How to say Ä in Swedish - Swedish vowel pronunciation Ä 🇸🇪 | Learn Swedish in a Fun Way!
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Swedish pronunciation is tricky. Today we are talking about one of the special Swedish vowels. The Ä. And how to pronounce it.
In this video we will do a quick run through how to think about Swedish pronunciation, for the Ä. And what are the main mistakes you are going to want to avoid when speaking Swedish and using this letter.
Somehow, SFI rarely focusses on pronunciation. Which we think is THE most important thing to be able to communicate in Swedish.
Mostly because Swedes are not very good at understanding "broken" Swedish.
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What video should we do next?
If I am not mistaken, there are phrase verbals in swedish or 'partikelverb' as I saw once. You could teach to us the most and frequently verbs used in swedish, like "Tycker om", "hålla på".
Or you could also teach how to use this verb and still a noun: "Får"
That is just my suggestions that I think is important :v
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Fortsätt med uttalet, det är jätteviktig att ha ett bra uttal
Prepositions, a few only
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I love the Swedish accent. It's relaxing for some reason.
Glad you enjoy it!
This is incredible, im only a few days into learning swedish on my own and this is so unbelievably helpful in knowing how to move my mouth to get these sounds to come out right.
Happy to help!
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Just discovered you channel and I already love it 😍 Suscribed!!
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English has both /ɑ/ and /æ/, even though we don't write /æ/ with Ä. Also, it is distinguished from /ɛ/. A trio of words that help illustrate this are "mess", "mass", and "Mars" (pronounced /mɛs mæs mɑz/)
It always makes me giggle a bit inside when I see Ä replacing A's, such as "BÄDÄSS" because the Ä is pronounced similarly to the A in "trap"!
mass, bad, ass all have an Ä-sound. To me trap sounds more like it’s in between the Swedish A and Ä though.
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A trick I came up with to remember the varieties of Ä as an English speaker is the phrase "Babar Egg", visualized as "Bäbar Ägg". Babar, as in the cartoon elephant character. In English his name is pronounced Bäbar. It contains both the Ä sound and the regular A sound. The second word, Egg/Ägg, has the double consonant.
Sounds like a great way of remembering it! Those small tricks really help!
Which country are you from? I'm from America, and I don't pronounce it that way. Speaking the Spanish vowels is mostly easy, and on Duolingo I nearly always get that right. But, the Swedish word "är," or anything that has that "ä" in it... 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂 Wish me luck. So hard. Also, "å" is tricky, but easier for me, like "går," but I don't think I even hear a difference between that and "gör" at all. 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
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Make a video about numbers pllllz
Will do soon!
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You're so welcome! Happy to help!
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Grazie tante :)
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Super helpful!
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Brillaint Lesson. Thank you!
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Dina videor är de bästa. Du är underhållande och hjälpsam 😂😁
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You are amazing!!
Thank you! 😍
Its good explanation with gestures. Thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
thank you so much … i just start learn from your videos.. really helpfull
Happy to help!
I really love your videos. Funny and effective at the same time! Swedish pronunciaton kills me though 🤣
Thank you!
With a bit of patience and practice you will be able to do it! 😁
@@FunSwedish Why are there so many vowels?! 😫 😂😂😂😂
This is so much fun to learn like this and looks more easy to learn.
So happy to hear that! 😍
Thank you so much for your video, it really helpes me a lot!
I will see rest of them
You are very talented teacher!
Glad to hear that!
Aaaah! Now I understand. Thank you.
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it s really helpful !! thank you so much
it will be great if you make a video talking about some ways or tips to imrpove swedish langague as beginner it will help us the most to not feel lost cause it s a really hard and great langague to learn
u re the best !!
Great suggestion!
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Thank you so much!! How much hard work you put in this video is everything to me! It's very helpful ^^ And it means a lot. It's more interesting than every swedish course i took in extra class, keep going, you did splendid ^^
Aw, you are so sweet. Thank you for all your kind words. It really makes us happy 😍
@@FunSwedish im glad to hear that you're happy^^ thanks lovely! English is the language i have to study harder (since im a non-english speaker from asia ^^) but your sharing makes my way to beautiful swedish more interesting, im just saying truth!! Hope it is helpful :D
Jag älskar dessa videor om uttal, det är jätteviktig att säger vokaler bra, att ha bra prosodi, så tack så mycket 😉🤩
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Thank you! You are the best! 😀🙏
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@@FunSwedish I am a new SFI student and hope i can get more help from you in future. 😊 It's a really fun and interactive way to learn, thanks!
The best way of teaching Swedish,
Tack!
perfekt !!!
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Awesome videos! Can you explain when to use tidigare and innan?
Sure thing! Good idea.
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If you ask me...everything 🤭😄😄 I need Swedish so I am following your videos ( you're my favorite Swedish teacher 🌹).
Wow, thank you! 😍
Thanks very much, especially for the Stockholm accent part. It answers my confusion😊 one more question, how ä pronounced in word säg?
For Brazilians, this letter has the same pronunciation as "É".
Interesting! Good to know :D
Could you please do a video on greetings and phrases such as hello, goodbye, thank you.
Yes we can!
