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Help with my Swedish pronunciation
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rodarmor
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12 June 2010 at 2:08pm | IP Logged

Hi there!

I was an exchange student in Sweden for one year, one year ago, and I picked up some Swedish. Now I'm back for a few weeks, and I'd like very much to improve my pronunciation. I made a recording of myself reading "Nordanvinden och Solen", as it seems to be the traditional text in these kinds of situations. I also added some extra words at the end, to pick up some of the vowels not present in the text. You can download it here:

Nordvaninden och Solen

If there are any native Swedish speakers out there who could take a minute to listen and give me any suggestions for improvement, I would be most grateful! I strongly suspect that my Rs are funny, and that I'm probably not hitting all the vowels. My melody is also probably pretty funny. I learned Swedish in Lund, in Skåne, but I have always tried to speak Riksvenska as best I could. However, I think that it's possible that I have a bit of a scanian melody in there somewhere. Who knows :)

Thanks so much!

Best,
Casey

PS Here's the transcription of what I read:

Nordanvinden och solen tvistade en gång om vem av dom som var starkast. Just då kom en vandrare vägen fram insvept i en varm kappa. Dom kom då överens om att den som först kunde få vandraren att ta av sej kappan, han skulle anses vara starkare än den andra. Då blåste nordanvinden så hårt han nånsin kunde, men ju hårdare han blåste desto tätare svepte vandraren kappan om sej, och till slut gav nordanvinden upp försöket. Då lät solen sina strålar skina helt varmt och genast tog vandraren av sej kappan och så var nordanvinden tvungen att erkänna att solen var den starkaste av dom två.

Nu ska jag säga ord med alla långa vokaler:

fin
fyr
bud
be
nät
här
smal
köl
mör
klok
kåk

Och nu de korta:

mitt
pytt
full
mest
vett
gosse
ärt
pall
kött
dörr
bott
gått

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