"Älgen tar ett äpple."

Translation: The moose takes an apple.

[zamlet]

The first word just doesn't sound right to me. It sounds almost like the English word "gallium". The sense that the word begins with a hard "g" sound is hard to ignore. Is the transliteration of the Swedish correct?

[Zmrzlina]

It all sounds fine to me.

[VojtchLuk1]

Idk who else, but I always hear "alien"

[seaeagle5]

I thought the same Zamlet.

[Arnauti]

Double checked this now and it sounds quite good to me, no sense of a G sound at the start.

[MikeyJoeForever]

I hear it too. Älgen sounds like galleon.

[devalanteriel]

This is really weird. I listened to it once and heard the same thing you do. Then I listened a few times more and it sounds great each time. I really don't know what's going on.

[Howard]

http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/robot-lawn-mower-takes-on-moose/

[theo3ling]

A moose takes an apple? Really?

[BenBrazell]

I have heard that it is common for moose to come into people's gardens to eat apples. Maybe it is a reference to that.

[Arnauti]

Yes, it's very common. They love apples. What's worse, when the apples start to go bad, the moose can get drunk from eating them, and then this kind of thing can happen:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-14842999

[BenBrazell]

That story made my day. Tack så mycket!

[Arnauti]

It's one of my favorites too :D

[seaeagle5]

Tack sa mycket. This made my day. (Apologies as I cannot put the circle over the 'a' in 'sa'.)

[NJtheSTQ]

My cousins live in Goteborg !!! :-)

[Arnauti]

What do you mean?

[NJtheSTQ]

I agree! My question - is the suggestion that animals "take" food? Is this the verb to use when describing eating by all animals? Or is it just another sentence with unrelated nouns and verbs?

[Landwalker04]

After listening to this several dozen times to make sure I'm not suffering auditory hallucinations: Why (or how?) is there a hard "g-" sound at the beginning of Älgen?

I was going back through all the vocabulary I've had trying to find a word that sounded like "Galien"...

Edit: I've since checked http://forvo.com/word/%C3%A4lgen/ and there is no initial hard-G, so now I'm even more confused.

[isabel.hali]

For me it sounds fine. No 'g' sound at the front, just sounds a bit like 'alien' when said through a mouthful of porridge or something.

[Landwalker04]

I'm starting to get concerned that Zamlet and I are hearing an entirely different audio clip from what other people are hearing. I've even cut off the audio as soon as it starts and all I hear is "g-"

(Edit: Maybe not. I went way back to the Animals lesson in which "älgen" is introduced, and the audio does the same thing when the words starts a sentence, but doesn't do it when it isn't the first word. I suspect maybe there's some Swedish thing, or something particular to this narrator, that results in inserting a very heavy glottal stop at the beginning of the word when it starts a sentence like that.)

[isabel.hali]

Yeah, that's weird. It was a repeat-after-audio-microphone-sentence for me, perhaps that's of slight significance? Probably not.

[RamonAndre265865]

"Älgen" sound like: "Elion" älg: what is; one only moose be pronunced; "ely". I hope that undertand all. One greetings.