Learn Finnish: Pronouncing Å, Ä, Ö 

That's amazing to hear! I'm glad to be able to help even a little.

KatChatsc Finnish

I know this was 4 years ago, but I'm interested in learning Finnish and I live in Western Australia haha

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I have lived in sweden about 50 years and in finland 9 years as a child. Finnish is easy for me because i listen to Finnish music and the finnish spelling system are so locical and you always say the letters like they sound in the alphapet. Finnish are an Uralic language and came as a written language when Michael Acricola translated the Christian bible to finnish. Uralic languages have existed at least 10 000 years some say. A part off the Finnish people came from Ural , therefore the Uralic connection. I can make Finnish diffecault for you. When you understand what this mean you have a good skill. Älä kantete sitä kanteletta ja kantele siinä..Kantele= a instrument you play. Kantele also to lie.Kantaa to carry something. If you understand this you have a good skill.Mitä tapahtui kun Jerry Lewis ja Tauno Palo ajoi autokolarin?Taunon auto palo ja Jerryn levis.

the problem is the difference between ä and a

ö is more like eu in French (bleu, for example)

@@PaulVinonaama yep

Aha I never thought of that xD

Höhöhöhö

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Thank you ^-^I'm bilingual so I consider both my 'mother tongue'

What language do you *think* in?

Haha I tried my best :P

+KatChats I've been learning Swedish so I totally get you :)

Creepy. Would you say that to a man?

+Denis Matthews That's because the language of the road signs is dictated by the dominant languages in every individual municipality. If Swedish is the more common language in a municipality, the signs will be primarily Swedish with a Finnish translation, if Finnish is more common, then the signs will be in Finnish with a Swedish translation. If the municipality has something like 98% Swedish speakers, then the signs will only be in Swedish, and if the municipality has pretty much only Finnish speakers then the signs will only be in Finnish. Why all the signs can't be in both languages, I don't know. I don't think anyone does.

Coastal provinces from southeast up to Kokkola/Karleby level in north are bilingual, so all road signs are in both; Finnish and swedish. In counties where swedish-speaking population is dominant those signs are first in swedish, then in finnish. Helsinki metropolitan area is in Uusimaa province (swedish: Nyland) and in the coast so all the street signs are bilingual. You can often hear especially the older people speaking swedish, their native language in the public in Helsinki. Both Helsinki and Turku (Åbo) have significant finland-swedish minority and many small counties around Helsinki metropolitan zone are dominantly swedish

Only about 5,6 million people understand finnish today on this planet and about 12 million people Swedish. You swedish skill are good if you understand this.Sju sjö sjuka sjuksköterskor seglade på de sju haven. First it can be diffecault to say the sju sound.

There are swedish road signs because Finland have belonged to Sweden nearly 700 years, lot off people forget that.Sweden lost Finland to Russia in a war about 200 years ago.Finland get liberated from Russia about 1917. Stalin try to take over and invade Finland in a war about 1939-43 but did not succeed .

Last time i was in Finland was about over 30 years ago but i still understand it.

Wow so happy to hear that! Thank you!

Oh awesome! I didn't realize that ø and æ is the same pronunciation as ö + ä ! Thanks for sharing! :)

Jag undrar om det har att göra med att Norge har tillhört Danmark. Dom har ju också æ, ø och å.

Kiitos! And I hope you can make your wish to study in Finland a reality! :)

Kiitos for your sweet comment! Good luck with your Finnish journey, I’m glad this video was helpful :)

yeah true!

PiuwPiuw ä

Also "word" has a nice clean Ö-sound

This is only true if you have an English accent. unfortunately it does not work in an american accent

It's close - but not exactly the same. The place in mouth is different, even the manner of forming it, and these are the criterias to define a vowel. Maybe the English don't hear it close the same? People have a tendency to hear the vowels of another language as one of their own, coz with vowels, the mouth is kinda fully divided between them. There's 'no space' for new ones. Except when sound changes take place, but such things last years, a few generations. Now in Australia and some British dialects the vowels are about to change again, they sorta 'shift', the whole setting moves. It has happened already once, before that English had similar vowels as all the other (European) languages. 'I' was sometimes said like 'ee', and eye, as ay+e (e of bEt, like be'). Though using that English vowel sound in EArth, wOrd, gIrl, bUrn, hEr etc. will work just fine for the Finnish ö.

now let's learn Hungarian: á é í ú ü ű ó ö ő lol😂

Now lets learn Turkish ı,İ,Ü,Ö,Ğ,Ç,Ş

Now let's learn Portuguese: á à ã â é ê í ó ô õ ú ç

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Now let's learn Polish: ą, ć, ę, ł, ń, (ó), ś, ź, ż

And when I try Ö, I sound like some cavegirl.

Lol

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Hana c it actually doesn’t sound that weird but you finns over pronounce it so much😂 (I‘m german)

@@linajurgensen4698 This is just not true at all. German is from a different language tree. The german ä ≠ finnish ä.

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@@linajurgensen4698 In Deutschland you say the Ä more like between E and the finnish Ä. it’s not as clear as in finnish

Im from finnish= mä olen suomesta

I'm glad I could help a little bit :)

Moi mitä kuulu sä et kyl tunnista mua ja saanko mä nyt lipittää sitä sun pilluas😎

Finnish u is oo sound in English

Aw thank you! Haha hopefully my videos can be of some help at least xD

@@KatChatsFinnish More like gorgeous :) Not being a creeper! I came here for some pronunciation lessons and kept smiling the whole time, enjoying your personality and charming delivery :)

Exactly! Aleksihimself said it similarly 'with "Earth'

Wow!

