The Pronunciation of Somali - Accented Swedish
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چکیده
The numbers of Somali immigrants in Sweden has increased during the last years and there is a need of more competence for teaching Swedish as a second language to this group.Star This paper investigates aspects of difficulties in the pronunciation of Swedish for Somali speakers. Recordings of two Somali speakers living in Sweden have been analyzed and it is obvious that there are pronunciation differences between Somali-accented Swedish and standard Swedish depending on the phonology in the two languages.
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