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Date of upload: Dec 25, 2023 ^^
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The other problem with some Swedish courses (Duolingo, Rosette Stone) is the spoken Swedish is formal and will include these omitted letters in speech examples. If you play the slow version of a phrase on Duo, it will include omitted letters like someone speaking with extreme emphasis or to a child. And speech recognition for exercises speaking frequently require those omitted letters. I've gotten used to saying JaGGG to try to get Duo to give me credit for saying Jag.
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As I said in a comment on another video: Swedish HAS sounded almost exactly as it is written, but that was in the 1300s and earlier, and ironically some sounds then didn't sound like today, because Swedish went through the Great Vowel Dance in the 1400s. Old Swedish u and o sounded like in modern German and v sounded like w in modern English, and the th sounds existing in modern English words like 'this' and 'father' still existed in Swedish then.
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@tmhc72_gtg22c
4 months ago
This is probably why when I try to watch a Swedish TV program online, I often can't understand anything, but if I turn on the Swedish subtitles, I find it easy to understand. A lot of people have told me that they have learned languages (such as French) well enough to read books in those languages, but still can't understand what the actors are saying when they watch TV shows or movies in those languages. (In Danish, there seem to be reductions in every word.)
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