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JamesTWils
1974
The distinction between Danish "du" and Swedish "du" is very interesting. The Danish "du" sounds like "doo" to me, but the Swedish sounds like the French word "deux." I also hear "en" sounding like "el" to me, but that may just be my aging ears.
JamesTWils
1974
Thank you. Now that I know what to look for, a number of the vowel sounds appear more fronted than in Danish. It is clearly something I will have to get used to, along with the shocking Swedish habit of actually pronouncing consonants, whistly and fricative though those consonants may be. The Ns still often sound like Ls to me, but I think that is an artifact of Duolingo's recording system and my ears, since I get that effect in other languages as well.