Haha our Finnish pride Robin, missed the chance to tell them the iconic finnish sentence. ”Kokko, kokoo koko kokko kokoon. Koko kokkoko? Koko kokko.” Translated it would be.. ”Kokko (a last name in finland), put together the whole bonfire. The whole bonfire? The whole bonfire. Also the fact that the word ”kuusi” can mean ”a Spruce” the ”number six” or ”your moon”. The sentence, ”Kuusi palaa” would mean ”Six pieces.” ”Your spruce is on fire.” ”The spruce returns” ”your moon is on fire” ”Your moon returns” ”Number six returns” ”Number six is on fire” ”Six of them returns” ”Six of them are on fire” Also had to laugh at the ”das auto” coming from Robin. I thought the same thing at the same moment.😂
17:06 as a greek learning finnish i agree.... Finnish phonetics except ö\y\ä are almost identical to greek.... Icelandic as well and even more.... To me Finnish when i started (and even now lots of times😢😅😂) sounds like greek gibberish, for examle: "lentokonesuihkuturbiinimoottoriapumekaanikkoaliupseerioppilas" would be pronounced the exact same way as "λέν'τοκονεσουιχκουτουρμπιινιμοοττοριαπουμεκαανικκοαλιουψεεριοππιλας" (the apostrophe is needed) For me the ranking would be: 1. Thai/korean 2. German 3. Finnish 4. French 5. Portuguese 6. English
I just came home from a vacation in Greece and I found it very easy to pronounce words and names, so that was nice lol. Also you have a very beautiful country, Meteora probably being the most stunning place on the continent.
Robin didn't know what Finnish is related. It's finno ugric language, other languages in same family Estonian, hungarian and some minor languages in Russia.
That depends on your native language. It’s ridiculous to say French is the hardest language because for Romance-speakers French will be very easier. And on the other hand, Germanic-speakers (apart from English) won’t struggle learning German… I don’t know about Thai, though …
Thai is ridiculously hard to learn and pronounce. I watch a lot of Asian dramas, Korean, Japanese, Taiwanese and Thai. Just from watching them I picked up some of the languages, (although I did know some basic Japanese before). I picked up around 20-30 words each in Korean, Mandarin and Japanese, but maybe 6 very basic words in Thai, Hello, Thank You, Sorry etc and I've watched a lot. They speak so fast and there are no spaces between words, like Korean it has polite and casual forms and the tones just make it almost impossible for someone from a language without tones. I think Thai would only be easier for people from languages with tones.
That's true. Like for me italian is easy to pronounce because when I see it written it is pronounced the same way that the letters are pronounced in finnish. It's odd because the languages are otherwise quite different. I also think that italian words and their meanings seem quite logical(unlike words in my native language).
I am Swedish. In the long Finnish word I at least understood ”turbine engine mechanics” 👍🙂 Finnish is hard to understand though. I am going to try to study some Finnish because my son has moved to Helsinki with his Finnish girlfriend. 🙋♀️🇫🇮🇸🇪
I think one big hurdle to Finnish is the fact that the written version that everybody learns can be very different from the spoken language, which is probably why you find it hard to understand. It's often spoken much faster and skips many syllables of words. For example "minusta" could be: "minust", "musta" or just "must" when spoken depending on dialect or the sentence. Good luck though, as long as you learn some common words and phrases it would make any Finn happy!
By knowing from a musician that Finish is a hard language to make music, I respect Tuomas Holopainen from Nightwish more for his music, the guy is more than a genius.
👩🏻🌾🏞️🇫🇮 Totta! Finnish does not have a lot of consonants. Germanic languages have a lot more, for instance. As a matter of fact, original Finnish does not allow words to start with more than one consonant. For instance, borrowed words, when spoken by 'genuine' Finns, may be changed like this: to train, training - treenata treeni - reenata, reeni. Words with many consonants are most likely compond words. (many words glued together into one long one), or endings added to one word. Germanic languages such as German, Swedish, Dutch, Norwegian, Danish etc. also have compound words, whereas, by comparison, English has got rid of most of its compound words, so the words are much shorter.
Anna was smart in being more quiet and the fact that people don't know much about portuguese, because there's so much you can use to say it's difficult 😂
Actually... Finland has weirdly enough most in common with Hungarian, Swedish (slang mostly tho) and Japanese out of all the things. But that's because Japanese and Finnish are very similar, not only in structure, but also in pronounciation and the basic alphabet are near identical :)
As a Thai person, I'd say even though our consonants, vowel, words intonation are very complex, the good news is our grammar is very easy compared to any other language. We don't have tenses, less rules and you can also break some rules and people won't judge you as an uneducated person (E.g.preposition) so let's go learn Thai haha!
