"Mannen dricker mjölk."
Translation:The man is drinking milk.
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Mjölk in Swedish has the ö sound that is special for the Swedish language. You have to learn to say ö like a Sweed would. First ...ölk sounds a little like elk, but you have to form the mouth more like an o instead of e. Then you must do a fast air sound but it doesn't sound like o at al. Then you have to combine the rest mjö...mjöl...mjölk.
I know how to say ö and ä bc I'm finnish and we also use ö and ä! So it's easy to say it.
How does one discern, in the spoken words, mannen (singular) from mannen ( plural)?
You're missing the dots:
- mannen = the man
- männen = the men
They're pronounced differently, it's more like "munnen" and "mennen" with standard English.
How is mjolk pronounced? I hear "mee-er-k", with the "er" pronounced as in the first syllable of "error".
Swedish with axel is a good english spoken challel about learning the lanquage. good explanions good sound quality sit back relax and listen nice voice aswell
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The previous exercise marked my answer as wrong n I can't report an error because no access to them. En smorgas = a sandwich was correct. I don't have the correct accent marks.
this is indeed a very typical svensk sentence. In my south German company there is ond guy (in his 50s) having a glass of milk with his lunch (of 2000+). During lunch(time) in Sweden you see these guys everywhere. If you have been away some years oi what ever this is so funny each time I see it. More grown up men have milk to their lunch in S than dittos having a beer at thd samd time in Germany ;-)
It's definitely more common in Sweden than in Germany, but it's not very common in public in Sweden, either.
Try restarting the lesson. Sometimes there's a bug which causes that.
Well, since they're different letters, what you need is training - basically keep exercising until you can reliably hear the difference.
To help with that, I would suggest looking up videos on Swedish pronunciation. I believe Academia Cervena (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUb87YTKOTgnGcAM4toC-6A) covers vowels, for instance. Good luck! :)
