[Thread] So I watched the interview between @mattvsjapan and Days of French ‘n’ Swedish (don’t know if he has twitter or not) and the topic of “never heard off a non-native Swedish language learner sounding like a native when speaking” really stuck with me!

So I reviewed some language learners to see what could be the case, first Days own videos, then @lingosteve and lastly @LucaCoaching and first and foremost Luca was the best of the three!

Also want to point out that I only know of some non native speakers of Swedish that sound native!

There’s 3 major points that I find are the usual mistakes:
1. Pronunciation, so this is stuff like using weird sounding R’s or maybe wrong vowels, I would say listening helps with

this to hear the right sounds and then be able to self correct!
2. Weird use of words, so usually it’s not words that don’t exist but rather used too often or in weird places! Again listening a lot should help with a more natural speech pattern!

3. Pitch accent/tempo/rhythm, this is the one that’s most overlooked and @mimiomimamio shared something interesting about this with pitch accent versus tempo/rhythm! So similar to Japanese Swedish also have pitch accent but even more important we have rhythm

and this rhythm is connected to pitch accent and tone which is what makes Swedish sound so melodic! It’s also one of the biggest telltale signs that someone is not native!
Now you don’t need to know pitch accent or rhythm to be understood but it’s much harder for the listener

Want to point out that this thread is not to discourage anyone but merely an observation I had when it comes to both Swedish and Japanese in terms of Pitch Accent and native sound