Learning Swedish?

[NovembersDirge]

http://swedia.ling.gu.se/

It's in Swedish, but this is a map with links to .wav files of Swedish dialects. It's from Göteborg University.

 

[NovembersDirge]

Och denna brytning är ju fin: http://swedia.ling.gu.se/Gotaland/Blekinge/Hallevik/ym.html *cough*



Och denna är hur min flickvän och hennes far låter (ungefär): http://swedia.ling.gu.se/Norrland/Angermanland/Bjurholm/yw.html

This is pretty awesome, actually.

Edit: Holy shit: http://swedia.ling.gu.se/Norrland/Vasterbotten/Burtrask/ow.html —*Don't talk to old ladies in Burträsk if you want to have a fucking clue what they're saying!

Or well, if you're me anyway.

And BTW: Burträsk is about as close as they come to Skelleftemål if you're interested.

 

[lefay82]

Burträsk cannot be real...
skwitter....that killed me!!!

 

[Draugen]

Och denna brytning är ju fin: http://swedia.ling.gu.se/Gotaland/Blekinge/Hallevik/ym.html *cough*

Hehe, I know that dialect all to well. I'm born and raised a couple of kilometers away from Lister - but I would like to stress that I don't sound like that at all. It's one of the most awful dialects in Sweden.

51 seconds into this clip - that's how I sound:

 

[NovembersDirge]

Yeah dude, you sound sorta "normal" southernly. It's interesting 'cause you actually don't find a lot of young people with such strong accents, but I think also that education helps with that. It seems like accents are way more embedded in the working class and so on. I wish I had dialects that were as good from Wisconsin, I mean, you can hear them but this Swedish site is fucking great.

http://web.ku.edu/~idea/northamerica/usa/wisconsin/wisconsin.htm

 

[NovembersDirge]

Burträsk cannot be real...
skwitter....that killed me!!!

OK, so my girlfriend's paternal grandmother comes from the woods up north, though I can never remember where. And apparently this is how she and her sisters sound when they get together and talk!

And I played it for Kim and she said "Yeah, swkitter, my farmor says that." Amazing.

 

[Blind Guardian]

Och denna brytning är ju fin: http://swedia.ling.gu.se/Gotaland/Blekinge/Hallevik/ym.html *cough*



Och denna är hur min flickvän och hennes far låter (ungefär): http://swedia.ling.gu.se/Norrland/Angermanland/Bjurholm/yw.html

This is pretty awesome, actually.

Edit: Holy shit: http://swedia.ling.gu.se/Norrland/Vasterbotten/Burtrask/ow.html —*Don't talk to old ladies in Burträsk if you want to have a fucking clue what they're saying!

Or well, if you're me anyway.

And BTW: Burträsk is about as close as they come to Skelleftemål if you're interested.

Haha that is a pretty awesome site. I have to say it is extremely accurate. Anundsjö is where my mom and my relatives on her side come from and they talk exactly like this. http://swedia.ling.gu.se/Ljud/Norrland/Angermanland/Anundsjo/anu_om.mp3

 

[NovembersDirge]

Älvdalska: http://swedia.ling.gu.se/Svealand/Dalarna/Alvdalen/om.html

Holy shit. I don't understand this at all. This is supposed to be like a throwback to the olden days. (Just like the term "olden days".)

 

[Thidrek]

Ah, that was its name again! Thanks, I always forget

Älvdalska is considered a language for its own, not a dialect. And it really is conservative in a lot of ways, e.g. still having case and personal inflection, preserving a sound system closer to Old Norse, etc.
It's cool, I like it

 

[NovembersDirge]

Yeah, I'd heard about it before, supposedly they still have a case system that they use. It's supposed to be a bit like listening to middle-Swedish (the period between Old Norse and Swedish). Though, given the number of dialects, it's hard to imagine that there was a unified "Middle Swedish" period.

This website has been a ton of fun, I have to say. Really, really cool.

 

[Defiance]

Ok something I'm not getting is the grandma/grandpa difference(s) in Swedish, please explain it to me.

 

[Qu Appelle]

I love listening to stuff in Sami. It's so pretty.

 

[Agah]

I love listening to stuff in Sami. It's so pretty.

Off-topic, but have you seen The Kautokeino Rebellion/ Kautokeino Opprøret? It's a movie about the Sami people in Norway struggling with the church and state in the 19th century.

 

[Draugen]

Ok something I'm not getting is the grandma/grandpa difference(s) in Swedish, please explain it to me.

Mormor = mother's mother
Morfar = mother's father
Farmor = father's mother
Farfar = father's father

Quite easy actually. And when I think about it - more logic than grandmother/grandfather.

 

[Defiance]

Mormor = mother's mother
Morfar = mother's father
Farmor = father's mother
Farfar = father's father

Quite easy actually. And when I think about it - more logic than grandmother/grandfather.

Very easy, Rosetta Stone didn't explain it like this haha, thanks. It's definitely a lot more logical than in English!

 

[NovembersDirge]

Yeah, it's just confusing when you start talking about morfarsfarmorsfarfarsmorfarsmormorsmor. *cough*

 

[Defiance]

can you actually say that?

 

[NovembersDirge]

Well, if you want to talk about your maternal grandfather's paternal grandmother's paternal grandfather's maternal grandfather's maternal grandmother's mother, then it's required of you.

 

[Agah]

Well, if you want to talk about your maternal grandfather's paternal grandmother's paternal grandfather's maternal grandfather's maternal grandmother's mother, then it's required of you.

In Norwegian that would be my Tipp-tipp-tipp-tipp-tipp-tipp-tipp-oldemor. If I've counted this correctly. I rarely talk about her anyway.

 

[NovembersDirge]

Yeah, same here.

I mean, it never comes up, but as I understand the rules that would be technically correct.