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ÅO sounds like the old minecraft damage sound lol

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Quick tip to my non swedish speaking friends! - How I know that you can say the Letters Å Ä & Ö Å = can you say fOr lOre or fOrk? - Then you can say Å. For Lore Fork... and even the word Or... if you keep your R silent you are left with the Å sound when saying those words... Think Gangster; FO'SHO! we'd spell it FÅ' SHÅ' and it will still sound the same...... Får (Sheep in swedish) Lår (Thigh in swedish) Fårk... Ä = can you say AIr, fAEry or fEAther, lEtter or even hAmsAndwhich? -> then you can say Ä. Air, Faery Feather Letter... say those words, focus on the sounds you're making... Är ( IS in swedish) Färy, Fäther Lättär... Same pronounciation. Ö = can you order a HambUrgEr or have you the ability to say nUrsEry or even know you to say wOrd? -> you can say Ö!! ə(r) --- keep the Rs quiet... that's the sound of Ö... Burger, Nursery, Word... Börgör Nörsöry Wörd... Now. Let me change the spelling those words for you to the swedish corresponding letter. You still say it in english/american, like you always do, preferably with the illinoisian accent ;-) & I'll change the corresponding sound to the letters Å Ä and Ö. Å = can you say fÅr, lÅre or fÅrk? - then you can say Å. Ä= can you say Är, fÄry, fÄther, lÄtter, or even hÄmsÄndwhich? -> then you can say Ä. Ö= can you order a hambÖrgÖr, or have you the ability to say nÖrsÖry, or even know how to say wÖrd? -> Yoou can say Ö!! Don't practice so hard trying to do something you already know how! - You're welcome! - IT REALLY IS NOT THAT COMPLICATED... Just THINK a little. speak those words normally and you'll realize the sound you're making at that point in pronounciations... Is the sound of Å the sound of Ä and the sound of Ö.... Now if my toddler could get it when I was an auPair.... You can too... just .. don't be that guy that does not get the obvious... pretend you do and you'll be fine...

I am a Korean learning Swedish for the first time. I understand what you're saying through a translator on KZfaq, but your explanation is really easy! Thanks! I feel like I'm getting closer to Swedish today! 😁😁

I'm a native speaker but ended up here anyways. Was looking for how these letters entered the Swedish language. You missed to mention something interesting. Å and Ö are words in Swedish by themselves. Å= river Ö= Island.

Your facial expressions made me laugh so much! This was surprisingly interesting and fun.

Swedish sense of humor is lovely. Thank you mate!

Gotta say, this is by far one of the best videos, I have seen and heard in the instructing of: "How to say the Swedish Umlauts". Great job! Like the "pace music" sound in the video.

You explained very well. I liked how the word was shown as you pronounced it and then you said it again without the word being shown.

I wish I could hear what my Swedish friends hear when I attempt these vowels, because it's apparently quite funny.

I already speak German and I came here thinking "Ok, I already dominate Ä and Ö so now I only need to learn 1 new sound"... It was a perfect illusion ... xD

I just started doing this on a whim and this is actually fascinating! Thank you for being so clear and personable!!

Hej Joakim, I'm a student that recently started, you're a great teacher. I've learned very much with you. Tack

First 5 minutes into learning Swedish, and I'm beat... :S

Super. First time explained clearly, about preceding R.

Fantastic job! It makes a lot of sense to me, because I am not a beginner any more, but now I struggle to assimilate what I have already studied with my everyday life experience in Sweden. This lesson was very helpful, thank you!

Goda uttalanden du gjorde för att förklara och vocalize bokstäverna för den icke-grammatiska svenska personen för att lyssna och förstå hur vi behöver uttala svenska umlauterna i ord. Mycket bra och tack för att du förklarade ljuden att säga det.

I'm at the VERY early stages of learning Swedish right now, and this video is helping me out a lot. Thank you!

Keep it up! This is super helpful!

As a swede, i wish all of you learners good luck👍

You always make me laugh and I LEARN. Thank you so much!

Thank you for the lesson! I'm planning to go to Stockholm this weekend! :D

I just stumbled across your channel today. You’re so funny and charismatic and this was really helpful considering I just started learning Swedish recently!

Å is "Swedish o" in Finnish.

I was at IKEA today and decided once and for all to learn how Swedish vowels with umlauts sound.🙂🙂

So good to hear the different of each sounds. It is hard but I won't give up.

Thank you so much for the explanation!!! It is so clear!!

Great video! Greetings from Argentina 🇦🇷🇸🇪

Tack så mycket!!!

it's hard for me to learn “ö” but you have helped me a lot, tack så mycket

I'm going to have to re-watch this alot of times and take notes but hopefully ill get there eventually tack så mycket

Thanks! This is very explanatory! Coud you please compare "i" and "y", also "e" and "ä"? Also maybe other similarly sounding vovels.

thanks a million!!

Thanks brother that was very helpful!!

Tack så mycket, very helpful!

Old school ftw! Ps: Tony’s chocolonely is also fantastic!

I’ve always wondered. Top explanation sir you deserve a cigar 👍

Hej, Joakim. Could you please make a video for the rest of the vowels? their short and long sounds per se. Thanks man !

What brought me here was the line “Så kall är den smärtan - När de du älskar kommer tillbaka från de döda”. A Vildhjarta lyric. Now I can thall properly. Thank you!

I still have no idea how to say them but I'm sure I'll get there. This video definitely helped give me get an idea and I'm sure I'll revisit it a few times yet to let my brain soak it in. Tack.

You’re so funny! Thanks for the great video. I’ve struggled with these sounds.

