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@jazibee8269 3 жыл бұрын

Trying and crying at the same time.

@MonikaPetkanova 2 жыл бұрын

Same same here as well guys dont worry, just keep on trying and practising ^^

@BabyBugBug Жыл бұрын

As a French speaker learning German, I find Swedish pronunciation both extremely fascinating and impossible

@bobbyggare8364 3 жыл бұрын

I loved how you explained the hate comment in the beginning. :)

@joetomp 3 жыл бұрын

Was looking for this comment, underrated moment

@al_wombat 3 жыл бұрын

I thought the commentator just wants to learn more.

@bobbyggare8364 3 жыл бұрын

@@al_wombat nope

@al_wombat 3 жыл бұрын

@@bobbyggare8364 Yo I just read it - I had only listened to Joakim's "translation" XD

@bobbyggare8364 3 жыл бұрын

@@al_wombat you are forgiven XD

@erexford 3 жыл бұрын

Sju sköna sjuksköterskor! (At least I can type it.)

@nessxergling157 3 жыл бұрын

seven beautiful nurses....the first time I heard the word for 'nurse' I had to laugh, simply because I imagined that if I was in need of a nurse it would be so hard to call out for one! Tack, this video explains why I read a word a certain way, then I hear it pronounced and I realise I have it all wrong. For the past few weeks I've been listening to alot of Swedish language videos with subtitles and I this is helping alot. And apologies to everyone who has learned English as a second language, our 'rules' are crazy too, with so many exceptions... you just have to get to know what's what.

@sayitinswedish 3 жыл бұрын

Listening to a lot of Swedish is key to get used to it and learning it properly. Good call!

@minirop 3 жыл бұрын

Hi from France 👋

@jessiehermit9503 Жыл бұрын

So is Spanish, in my opinion, with all their reverse verbs. I know Spanish, but I have an interest in Swedish.

@minirop 3 жыл бұрын

all those dropping reminds me of one of Tom Scott video where he compares the "proper" sentence : "I am going to the store" with the full speed version "imgtt store". "hey! hu mo ru?" sju sköna sjuksköterskor

@MonikaPetkanova 2 жыл бұрын

Man, u are Brilliant!! Im sooooo glad Ive found u just in time, bcuz I have started to learn swedish 2 days ago. U explain and pronounce letters and words so good I can actually understand the differences. My teacher and u are very much alike in teaching, I will keep watching u and practise my swedish, wish me luck :D Tack sa mycket!

@pixi2209 2 жыл бұрын

You are talking about very important detaljer i svenska språk. Thank you. 👍👏

@marekmielnik9373 2 жыл бұрын

Jag älskar dina videor! Tack så mycket.

@pixi2209 2 жыл бұрын

Din förklaring är inte tråkigt. Tack så mycket. 👍👏🖐️🏆

@HerMajestyLada 3 жыл бұрын

Unnecessary fact from czech native speaker: for me it is quite easy to spell words like "sju" right because in czech we have that sound too! We have voiceless "ch" which is one letter in our language and it is most similar to the word "choklad" in swedish. :-)

@GA-lx6ib 3 жыл бұрын

Love the mug! Thank you

@leslieschaupmeyer2931 Жыл бұрын

Tack så mycket! I started learning svenska about a month ago. I have books, and books and more books. None really come out and just say what you did in this video. When you said (paraphrasing here) "There aren't really any rules, you just have to learn it." Okay! And WOW this video has done more for my pronunciation than anything so far.

@Amir76fresno 6 ай бұрын

Cool video. Tackar så jättemycket. Jag Subbed2 nu!!

@mayflower8001 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your videos!❤️

@daiyiisy 3 жыл бұрын

this video helped me so much, thank you ❤

@sayitinswedish 3 жыл бұрын

I'm glad, Daisy!

@antoniovinciguerra8982 3 жыл бұрын

Looking forward to your video on your dialect - mostly also to finding out where it‘s spoken! Tack för allt och svenska språket rockar tycker jag!

@sayitinswedish 3 жыл бұрын

Vad kul! Looking forward to making that video.