Wonder what the Brazilian girl's heritage is... Irish? French? Norwegian? Swedish? English? Perhaps German? A lot of Germans did go to Brazil after ww2.
I don't think Robin explained Finnish well at all. It's actually pretty easy language, because it is so consistant. Every word has emphasis on the first syllable of the word, always. There is no genders, no intonations, no silent letters, and every letter is only ever pronounced one way. So if you see a word written down you know exactly how to say it, and if you hear a word you know exactly how to write it down. There is many cases of course, but they are the same for all the words. And you don't even need all 15 to communicate properly, 5 or6 most common and you are good to go. They are really simple, and english has meanings for all of them, and people have no difficulty learning if something is in, on, around, from, to, etc. In Finnish you just put the ending to the word itself instead of having separate word before the actual subject. I would say that Finnish is by far the easiest language out of these.
As a German, I can assure you that Dutch id basically the simplified version of German (because they have no case system) but they speak like drunken Brits
Kinda pained me to see that Robin didn't know much about Finnish language structure. It's common misconception to think Finnish grammar makes no sense when it actually does. It is complicated but it has rules. Would be more interesting if actual linguists would compare the languages.
And he didn’t even take the french girl up on the bs that she can’t even read finnish. Just learn the phonemes for the letters and you’re good to go. Français au contraire 😅
@@Tenseiken_ I could tell you more but I doubt people are interested. I studied Finnish language in university so I actually know what I'm talking about.
@@pyrylehtonen-caponigro3198 not almost, it's pretty much possible. Only exception is with words that end with an s. Otherwise finnish can be spelled with Japanese charcaters. But others can give some more examples on those exceptions, because iI can't think of anything else right now.
@@mahamann7734 I'm Finnish and I've studied Japanese. In Finnish there's a wider variety of consonants that can be put together and Finnish has 8 vowels instead of 5 and Finnish doesn't have the う sound, but has 2 similar sounds which are u and y
@@pyrylehtonen-caponigro3198 That's cool, because I'm also finnish, and I've also done my fair share of japanese practice. Aside from words that have two different consonants next to each other, other finnish words can be spelled via japanese characters. Altho it's not possible to differentiate between L and R.
@@mahamann7734 and you can't have any words with ä or ö or properly with u or y also anything with ti, si or the letter v are not possible in standard Japanese.
😅😅😅 Taking Thai as a reference, the French girl literally took French out of the title of most difficult language. Now if you put English x French then it's already for French it gets the title of a difficult language to spare 😂😂😂😂😂🎂🎂🎂🎂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🌷❤
German girl was doing the tactic with which our current councelor got his job: Try to be as quiet and invisible as possible and avoid anything that could make people ask questions. Speak only the bare minimum and only when called out. It worked well, i must say. She avoided the fact that 'die' (feminin singular aritcle) is also the default plural article for everything. Or that some words are identical in singular and plural except the article. Or that the pronounciation of several letters (especially vowels) can change drastically depending on the following letters. And so on.
Siellä on meidän Suomen Turun oma poika Suomen LEGENDAARISIMPIA Artisteja Robin Packalen Suomi mainittu Torilla tavataan perkele hyvää Keski-kesää ja aurinkoista Juhannusta kaikille teille ihanille ihmisille! There's our very own Turku's boy the most LEGENDARY Finnish Artist of all time Robin Packalen Finland mentioned at the market square hell yeah happy Mid-Summer Celebrations every lovely people! ☀️🏞😎🇫🇮
Mutta Robin ei osaa suomea, kun hän sanoo, että suomen kielessä kaikki on "se". Vain puhekielessä, mutta ei yleiskielessä, jossa on sana "hän" ihmisille. Virallisissa yhteyksissä kuten mediassa ei käytetä sanaa "se" ihmisistä. Se olisi huonoa kieltä. Eikä Robin osaa selittää sijapäätteitä eikä sitä, että korean kielessä on samanlaista rakennetta kuten esim. "na"/"nahante" = "minä"/"minulle"..
@@kpt002harmi kun sinä et ollut siellä selittämässä. Äidinkieli L varmasti, mutta anna olla tällainen harmiton video mistä kukaan ei opettele puhumaan kenenkään äidinkieltä. Ymmärsit varmasti hänen pointtinsa, mutta päätit silti valittaa(aika suomalaista tho) mene itse ensi kerralla mukaan. Luulis ymmärtävän, että tuolla ei kerkeä hirveästi ajatella ja Suomessa totuttu puhuun puhekielellä nii mikä taas on niin iso ongelma?
