Today’s sound can be written in a bunch of different ways. Check out the vocab list below.
choklad
Chocolate
diskussion
discussion
geni
genious
genre
Genre
jalusi
jalousie, blind, shutter, louver, louvre
journalist
journalist
motion
motion
schack
chess
shorts
shorts
sju
seven
skjorta
shirt
skön
comfortable, beautiful
station
Railway station, stop, station
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).