Re: Exotic languages (was Re: PimsleurApproach language courses)

Quoting Roger Mills <romilly@...>:

> Steg Belsky wrote:
>
> >
> > Maybe Swedish is considered exotic by English speakers because of the
> > tones/intonation?  The only exposure many people have to anything at
> > all related to the Swedish language may be the 'Swedish Chef' muppet.
>
> Loved him!!  Before that, of course, there were Ingmar Bergman(n?)* films.
> ------------------------------
> *A good while back, Daniel or Andreas corrected my spelling of the name, but
> it didn't sink in, sorry.
It's "Bergman".

"Bergmann" looks German enough that I'd probably pronounce it [bErkman] if I
saw it in a text and didn't recognize it as a misspelling. "Bergman" is, of
course, [b&r`jman] (insert allowance for dialectal variation!).

                                                                 Andreas