@@kpt002 kukaan normaali suomalainen ei osaa selittää miten suomenkieli toimii, pitää olla joku asiaan perehtynyt kielitieteilijä jotta osaa kertoa mistä on kyse.
When I was a bit younger, almost every girl close to my age was a big fan of Robin. After these years it's so cool to see how he's still doing so well and even making content with one of my favourite kpop groups, 8Turn!! I really loved watching this
Few points Robin could have used to justify his case to make Finnish seem the easiest: Phonetic language, everything is always pronounced the same way it is written, one does not have to guess; emphasis always on the first syllable; order of the words is rather irrelevant, people will understand you anyway; and as he mentioned, no gender, but also no articles in the language.
It feels sorra bizarre that (guessing?) non-finnish people listen to him, since i grew up listening to his old songs written in finnish when i was like 6 lol
@@LuizFelipe-x7n não... acho que usaram ela só como enfeite nesse vídeo. Andam fazendo isso direto com brasileiros. Colocam eles em vídeos que não precisa ou então n dão espaço pra eles (querem as visualizações do Brasil)
The Korean guy is confusing the Korean alphabet with the language. They're two different things. The language wasn't created to be easy by the king, just the alphabet was. The language is way older and how easy the alphabet is to learn has nothing to do with how easy the language is to learn.
all the other people were talking about reading and their alphabets.. and the alphabet is smth u usually learn to learn the language in a whole, so id say its pretty important whether or not hangeul is easy or not
Korean is easy at the beginning. Alphabet, simple sentences, etc. but to be fluent is difficult…the nuances of the language are overwhelming sometimes.
I imagine that Korean has a lot of homonyms and is difficult to understand because Chinese characters existed in Korean until recently but no longer exist.
Please, if any participant reads this, if Robin ever says he/she is "it", ("se") in Finnish, please correct him by saying it is when you speak informally among friends, but Formal is "Hän", which is both he and she. We don't speak to people generally, as though they are things.
Many many times people have gotten offended from me using "Hän" instead of "se" = it or "tämä/toi/tuo/tää" = that, because it sounds way too polite for them like they would be really old or something. By my experience it is easier to be too polite than too rude. Respect on the other hand is a different thing.
Hmm I'm finnish myself and I will have to say I really don't think it matters unless you are in a professional setting. Hän is far more formal and actually I've seen people feel more uncomfortable with that word than something more informal/casual. Even I often refer to others as "it", like "toi" "se" or "tää", it's just what almost everyone here does regardless of whether we know each other or not. Also maybe more accurately "hän" is a singular "they/them" in english, it is an entirely neutral pronoun.
Don't worry your language is still more progressive than my German dialect. Contrary to standard high German we just have two genders, but for whatever reason we ended up with masculine and neuter, so a man is masculine while a woman is a thing. This also isn't helped by us naming people with their last name in it's possessive form before the first name. So "et Schmitzens Käthe" would be "that Katharina belonging to the family of the son of the smith" (-(s)en indicates "son of", though our last names no longer change so people are stuck with whatever the relative whose name got first written down into a church book was named)
@@miak4006 I dunno where you're from but definitely not in southeastern finland. Hän usually gets turned into "hää" or something similar but rarely is a person referred to as "se", usually if it's a person that is very removed from the people actually having the dialogue.
brazil did great here, she always gave comments towards other languages, and even while she spoke about portuguese it didnt seem too hard, managing to keep attention far away from it lol. Although i dont think anyone from the table would point something towards portuguese since they dont have a lot of contact or (not)understanding about it. (like how european countries had a lot to talk about each other due to close interactions) I feel like if there was a spanish speaking person, they would be like "Why is portuguese has so many more pronounciantions than spanish if we are rather similar languages??"
Hardest to easiest, my vote: 1 Thai 2 Finnish 3 Korean 4 German 5 France 6 Portuguese 7 English I speak portuguese so im not sure, maybe for some people i would change the french with portuguese
Amiga se tu fala português e acha tão fácil assim é porque nunca fez uma prova de gramática né? Nós achamos fácil porque falamos errado, quando você tem que realizar uma prova e verifica como deveria realmente ter elaborado a frase, com quem você deveria ter concordado, qual o plural correto das palavras tu percebe que de fácil não tem nada!
@@paulapalhao9034 na verdade não acho português fácil não, mas acho francês e as línguas acima muito difíceis 🥺 Não só por gramática, mas pronúncias e entonações q são muito únicas pra reproduzir
I know that Finnish person cause he is a famous singer in Finland❤. Love u Finland and It is really hard cause like this comment if ur country has these letters: Ää Öö Åå. So yeah.
