I speak both Finnish and Swedish, and fun fact: raccoon is pretty much the same thing in both languages. In Swedish: tvättbjörn; tvätta = to wash, björn = bear. In Finnish: pesukarhu; pesu = wash, karhu = bear. I never understood the point in naming it a "wash bear", but at least we Finnish people are not alone with this one haha Edit: and actually this stands for also peanut butter! In Swedish: jordnötssmör, and in Finnish: maapähkinävoi. Jord = maa, nöt = pähkinä, smör = voi
In German it's the same. Racoon is "Waschbär" - "waschen" is to wash and "Bär" is a bear. Same thing for the peanutbutter. "Erdnussbutter" - "Erde" = jord/maa, "Nuss" = nöt/pähkinä and "Butter" = smör/voi. I am German by the way but I am learning both Swedish and Finnish. :)
There's a huge difference between learning an extremely useful global language (English) or choosing to learn a major language that interests you (German/Spanish/Russian) and being forced to learn a language that only 0.13% of the World understands (Swedish). And yes, Finnish is even more insignificant than Swedish and it's a good thing that Swedes aren't forced to learn Finnish.
Yea, but most people never once need Swedish outside school. It's only really spoken in coastal towns, go even little bit inland and you wont hear a word in Swedish ever. And if you don't use language, you forget it very quickly. I did quite okay in Swedish in primary school, but nowadays I couldn't hold a conversation in Swedish to save my life, and I'm only 26 right now, so it's not like I haven't spoken Swedish in decades. On my engineering studies I managed to pass the Swedish courses very very barely, and that little I knew in those courses I've mostly forgotten also. English on the other hand I use almost daily, so I can do quite okay with it. I do have very heavy accent though, since I almost never speak it out loud, I only write and read.
@@abielticas1693 I heard that from a lot of people, but I've never get such an impress. (I'm completely foreign to these languages.) But, sometimes every languages sounds Japanese to me; like Italian, Spanish sometimes even French, Georgian and Persian.
Yes, Hungarian is quite different from Finnish and Estonian, but it still belongs to the Finno-Ugric group of languages which means that all of this three languages and some more had the same proto-language in the past.
Actually when I hear Finnish people speaking finnish-swedish or what they call it, sorry not sure what's the correct word for it, I found it the easiest Swedish to understand. Probably because they speak it really slow. So going to Helsinki was a blast being Danish.
She's Estonian, and Finnish - so she probably didn't learn Swedish in school like pretty much all the Finns do. But, Swedish often 'rusts' unused for the Finns, because English is used so overwhelmingly in the international meetings, often with the Swedes as well, because then Finns are closer on the same level, both not speaking their mother tongue. Of course Swedish is pretty close to English, but at least Finns don't have to compete with them in their own language - leaving them automatically underdogs in the situation. If they don't happen to be Swedes of Finland, Finns whose mother tongue is Swedish, about 7% of them. Some Swedish citizens don't even know there is such people in Finland. On the other hand, there are very few Swedes in Sweden who speak Finnish, if their background is not Finnish.
There has always been quite a many of those who can't speak or understand Swedish, especially in inner Finland. And nowadays Swedish is quite unpopular among pupils. It's waist of time, they say. And actually I agree: more reasonable would be learling English and then German, Russian, French, Spanish or Mandarin China etc.
@@maleena7738 finnish also has like 14 noun cases so i found it to be harder than mandarin chinese. also i find swedish to be very simple outside of the word order
@@tworoyboys208 Finnish actually has even 15 cases😅 but the thing is...once you get those, the whole language makes sense and it pretty logical! (Talking from experience here) I still find Swedish pronounciation pretty hard but the grammar isn't that hard. I just prefer Finnish because there aren't any articles to learn😁
Weird that the Finnish for spider is almost the same as the Cymraeg (Welsh): copyn. I don't know other languages were is similar (though I've heard Old English attacop is related). It's also interesting that, if I recall, Finnish for Wales is close to what we call ourselves: Cymru. It's strange when you hear such far flung connections.
”Swedish sound like Nepalese language because both belongs to Indo-European languages! Swedish language share more similarities between Finnish language than Hungarian and Finnish languages (theory of 50-100 shared root word) -> Hungary (uralic turkish influenced language) Finnish (Finno-Baltic or Finno-Uralic language).
Jag kan prata båda för att jag är från Finland och jag går i en svensk skola men jag kan Inte prata rik-svenska. Ja tässä vielä todistus et osaan myös suomea koska mähän oon tietenkin Suomesta ja asun turussa
Är jag den enda som såg barnen i bakgrunden nära slutet? Myös kyllä, suomalaista on hyvin vaikea oppia. Öll þessi tungumál eru þó svipuð. "Raccoon" er það sama á öllum tungumálum. XD
*Kyllä, suomea on hyvin vaikea oppia. (suomalaista = "to do to a finnish person" so the sentence was like "It's really hard to learn a finnish person" so the context is totally different. Google translate has not yet mastered finnish at all.) :D
I speak both swedish and hungarian. Only finnish i know is 'veri' (hungarian vér) meaning is 'blood'. And 'vigan' (which is 'vígan' and sounds a bit oldish in hungarian) meaning happily.
That's because blood is an old word in the language family. A sentence that all speakers of Uralic languages find familiar: fish swims alive under waters. In Finnish: kala uiskelee elävänä vesien alla. Other words Finns and Hungarians both still use that are from the same Uralic root are for example: käsi (hand), vaski (copper, although in Hungarian means now iron), nuoli (arrow), voi (butter), niellä (swallow), mennä (go), joki (river), jää (ice), talvi (winter), löyly (soul), maksa (liver).
Too bad we all cannot speak the same language around the world! Here in the US, I only had the choice of 3 languages in school. Germain, French and Spanish. I took Spanish since Mexico is south of us. I am of Norse and Germain decent. Crazy shit is it not?
Är det bara jag som tyckte hon såg ut som Keyyo på videons thumbnail 😂😂😂 Is it just me that thought she looked like Keyyo (a swedish youtuber) on the thumbnail😂😂😂
Well, Estonian, Finnish, and Hungarian are all in the same language family … where as Swedish and every other language of Europe (except Basque) are all in the Indo-European language family … along with Persian, Hindi, Bengali, Punjabi, and more. You'd probably have an easier time learning Hindi than Hungarian, Martin. Then again, so would most of your viewers.
loool, funny. You now nothing about languages. This similarity is so small that it's easier to learn Finnish because words moved from Swedish to Finnish.
She really is a shame to all finns. Like you studied swedish how is that you can't even repeat after someone. It would be understandable if you would need to translate it..
shame? as a finn im proud of her. most of us are bored of this swedish shit! why do we have to learn their language but why dont they also elarn our language?? all of us finnish students are so tired of this. i hate the swedish language so much. i dont care that i get bad grades on that. We should learn other finno-ugric languages instead of swedish.. I'd gladly learn Saami, Estonian, Karelian, Vepsian but never swedish
Why that sentence? Everything is wrong in it. Finland was never a "colony" but an integral part of Sweden. The second largest and important "city" of Sweden was Turku/Åbo. The Swedish time in Finland lasted until 1809.
The benefit of being bilingual; Voin puhua suomea hyvin Jag kan prata svenska ännu bättre Ich kann Spreche Deutsch gut. I can speak English well. Kiitoksia paljon, tack så mycket, danke schön, thanks so much! ;)
@@animacs1 Hungarian isn't the closest relative to Finnish. Karelian, Estonian and Vepsian are the closest relatives to Finnish and they do sound familiar.
