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Can I just take a moment to say I really love the retroflexed consonants in Swedish?

Like I remember not really getting them and then kind of figuring out the one in -rs and then reading about stuff later and it FINALLY MADE SENSE and I realized I could make these neat sounds and

in the same way that I rejoiced in the swedish y sound once I figured it out and started mentally inserting it into words with y in them

I now want to retroflex when I see the -rs combination

and go out of my way to say swedish words like bord and förvsinn and först and vart to myself because retroflexed conosonants lsdkfjlas