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Common Norwegian Pronunciation Mistakes

Grammar Points

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The Focus of This Lesson is the Five Most Common Mistakes People Make When They

Pronounce Norwegian.

#1: Remember to Trill Your "-R's"!

Remember that in Norwegian, we don't not pronounce the letter "-R" in the same way as it is in

English. We trill it much like the "-rr" in Spanish. It is important you don't use an English "-r," but try

to roll your "-r" clearly so that that words are easily distinguished. An English sounding "-r" can easily

be mistaken for a Norwegian retroflex or an accented "L." If rolling the "-r" is hard you can try to use

a "guttural -R" instead, you know, the French sounding one.

#2: Correct Vowels

Many foreigners, especially form English-speaking countries tend to use their native vowel sounds

rather than the Norwegian sounds. This is especially a problem where Norwegian words are similar to

the learners own native language.

In the case of a native English speaker this could result in words like:

bake, sort, smile,

and

aften

being pronounced with the vowels pertaining to the English words; "bake," "sort," "smile," and

"after."

Also while you are at it. Try to remember that the vowels [e], [o], and [u] have two sets of

pronunciation (check our third lesson in this pronunciation series if you don't remember).

#3: Mind the double consonants

Also like we taught you earlier; the different pronunciation for single, double, and triple consonants is

very important to be conscious of when speaking Norwegian. Single consonants has a long

pronunciation while double consonants are pronounced quick and hard. Three consonants are

pronounced the two first together then the third one starting the second part of the word.

Some examples are:

laken

- "bed sheet"

/la/a/ken/

lakken

"[the] lacquer"

/lak/ken/

busstopp

- "bus stop"

/buss/topp/

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kjære

- "darling"

/kjæ/æ/re/

kjerre

- "cart"

/kjær/re/

#4: Learn to Be Comfortable with non-native sounds

Norwegian has many sounds that are similar to English, so there aren't too many challenging sounds.

Some we have mentioned in these series which are important to watch out for are:

/sj/ - like "sh" in "shoe"

/kj/ - like "michelin" (without the "t" some pronounce it with:

/?m???l?n/)

/sk/ - like "ti" in "emotion"

/au/ - like "au" in "sauerkraut" but with a hint of "v"

/ai/ - like "i" in "mine" the resulting sound should end with a "j"-sound like when you say "yearn"

/øy/ - like "ui" in "ruin" the "u" sounds more like the "u" in "burn." same as /ai/ should end with a

"j"-sound.

#5: Watch Out for Similar Sounding Words!

Norwegian is full of seemingly similar words. Some have slight change in pronunciation so one can

make out the difference, but some words also sound exactly the same. Make sure you practice the

pronunciation of words well and that you watch and don't try to put differentiate words that are

supposed to sound the same. Words like

gift

have two meanings ("married" and "poison"), but both

meanings have the exact same pronunciation and spelling. Some make the mistake of wanting to

differentiate between the two by changing the stress on different parts of the word making it entirely

unintelligible.

Other words like;

man,

("one," pronoun)

mann

("male") and

man, mane.

gjerne

("with pleasure"),

hjerne

("brain") can be especially tricky for foreigners as they differ in pronunciation, but not only to

differentiate the words, they also change depending on the emotion or emphasis the speaker speaks

with.

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