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How do Swedish people really speak? Why is it so hard to understand them?
Swedish pronunciation can be tricky at first. Because spoken Swedish and written Swedish are not exactly the same.
In this video we will give you 10 tips on how to speak Swedish like a Swede. Which will help you as well to understand what they say in Swedish a bit better.
There are some Swedish pronunciation rules, for everyday spoken Swedish that are not written anywhere. We skip letter. We mash things together.
So if you want to learn how to speak REAL Swedish this is the video for you!
Which one has confused you the most before?
De!! That drives me nuts! I cannot wrap my head around it being pronounced “dom”.
My friends use "å" instead of "att" while writing, is it also spoken like that in some places?
Någon något is super confusing
@@naurbrannon I've never heard "å" being used instead of "att". It's common to say "å" instead of "och" and "ja" instead of "jag" and "dej/mej/sej" instead of "dig/mig/sig"." Ja ska gå å bada med dej" is spelled "Jag ska gå och bada med dig"
@@goldynn1 same, I was so surprised when I first came across it because I had previously figured that Swedish was a pretty phonetic language
Learning a language in theory is far different than how you use it in practice! That’s why it’s important to meet native speakers because they’ll help you adopt the everyday or, as you aptly said, “street” version of the language.
Very true!
Agree !
Thats why I like this content.
you dont need to meet natives just watch UA-cam
When I was in Sweden I couldn't practice my language with locals, as they would hear the accent and immediately switch to english 😅 I couple of times though I replicated the accent so well that they would start responding in swedish, but it was sooo fast that I had to ask them myself to switch to english, cause I couldn't understand them at all
To make it more confusing, there are dialectal differences:
Written Swedish: Jag är
Stockholm dialect: Ja e
Some other dialects: Ja ä
Written Swedish: Vad är det?
Stockholm dialect: Va e de?
Some other dialects: Va ä dä?
You can say a whole sentence and only using vowels in "spoken Swedish": "I åa ä e ö" - which means something like "In the creek there is an island". If we spell it correctly (but with somewhat flawed grammar) the sentence is: "I ån är en ö".
Written Swedish: Bilder
Archaic Swedish: Bilæter
Scanian: Bilder
Written Swedish: Det är
Archaic Swedish: Det væra
Scanian: Dä
Written Swedish: Min älskling
Archaic Swedish: Min unna
Scanian: Min kääaste
Trust me, I hate that I can give countless examples of this.
As a speaker of a Scanian dialect known as Jyŋe, which only have 2 living spoken relatives, Listerländska in Blekinge and Morupekanska in Halland. In Swedish my Dialect is known as Göingska.
I use words like yvon(ögon) or ygsa(yxa), haw(Hav), hawe(Hage), hvo/hvim(Vem), gæda(gissa), gida(orka), gyda(gjuta), maðk(mask), etc.
It's not weird for me to have to talk Standard Swedish to people who don't speak like me, some Scanian words everyone understands, such as rullebör, but as soon as I say, træa de har rødnad sá mød ad hiwar mann ygsan sá gár den gønom. And voilà I lost everyone. Han ær leðer mod meg og jag ær redigt trætter å ham. I understand why Danish people hate old Scanian. And why Swedes find it impossible to understand. I finge ygsor i huweðana sina(They got axes in their heads).
@@livedandletdie Interesting! I was totally unawere of this. Gida = orka seems to have a cognate in Norwegian. I think a phrase like "Jeg gidder ikke" means "Jag orkar inte" or "Jag ids inte" . In English something like "I don't bother..."
And it can be expanded upon even further, for example.
Written Swedish: Vad är det?
My dialect, emphasis 1: Va ä de? (Va ä DE?)
My dialect, emphasis 2: Va ärä? (Va Ärä?)
Wish Duolingo include this, lol.
Written Swedish: Jag är
Stockholm dialect: Ja e
Some other dialects: Ja ä
Jamsk dialect : Je e
Written Swedish: Vad är det?
Stockholm dialect: Va e de?
Some other dialects: Va ä dä?
Jamsk dialect: Va e´n denn
Jag bor i Norge, men jag förstår svenska, svenska är för svårt att uttala för mig, jag råkar säga de flesta orden på norska. Det irriterar mig så mycket, men jag försöker prata bort honom, men det funkar tyvärr inte för mig. Du är en riktigt bra person att lära dig svenska.
