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[–] VibeSurgeon@piefed.social 13 points 1 month ago* (2 children) How to pronounce Swedish umlauted vowels: Å => how the British pronounce "awe", "oo" in "floor" Ä => how the Americans pronounce the "a" in "cat" Ö => "ea" in "earl", "yearn" or "u" in "turn" permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 month ago (1 child) Oh I'll add the Estonian ones because we've got fun ones Ü - pretty much does not exist in English, you might hear it in a weird dialect, apparently in the word "few" as spoken by scousers and some South Africans? Õ - same preface, apparently you might hear a person from Cardiff pronounce "foot" this way or a southern USian might say "nut" this way, but I've never heard either. Ö and Ä are the same as in Swedish and we do not have Å permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Noobnarski@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 child) So ä ö and ü are pronounced the same as in German? Then i'd just have to learn how to say å and õ if I visit the Baltics or Scandinavia. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago Yes, ü sounds like the ü in über and ö like Österreich at least. I'm not entirely sure about the German vs Estonian pronunciation of ä. Sounds closer to the ä in Käfer than the ä in Käse if you go to wiktionary and listen to the example pronunciations. I did study German in school because it sounded preferable to learning an entire new alphabet and recall the German ä was taught as sort of a cross between the Estonian ä and Estonian e, leaning towards one or the other depending on context, but then again I'm not sure how good my German teachers were, I know I only ever had two or three English teachers out of like 8 or 9 that actually spoke the language and knew how to pronounce words. permalink fedilink source parent [–] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago (1 child) ik about Å because blåhaj :3 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] VibeSurgeon@piefed.social 4 points 1 month ago (1 child) Yep! Pronounced bloo-hi approximately permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] tutter@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 month ago* In danish it's more like blaw-hai (but without the wauv from the w) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 month ago (1 child) Oh I'll add the Estonian ones because we've got fun ones Ü - pretty much does not exist in English, you might hear it in a weird dialect, apparently in the word "few" as spoken by scousers and some South Africans? Õ - same preface, apparently you might hear a person from Cardiff pronounce "foot" this way or a southern USian might say "nut" this way, but I've never heard either. Ö and Ä are the same as in Swedish and we do not have Å permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Noobnarski@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 child) So ä ö and ü are pronounced the same as in German? Then i'd just have to learn how to say å and õ if I visit the Baltics or Scandinavia. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago Yes, ü sounds like the ü in über and ö like Österreich at least. I'm not entirely sure about the German vs Estonian pronunciation of ä. Sounds closer to the ä in Käfer than the ä in Käse if you go to wiktionary and listen to the example pronunciations. I did study German in school because it sounded preferable to learning an entire new alphabet and recall the German ä was taught as sort of a cross between the Estonian ä and Estonian e, leaning towards one or the other depending on context, but then again I'm not sure how good my German teachers were, I know I only ever had two or three English teachers out of like 8 or 9 that actually spoke the language and knew how to pronounce words. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Noobnarski@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 child) So ä ö and ü are pronounced the same as in German? Then i'd just have to learn how to say å and õ if I visit the Baltics or Scandinavia. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago Yes, ü sounds like the ü in über and ö like Österreich at least. I'm not entirely sure about the German vs Estonian pronunciation of ä. Sounds closer to the ä in Käfer than the ä in Käse if you go to wiktionary and listen to the example pronunciations. I did study German in school because it sounded preferable to learning an entire new alphabet and recall the German ä was taught as sort of a cross between the Estonian ä and Estonian e, leaning towards one or the other depending on context, but then again I'm not sure how good my German teachers were, I know I only ever had two or three English teachers out of like 8 or 9 that actually spoke the language and knew how to pronounce words. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago Yes, ü sounds like the ü in über and ö like Österreich at least. I'm not entirely sure about the German vs Estonian pronunciation of ä. Sounds closer to the ä in Käfer than the ä in Käse if you go to wiktionary and listen to the example pronunciations. I did study German in school because it sounded preferable to learning an entire new alphabet and recall the German ä was taught as sort of a cross between the Estonian ä and Estonian e, leaning towards one or the other depending on context, but then again I'm not sure how good my German teachers were, I know I only ever had two or three English teachers out of like 8 or 9 that actually spoke the language and knew how to pronounce words. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago (1 child) ik about Å because blåhaj :3 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] VibeSurgeon@piefed.social 4 points 1 month ago (1 child) Yep! Pronounced bloo-hi approximately permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] tutter@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 month ago* In danish it's more like blaw-hai (but without the wauv from the w) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] VibeSurgeon@piefed.social 4 points 1 month ago (1 child) Yep! Pronounced bloo-hi approximately permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] tutter@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 month ago* In danish it's more like blaw-hai (but without the wauv from the w) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] tutter@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 month ago* In danish it's more like blaw-hai (but without the wauv from the w) permalink fedilink source parent
