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[berntb]

This is probably a question of phonemes; Swedish has most of other language's strange sounds. :-)

(A phoneme Swedish lacks is the "th" of "think", that was a problem to learn.)

[RuadhanMc → berntb]

Yes, fair point. The hardest part of learning Swedish for me was learning how to pronounce å ä ö and associated words. Took about 6 months of frustration, but after that it got quite a bit easier.