Well, Ana should have said that Brazilian Portuguese is closer to the 'pure form,' as Portuguese spoken in Portugal has changed over time, while Brazilian Portuguese has preserved some sounds and writing conventions. So...
Essa tese pertence somente ao campo teórico, não temos uma máquina do tempo para comprová-la, até porque até mesmo o Galega já está BEM distante do Português.
@@flpReges sua tese é basicamente: historiografia não existe. Se eu n posso ver acontecendo n posso acreditar. Ela anula qualquer lógica de modelo. Baseado nisto, campos como a geologia, genética, história, filosofia e linguística são basicamente nulos em busca pela verdade.
I'm Finnish, but I'm still VERY confused, OMG! 😅 They all actually are words for a dog, but we don't use most of them in everyday life. Most of the time you need to use/know these words only at school, but that doesn`t make it any easier haha! 😂😂 And yes, the same thing for every word in the Finnish language! 😀
🇫🇮lokative forms of the CAR word. AUTO AUTOT AUTON AUTOJEN AUTONA AUTOINA AUTOON AUTOSSA AUTOLLE AUTOIHIN AUTOISSA AUTOILLE AUTOISTA AUTOSTA AUTOILTA AUTOLTA AUTOKSI AUTOIKSI AUTOA AUTOJA AUTOKIN AUTOTKIN AUTOINEEN AUTOKSIKIN AUTOIKSIKIN… (11k more)There was a small number of them. The same inflections for all words but in a sifferent way for all 8003 adjektives, 77 559 sunbstantives and 6 849 verbs.🗿
And people complain about german being hard. Auto (singular), Autos (plural). End of story. Just kidding, that's spoken language. A car is officially 'Personenkraftfahrzeug' or 'Personenkraftwagen' which can be officially shortened to 'PKW'.
That one Finnish word could be separated to the words it is composed of and looked at word-for-word: "lento, kone, suihku, turbiini, moottori, apu, mekaanikko, ali, upseeri, oppilas", and one should understand the meaning. Most compound words are really straightforward like that. The difficulty in Finnish really only comes from how different it is from what most people know, like English. But unlike English it is quite logical once you get to it.
Thai is like a lot of Indian languages in terms of the alphabets. They have the same alphabets with different inotations depending on the region one comes from.
as someone who speaks finnish, english, korean and some thai I'd say 1. english (Purely for the writing that makes no sense and weird words) 2. finnish (For conjucation and suffixes) long pause 3. thai (Grammar is super easy. Reading/writing a bit of a struggle for me. Tones aren't bad but of course they add to the difficultness) 4. korean (Same reason as finnish but there's less and it's super logical. Reading/writing is super easy and grammar consistent) All the other languages (except thai, finnish and korean) are related to english so it makes sense why'd they think thai is hardest but it's really not.
Well, from a german POV english is in every way (grammar, gender, vocabulary) cause it is just simpler than german. Except the pronounciation, which is also a struggle for us with french. That is until we realize that for english we just have to try to keep our mouth open , even when it's closed, while talking.
@@olgahein4384 well yeah they're both Germanic languages. My first language isn't 🤷♀️ Also as far as I know German is way more phonetically consistent than English.
Robin should learn more about our language since he couldnt even tell what the related languages are. Finnish is uralic language and languages from the same family tree are: estonian, hungarian and quite a few smaller languages for example mari, udmurt, komi and sami languages. It seems like these people dont really understand what makes language hard or easy for certain people. Its technically rather easy for indo-european language speaker (french, german, swedish etc) to learn another indo-european language since they are from the same family tree and have a lot of similarities from technical level to words. Finnish is very hard for most people in the world since they cant relate to anything in it. I learned english from everything since i was a kid but i have studied german for one year and it was hard didnt really pick up anything, same with swedish (3 years) but i know a bit because i have seen that language a lot too. Have been studying korean for a while and from my perspective its somewhat easy but ofc i have more interest in the language than the other ones i studied before. Especially hangul was a nice surprise because there is not many letters to learn.
Yup, I was shocked how little he knew of our mother tongue :D But maybe it was the moment that he just forgot. Our language is so unique and cool and I was us native speakers would know more of it and appreciate it more.
