Today’s sound can be written in a bunch of different ways. Check out the vocab list below.
(en) choklad
Chocolate
(en) diskussion
discussion
(ett) geni
genious
(en) genre
Genre
(en) jalusi
jalousie, blind, shutter, louver, louvre
(en) journalist
journalist
(en) motion
motion
(ett) schack
chess
(en) shorts
shorts
sju
seven
(en) skjorta
shirt
skön
comfortable, beautiful
(en) station
Railway station, stop, station
(en) stjärna
star
Some specific Swedish words are also pronounced like this but have a different spelling: Kristianstad [krɪ’ɧansta], Växjö [”vɛkːɧøː], Östgöte [”øɧøtːə]
In some Regions this sound is replaced with the tje-sound which we will talk about in the next lesson. The sounds is a bit more retroflex though and is also used to sound more elegant by some. The sound is more like a [ʂ] (kors) than [ɕ] (tjuv).