Sounds of the Faroese Letters (1/3)

Hey! Today we're starting the first part of the new series "Sounds of the Faroese Letters." I hope this will be helpful for you English-speakers who want to learn Faroese. Enjoy! Additional information: "Steðgur" (break/interruption/stop) is another example of the "maðkur" example. "Steðgur" is pronounced as if it should have two G's, so the Ð serves as a G there. "H" can be silent in words like "hjarta" and "hjørtur" (heart, deer) "G" serves as a ʤ sound in words like GEnta (girl) and GEva (give inf.) In 1st grade of school, I learned that the "real" pronunciation of the letter A was the same sound as the letter Æ (which will be covered in part 3). As the video "The Faroese Alphabet" explained from 5:00-5:45, the letter "A" is actually called "fyrra /ea/" = the first /ea/, whereas "Æ" is "seinna /ea/" = the second /ea/. But the way I pronounced the sound of "A" in this video is the way that most Faroese people pronounce it on its own. There are lots of words in addition to "ja" where the sound of "a" is /ea/. Um tú ert føroyskur og hevur nøkur dømi og orð at leggja afturat, so skrivið tey í eina viðmerking her so at eg kann samla fleiri dømi og seta tey inn í hetta feltið. Soleiðis kunnu vit øll vera við til at frálæra føroyskt til heimin!