I have so much respect for individuals who are fluent in more than one language. I hope one day I will consider myself bilingual.
Stick with it and you will!
Once we know something exists, we can hear and understand it! Tack så mycket for revealing those little secrets! 😄
That's true! Hope it helps in the future :)
In Finland we are taught muminsvenska at school and I didn't want to learn it when I was a teen. I learned to love Swedish when I started to watch svenska movies. The culture as well as the language. 😍 Now I try to learn the language and it's nice that we have everything in our country in both languages. For example all the food packages, signs, literally everything. I've also watched Paradise Hotell Sverige to learn. 😀 So the words I know are those on the series like " Brev!!! " and " Pandora's ask." 🙈 There are like 13 seasons to watch so. 😎😀 In Finnish we have so many Swedish related words for example " ask " is " aski " in Finnish so this should be easy... Right...?
As a French person who has been learning Swedish for about 14 years now, I've actually gotten pretty good at this! In French, we do this a LOT. Lol. Some letters when in certain spots are even meant not to be pronounced, etc.
Masterclass in Swedish: saying nothing. :)
Nonono, that's Finnish master class! 🤪
@@nyyminuolivaara is it i’m half finnish
I've lost my pronunciation skill but when I return to study the swedish language again it'll be a priority. Because the swedish language spoken it's really nice to hear!
Happy to hear that at least someone likes to hear spoken Swedish :D
It’s a beautiful language!
@@FunSwedish Also, when I went looking for Swedish songs to exercise my listening skills, I looked for old Swedish military songs, yes it's my unusual musical taste :v, and listened to them, I found them one of the most beautiful to listen to among the military songs of all countries, especially for the voice of the choir and of course how the Swedish language sounds in this musical style.
The pitch of the language is formidable and heroic to listen to.
"Hur mår'u?" is common too.
True!
Å 'hur e re?'
@@inglishhomeandgarden8386 Yeah. "Hur ä re".
Hu mådu? in some regions
Or hu je d..
Tack! I'm trying to learn myself a bit of Swedish from the dutch language. Your lesson was very usefull 👍👍
Very important lesson! Thank you! Please continue more vardags svedish. 👍👏👏👏
Tack! Jättebra undervisning som vanligt!
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Grattis!!! Tack!!
Tack, mycket förståeligt och jag förstod vad du sa.😀
Tack så jättemycket ❤️
Tack så mycket! I'm absolutely in love for your videos and for you as well. 😍
Glad you like them!
This is very helpful! also I love this top, the colour looks great on you!
Jättebra undervisning! Du har gett oss bra nycklar för att förbättra uttalet. Tack så mycket!
Kul att höra att det hjälper! :)
So grateful to have found your channel!
Thank you for sharing the Swedish language in this way ❤
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Thank so much! I really like you use one sentence at the end, just to conclude everything you taught! It helps!
Happy to hear that!😍
Thanx! Great advice! 😊❤
Like how what did you say is : wahsaah dude🤙🏼
I watched this because I grew up in Minnesota in United States which was heavily settled by Swedish and Norwegians... so I KNEW I would hear a similarity in how we pronounce vowel sounds, even though I am speaking English!! Making them all so loooonngg haha. Made me smile:) Thanks!
How interesting! I need to go to Minnesota someday and listen myself to your accent :)
@@FunSwedish What the movie "Fargo". The Swedish actor Peter Stormare is in it. Then you can hear the MinnesOOOtan's dialekt. A lot of "Ya you betcha" and such. Probably getting the "Ya" from Swedish word for "yes" = Ja..
Super. It was extremely useful. I am learning Swedish..So many of my questions were answered..Thanks a lot!
I am glad it helped :) Good luck with your Swedish studies!
I love your work. You are a cute teacher. Sen har du charm och man vill lyssna mer på dig. I would be thankful if i were an english speaking person. 🙂
Really good! I'm looking forward to learning more.
I'm a Swedish-American who is trying to get back in touch with the language of my recent relatives. 🇺🇲 & 🇸🇪.
Happy to help!
Tack så mycket underbara lärare
Tack! 😍
Your channel is SO good. ❤
You are so kind ❤
Very useful, thank you very much for making such good videos 👏😊
Glad you like them!