@iberomagazine 3 жыл бұрын

tack sa mycket, bra klass

@gabrielasr9744 3 жыл бұрын

Sending some love here to make up for any hatersss ❤️❤️❤️ Tack Joakin, love your videos❤️

@sayitinswedish 3 жыл бұрын

Tack Gabriela

@al_wombat 3 жыл бұрын

Suplimen! Tack så mycke‘!

@SnookRS 2 жыл бұрын

loving your faces where almost about to burst to laugh when you explaining something weirdly about to happen hahahaha taaaack så mycket

@unfilteredchurchlady 2 жыл бұрын

LOL. I love how LOUD you talk. I can HEAR you !

@nataliewenberg5697 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@RuRi21 3 жыл бұрын

I've always likened the 'sj' sound to kinda how Stewie says 'cool whip' in Family Guy, with his emphasis on the 'h' sound. Practicing that, got my tongue around 'sj' 😊

@sayitinswedish 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, the H in English words beginning with wh, that some pronounce hw, sounds like sj!

@shreyasbr 3 жыл бұрын

this is a brilliant find! thank you much

@olympianaffirmations8809 3 жыл бұрын

lol. your translation of the hater's comment....... your videos are EXCELLENT!

@sayitinswedish 3 жыл бұрын

Tack så mycket!

@TiniLShadesofTL 3 жыл бұрын

TACK!! This is very helpful!!

@sayitinswedish 3 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you think that!

@virtualarmageddon6232 3 жыл бұрын

Enjoyed reading the comment at the start accompanied by hearing your amazing translation of what they were saying lol Love your videos for relearning! I'm still figuring out about dialects because sometimes I learn something and think "oh no I've been pronouncing it wrong for so long" only to find out that I was pronouncing it how it is said were I grew up (Sundsvall) 😥 always interesting to hear more about it! I actually would pronounce stjärna with the "shh" type sound same for choklad but I'm not sure if thats a "my area" thing or my accent got lazy and I'm too scared to ask my family and friends from there with how much my Swedish declined since childhood. Really informative video as always!

@sayitinswedish 3 жыл бұрын

So I take it you moved from Sweden and now you're trying to gain some Swedish back? As far as I know "sh" is normal for "Sundsvall".

@virtualarmageddon6232 3 жыл бұрын

@@sayitinswedish yeah! I moved from Sweden in 2009 to the UK I wasn't speaking it enough but I'm trying to gain it back. Your videos have been super helpful!

@sayitinswedish 3 жыл бұрын

@@virtualarmageddon6232 how old were you when you left?

@ChristofferOrrmalmUtsi 3 жыл бұрын

It's even harder and more variaties in a dialectal way to speak. Even though if some are somewhat dying and renewed. Dialects have own words too which could have a different meaning of what you learnt it meant. The variaties are locally and situational.

@jamesgavern2084 2 жыл бұрын

If it makes anyone feel better, I learned French from scratch and it’s 100 times harder to spell than Swedish. I think Swedish spelling patterns can be picked up pretty easily just by reading and memorizing.

@moesancan3031 2 жыл бұрын

I'm french and I can't even spell in my language, it doesn't make any sense I swear

@BabyBugBug Жыл бұрын

I speak French - Once you learn the rules, the pronunciation is quite simple

@jamieyoung8863 12 күн бұрын

French pronunciation definately has rules, you just gotta learn them

@andersoncosta4770 3 жыл бұрын

Intriguing 🤔... and still beautiful all those nuances 🙂.

@ruit9542 3 жыл бұрын

Please do more slow swedish vídeos, they are very helpfull☺!!

@sayitinswedish 3 жыл бұрын

I will! Some day.

@AleMaia 2 жыл бұрын

Me: I can speak Italian, English, French, Spanish… I completed the A1 Chinese curse in a single month and I didn’t even enjoyed it…Swedish must be easier! Nothing can be harder than Chinese accents, right? Me after 3 pages of the grammar book: åh skit.

@sayitinswedish 2 жыл бұрын

Come on now, the grammar is easy (=

@AleMaia 2 жыл бұрын

@@sayitinswedish yes, the grammar seems quite simple…the main problem for me is the pronunciation! 😅 but nothing is impossible 💪🏻😎

@user-me4rw8nj3u 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks .

