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So you can actually tell how k is supposed to be pronounced simply by looking the letter that follows it? You don't have to learn it word by word?
...All those years and all those Swedish teachers and none of them had the decency to tell us this? I knew there was a reason why I didn't like them. :)
...All those years and all those Swedish teachers and none of them had the decency to tell us this? I knew there was a reason why I didn't like them. :)
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Oh, teachers ... Being Swedish, I obviously know how to pronounce k by heart, but we were taught which vowels are soft (e, i , y, ä, ö) and which ones are hard (a, o, u, å), but never what it all was any good for. XD
The same rule applies for c and g btw. C is k before hard vowels and s before soft (but that's an international rule), g is g before hard vowels and j before soft. :)
The same rule applies for c and g btw. C is k before hard vowels and s before soft (but that's an international rule), g is g before hard vowels and j before soft. :)
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So this is why gymnasium is pronounced with j! I don't understand why they just couldn't tell us the rules, that would have made things so much easier. The only rule we were taught was that ä is pronounced like e, unless it's before r. (Altough some apparently pronounce är as e...?)
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But in some dialects ä and e never are the same thing, apparently ... And yes, pronouncing är as e is very very common.
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