What confuses people a lot is when we just kind of suck in some air to say yes 😂 in the north of Sweden we just kind of inhale sharply while mouthing “ja”. Some say it as ja some say it as jå some say it as jo 😂
A fun shortcut to a sentence that becomes completely understandable in some Swedish regions is "I ån så finns det en ö" ,(In the river there is an island) which can be pronounced as a single word with only vowels "iåaäeö" ..
My music teacher taught me that many years ago :)
Didn't you know that before? That's how many older people in western Sweden speak.
I have learn lot of swedish from here . Not only words but I have learn the dialect to understand. Jättebra . tack för det 😊
I am glad to hear
youre an amazing teacher!!
Thank you 😍
Thank you for sharing
du är fantastisk. Jag gillade sättet att förklara.
😍😍
Jag gillar din vids. Tusen tack) you are so positive.
Thank you for your sweet comments! 😻
The RS thing in the video is mostly not applicable for the southern parts of Sweden. In the south we usually pronounce the name Anders with an R and a S. Actually it's pronounced like AndORS where the E has changed into an O. Not Ander-SH or Ande-SH. In some parts in the southern of Sweden there are a mute R and then the name is pronouned like AndeS.
Don't worry. There are no spoken standard Swedish. Only written standard Swedish. "Fun Swedish" is good. Don't try to develop your own accent. Just stick to the teacher, she is really good if you want to learn Swedish.
The best ever explanations on svenska👌👌👌
Tack!
Best Swedish tutorial on youtube!!👏🙏
Glad you think so!🙂
Thanks for this! ❤️My cousin is going to be very impress the next time we video chat! I’m a native English speaker trying to learn Swedish to be able to speak to them!
I am sure he will!
Let us know how that goes!
adorable.. you inspire me to learn Swedish
You can do it!
Subscribed! Love from India! Tack så mycket! Keep making more vids! I'll share ur vids!
Thank you for your nice comment!
@@FunSwedish Ingen fara!
Than u fo è beaul vio lessns (thank you for the beautiful video lessons) 🤓
Glad you liked it!
Very helpful, thank you!
You're welcome! :)
Very important and interested vedio. I love swedish. I intend to come to Sweden next year with my family.
Happy you liked it
Your videos and your instagram page is really helpful for me to learn swedish properly, thank you❤
Thank you! :) We are a group of people behind the instagram page so I should not have the whole credit but I am glad you like our content and that it helps you learn Swedish
@@FunSwedish i am aware that you are a group, meant the plural "you"😂Keep up the good content, it's very helpful❤
Haha, ops! 😂 Of course, the plural "you" Sorry about that. Anyway, thank YOU for the nice comments. It really makes us happy and inspire us to do more content for you. Have a great day! ❤
Finally! Finally I met You in YT who explain this! Nobody does!
Legendary Swedish pop band ABBA is the reason that I started taking interest in learning Swedish language. I already speak German and see similarities between the two languages, both belong to Germanic language family. Despite the tricky pronunciation, Swedish is easier and sounds so beautiful.
ABBA are really legendary!
Happy to hear that you are enjoying the language as well 😊
Tack så mycket för videon)
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Weirdly, I learned the 'och' becoming an 'o' from being at the current Women's Euros football (even more weirdly it's one of the first things I learned in Swedish). Sweden have played 2 games in my city and I have been to both (some of the best experiences of my life and what has made me now want to learn Swedish). Talking to some fans they taught me the "gul och blå" chant as "gul o blå." When I searched yellow and blue it came up as gul och blå and I realised that it gets shortened to o.
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Finally found a channel to help me with Swedish. Just started a few days ago and getting some grammar books soon has right now I am practicing with Duolingo but I want to incorporate other learning techniques for it. jag tycker om detta videon en mycket ( super bad swedish lol ) tack så mycket för videon
Welcome aboard!
Hope the videos really help. We have at least 70 you can watch (lost count at this point 😅)
Super interesting and useful
For once in my life I found a list of 10 things I actually knew already. This is up there with getting 100/100 in a maths test when I was 10. I'm going to need 10 different ones when you have time please Fun Swedish. And thank you SO much for the unintended confidence boost; I was just what I needed during a difficult time! Warmest wishes to you!
