SWEDISH LEARNING TIPS

1. Swedish has a number of subtle sounds and vowels that give English speakers   a little trouble.

2. The difficulty in learning Swedish for native English speakers is pronunciation.

3. Swedish is a tone language - words are pronounced with a specific rising or falling pitch.

4. The Swedish tones are not as radical as in Chinese, but they are subject to many variations depending on word order, placement in the sentence and emphasis or stress.

5. Swedish grammar is not difficult, and in many ways is similar to English.

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                    vowels

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a  ---> 'a' in "barn"

e  ---> first 'e' in "here"

i  ---> 'i' in "machine"

o  ---> 'oo' in "foot"

u  ---> 'ou' in "you"
y  ---> 'y' in "Nitroglycerin" 

å  ---> 'aw' in "saw"

ä  ---> 'a' in "rare"

ö  ---> 'i' in "Sir"

In Swedish Y is a vowel and not a consonant!

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                          consonants
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B ---> 'b' in "bed"

C ---> 'c' in "cat", or like S in Swedish

D ---> 'd' in "dog"

F ---> 'f' in "for"

G ---> 'g' in "go", like'y'in "yellow"when preceding ö

H ---> 'h' in "help"  

J ---> 'y' in "yell"

K ---> 'k' in "king",like'sh'in"ship"when preceding e,i,y,ä,ö

L ---> 'l' in "love"

M ---> 'm' in "mother"

N ---> 'n' in "nice"

P ---> 'p' in "pig"

Q ---> 'q' in "quest" with "u", almost always

R ---> 'r' in "row", like 'r' in "feather"

S ---> 'ss' in "hiss", like 'sh" in "ship"

T ---> 't' in "top"

V ---> 'v' in "victory"

W ---> 'v' in "victor"

X ---> 'cks' in "kicks"

Z ---> 's' in "saw"