Swedish "sj" sound: "hwh" or "sh"? (Questions About Your Target Languages) Language Learning Forum

Swedish "sj" sound: "hwh" or "sh"?
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schoenewaelder
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21 January 2013 at 4:09pm | IP Logged

jeff_lindqvist wrote:

it sounds either posh or Northern

hwhome mihwhtake hwhurely?

[Sorry, UK English joke. "Posh" and "northern" are not allowed to appear in the same sentence.]

Edited by schoenewaelder on 21 January 2013 at 4:11pm
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21 January 2013 at 4:28pm | IP Logged

No mistake. :) It's extremely rare to find native Swedes who use /sh/ in all places, and the only ones (that I know) who do that speak a kind of upper-class sociolect OR come from the Northern part of Sweden. They don't have the exact same sound (I think the Northern is slightly more retroflex), but still a kind of /sh/.
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