@@Sipu97 yeah! I often am frustrated because i see that many especially younger finns dont appreciate our language and how unique it is. Many people seem to have this idea that there is something embarrasing to be finnish or have a finnish accent while speaking english for example. I have only heard positive about finnish language and accent from outside of Finland 😂 people find it very interesting
Other languages such as German, English, French and Portuguese are easy languages and studied beyond belief all over the world, they have speakers from every continent you can imagine. The video was cool. It was beautiful. 🥂🧃🧃🍫🍧😂🎶🫂💙📸📷💋💋💋💋
Actually what Robin said about him/her is incorrect, we do have a word that is for him/her but it is used for both genders, "hän" and it is "se". If formally speak to someone "hän" should be used, "se" works too if it's casual.
some add-ons to robin speaking abt finnish: finnish is part of the uralic language family and even more specifically finno-ugric languages (which include finnish, hungarian, estonian and a lot of smaller languages like the sámi languages, karelian, mari, veps, mansi, udmurt). that's why it's so different from other languages spoken in europe or even in the nordic countries. at the start robin talked abt using the neutral "it" for everything, but that's spoken language. we have a neutral world which is like he/she/they "hän", but that's mostly used in written language, or if it's used in spoken language someone might view you as arrogant or we use it when we speak about a pet in a baby way. what makes finnish hard in my opinion (as a finn), is that the language is so different depending if it's official written language or spoken and inside spoken language the is dialects (and dialects inside dialects, like southwest finnish dialect but inside there is pori region dialect and turku dialect) and slang (e.g. stadin slangi aka capital city helsinki's slang). also yes the french girl was def confusing finnish with slavic languages because finnish in quite vowel heavy in my opinion, or like... there is a healthy balance on vowels and consonants. :D
Sadly Finnish part about it went wrong, person is hän not it. It is item like table, cat, dog... animals. Human is not it because saying that way is same as saying that someone have less value. Maybe he speak modern Finnish, some people talk about dog using hän (she/he) even dog is "it" lower than human in Finnish language. Only human is she/he in Finnish language, other animals or items are it. I like his songs and he is talented person, maybe language videos need someone who know more about language. Some people use ketä word in wrong places, annoying.
Incorrect. Using ’hän’ for humans and ’se’ for non-humans is a very recent ”Standard Finnish” invention from 1800’s. ’Hän’ and ’se’ originally were both used for people and animals. ’Se’ was used most times, while ’hän’ was a logophoric pronoun. In modern spoken language and most dialects ’se’ is the most used word for ’he/she’. Also ’tuo/toi’ and ’tää’ are used for people in Finnish. It is not inhumane or wrong or incorrect and should not be considered as such.
This entirely broke my brain trying to piece together but in Plains Cree 9999 is kêkâ-mitâtahtwâw kihci mitâtahtomitanâw kêkâ-mitâtahtwâw mitâtahtomitanâw kêkâ-mitâtahtomitanâw kêkâ-mitâtahtosâp (roughly: nine times great hundred, nine times hundred, almost hundred-nineteen). I was curious to see how long it would be so I had to test myself 😂 loved the video guys 💖💕
theres no shot english is the easiest maybe when it comes to accessibility because everyone is trying to learn it and theres so many materials but im fluent and sh makes no sense 😭😭
@@kilobiten but then again high exposure makes it so easy even for some asian chinese or other east asians to pronounce the words. If english was not very popular, it would be an entirely different story
Why you guys never invite people from countries of Africa or native Americans , for exemple ? It's soooooooo rude and xenophobic sort of "just Europeans and Asiatic languages deserve attention" . And please don't tell me" we have a no European guest in our table ". Portuguese is a European language, no matter if your guest is a girl from Brazil. Shame on you...
Difficult language ranking according to the perception of World Friends producers and actors: a) Thai b) Finnish c)Korean. (Asians idioms) Easy language ranking by Team World Friends producers and performers: a) English b) Portuguese c) French d) German. (Europeans idioms) This is the idiomatic perception content of the team of actors and producers of the World Friends video. 🎷💗ℹ️ℹ️💻💙💛💚😍🧸❤️🎵🥂🌟👉😊🏵️🏵️🫂🙂🆗👍🎂🌷👋🍫🎗 ️🥇🏅🎖️🎖️🏆🎒💎😘🌈🌈🌈🌈🌅🌅🌅🌅✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️ ✈️👋👋👋👋 III loooooveeeddd!❤ III liiiiiiiiiiikeeeddd!❤
French girl does not get to tell others about levels of politeness. French has like 10 levels of politeness and it's not even typified, you just have to know intuitively.
i like how germany just didn't even mention our number system haha we read numbers the other way around, like normally you say 45 but in german you read the 5 first and then the 4. i get confused with it myself
As a finnish i feel like robin should have told them about the fact that kuusi and palaa have many different meanings put like that first of all and when put together kuusi palaa it has many meanings too.
