{"id":33583,"date":"2005-10-27T09:59:38","date_gmt":"2005-10-27T09:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2005\/10\/27\/without-a-doubt-the-worlds-worst-online-swedish-lessons\/"},"modified":"2005-10-27T09:59:38","modified_gmt":"2005-10-27T09:59:38","slug":"without-a-doubt-the-worlds-worst-online-swedish-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20051027-38\/?p=33583","title":{"rendered":"Without a doubt, the world&#8217;s worst online Swedish lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slayradio.org\/mastering_swedish_lesson_3.php\"> Lesson 3: Schomething schtranger<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/download.slayradio.org\/mastering_swedish_-_lesson_3.mp3\">mp3<\/a>) is part three of a series of four (so far) horrifically bad Swedish lessons. (<strong>Warning<\/strong>: Off-color content and copious swearing, but nevertheless very funny.) Boz has been living in Sweden since June, and two of his so-called friends have been putting together Swedish language tapes for him. Listen along as he goes through the tapes, trying to repeat each of the phrases. <\/p>\n<p> Each of the lessons does illustrate a genuine detail of the Swedish language, even though Slaygon and Makke choose to illustrate the points using sentences you&#8217;re unlikely to encounter in your average Swedish textbook&#8230; <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slayradio.org\/mastering_swedish.php\">Lesson 1: Homographs<\/a>, words spelled the same     but with different meaning, sometimes with different     pronunciation. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slayradio.org\/mastering_swedish_lesson_2.php\">Lesson 2: Inflections and compound words<\/a>,     where two words change meaning when combined into a single word. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slayradio.org\/mastering_swedish_lesson_3.php\">Lesson 3: The sj and tj sounds<\/a>,     two difficult sounds.     The &#8220;sj&#8221; sounds like rushing wind,     which I tend to mispronounce as German frontal &#8220;ch&#8221; because I forget to     lower my tongue and open my mouth cavity     in order to get that echo-ey whistling effect.     The &#8220;tj&#8221; sound is close to English &#8220;sh&#8221;     (differing in some subtle way I have yet to learn). <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slayradio.org\/mastering_swedish_lesson_4.php\">Lesson 4: The letters K, G and Y<\/a>.     The pronunciations of &#8220;K&#8221; and &#8220;G&#8221; vary depending on context.     The &#8220;Y&#8221; is a tricky rounded vowel. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> One fine point of pronunciation that doesn&#8217;t get much attention in textbooks is the Swedish long &#8220;i&#8221; sound. Most sources just tell you to pronounce it like English &#8220;ee&#8221;, but you&#8217;re also supposed to push it towards the back of the mouth, so that you sound like Kermit the Frog. I tend to pronounce it like English &#8220;ee&#8221; and forget to do the Kermit thing. Just like with my problems with &#8220;sj&#8221;, it&#8217;s not that I don&#8217;t know how to do it; I just forget. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lesson 3: Schomething schtranger (mp3) is part three of a series of four (so far) horrifically bad Swedish lessons. (Warning: Off-color content and copious swearing, but nevertheless very funny.) Boz has been living in Sweden since June, and two of his so-called friends have been putting together Swedish language tapes for him. 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