• mrmule@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    This is for the Swedish interpretation of the spelling, blåhaj is also a popular child’s song in Sweden.

    The å is pronounced almost exactly like the English word ‘awe’.

    j in Swedish makes the sound of English’s y

    Blå haj is then pronounced as - ‘bloa high’

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      12 days ago

      The thing that my girlfriend struggled with when she moved to sweden was our swedish letter “y”. She can do it now, but it still doesn’t come naturally, she has to consciously move the right muscles to pronounce it.

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        8 days ago

        honestly i’d more say it’s like the english E, just sliiiightly different.
        swedish I and Y are basically identical

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          8 days ago

          I wouldn’t say identical. If you pronounce the name “My” it sounds different if you’re actully saying “Mi”? Or “Fyra” vs “Fira”, “By” vs “Bi” etc.

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            7 days ago

            i said basically identical, that’s a qualifier to specify that it’s not actually identical, just really really close with a minor difference.

            it’s the kind of thing where it’s so close that you can alter what you hear by just showing someone saying the other word while playing the same audio.

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      8 days ago

      the thing this misses (understandably because even swedes don’t realize it) is the precise pitch (yup, swedish is basically a tonal language, like less complicated chinese
      i really can’t put it into words but if you listen to a swede saying it you’ll hear the sing-song-y-ness, and that the end sounds of the words are… stressed? and lengthened

      there’s also sort of a stop in blå, b’lå, i think we sort of eject the B more? at least i do

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      12 days ago

      The å is pronounced almost exactly like the English word ‘awe’.

      Maybe for the British. Å is pronounced like the beginning of “oar” or the middle of “four”.

  • Peachy [they/them] @lemmy.blahaj.zoneM
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    12 days ago

    Wait, “blo” as is “blow” or “blue”? English is stupid language…we have no accents to show which form of a vowel we’re using. I’m assuming “blow”, as that makes the most contextual sense, but again, English is dumb.