"au" seems to work ok for the neither aw nor uh sound (my swedish friend nazo confirms)
swedish pronunciation is not so difficult, you just have to remember the invisible H at the end of every word. it's like Gaelic (which im sure EVERYONE here knows )
the tricky part is that swedish and english have so many cognates. take "spade" for instance (which is also a homograph); in english, it's "speid" and in swedish it's "spaa-dh"
spaa-deh
O:
You must pronounce the 'e'!
But yeah, pronouncing swedish is like putting and 'h' after each word and then take away all the diphthong-sounds O: (omg dipthong, what a word.)
I mean, why is it that 'spade' in english is written like that when it should've been 'spayd' or at least 'spaed'? But 'boat' is not spelled 'bote'? English doesn't follow its own pronounciation rules. Ever. I mean: 'Aisle'. WTF!?!?
Sweden DO have diphthongs, but they're all dialectal O: (dialectal, does that word even exist?)
Like in 'Skåne' (not pronounced skayn but 'skawneh' (aw or more like 'oo' in 'door' skoor(-r)ne)) where Hej (hey=hello) turns into Hay, a way more wider diphthong.
Or like 'bil', normal swedish, 'beel', skånska: 'baeyl'.
Yay dialects (: