K-, Kj- and Tj-words

The Swedish language is known for its variety in pronunciations for words that might look like they're pronounced the same. Long sentence there, sorry :) I hope you get what I mean. I'll give an example:

Käpp (cane)
Kille (guy)

The first word is pronounced with a "schh"-sound, and the other one uses a normal "k"-sound.

Another example:

Kyrka (church)
Tjära (tar)

In thise case, it's a bit trickier. These two words have different spellings, but sounds the same in the beginning. Unfortunately, I can't write down the phonetics for these so you'll have to listen carefully to the mp3-file.

More words that has identical initial sounds:

Kjol (skirt), Tjock (fat), Tjuv (thief), Kind (cheek), Kön (sex, gender)

Eventually, by reading this, you might know how to pronounce certain words as they're spelled.
Next time I will go through a different, but similar thing; The Skj- and Stj-sound.

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