We do have one video in our channel with 10 different ways of saying hi :D
That might be a first step.
Ohh I love this video. Fun way to explain.. but I just realised what about the short vowel in Älskar.. it's short 🤭
Thank you! 😃
What about älskar? Do you think it doesn't sound like the short version? 🤔
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I always thought it was more of an "eh" sound like in älskar
The sounds exist in English. I can find it hard to explain why we have the short Ä since that could as well be a short E. Example : Sw. ägg/egg ( = egg, edge). Maybe to seperate the words in writing?
Not only for Swedes but we Bengalis also have the similar sounds, i.e A and Ah.🙂
Oh! Interesting! Then it will be easier for you to learn Swedish.
How do you separate "e" from "ä" especially the short versions. After living in Stockholm, my "e" and "ä" virtually merged together. Is the short "e" and "ä" different in "hög-svenska" or are they the same? You touched on it, but I would love to see more focus on it. Tack ska du ha!
Que la pronunciación sea tan diferente hasta dentro del mismo Estocolmo es para hacerse el harakiri. Is that why I understood Norwegians in Norway better than Stockholmers? And I’m more familiar with Skånska, which deserves a video on its own.
I am have now. 😂 That one made me laugh. Like any Swedish will say "what? What does that even mean?" Lol.
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Hi. In the example you gave of “Jag är här nu” you’ve read it as “jag er här nu”. And I’ve heard people saying är and also er. Which confuses me that I’m trying to learn ahah
Can you please explain that?
In most language theres 2 ways to say each vowel. All vowels have at least two pronunciations: a long sound and a short sound. A long vowel is the name of the vowel (for example, long “a” is “ay” like in the word “say”). A short vowel is a shorter sound (for example, short “a” sounds like “æ” from the word “cat”).
So you just heard the other pronunciation of ä in swedish, which she does explain in the video
Hello,
Is å similar in pronunciation to /æ/ in English, especially the American English accent of /æ/?
Thank you.
For long forms:
Å is /oː/
Ä is /æ/ (even though there are other dialects)
What about “välkommen”? Is the ä long because it’s really “väl+kommen” or is it short because the “lk” changes the ä?
It’s a long Ä.
Is the long ä ("bär") sound the same as the short a ("glass") sound? They sound the same to me.
Interesting. For me no but they are a little bit similar. But you open more your mouth when you say "ä" and put mor down your jaw when you say "a" in glass.
Ä is like the "a" in "alligator". This is how I remember it. Would this be correct?
British accent or american? 🤔
I only have a problem distinguishing between man, män, and men
Yes, those are tricky!
Ä sounds a lot like portuguese Á. Except that portuguese vowels are constant
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La pronunciación sueca es tan difícil para un hispanohablante 😫😭. Tengo un año viviendo en Suecia y aún no he podido tomar un curso de sueco.
Es cierto, es difícil pero se puede :)
Ya estas tomando el paso más importante que es ver a las vocales suecas como diferentes a las vocales del español :D
@@FunSwedish ¿Habla español tambien?
@@jessiehermit9503 She's both Swedish and Spanish :)
For me it's exactly the same as A [æ] in English "bat".
Same !
Absolutely not!
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How do you say:
Äter
Long form or short form?
Äter is loooong form. Becuase the Ä is only followed by 1 consonant.
And 1 consonant is not strong enough to stop a vowel 😁
@@FunSwedish ohh thank u so much 😍😍😍
@@FunSwedish nice answer! 🎯
@@FunSwedish so clear!
Hmmmm, I always personally thought that "Ä" only sounded like "Æ" only before "r", not before any single consonant. Google Translate seems to corroborate that!
tldr, pronounced like gas without g and s
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The long vowel Ä is too much for my head. My head is just buzzing. So I'm going to completely change my breakfast. Apple and egg instead of pear and berry. It doesn't taste so good, but I don't get as much of a headache. 🤣😂😁😄OK, I understand, swedish Ä has nothing to do with German Ä. Thanx a lot.
Hahaha, great startegy 😂 Good luck with the Ä. I am sure you will be able to say it soon!
kanske var jag förvirrad av bokstaven Ä för att jag har Stockholm accenten 😅
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I really really like this but it isn't without flaws. An exampel; the most of the swedes don't pronounce "är" as "är". It's mostly pronounced "e" or "ä". Me coming from Skåne (the southern part of Sweden) pronounce "är" as "e" but with a completely other sound than the "e" in Stockholm. It's mutual understandable, no problem, but don't try to invent a new pronunciation. We are very vowel senstive. Broken swedish with wrong vowels is awkward to understand, if it is understandable at all.
You are funny my darling oooopssss sorry my mistake forgive mi please okay by you?
Äääh... I don't care!
No
It good no I do not care
Sort of like bar and bad in English.
I have a doubt. Why K in IKEA doesn't sound SH instead sound K? Vowel after K sounds SH right?
Great question! Becasue IKEA is an abbreviation Ingvar Kamprad Elmtaryd Agunnaryd. The name of the founder and the place where he was born. Abbreviations can break the normal rule.
@@FunSwedish Tack så mycket. Jag tycker om dina videos. Along with language, I am learning Swedish culture.