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need help on Swedish pronunciation in literature
Thread poster: fairy
fairy
fairy
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Jun 9, 2003

Need some help on how to correctly pronounce some names in Swedish such as Djupafor, Bleringe and etc.
 
Juan Jacob
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See Mats Wiman... Jun 9, 2003

He's tolking about that right now... see http://proz.com/topic/11674
Good luck.
 
Heinrich Pesch
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here a link Jun 9, 2003

http://www.photo.net/sweden/pronunciation
This link was provided by Mats Wiman in the linguistics forum.
Its difficult to render Swedish in English, because English misses a lot of sounds, some are unique to Swedish, als the "u", which phonetically is between French "ou" and "u" or German "u" and "ü". And there are lots of irregularities.
 
fairy
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thank you so much Jun 9, 2003

thank you so much. Your post helps me quite a lot.
 


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