 Practice
08:09 Questions

Пікірлер: 27

@johnnorthtribe 9 ай бұрын

How a person pronounce [ɧ] and our letter "u" is the most easy way to hear if you are a native Swedish speaker or not. Those sounds are more or less unique to Swedish and Norwegian. And I think those sounds are what foreigners struggle with the most when learning Swedish.

@jiripoduska3785 Жыл бұрын

In Czechia I know of „koberec Höven“ - the rug named Höven. The funny thing is, that in Czech „koberec hoven“ means a rug full of shit.

@AuthLing Жыл бұрын

Oops! That's really funny for many other Slavic speakers as well! 😁 And now you know that Swedes pronounce "Höven" quite different from "hoven".

@gaukharbokanova3860 Жыл бұрын

I wonder if it was IKEA's evil plan to leave the original names for their products so they can make all the world learn Swedish 🤔 Svenska soft power 😂

@AuthLing Жыл бұрын

I think so! And imagine how I ask a shop assistant to help me finding "Skärefly" or "Stjärnbräcka". The first time in life when someone hears the [ɧ] sound 😀

@gaukharbokanova3860 Жыл бұрын

@@AuthLing I imagine the poor non-Scandinavian salesperson who hears it 😅 For me the name "Skärefly" looks like "scarefly", something that scares flies away from your house (like scarecrow does with crows on the crop field)

@KabalFromMK9 Жыл бұрын

This video leaves out a very important bit in pronouncing Swedish - Pitch accent and stress.

@me1234yuou Жыл бұрын

Great content! Thank you!

@AuthLing Жыл бұрын

I am glad that you liked it! Thanks for watching!

@martintuma9974 10 ай бұрын

One of their carpets is called HOVEN, which is funny for Czechs, because of words "koberec hoven" mean "carpeřt of sh*ts".

@AuthLing 10 ай бұрын

That's funny! Thanks for the comment!

@Overlycomplicatedswede 5 ай бұрын

Personally as a native Swede my accent is not very different from just standard. I’m from jönköping for reference. Also you didn’t go over pitch accent and stress which is a big part in Swedish But really good video overall Love from Sweden

@PolinaSavitskaya Жыл бұрын

I for one say sj as a deep throaty hhh. Love it😁

@AuthLing Жыл бұрын

It's the most authentic Swedish sound that helps you to defrost a frozen window! That's why Northern Swedish uses [ɧ] in all positions 😀

@user-bq2ol2dk6e Жыл бұрын

As a Chinese, I have to say that IKEA did well in localization so that we can completely evade those complex Swedish names, since they have found everything a Chinese name with enough similarity to its original one in Swedish. E.g., Stjärnbräcka/欢布莱卡(huan bu lai ka), Stajlig/斯塔利(si ta li), etc. Thus, we can simply call those stuff in our mother tongue LOL😂Anyway, thank you so much for teaching me the authentic way to pronounce them, rather than using an approximation👍

@PolinaSavitskaya Жыл бұрын

So cool! Well done, great fonetical performance also!

@eljestLiv Жыл бұрын

This is the best video about Swedish I’ve seen by a non-native. Very well done! Although I noticed there was an error at 6:14. The y in kylklamp is long because it’s a compound word of kyl+klamp. You pronounced it with a short y which implies a compound between the nonsense words kylk+lamp. Also you really exaggerate the pitch accent at times but I think that only sounds strange to me because I’m from the north and we generally pronounce things with a falling tone more often.

@AuthLing Жыл бұрын

I'm glad you liked my video! Several years ago Swedish motivated me to study phonetics and I enjoyed making a video about this wonderful language. All Swedish voice samples belong to my Swedish friend Alexander. There are five pitch accent types, depending on region, so I can suppose that his accent is different from yours.

@AuthLing Жыл бұрын

I think you may appreciate this excellent video that describes dialectal variations of pitch accents. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bMVmY7KWyJOcoJs.html

@AuthLing Жыл бұрын

By the way, do you pronounce the short u and the short ö differently? E.g., do you distinguish words fördömande and fördummande?

@eljestLiv Жыл бұрын

@@AuthLing They’re the same in my dialect

@PolinaSavitskaya Жыл бұрын

I speak Stockholm😊❤