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- "De lär mig kinesiska."
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Oh wow, dem too? Somehow I missed that, I had just been pronouncing it like it was English.
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Well, the object pronouns don't even really tell you that – jag lär mig means 'I learn' but de lär mig means 'they teach me'. There's a word undervisa which is unambiguously teach. Like, 'I teach Spanish' would be Jag undervisar i spanska. Or Jag undervisar honom i spanska - 'I'm teaching him Spanish'.
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I understand that there are several languages spoken in China (Mandarin, Cantonese, etc). Does Swedish distinguish between these, or is "kinesiska" just used for all Chinese languages?
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When read within the sentence the first sound in the word 'kinesiska' seems to be like 'h' but read alone it is pronounced like in the word 'köper', which I think is the correct version. Is it Duo reading it wrong or is it a feature of Swedish?