The consonant sounds pt. 1 (Plosives and fricatives)

The Swedish language has got 6 plosives. They're written with the letters B, D, G, K, P and T.
K and G occasionally has other pronounciations apart from their pronounciations in the alphabet (The letters are called [koː] and [geː]). More about that in an another lesson.
P, B, T and D, however, are always pronounced the same.

[k] This sound can be written either like K, Q (Rare) and (G).
G is pronounced [k] before the letter T. Example, sagt [sakt] said (perfect tense).

K, P and T are aspirated, except of when they're after an S.
For example, ko [kʰuː] cow, sko [skuː] shoe.


The Swedish language has got 7 fricatives. 5 of them have their own letters - F, H, J, S, V - and two of them are written with letter combinations (More about that in the lesson(s) about non-alphabetical sounds).
There is nothing special with the 5 letters; they're always pronounced the same. The two sounds with doesn't have their own letters are [ɕ] and [ɧ], the second one being unique for the Swedish language and thus being hard to pronounce for foreigners.

That's all for this lesson. Next time it's time for trills, laterals and nasals.