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I don't know if you are aware of it, but "Fri" means "Free" in Swedish so I thought you picked a rather interesting name for your project. Looks cool!
by staticelf 9y ago
I don't know if you are aware of it, but "Fri" means "Free" in Swedish so I thought you picked a rather interesting name for your project. Looks cool!
- chrisper 9y agoIs it pronounced like the German Frei or the English Free?
- bryanrasmussen 9y agoEnglish Free, also Danish Fri is the same, but the end of the e sound gets swallowed a bit.
- madez 9y agoIs the ‘r’ in ‘fri’ in Danish and Swedish pronounced as a trill (Russian ‘Ру́сский’), tap (Spanish ‘pero’), or an approximative (English ‘red’)? Is it dental, alveolar (Spanish ‘pero’) or postalveolar (Hanover-German ‘Rachen’)?
- bryanrasmussen 9y agoIs this the linguist counterpart of trolling? :) Anyway I don't know, it is definitely not the English r however.
- madez 9y agoI was not trolling in any way. I'm dumbfounded. Why would you think I were trolling?
- m_eiman 9y agoThis is what it sounds like: https://sv.forvo.com/word/fri/#sv https://sv.forvo.com/word/fri/#sv
- bryanrasmussen 9y agosorry, it just seemed absurdly overspecific, wanting to know if r is pronounced like any of multiple pronunciations of r that you would have no reason to expect I had any familiarity with. It just seemed like a linguistic joke of some sort, like are you putting me on with this stuff? However - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCScmkh8hQg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCScmkh8hQg
- madez 9y agoThanks for the video! I often painted what one has to do with their vocal tract to illustrate how to create a certain sound, and I also use a finger in the mouth to show people how to pronounce the 'ch' in the german 'Ich', for if you try to pronounce the english 'sh' but have a finger in your mouth on the tip of your tongue you automatically produce the german 'ch'. But instead of painting positions and stuffing things in mouths, one can also exchange information about this by just using text. That's what I did in my comment. So, no joke whatsoever. Just a specific question about how to pronounce a specific sound exactly.
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- scbrg 9y agohttps://sv.forvo.com/word/fri/#sv https://sv.forvo.com/word/fri/#sv Click the little play button under the respective headings: Danish: "fri uttal på danska [da]" Swedish: "fri uttal på svenska [sv]" Norwegian Bokmål: "fri uttal på bokmål [no]"
- madez 9y agoThe site doesn't play sound for me, not even with activated JS, cookies and DOM storage.
- madez 9y agoI managed to ask someone who lived in Sweden. They said it is pronounced as an alveolar, short trill.