Oh, I forgot a word "learn" 😅 "Just started to learn Finnish today". By the way, my mother tongue is Cantonese. Finnish is so different from my mother tongue, it would be a challenge for me, but I hope my knowledge of Korean/Japanese will help me a little bit in terms of grammar :) And I was very curious about Finnish - one of the most difficult languages in the world! 😊

@@mirae9163 Yess the grammar can be a bit tricky, but if you have studied 16 languages already maybe the background can be helpful for you (or I hope so at least!!)

That's right! :D

German Ö, simpler

French eu

Der Meister des Spiegels einfacher für deutche menschen dein idiot

I've been trying more than six months to say this letter! Thank you! I'm happy now hahahah

FinnSalsa You mean a finnish E, right? Just making sure.

Or perhaps even like in the word "eau" there is the longer, two vowel version

"deux" has the single vowel "ö" pretty close also

Oui c'est pareil, ou alors comme le son de "oeuf". :)

Ah tiens des Français. C'est tellement rare de voir des Français qui s'intéressent au finnois.

english E sound like finnish I. so, becouse english is pronaunced in correctly. finnish only language that pronaunce words like it written lol

That’s great! :D

Ohh is that so? Yeah that must make it a bit more challenging!

+. Stimmt ^^

I remember when this young german woman was visiting our school and we had to pronounce some sentences to her in our german lesson. She was smiling so widely at us and we were trying so hard to not laugh :DD Of course we couldn't pronounce anything right as we were just starting to learn the language.

. Exactly :d

DarkObsession German Ä is more closer to Swedish Ä a very deep vocal

No funkční

@Henry of Monmouth kkkkkkkkkkkkk meu deus sim!!!

@Henry of Monmouth eu ainda estudo e realmente é muito difícil, meu sonho é alcançar a fluência, mas a forma mais facil é indo pra lá e eu ainda nao tive essa oportunidade

a bit higher?

Thank you so much, I'm glad you've found it helpful ^-^

Hahah I'm glad you enjoyed xD

Junttapulla xD Could be translated to Stubborn Scone 💚 😄

And ü also

OH MY LERD NON INDO EUROPEAN LANGUAGE MUST BE TURK ANKARA IS ALSO A WORD IN FINNISH FENZ R TRUKS CONFREMD P.S. This is a strawman and if you say anything akin to this post, then you will only prove your intellectual inferiority. :DD

@- Tri108 - he is gay

@- Tri108 - потому что японцы д геи

@- Tri108 - переводчик... это есть !

I am too lazy to change my name Are they Japanese language? Lol, you know the kanji for Japanese person is different right?

Best of luck! You can do it! :)

Hahah wow that's actually hilarious xD

Tongue like a "short e", lips like an "oh".

Yes it comes from a whole different language family! Welcome to the new challenge! :D

I'm glad!

Aww thanks

Thank you :)

Yeah that's true!

I'm glad you've found this helpful! :)

Thanks a wonderful job I hope if you have time to make a video about house ..Living room &Kitchen & Bedroom furniture ....

Noted!

Thank you so much! :)

'A' is pronounced in the back of the mouth, 'ä' in the front of it. The same applies to the pairs 'o'-'ö', 'u'-'y'.

Neither do I.

@@YeoweChiffewar now I feel the difference in the way I pronounce o and ö, u and y. But every time I try to say ä in the same way, it sounds differently from the previous one.

i saw someone say it's like the difference between saying "far" and "fat". Far being a and Fat being ä.

You can hear the diffrence in the A in: Back (Ä) And: Dark (A)

That makes things easier for sure! :D

Kiitos paljon :)

I'm glad I could help! :)

Aw thank you so much for the support, glad you like my videos! :)

+Jaouad Hajjami Haha awww that's so sweet of you! ^-^ Hopefully it lives up to your expectations haha xD

Hi! I've thought about it and it's something I might do once I get a lot of the super requested basic/technical stuff out of the way :))

trying to pronouce Päivätär (she's from the kalevala) has taken me an hour of research on wikipedia, youtube, and the IPA website haha

Thanks! 😃

@@KatChatsFinnish no problem! I'm so glad you are here! What you do to teach in Finish on YT is so beautiful as there are few if anyone at all who talks Finnish learning online & for free a bit at least :)

Thank you so much :)

Thank you, i didn't notice that😅🙈, but for me 'A' and 'Ä' are much more difficult to distinguish, for us Germans it's just a nuance. And for me it is difficult if the finnish 'Ä' is meant, not to sound like 'A' but also not directly sound like the German 'Ä'. Danke, das ist mir nicht aufgefallen, 😅🙈aber für mich sind 'A' und 'Ä' viel schwieriger zu unterscheiden, für uns Deutsche ist das nur eine Nuance. Und für mich ist es schwierig, wenn das finnische 'Ä' gemeint ist, nicht wie 'A' zu klingen, aber auch nicht direkt wie das deutsche 'Ä'

Yes I do! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1VoD4_0Gxzc.html

Great points!!

I guess both y and j sounds similar in both Finnish and swedish!