| Summary: | The intention of this study is to compare difficulties of Swedish pronunciation of five second-language learners with Thai as mother tongue. Thereafter make a comparison with previous research in pronunciation difficulties in people with the same primary language to see if the deviations are similar. I used both recorded material/recordings which I analyzed as well as experiences from pronunciation training that I observed at SFI. The pronunciation difficulties were documented and entered in tables. The recordings consist of 25 Swedish words and a text performed by five informants. In my study, you can distinguish a pattern in my five informants pronunciation difficulties complying with Bannert informants who also have Thai as primary language. The irregularities as they had in common is difficulties with lip rounding, liquid consonants, pronunciation of /u/, loss of consonant, word stress, word accent, clause accent and assimilation. I found that the mother tongue in all likelihood have some influence of the pronunciation of a second language
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