@CanaryCaia 3 жыл бұрын

You are the nicest Swedish guy I know. All the rest I met in person or online are so dry and serious! Even a kind of boyfriend I had years ago.

@sayitinswedish 3 жыл бұрын

Swedes, dry and serious? Maybe they came from Norrland.

@animalind3738 3 жыл бұрын

Well that was a very constructive comment XD Don't know if it's a comfort to those of you learning Swedish but I'm a native swede and this gave me a headache, lol. Always forget how much we just Know without being able to give a rule to why. As a fellow swede with a "widely" different dialect (I would consider karlskronitiska widely different) I cannot tell you how exited I am for the dialect video. I personally love talking about dialects, always get excited when I hear someone with a different dialect. "Oh, hello and where are you from?" (says the city a handful of miles away, yes dialects is/can be that local) Proceeds to spend an hour/hours talking about dialects and local words etc. XD To add: Usually local's to a region can differ from each other's city's while those who live/grew up farther away doesn't hear a difference. usually blekinge gets coupled together with skåne (southern tip of Sweden) by those who live up north. (which is kind of offensive to us /jk "kinda") lol

@sayitinswedish 3 жыл бұрын

Very, very constructive! I've been wanting to make videos about dialects for a long time, so I thought, let's begin with my own. It could be super interesting for Swedes as well to get to know what's characteristic for their own speech.

@animalind3738 3 жыл бұрын

@@sayitinswedish The whole reason to why I'm subbed is because I find it so interesting to sort of get someone looking at things with an outside perspective from the inside so to speak. I find it good to step outside and look at things from a different perspective, it adds so much when you later want to discuss/talk about sweden/swedish ^^

@umakarunakaran4626 Ай бұрын

At first I thought du -> ru was odd, then you gave the example sentence and I was like OH. At least when I speak quickly in English I don't know turns into I dunno which turns into I rro (hard to explain without audio but it feels similar)

@FunnyBunny87503 2 жыл бұрын

Det här är fan nyttigt för mig och jag har bott i Sverige hela mitt liv 🤣

@jacquiehahn4910 Жыл бұрын

The easiest way (for me) to get the SJ/SI etc. sound right is think of how you say "wh" in white, then stick an H on the front of that.."hwh".

@zainahmed1994 10 ай бұрын

What I have learnt from these videos is that instead of getting into the rules just memorise the pronunciation.

@sayitinswedish 9 ай бұрын

that's definitely better, but everyone learns differently and some people like to really get indepth with this

@camilabatista8478 3 жыл бұрын

Hej! Vad kul! Den här video var underbara! Jag började följa dig på Twitter. Sen upptäkte jag din kanal! Jag känner mig väldig pigg för att explorera den! Jag ska försöka gå in i Discord för att följa ditt innehåll närmare. Jag har ingen aning hur fungerar den här applikation, men jag ska letar efter på. Hälsningar och en kram från en brasiliansk tjej som bor i Sverige och försöker att lära svenska språket.

@sayitinswedish 3 жыл бұрын

Obrigado! Kram tillbaka, Camila!

@kurtph6286 3 жыл бұрын

Din svenska är väldigt bra! A quanto tempo você está aprendendo sueco?

@camilabatista8478 3 жыл бұрын

@@kurtph6286 Hej Kurtph! Det finns tyvärr fortfarande en lång väg att gå. Jag har studerat svenska sedan förra året. För ungefär ett och halv år sedan. Ha det bra! :) Oi! Ainda há um longo caminho a percorrer. Eu estudo sueco desde o ano passado. Há aproximadamente 1 ano e meio. :)

@kurtph6286 3 жыл бұрын

@@camilabatista8478 Bastante legal, também tenho estudado faz um tempo, é raro ver estudantes brasileiros de sueco, espero que tu alcances a fluência! Du med!

@camilabatista8478 3 жыл бұрын

@@kurtph6286 Ah! você é brasileiro? Fui no teu perfil e vi algo sobre a Rússia e por isso respondi em sueco. Você estuda faz tempo? Mora na Suécia? Ps. Obrigada pelo "elogio".

