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♫This is an English guide to learning Swedish!♫
This is by far the most difficult episode so far, not just for you but for me as well.
My mic is ok, but it's not great. I'm not sure how easy it will be to hear the differences
between the Sj-sounds and the Tj-sounds. It might very well only sound like noise and
I'm afraid my audio editing will remove or distort the sound. I'm just saying this so
that you don't think you're retarded because you might not be able to proper hear the difference.
In the Swedish language, there are two profound sounds that are not represented by a letter,
these are the Sj-sounds and the Tj-sounds. I'll say them again, Sj and Tj. In this episode,
I'll only talk about the first type, the Sj-words. It would be very convenient if the Sj-sound
always was spelled the same, but that's not the case. To add to this, sometimes a Sj-sound
is spelled as a Tj-sound and vice versa, and sometimes it neither.
I will list the letters composing the Sj-sound, CH, and then take a few examples on each version.
Chock, Choklad, Cheddar. Again, there's a homophone hiding here, try to find it. And
as practice, listen for the short and long vowel.
GE Generös, Generad, and the extremely retarded
word Genre.
GI Giraff, Religiös
SCH Schema
SI Version, Fusion, Passion
SJ Själ, Sjö, Sjuk, Hässja, Sjal
SK Skära, Skäl, Skinka, Sked
SKJ Skjorta, Skjuta, Skjul
STJ Stjärna, Stjäl, Stjärt
TI Station, Situation, Pretentiös
And
that's about it. In the next episode, I will link some good links to practice this. Next
time, I'll cover the similar Tj-sounds, and also briefly what I call the Rs-sounds, which
sounds very similar. Thank you for watching.