My mom was born in the US to Finnish Immigrants ( as was my dad), and even with having lived here from birth, The Finnish social norms held sway. She was posed to become valedictorian of her class, and deliberately tanked her grades enough during the last part of the year to assure she wasn't. All to avoid having to make the valedictorian speech at graduation.
Kokoo koko kokko kokoon etc. Roughly translates to: -Erect an entire bonfire. -The entire bonfire? -The entire bonfire. And "sisu" is a sort of finish mentality of stubbornly never giving up, even when, and especialy if your odds are slim to none.Grit would be the closest word to it in english And the temperature in a finnish sauna is somewhere between 60-100 degrees celcius, depending on personal preference and how long you plan on spending in the sauna. Katos = canopy Katos katos katos = "Well would you look at that, the canopy disappeared" (Or in a different context its exactly the same as "Well well well, (what do we have here)") And yes, those are all indeed "Maa", though most only in specific contexts. Area for example would more commonly be "alue", but one would certanily understand "maa" in the correct context. And Dirt would more commonly be "multa", but again in the right context a finnish person would understand you mean dirt if you say "maa". "Fetch more dirt" could be translated both as "Hae lisää multaa" or "Hae lisää maata".
Katos, katos katos: Katos (verb. slang - 2nd person imperative of "katsoa" - to look), katos (noun. nominative - canopy), katos (verb. slang - past tense of "kadota" - to disappear. "Look, the canopy disappeared."
Nice ;) I love word plays... I like homographic sentences (do they have some specific name?) It is a lot easier to make them in English e.g. buffalo story, than in my native language. In Polish, we can say only simple sentences, e.g. Dział dział dział. ‘The cannon department was knitting.’ or Bez bez bez. "An elder (plant) without meringues" (what really doesn't make sense ;)) Or if you change word order ;) it can be "the elder without meringues" and "a cannon department was knitting" ;) But at least it's a lot easier to make pangrams - we have dozens of them (most of them are utter crap when it comes to meaning). We only consider perfect pangrams (sentences when every letter of the alphabet is used exactly one time, so it needs to have exactly 32 letters: no less, no more) in Poland. So at first I couldn't understand that "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is also called pangram in English, as it has a lot of E or O (and more than 26 letters). I just googled... wow, Finnish can use one word for perfect pangram (Törkylempijävongahdus)? What an impressive language!
@@magpie_girl3741 "Garbage lover squeal" (sharp, squealing noise [vongahdus] associated to an afficionado of (or one who makes love to) [lempijä] grime [törky]). Nice, didn't know that one. However, the Finnish alphabet also includes the letters, B, C, F, Q, W, X, Z, and Å (which we call the Swedish O), so not quite a pangram - though since almost no native Finnish language words currently use those letters, I would call that a near miss.
@@magpie_girl3741 Here's another... Kärpänen sanoi toiselle: Mennään kattoon kattoon, kun kaveri tapettiin tapettiin.: kattoon (noun. illative singular of "katto" - ceiling) kattoon (verb. slang. from "katsoa" - to look, to watch), tapettiin (verb. passive past indicative of "tappaa" - to kill) tapettiin (noun. illative singular of "tapetti" - wallpaper). "A fly said to another: Let's go to the ceiling to watch how our mate was killed on the wallpaper."
Some years ago I just got off the bus and was on my way to do some shopping in the city center. A man approached me, slightly younger than I was, told me I was pretty and if I'd like to go for a coffee. I said yes and walked away. I'm not single, not interested and I don't drink coffee... (i like the smell but not the taste) just got so weirded out by someone talking to me that my brain could not do braining. It took me 10 mnutes to realize what I'd done. Poor dude, they must have been so confused. At least I could have said a polite no, thank you. Still, it's pretty funny in retrospect.
I had a collegue from India he came from Finland in late 1970 and the retired about 2 years ago, before he retired he hardy made any mistake in spoken language, and written language of Finnish was in a level of a good level only some difficult and rarely used word endings had some difficulties. . So in 50 years ( if you have finish speaking wife ) you (will) might learn it..
There is a joke about this: What is the language they speak in heaven? - Finnish, because it takes an eternity to learn! My friend had an exchange student in her house for about a year. That exchange student spoke Finnish quite well by Christmas. So truth be told - it's actually not that hard!
The Finnish part of the weather forecast thing is from an ad for (at least) a weekend of winter sports on the channel it was broadcast on. The ad had the regular channel sportscaster ask their meteorologist (the guy's name is Pekka Pouta, roughly translating to Peter Dryweather (no, really!)) about the upcoming weather. Pekka forecasts "freezing temperatures and snow, meaning WINTER IS COMING!" Appropriately, he is dressed as Ned Stark.
Winters in Scotland, Finland and North Dakota are exactly the same .. I should have moved to Finland decades ago - I've been social distancing since my first run in with the Santa Clause Pandemic of 54 years ago ..
About the facial expressions. It really doesn't contradict Finland being a happy country as not being forced to wear a fake smile all day every day is very nice.
See if you can relate to these: "10 Finnish Nightmares that every Introvert can Relate to". Kekkonen was Finnish champion and medalist in several sport event. Finland won in ice hockey: "ICE HOCKEY CHAMPIONSHIP TO FINLAND 2019 (WTF: Welcome To Finland #14)". On sisu: "'In Finland We Have This Thing Called... SISU". About Moomins: "BBC Moominland Tales: The Life of Tove Jansson".
Some might say some Finns got a wee bit excited for winning Hockey world championship. You might want to check "ICE HOCKEY CHAMPIONSHIP TO FINLAND 2019 (WTF: Welcome To Finland #14)" if you want to see what it was like.
Hi Mert, love your videos! Please, react to more Finnish patriotic music! I know you already did some, but some of the more beautiful pieces were missing in my opinion. I suggest checking out Finlandia Hymn, Oi Maamme and Porilaisten Marssi. At the very least I urge you to listen to Finlandia, it always brings tears to my eyes when I hear it!
yes, there is a particular way to open the milk container, that is very easy once you know but at the beginning is like the photo you just showed, the way is just to pill off the part that is marked, no the other part, and just follow the pilling in the right direction. all the instructions are shown in the milk container but is not easy to see it if you are not used to it.
Nuuttipukki is not the same as Joulupukki (santa claus), it's true tho that Joulupukki didn't originally wear red. 13th of January is Nuutin päivä (Nuuttis day), and there's saying "Hyvä Tuomas Joulun tuopi, paha Nuutti pois sen viepi." "Good Tuomas brings the Christmas, evil Nuutti takes it away." If you have the time and interest google more about Nuuttipukki and what they did on that day. There is also a movie named Rare Exports, which has gotten it's inspiration from Nuuttipukki, it's in english but i think filmed in Lapland. Ps. my family has a rescue cat named Nuutti.
After 8 months of winter. everybody basically become Vampires and a small dash of sunlight burn you're skin and make ones balls sweat like a shower head. Sauna is different as you do not sit there all day and when you come out the air feels cool.
u asked how ong it takes to speak fluently finnish and all the people that I know and can compare to I would say 5 years or more and really wanting to learn the language
for me... as absolute finn, +20 celsius outside is about to be too hot... but me insauna... +120 celsius is starting to be too hot... :D i usually sit 30min in 100 celsius cooking myself lol
You know yoy videos are really bad you should put the main video on big screen and you talking somewhere in small screen now we cant even see what you are reacting and then talking with accent its even harder to understand this kinda style