@kraisri 2 жыл бұрын

Jag gilla när du uttalar Ung och Ugn. Det lära mig.

@jessiehermit9503 Жыл бұрын

It's funny that "dusch" means "shower" in Swedish, because "una ducha" is "a shower" in Spanish, and, if I'm remembering correctly, "duchar" is the infinitive "shower."

@urmom-sr8oe 2 жыл бұрын

ily

@mariak2698 2 жыл бұрын

Hi, I would like to ask you a clarification on the aspiration of p. You mentioned that p, as well as t and k, is aspirated when it is in the beginning of a word and when that syllable it belongs to is stressed. And you mentioned as an example the word polis. And although in ''polis'' the p is in the beginning of the word, the stress is not on the first syllable but on the second. [pol'i:s] So why is p still aspirated? Thanks.

@sayitinswedish 2 жыл бұрын

I was being unclear. It's usually aspirated in the beginning of words but also in stressed syllables.

@mariak2698 2 жыл бұрын

@@sayitinswedish Tack så mycket!

@jussikuusela7345 Жыл бұрын

Would "hagel" have a G or J sound? It has been some time since I studied Swedish but I remember that there are some words containing ...age... that have a G sound while others have J. Or maybe, just maybe, there is a difference between some dialects again. While us Finns get taught "mandatory Swedish" in school, we are often given a very approximative pronunciation model, by which our speech will mostly be understood, but which doesn't necessarily go into nuances between dialects, and may make it hard for us to understand some of them.

@sayitinswedish Жыл бұрын

Hagel is pronounced with a G except for in some dialects.

@jussikuusela7345 Жыл бұрын

@@sayitinswedish so am I terribly off with my pronuncuation here? I know that I probably put an exaggerated sress and weird intonation on the words. kzfaq.infowrx2GkMWk9g?feature=share

@labradorableretriever4490 3 жыл бұрын

Love these videos. I said this on another comment don’t remember which video. Not relevant anyway… it’s nice to come across learning a language, emphasizing the importance of pronunciation. Example, so many people just do the turn on your subtitles and you are good to go.“ Doesn’t work that way when you’re blind or severely visually impaired unless you have an extremely expensive smart TV to hook up the audio description. Those things are not cheap. Writing is important, but listening to how native speakers say certain things is just as relevant.

@juula9469 8 ай бұрын

I am particularly struggling with the pressed "ij" that is appearing everywhere like in "fika" for example.... I am fluent in German but it's so hard to pronounce this hahah.

@sayitinswedish 7 ай бұрын

It's just a long open [i:] and there is no need to exaggerate the dialectal and sociolectal "pressed i" 😊

@carllindquist574 3 жыл бұрын

In the US, a ”Gös” is called a walleye

@kl1541 3 жыл бұрын

Hmm its also unique that swedes used the expression "usch!" But with the SJ-sound on it

@sayitinswedish 3 жыл бұрын

We have a few words were the pronunciation varies even within the same dialekt. "Usch" is one, "kanske" is another one.

@TechBearSeattle 9 ай бұрын

I grew up with a dialect of American English where wh is pronounced as an unvoiced w. Is that roughly what sj should sound like?

@stefkarl7126 2 жыл бұрын

SJE Sound: pronounce a K but keep the second part longer, the breathy part

@sayitinswedish 2 жыл бұрын

And skip the actual K.

@mini8525 6 ай бұрын

Hi how can I pronounce the word “How” hur in Swedish? It’s so difficulty to pronounce this word!

@lpinbrez 2 жыл бұрын

Super helpful, but also very worried…

@loki76 3 жыл бұрын

" ah hej med farbror Frej.....Hej allihopa nu ar det barnprogram, nu skall vi se vad farbror Frej tar fram"

@ostfabrorn2718 3 жыл бұрын

The D's becoming R's or an alveolar flap reminds me a lot of d and t flapping in a lot of American dialects

@sayitinswedish 3 жыл бұрын

True!

