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Pronunciation tips II
This is the second part of the lesson dealing with pronunciation tips and tricks.
Hello and welcome back to MySwedish. Let’s finish the lesson about pronunciation today.
There is a nice rule that helps us to decide whether we pronounce words in a long way or in a short way. If there is a doubled consonant in the word we pronounce it shortly. Take a look at the table below and try to pronounce the given words:
att ligga — to lie
en liga — a league
The first one is pronounced shortly where there is the stress on the bold part of the word — ligga. The second word is pronounced in a long way where the “li” part of the word is pronounced same as the “lea” in the English word “league”
Let me give you another pair of words where we use the same rule as with the previous words:
att vila — to rest
en villa — a villa
It looks very straight forward but, there is always but, there are exceptions. The words below are pronounced shortly:
