“It’s pretty funny how we have so many ways of greeting each other and saying goodbye EVEN THOUGH WE DONT WANT TO TALK TO STRANGERS.” Sounds like the perfect place for me. Polite but don’t really care.
I find Finnish a lot easier to understand than French. I think there's this myth that it's so damn hard, and it keeps people from trying! It's not. It's just different than the Romance family of languages. What makes Finnish easy for me is because the sound of the language is so staccato and consistent in pronunciation, that you can actually hear each word being spoken at you CLEARLY. French on the other hand just gets mushed together and I just can NOT hear what people are saying, even though I can read it. And I have no idea how to change that without being able to live there. SO frustrating.
@@K-TheLetter yes, as a Finn from Satakunta I feel all other speaking strange Finnish if not using almost official Finnish. Especially Savolax dialect (savon murre) Is difficult to understand.
Actually as a man I love this aspect and feel sorry for not knowing that before I got married. What needs to be scratched gets scratched and we do not have to make our lives too complicated. At least for some period of life this seems like a perfect approach to life. You can keep "i love yous" for the one you settle down with.
I'm Finnish on my dad's side of the family (my great grandparents were from Finland then moved to Canada), but I don't know the language very well - just a few phrases that you might pick up in a tourist phrasebook. That said, I have a distant Finnish cousin who I'm in contact with and I have a standing invitation to come visit, which I hope to do some day. So I'm beginning to make an attempt to be able to at least struggle through a full conversation in Finnish.
As a German it's really cool to learn about that, since our language is, for whatever nonsense reason, widely considered as harsh sounding, but we have like tons of ways to say please, sorry, etc. Also we do not quickly open ourselves uo to strangers but then again, we're very warmhearted and talkative, as we go. Finnland (German way of writing it) is not quite our neighbour but is also not too far away from us....yet completely different when it comes to the people, as it seems. My Hyundai was a reimported car from Finnland and the whole manual book was in Suomi. I tried to read a single sentence and thought.....PEEEEEERKELE!
I don't know the Finnish language, but whenever I hear someone speaking Finnish it makes me think that it is the music of fairies. It's so beautiful sounding.
ah yes, the finnish distance, a nation that practised social distancing before 2020, where a youtube video makes the creator too unconfortable, because it's too personal of an exchange, and when they see someone walk down the street in their direction, they tell them that they are Too Close. that actually sounds pretty nice.
I heard that Finns practice naturally 'social distancing', part of culture. Someone said also that they have the word for 'wondrous' - ihmeellinen - and if you drop some letters, you get the word for a 'human being' -'ihminen'. Sounds like something useful, how to perceive each other. Peace.
For me finnish is such an beautiful and mysterious language at the same time I like hearing it! I wish I could learn it, but only learning from the internet is quite complicated for me! I love Finland.
you are not correct, it is the other way round, Japanese sounds like Finnish in reverse ... for sure ... The Japanese have even chosen to have the color of their hair in reverse to the Suomesians ... It is Japanese that twist everything, me think ...
There's no she or he either and that has never been a problem. ;) "Please" depending on the context could be replaced "olisitko ystävällinen" (would you be kind) or "kiitos" (thank you) is often used when you have example finished saying your order.
@@tissot233 I know. It's amazing how different languages are. My first language is Spanish and for me the word please is essential, but of course I understand that in other languages things are different :)
Excellent, thank you! You Suomi are among my very favourite people in this world. There is so much about the people, the culture, and the language that is truly fascinating. I've travelled a lot and lived in many places (mostly in Europe), and I can't think of a single culture I've encountered whose people are more practical and straightforward than the Suomi. Now, see what you've done? You've made me miss Finnland very much. Note to self: Book that trip to Kontiolahti soon. Cheers!
Actually we do have a ‘please’ in finnish, and it’s the same word as ‘thank you’. So you can say ‘kiitos’ when ordering or receiving something, which most people do in Finland.
Aloitin oppimisen puhumaan suomea kolme vuotta sitten ja en silti voi puhua sitä noin sujuvasti koska mun maassa ei oo paikkaa jossa voisin mä oppia kieltä (itse asiassa en todellakaan tiedä jos kirjoitin tää oikeasti :( )
Kiitos, olen muutin Suomen yksi vuosi sitten, ja vielä oppi Suomi kieli, se ei ole oikeasti helppo kieli. Mutta voi sano Suomi kieli on tossi logiikka!!
I never felt in place at school. Now that I’m learning the language it’s just like me. My great great grandfather fled from Finland from Russia and married his wife who grew up eight miles from him. Their last name was Asphores but changed it to Alexander because America. I am learning the language and think it is easy to learn for me. Duolingo has a lot of compliments and I didn’t think they were necessary. For example: Terve ja tervetuola.
Just learned everything about the Finnish people. I think Finland is the perfect country for me, I'll just be myself, no need to pretend to be nice or extra talkative.
Don’t order: “Yks Kalja”, because next they have to ask, which size of beer you want. THE CORRECT way to order a beer is to say: ISO KOLMONEN. If You want a beer with little more alcohol content, you say: ISO NELONEN ISO means big, i.e. half liter beer. If you want yo be an absolute PRO in your visit in Helsinki and awe everybody, just be cool and say: “Stobe” pronounced [stobɛ] This word is not known outside Helsinki area, so don’t use it in other parts of Finland; they might hit your in the face.
Will be going to Finland in a couple of months to attend a wedding so Im trying to pick up some phrases that could be good conversation starters at the reception. :p
TyKkÄäÄ jOs OoT sUoMeStA😂😂😂 OmG oNkS tÄäL mUiTa SuOmAlAiSiA Ei kiinnosta ole hiljaa. Saan päänsäryn lukiessani tätä roskakasaa, joka löytyy joka ikisestä suomeen liittyvän videon kommenttiosuudesta.
Fun fact im fom Finland and i went to germany to meet my aunt and cousins. Then from germany we went to austria by car (700 km) and first time i said a Word was at 500km.
Tolkien spoke Finnish and he wrote some about how difficult it was for him to learn, but that he really admired the language and culture. He wrote, "Finnish beat me." If you want to learn more, I just finished reading a book called "A Secret Vice" about his language creating process. It's a really fascinating read!
No neex for cursing words, there's an universal word that fits literally any situation and it's super easy to learn, perkele. I heard it like a hundred times in less than a minute walking around helsinki (obviously exaggerating)
Of course we have "please". We can say e.g. "Yks kahvi, kiitos" or "Saisinko kahvin" . Nowadays you very rarely hear just "yks kalja" or "kahvi". Finns are getting more polite every day.
After a beer or two we are pretty unstoppable, when it comes to chatting or "grinding shit" as we say ('jauhaa paskaa'). 'Paskanjauhaminen' is basically talking trivial stuff or general discussion. But it can also, in different context, mean talking bad about others. But we like to complain, so it's not way too far away from that either.
Lives in sweden.... "yks" (or yx) more or less means as a slang "To axe" (to hit some thing with an axe) Have a friend named Kalija... "Yks Kalja" *Kalja starts sprinting for her life*