@peggyharris2158 3 жыл бұрын

I seem to be having trouble with the pronunciation differences between i and y. From what I was watching your mouth do when you pronounce i is like you're saying an e and when I watched you pronounce the y it appeared like you made your lips look like you were making a oooo but actually making an eee noise. Is that correct? Sorry this is a long question.

@sayitinswedish 3 жыл бұрын

That observation is pretty good, yeah :)

@peggyharris2158 3 жыл бұрын

@@sayitinswedish thank you. I will practice. 🙂

@swecol1992 Жыл бұрын

"The legendary *sjuksköterska* "🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@arinaberezkina2696 3 жыл бұрын

I have seen that there are 2 words for mountain in Swedish: berg and fjäll. Is it really so and what is the difference between them?

@sayitinswedish 3 жыл бұрын

"Fjäll" are tall mountains in the Nordic countries. I would say it refers more to the high up terrain than the mountain itself. It's common to say that you go to "fjällen" (plural) to ski, which means that you go to the mountainy areas of Sweden.

@Mervolic 3 жыл бұрын

Fjäll is a mountain (berg) that reaches above the tree line, meaning there will not be any tree growth on its top. Just a more describing name than the general “berg”, which means any type of mountain.

@SuperMagnetizer 2 жыл бұрын

Utmärkta förklaringar. Tack ska ni ha!

@tomgiles1484 2 жыл бұрын

What kind of keyboard is that in the background, Joakim?

@sayitinswedish 2 жыл бұрын

There are a few but the one at the top is a Roland Jupter-Xm.

@MonikaPetkanova 2 жыл бұрын

Sju skona sjukskoterskor :D

@ultrabeats1009 10 ай бұрын

I think, many of those words can be pronounce a lot easier in some places in Sweden, because as we all know, Swedish can be very different in different places. I think that words like "diskussion" or "stattion" can be pronounce like it's spelled..without this H sound. Let me know what do you think 'bout that.

@sayitinswedish 10 ай бұрын

Definitely not. No dialect have that literal pronunciation in Swedish for those two words.

@ultrabeats1009 10 ай бұрын

@@sayitinswedish But for me as a foreigner do you think Swedish people would not understand me because of my wrong pronunciation?

@sayitinswedish 10 ай бұрын

@@ultrabeats1009 maybe not but it's unusual and wouldn't be immediately decipherable. The English pronunciation would even be better that that.

@plerpplerp5599 3 жыл бұрын

"I åa ä e ö, å i öa ä e å" is a complete, grammatically correct sentence in Värmland dialect. (Standard Swedish: I ån finns det en ö, och på ön finns det en å.)

@AndreiBerezin 2 жыл бұрын

My God, that's impossible, it just cant be true

@ShyMusicLovinGirl 3 жыл бұрын

sju sköna sjuksköterskor :P

@LeticiaMirandaF 3 жыл бұрын

The sje-ljud isn't the most difficult swedish sound for me. It's the "i" sound. Swedish "i" isn't like any other I've ever heard. Btw, this video is incredible good and helpful! Tack så mycket!

@sayitinswedish 3 жыл бұрын

If you're a sane person, you pronounce the i fairly close to an English ee. Check this video out: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Zp6Yfdejm-CWln0.html

@thefalcon3154 3 жыл бұрын

What is crash course..and how it works??

@sayitinswedish 3 жыл бұрын

Crash course means that it's a quick and intense course.

@bondy2620 3 жыл бұрын

anyone would like to help me get swedish TPRS and comprehensible input

@markwest7928 Ай бұрын

I give up. I'm going back to Norsk bokmal.

@sayitinswedish Ай бұрын

Norwegian has similar rules though ;)

@zainahmed1994 10 ай бұрын

Interestingly all these sounds are very easy for Arabic speakers.

@sayitinswedish 9 ай бұрын

Arabic speakers struggle with prosody instead.

@jessiehermit9503 Жыл бұрын

Does Swedish have contractions like English?

@ToxicPCB 3 жыл бұрын

How did de end up being pronounced as dom??

@sayitinswedish 3 жыл бұрын

"Dom" has its origin in the object form "dem". That vowels change like that is common. This pronunciation is basically as old as Swedish itself.

