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Originally Posted by Crocus
Some samples:
Roughly where my father is from (southwest)
Roughly where my mother is from (north)
Way down south (Scania, near Denmark)
West, near Norway (Dalecarlia) (I don't understand this one!)
Way up north
Gotland island (off the east coast)
I would be curious to hear how different these samples sound to people who don't understand the language at all... to me they are very different indeed, like Glaswegian versus Cockney versus Baltimore, but I have no idea if it's really that different when it's all just weird sounds.
My own accent is perhaps closest to this, but I have some sounds in my speech from my mother's Northern accent which people down here don't generally have.
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Not knowing anything about linguists etc and not knowing the language I can't distinguish the emphasis on words or such. Each sample did sound different, particularly the West and way down south. Not unerstanding the language hampered me a great deal It was extremely interesting though. Thank Crocus.