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Why Does The Swedish Language Sound Like Singing?

Anita Hummel Season 1 Episode 27

The Swedish language uses a lot of prosody in the language. It also has unique word stress with long and short vowels or consonants. Swedish uses an acute tone accent or a grave tone accent. When Swedes speak, they will stress the most critical word; and which word they stress can change the entire meaning of a sentence.

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