Hi guys,
I need your help! I searched this forum and the web in general but can't find anything useful.
I am somewhat puzzled by an "alternative" pronunciation of "jag" in Swedish I encountered. I only ever heard it in songs by the Swedish band Kent (I'm only starting to learn Swedish) so it might be Jocke Berg-specific or maybe specific just to singing in Swedish... (Kent are from Eskilstuna so I imagine an accent similar to/the same as the Stockholm one?)
What he (Jocke) does is sing the "jag" in such a way that the "j" sounds to me like the French "j" in "je"!!! (you know, the IPA "tailed z" or "ezh" character, unicode character 0292 - aargh, I'm struggling here!
) He does that in the word "objecten" too (I thought it was supposed to be pronounced with the "y" sound, like in the English "yes"?!?) What's going on here? Is it possible or am I hearing things?
I really hope someone will be able to help me with this - no Swedish language books or online courses mention any of that...
Thanks a lot for your help!
enion
I need your help! I searched this forum and the web in general but can't find anything useful.
I am somewhat puzzled by an "alternative" pronunciation of "jag" in Swedish I encountered. I only ever heard it in songs by the Swedish band Kent (I'm only starting to learn Swedish) so it might be Jocke Berg-specific or maybe specific just to singing in Swedish... (Kent are from Eskilstuna so I imagine an accent similar to/the same as the Stockholm one?)
What he (Jocke) does is sing the "jag" in such a way that the "j" sounds to me like the French "j" in "je"!!! (you know, the IPA "tailed z" or "ezh" character, unicode character 0292 - aargh, I'm struggling here!
I really hope someone will be able to help me with this - no Swedish language books or online courses mention any of that...
Thanks a lot for your help!
enion