"Jag talar svenska."

Translation: I speak Swedish.

[Marc_B]

Or at least I will soon.

[ButterflyWolf]

SAME!

[AshleyWill591816]

Same

[p8c]

it sounds like tthe normal speed play pronounces "SHvenska". but the slow play pronounces "svenska". so, is this possibly a dialect difference in pronunciation?

[Lundgren8]

It’s because of the -r in ”talar”. The letter combination <rs> is in most Swedish dialects pronounced roughly as the English sh-sound. Listen to this recording of personlig for example. In rapid/fluent speech, this also happens across word boundaries, so that ”talar svenska” is pronounced ”tala shvenska”.

[karatecowboy]

So it's a liaison, then.

[p8c]

thank you!

[zirrex]

That phrase probably explains why in Russian the first sound in such words as Sweden, Swedish, Swedes etc. is "sh", not "s".

[Lundgren8]

I’m sure that has to do with a phonological rule in Russian, rather than in Swedish. It’s also Schweden in German for example, because ”sw-” does not exist in German.

[zirrex]

Then I think it came from German into Russian, since in Russian sw is possible. By the way, in old Russian another word was used, which sounds as 'svey' - a Swede

[cran18]

According to Wiktionary Швеция stems from the Medival Latin word Suecia.
Also, while I agree "Schw-" seems much more natural in German, there are borrowed words like Swahili and Swastika which kept their original "Sw-" sound.

[Nina427151]

Tack så mycket!

[MeninodeMarte]

Much better now that Jag talar svenska ( >O< ) /

[Gary_Dunne]

What's the difference between 'talar' and 'pratar'?

[Zmrzlina]

Same as with speak and talk in English, more or less.

[Gary_Dunne]

Tack.

[deactivated user]

Not yet. Soon.

[LevRaphael1]

Isn't she pronouncing the s almost as sh? Is that regional?

[popsup678]

How would one say "I can speak some Swedish" or "I don't speak much Swedish"

[lexyunicorn123]

Shouldn't the 's' in 'Svenska' be capitol? It is a language

[GrayZieg]

Not all languages follow the same capitalization techniques.

[Zmrzlina]

Swedish doesn't capitalize adjectives and names of languages.

[dont_tread_on_me]

Exactly, im from Hungary, and we dont capitalize the names of languages.

[Barbara100206]

They say shvenska

[wtAwsoEH]

jag talar svenska

[kmasis]

Neither in spanish

[LadySeabrooke]

god i wish

[NaomiPiisc]

Don't you have to write languages with a capital letter? So Svenska instead of svenska?

[Super-Svensk]

Nope. Nationalities and languages do not take capital letters in Swedish.