Wow, thanks!
Tjena! Really enjoy your videos! The 'Vad sa du' often sounds like 'Va sa ru' for me :)
Glad you like them! Yes, you are right! It sounds a lot like "va sa ru" as well :)
Very nice! Congretulations!!!!
Thanks!!
Så fint Din Video är så bra för mig ,jag lära mig mycket från det tack så mycket
Like 👍
Tack
Yapp! Dä ä så 're låter. :)
Roligt och bra.
(Att tt blir tyst i 'att', har jag aldrig hört.
Däremot att g blir tyst i 'jag'.)
That's interesting. It looks like Swedish people do to consonants what we do to vowels, which is to eat some(😂)! Thank you for the video! :)
I love when there's the swatting sound with the letters being crossed out 😂
😂
Thank you
Tack!
Thank you 🌺
You’re welcome 😊
I have almost 200 days learning Swedish on Duolingo and I feel like this 10 minute video just undid everything I thought I learned XD
And here I am speaking Spanish, a language that does not shorten any word but can always lengthen and lengthen in thousands of sentences something that can be said with 5 words (and in Swedish with 1 letter 🤣🤣)
Haha, es verdad :P
I'm new here in Sweden. I'm planning to enroll for SFI. Hoping my teacher would be fun just like you.
Aw thank you!
3:10 I think it's more common to pronounce 'är' as just 'ä' (Engish equivalent would be the Æ sound) rather than 'e' in most places.
3:36 I'd again pronounce it casually as more "Va ä dä?" or "Va ä de?", the 'dä' or 'de' would be depending on context.
Great video!
Glad you enjoyed it
So Fun and interesting I like ur way to learn 🤩
Glad to hear that 🤩
You say ”When we speak really, really fast...” I’d say we skip these words and letters almost always. ”Jag är hungrig” becomes ”Ja’e hungri” even when I speak slow or normal.
I feel like many of these examples are very "Stockholmska" or from around that region. For example, I would never pronounce "är" like "é" or "det" like "dé". In my part of Sweden I'm pretty sure most people say "ä" and "dä", i.e. we prononuce "de (they)" and "det (it)" differently ("De" and "dä" respectively).
Also, the shortened form of "något" is spelled "nåt". "Nått" is the past form of "nå", which means "reach" or "arrive at".
Gävlemål?
my boyfriend is from southern sweden and i found the way he pronounces the words extremely tough
wikipedia has a page on stockholm-e which also mentions stockholmsrim
some examples are like 100 years old though. or maybe specific parts of stockholm
@@smievil what are you talking about specifically?
Same here. i live in Småland
Tack så mycket!!! Very useful video!
Oh and there are so many dialects in Sweden! Some people speaks so clear and understandable but, for example, some Swedes from the North do it completely opposite 😂
LOL... I am from the north of sweden and for me it is very difficult to understand people in the far south (skåne). I sometimes wish they would speak english so I could understand what they are saying.
Glad it was helpful! There are quite a few dialects in Swedish. We will do a video talking about the differences between them at some point in the future 😁
@@evawettergren7492 ja och ni PRATAR ju mycket bättre upp I norrland. Fan ingen som fattar norrlänska
👏👏👏 Mycket bra lektion! Du är ju Sveriges motsvarighet till Lucy i "English with Lucy". 👍
Wow, that was a really nice compliment because Lucy is awesome (I think I am not as good as her) but very kind of you to say it. Vad kul att du gillade lektionen!
This is done automatically for me, but to get it described is good even for a old Swede :)
Just started learning Svenska, what an amazing language, there's nothing in Portuguese (My mother language) that helps me in it, but a lot of similarities in English
Happy to hear that you are finding the similarities with English!
It will make it so much easier that way 😁
Daniella, jag älskar dig. :)
you're so great
😍😍
Ja is pronounced very different due to the many dialects. Many people in southern Sweden says ja, as in written Swedish, and in northern Sweden it’s more common to hear jo - instead of ja.
This channel is great!
I’m a native Swede with a Spanish-speaking fiancé, so I tend to check all videos for accuracy before linking them to him.
