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| Archimedes Tetraglot Newbie Belgium Joined 5585 days ago 14 posts - 14 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Spanish Studies: Finnish, Albanian, Modern Hebrew, Italian | Message 1 of 4 19 August 2009 at 2:48pm | IP Logged |
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When listening to the song "Boten Anna" from Basshunter I recognize the word "Jag" (I in English). Before I had learned to pronounce this word with the German j (I hope everyone speaking Swedish knows what I want to explain). But always when I hear the song it seems as if he would pronounce it "shag" instead of jag. One of my friends who speaks a bit Swedish supposed it to be a dialect from Southern Sweden. Is that really true? Edited by Archimedes on 19 August 2009 at 2:50pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| FrozenNorth Diglot Newbie United Kingdom Joined 6305 days ago 37 posts - 37 votes Speaks: English*, GermanB2 Studies: Finnish | Message 2 of 4 19 August 2009 at 3:32pm | IP Logged |
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Mhmm, I'm hearing the 'jag' as per normal :/
Might it be that you're hearing the first syllable of 'känner' which is pronounced very akin to the 'sh' sound in English? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| ExtraLean Triglot Senior Member France languagelearners.myf Joined 6002 days ago 897 posts - 880 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German | Message 3 of 4 19 August 2009 at 3:35pm | IP Logged |
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I don't know about you, but this seems to be a question about a rather specific language. Wouldn't it make more sense to put it in the 'specific languages' subforum? But nevermind, I got that sorted.
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 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6917 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 4 of 4 19 August 2009 at 4:49pm | IP Logged |
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Anything can happen to sounds due to assimilation (progressive or regressive), aspiration... if you gasp, whisper, breath in or out. It's "jag" but you may hear it differently, and a phonetician may find another IPA symbol. It is not a dialect issue. Edited by jeff_lindqvist on 19 August 2009 at 4:49pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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