@nissanslut7870 3 жыл бұрын

I thought the word for they was spelled “De” and pronounced “dome” is the “dom” just another dialect thing?

@sayitinswedish 3 жыл бұрын

"Dom" is an alternative spelling to "de/dem" that you will see online or even in some books.

@paulingvar 10 ай бұрын

There is a logic if you know the origin of the word. But pronounciation has often changed with time.

@andyaquitaine4225 4 ай бұрын

This is my take on English. Perfectly phonetic… just slurred for a thousand years

@unfilteredchurchlady 2 жыл бұрын

Wait! Was that FIka paus.....did you have a TEA bag in that FIKA CUP?????

@sayitinswedish 2 жыл бұрын

I have other cups for coffee ;)

@nissanslut7870 3 жыл бұрын

I’ve been saying “jättedålig” is that a synonym of ”asdålig”?

@sayitinswedish 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, it is. Asdålig is rather colloquial :)

@sayitinswedish 3 жыл бұрын

@Mikael E what? "jättedålig" is not childish, it's normal Swedish. We use "jätte" with everything. You must not tell lies.

@sayitinswedish 3 жыл бұрын

@Mikael E Well, as they say, everyone wants the language to be exactly like when they were teenagers/young adults. It's the law of nature. Just because he thought that, doesn't mean that it's something you should teach learners of contemporary Swedish.

@arthurgonyea7790 3 жыл бұрын

@@sayitinswedish They probably used “ej”, “icke”, and “avtomobil” back then too. Haven’t seen it since the 60’s.

@arthurgonyea7790 3 жыл бұрын

@@sayitinswedish And funny! When I hear Asdålig spoken it sounds like “Ass dolly”, and I imagine some Dr. Seuss-like contraption.

@Giorgosm14081948 Жыл бұрын

I AM GETTING A HEADACHE

@sayitinswedish Жыл бұрын

Most of this is only important if you are trying to become a spy and need to sound native. I'm make a video about the most important things to pull of for Swedes to understand you/not get tired of listening to you.

@seren7111 11 ай бұрын

Asså, jag blev mer förvirrad 😫

@sayitinswedish 11 ай бұрын

Aj då

@OrionBlaze Жыл бұрын

DJ BILLYBOOL brought me here

@kallekonttinen1738 Жыл бұрын

Finska undrar varför ni spelar "ä" men du säger "e"?

@sayitinswedish Жыл бұрын

Ljudet är inte ett finskt e men mellan ett finskt e och ä.

@fredrikliljeblad1209 2 жыл бұрын

Säger man inte T-tröja längre

@sandral1396 2 жыл бұрын

Kortärmad tröja kan man också säga.

@pistl5340 2 жыл бұрын

reglerna är inte enkla 😲

@sayitinswedish Жыл бұрын

You could just disregard them! No one is forcing you to talk like a native. But stress is important!

@pistl5340 Жыл бұрын

@@sayitinswedish don’t worry it was just a Pewdiepie reference lol

@muftisampurna1884 11 ай бұрын

I just started to learn swedish yesterday....although i dont know why but i found myself like this alphabeth Å...OA....look like smart A...but your video make me want to give up....those rules that you mention...seriously....how did u say "diskussion" ......."journalist" ...."station"........"kika".....thats why i got difficulty to pronounxe "skit" yesterday.....further, i should sleep with the swedish dictionary

@victoza9232 2 жыл бұрын

Why does the Swedish woman on Duolingo pronounce "de" as "dum"?

@sayitinswedish 2 жыл бұрын

"Dom" is the more common spoken variant of de/dem.

@victoza9232 2 жыл бұрын

@@sayitinswedish Thanks. I can see how "dem" would logically be pronounced that way, but not "de," as Duolingo does."De" doesn't have an "m." This is why I was confused.

@zainahmed1994 10 ай бұрын

What I have learnt from these videos is that instead of getting into the rules just memorise the pronunciation.

@sayitinswedish 8 ай бұрын

Swedes don't know the rules, so yeah, just learn the pronunciation. But some people like to dissect the language a bit more!