The only thing in this video I feel might be slightly irrelevant to him, is the “är = é”, since I’m from Gothenburg and think that one mostly applies to the Stockholm region. ☺️ Over here on the west coast, we would use more of an open ”ä”. ”Dä-ä bra”. (Probably better to learn your east coast version. 😅)
Verkligen en suverän UA-cam channel, ser fram emot fler videos! 👌👍
Åh vad fint! Vi känner oss hedrade och blir jätteglada att du godkänner oss och visar för din fiancé (trots stockholmskan). Tusen tack!
P.S. Förstår "kritiken". Vi önskar att vi också pratade göteborska! Vi älskar dialekten!
Tur att din fiancé har dig i alla fall för att få den dialekten ;)
Extremely useful, thanks @FunSwedish
Glad it was helpful!
The way I am Swedish and I’m looking this up
”De är bra” *shows abba*
Yes I quite agree 😅
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Muchas gracias. Me caes muy bien. Eres bonita, dulce e inteligentisima. Sere tu nuevo alumno porque tu pedagogia es incomparable.
Yo💙Suecia. 🇸🇪💙🇸🇪
Muchas gracias por el comentario tan bonito 💙
Very interesting and pleasantly girl...in sense of teacher🧐🤓👍👌
Du är rolig
va sa du ?? 😮 easy but hard! Thanks for the videos!
Tak so myket
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Nu jag kan skriva tack rätt
Beautiful uploads, big z
Big thanks
It’s a very big difference how people speak in Sweden due to dialect. Northern swedes and southern swedes can have a really hard time to understand each other sometimes.
I found the southern Sweden way of speaking toughest
@Ren Rose No one understands "skånska"😆😂
Also, the word ATT is mostly pronounced as O or actually Å.
Jag ska ringa (för) att fråga/Jag ska gå (för) att handla.
Many Swedes make this mistake in writing, because they think it is OCH, but in fact it is "för att" = to that is being used in abbreviated form.
Thank you for your lessons. I thought I should tell you in English the word “letter” doesn’t have a pause between the syllables and has no hard or thick t sound but has a very soft d-ish sound.
Thanks for the tip!
It's an amazing video, really!! It helps a lot to be in contact with the way people really speaks when we are so stuck in pronouncing every silable while we're learning.
Some doubts came to my mind: the sentence "vad är det?" can be "vad är den?" in some cases? And the answer to both can be "det är" or "den är" depending to the question? It has something to do with the "ett ord / en ord" rule?
Well... for the question in this specific case its limited to "Vad är det?"
Because your dont know what the thing is :P
So you cant decide if its "en" or "ett". So it defaults to "det".
For the answer yes! Depending on what the thing is, it might be "Det är..." or "Den är...".
"Det är" for ett words.
And "Den är" for en words.
@@FunSwedish oh thank you very much for the answer. It was so helpful!
Can I make another question then? When you don't know what you're talking about is always "det"? Someone said once in duolingo that when you're presenting something, like "det är kvinnans tidning" (from duolingo), you always use "det" as well. Is that correct? I can't understand this example...
@@LeticiaMirandaF I believe so yes.
@@FunSwedish I think we normally start the answer of a "Vad är det?"-question with a "Det är ..." also when the thing is an "en"-thing. "Det är en grönsak". After that we can start talking about it as "den".
I used to practice Norwegian on memrize. They have a section of their lessons called learn with locals. Some of those people who say things talk so fast you have no idea what they're saying. Even though the thing they are saying is supposed to be something you are learning in that very lesson!
The jump to spoken language is always rough 😅
In any language I think.
But necessary. Otherwise its hard to communicate in real life.
But hopefully this rules make it easier 😁
It's so common in Danish defh sounds
Ett stort tack
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My grandparents from Gothenburg talked like this:
E de de de e?
Ah de e de.
E de la itte?
E de la!?
Haha, älskar Göteborgdialekten!
OK thanks
Any time 😁
Super, super useful. Thank you ☺️
Hehe
Good tips! I speak German, so I recognize lots of words… but pronunciation is a different animal entirely! As my teacher said “det är inte tyska”
Exactly! The look a lot alike but we say it differently.
It takes extra brain power to say it diferently when it is so similar to a word you already are used to 😅
@@FunSwedish trying to get my brain into the super gear…😉
Very useful, thank you. Some resources (mentioning no names, Duolingo) don’t give the whole picture!
Glad it was helpful!