Well this question was asked already but I want to restate it because I just cannot perceive the sound one has to make when it is pronounced:

świat

now what is the sound you hear between the sh and the -ont as in ontology?

is that a v, an f, an h or even a k? What I hear sounds like a very quickly pronounced k, or a hard(what's the adjective for this) h.

I am not studying Polish(though I'd love to learn many languages if I had the chance and Polish is one of them) or something but I love Myslovitz's "Długość dźwięku samotności" (Sound of Solitude), I am trying to sing along, but gee Polish is so hard =))

Thank you.
Wow that was really quick. Thank you very much Alex, I practically racked my brain over it, finding its audio pronunciation and then playing it like a hundred times and sticking my ear to the speakers =D
Oh by the way it's via your answer that I now get to see "świat " and "Świąt!" both are words in Polish - that is unless they were wrongly spelled in the sites I found them.

So there's no n sound in the former but the latter has one right before the t because ą has an "n" sound attached to it as opposed to standard a.

Thanks again =)