Thank you so much, that's helpful:3

Thank you so much ❤

Thanks for the video! Is there any kind of rule to know when to use any of the two the long/short sounds in å, ä? Or should i learn how to pronounce each word? Tack Tack!

hi, I found it's really helpful, thank you so much. I would love to learn how to differ the sounds when pronouncing or reading certain words. I mean I want to know when this letter is pronounced this way, and when that letter is pronounced that way. is there any tips please. thank you so much

Spanish speaker here, it's very complex to associate that you can use the whole range between A-E-O... Pretty fascinating

Tack så mycket! Now I know, why there’s a massive difference between my and Swedish pronunciation of Åre.. 🤦‍♂️

You are so funny and very helpful thanks

u r sooo good teacher

I'm going to need to keep coming back to these...

Ä ä ö å ä åäö got me on the flor🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Thank you for such a great tutorial. It was very helpful, and I'll be looking up more of your videos. Do you know IPA? (International Phonetic Alphabet) I think you'd enjoy learning it and using it to help people pronounce.

So how do you know which sound to use if you're English?

Great videos! How do you know when reading words which sounds to make for these letters? Are there certain grammatical rules? Thanks

Tack!

Ja äntligen en bra kanal som kan lära amerakanska personer svenska

On my tour to Sweden, bought an Engelska - Svenska Ordbok yay

Hi from Greece! I'm trying to learn how to speak swedish, so thanx a mil for your help!! Yiota...

Ö is basically like the i in bird

Tack 💙 x

I been playing a lot of Generation Zero and thanks to you, I believe I can properly pronounce Överbyslätten!

thank you! u r funny! i like the way how u explain it to us! thank u!!! :)

🎉my husband has a problem listening this sound from me which Im trying my best...thank you for this!❤😊

that song is such a bloody earworm. the damn thing kept coming to haunt me through the whole video lol.

Hej, Joakim! jag moste be om ursaekt foer att jag har fott skriva so konstigt, men, som sagt kan jag intevskriva ordentligt paa denna djävulska datorn! Ursaekta foerlaot!

So Å short sound sounds like the Portuguese Ó sound, cool!

Hello, it's a very good video, I tend to avoid learning languages with lots of vowels, hehe. I mainly wanted to ask: Is the Swedish Ä the same as the Finnish Ä ? Or maybe that is better asked: Do you know if the Finnish Ä is the same as the Swedish Ä ?

Thanks for this. I knew about ö before r, but I didn't realize there were both long and short versions, and I knew nothing about the 4 sounds of ä. I know that if you want to sound like a native in any language, you have to get the vowels right, så tackar för det!

So ä is almost always like "cat" or "man", but before -R it becomes like "Carl" or "sharp" in English. I´ve also seen that - ä in Swedish becomes an -e in Stockholm...is that true? instead of saying "Jag är" they say "Jag errrrrr " ....true?

Super helpful video, thank you!! I'm learning Swedish at the moment, but I have a speech impediment and can't make a 'rolled' r sound? Is this gonna affect the meaning of the words?

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Gracias, estuvo excelente, saludos desde Mexico 🇲🇽

Merci ☺️

Can you make a video about the sound of "i", please? I can't seem to reproduce it :)

So, are the last two sounds for both ä and ö just used when they're in front of r?

So, this is extremely useful is knowing how to pronounce each sound, but is there a reliable way to know when to use the short vs. long sound for each? I have this place name "Råbäck" that I am trying to figure out how to pronounce. And I can't find any videos anywhere where it is being said, so I am still a bit confused. This video helps narrow down the possible pronunciations of the name, but doesn't nail it down entirely. My guess is a long å and a short ä?

Thanks for the video. I still struggle the last 4 sounds. I can distingish the different between short and long, however, I can't find the different between ö and ör :(. maybe I need to find another resources about how the lips, neck and mouth works. kön kör dörr kött

Pronunciation Ångström? Video tutorial please!!!

Ö is my favourite letter It's also the best letter

tacksåmycket!!

What's the song at the beginning? from NORWEIGIAN?

Thanks for the video! Hope the guinea pigs are well!

It’s like the English word War=wår or quarter=quårter warm=wårm etc

I understood your english perfectly. 😊

Brilliant! And fun! But.... when to use which pronounciation? Perhaps in a follow up session? 😁🙏

Top!

Thank you .

Omg I love that song xd

HERE it is!

0:49 Your English spoken with a GA accent is só good that I initially thought you were American. Bút, when you reached this word "let-ter"and there is no nasalized "a" before /m/ or /n/ in your pronunciation, I could convince myself you are not American. I understand and like your video because you speak clearly and slowly. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us who want to get information about Swedish. May you always be rich!

If you want to say träd do you have to roll your tongue or is there a way you can say it without rolling? because I cannot roll my thounge

It's like how the n and ñ are considered different letters in Spanish. Ch and ll used to be considered letters themselves, but that changed.

I know it is not within your scope to do historical phonology, but it would be helpful for non-Swedish speakers to know where these vowel sounds came from, in the development of the language. One always learns relationally. I know English, German and Russian, so I har all sorts of similarities. Good work on your part.

谢谢 merci gracias och tak. Thanks

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Hi, I'm trying to figure out how my last name was originally pronounced in Sweden. It was originally Gunstrom with the two dots over the o. Now it is Gunstream here in the US.

öl - öppen - ört - öra can you make this words for me in ipa can you recommend a good dictionary for English Swedish with IPA

Trying to learn swedish (as an american) in this video and ended up also learning some english! Didnt know the word "lark" until this video! Im learning swedish AND english lol