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Nice pronunciation

Postby Woods » 2011-10-31, 16:12

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uME3Npa2 ... re=related

Is this guy Danish or is it okay to speak like that in Sweden?
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Re: Nice pronunciation

Postby Johanna » 2011-10-31, 17:16

He has a Scanian accent, so yes he's a native Swedish speaker, and it's perfectly OK to speak like that :)

I can understand why you thought it might be Danish, the traditional Scanian dialects are East Danish rather than Swedish, but nowadays very few speak those, instead they speak Standard Swedish with a regional accent, like the one in the recording.
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Re: Nice pronunciation

Postby Jurgen Wullenwever » 2011-10-31, 18:53

Johanna wrote:He has a Scanian accent

I would rather guess that he is from Blekinge, but it was a while since I heard people from those places.

And what would sound like Danish in that? It was extremely standard Standard Swedish.
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Re: Nice pronunciation

Postby Dingbats » 2011-10-31, 19:01

Jurgen Wullenwever wrote:And what would sound like Danish in that? It was extremely standard Standard Swedish.

Okay, now you're exaggerating. It's pretty much the standard regional accent, but it's not what anyone would claim is a 'neutral' accent.
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Re: Nice pronunciation

Postby Hunef » 2011-10-31, 23:32

Johanna wrote:He has a Scanian accent, so yes he's a native Swedish speaker [...]
I wouldn't draw such a conclusion without further knowledge on his background (he may be Danish or Japanese speaking natively for all we know). But yeah, he definitely speaks Standard Swedish (with a southern touch - as a northerner it could be anything south of Jönköping in my ears).
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Re: Nice pronunciation

Postby Woods » 2011-11-07, 3:13

The guy is from Helsingborg.
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