monaubergine Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5841 days ago 7 posts - 7 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Italian, Mandarin, Japanese
| Message 1 of 2 22 July 2010 at 7:58am | IP Logged |
I've just very recently begun studying Swedish, and I am a bit confused on how to pronounce certain sounds.
How do you pronounce the "stj" sound in "stjärnan"
and the "sk" sound in sken?
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jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6908 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map
| Message 2 of 2 22 July 2010 at 11:16am | IP Logged |
The sj/skj/stj/sch/sk sound (did I forget any spelling variation?) is basically pronounced in two ways:
#1 [ɕ] according to IPA, but similar enough to [ʃ] as in "sheep"
#2 the sound you make when cooling a cup of hot chocolate, without necessarily pouting the lips. (/ɧ/, voiceless palatal-velar fricative, if that helps)
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