The truth about living in Finland | A foreigner's point of view 

only finnish people watch these

nailed that ''vesihiisi sihisi hississä'' :D im surprised.

mopoautos at 15, cars at 18, there's an exception, u can get a licence at 17 if u state a reason you should get it, aka school etc.

Vesihiisi is not snake, it is a shapeshifting water spirit similar to kappa. Your command of the language was pretty impressive and I am glad you found Finland to be to your liking :)

Good finnish pronouncing for a guy who lived here only two years

I love the Finns - relaxed in the positive way - so friendly and embrasing ... fiirst I met Finns back in 1962, Ever since I love Finns whereever I meet them. I do have several Fiinnish friends. I am sure you would love them as well! (I am from Denmark)

It was touching to hear you speaking so good and fluent finnish. Because it takes time to learn. 👍

20:51 Honestly this is impressive for 2 years in finland. Even though it's full of errors i could understand everything. 😁

Puhut kyllä hienosti suomea! Hieno juttu.

I bet that 95% of the views for this video come from finland.

This is the best non-native finnish speaker speaking finnish Ive heard in a while! So good to hear nice things about our country.

Your finnish is very impressive for only 2 years of learning!

Thank you for sharing such a beautiful stories about our country and by the way you speak EXCELLENT Finnish..............like WOW

Cars are smaller in whole Europe. Our cities are built in size of horse and cart. Or walking.

Oi miten ihana video. Kyynel tuli silmään kauniista sanoistasi. Tervetuloa takaisin. So lovely video! A tear came from my eye because of your beautiful words. Welcome back to home!

Riisipiirakka or Carelian pie as you said has a rye base and rise in. And that bread you were talking about is rye bread also. Juhannus could be also translated as a Mid Summer Fest.

Wow your finnish is amazing considering you only lived here for 22 months! I think for most foreigners it takes at least 5 years to speak that well and many don't ever get the pronounciation to the level you have. Amazing!

Your Finnish so good and that story you told about the elder in the bus might have been the fact that a lot of elders in Finland are alone/lonely so they really love when they're talked to even if it's just a simple greeting I bet you might have made that persons day a little better to be honest

Your Finnish is absolutely perfect! Well done! Welcome back!

When he said vesihiisi sihisi hississä my face went 😮

Greetings from Espoo. You pronounced those tongue twisters incredibly well. Those aren't very easy even to native speakers. IN fact you pronounced all Finnish words much better than average English speaker who has learned Finnish. Our language isn't very easy to pronounce for a native English speaker because of the hard R's etc. By the way, I saw the daylight first time in Joensuu long time ago.

Very good insight of Finland. Maybe because of you had the possibility to live in so many different types of cities for so long and experience our culture. In any case I'm proud of how Finland made such an impact on you. Much love from the other side of that bridge of Jyväskylä. You do know - home is where the heart is - sooo...

3:04 It sounded like this: Kokokokokokko koko kokokkoko koko kokko. When it's written and spoken like this: Kokoo koko kokko kokoon. Koko kokkokoko? Koko kokko kokoon.

You pronounce finnish really well! Have a great time in Finland! Tule koska vain takaisin!

He speaks Finnish SO WELL, woah! 🤯 Thank you for the kind words. 🥰

fun fact: Finland was the first country in the world where women got rights to vote. It was in year 1912.

This dude is so wholesome. Much love from Finland!

Thank you for this great video. You are very perceptive and you made excellent observations. Also, your pronunciation of Finnish is on the spot.

That Finnish is nearly perfect! And to learn it so well in only a couple of years?! My mind is blown 🤯

I just left Helsinki...was staying off Mannerheimintie katu and the city center was just a few min away. Its not a normal winter this year. Moving there in the next year. Love Suomi!

considering finnish is a very hard language to learn his finnish is pretty good

Its interesting how when you speak finnish you have "umms" in between when native soeaker would say "öö" :D your accent is beautiful, and pronounciation is very solid, one of the best and fluent Ive heard!!

We Finns call Jyväskylä area Central Finland, like in America Midwest is around Mississippi, though technically it's still a bit closer to the East Coast. In Finland, historically the northernmost 1/3 of Finland, Lapland, was not thought of as a part of Finland, but just - Lapland, land of the Sámi people, the most indigenous people in the northern Europe. So if we don't count Lapland - Jyväaskylä is in fact in Central Finland. Nowadays the Sámi are a minority even in Lapland, but their situation has at least proven a bit in recent 30-20 years, they get more education in their own langauge, there's TV news in their language, and they have legal protection for their land ownership - at least better than before. Lapland was in the 19th century like the Wild West, uhm, Wild North of Finland. It's Still not densely populated, and a bit exotic for most Finns.

Thank you so much for this, made me feel very warm inside.

epäjärjestelmällistyttämättömyydelläänsäkäänköhän How the heck you pronoce that :D WOW!

My funniest memory of mopoautos, the moped cars, happened a few years ago when in my part of the town a slick looking businessman in a black suit used to drive one for a while. I imagined his usual BMW or Audi was under repair and thus he had needed to find some other means of personal transport in the meantime. Maybe the thing belonged to his son/daughter, who knows. It was a hilarious sight, nonetheless.

Todella taitavasti puhut suomenkieltä! Kiva kun viihdyit. ✌🏻

What a nice video. Your tale about the old woman reminded me about this one guy who once paid for my train. I had ran to the train and noticed I had no cash when the ticket sales man came. The guy just paid for my ticket and said something I guess would translate to "it's cool", and we stood there in silence 'till my stop came.

we love, when someone tries to speak finnish like this :D

I was really suprised when you started speaking that good finnish, good job

Rye bread is something that you either hate or learn to yearn.

:grins: So true about the solidity of friendship with a Finn once you have proven your metal, so to speak, and you have their trust. That is a very special thing. Another very special, foodie, thing are Karjalanpiirakka ... they are so delicious! Sadly for me, my aim of moving to Finland to stay has been detonated by Brexit - the vote alone shredded the Pound and that sank the house purchase I had underway at the time (in Riihimäki in fact, pretty much next door to Hyvinkää). And now hope is gone of escaping British shores for the 'snowy North' ... maybe time for a long holiday there tho' ... :). That story of the kind lady on the bus was very touching indeed.

Kiitos Videostasi

So good. Always wanted to go to Finland because my favorite composer, Sibelius

The motor of mopoauto is usually even up to 500cm3.

We don't look kindly onto or accept appreciation but this broke down my barrier of false humidity. thank you!

wellcome back!!

Love my summer cottage during summer solstice

You got it. We TRUST.

U nail it!! When you can say kokoo koko kokko kokoon thing and explained its mean, then you can speak Finnish 💪😎😂 And word "no niin"

Wow, you speak excellent Finnish, very impressive!

I'll have to learn some Finnish language, and practice. I grew up in Chicago, but now live in Arcata Calif. Always loved to travel and backpack wilderness areas of US. Think i would love the nature in Finland, and of course the Finnish people. I would greatly appreciate the quiet and the reserveness, although im gregareous, but i would learn.

Thank you! I would love to hear more about Joensuu because I will study there soon. What sort of adventuring is there? I am looking forward to the lakes and forests.

You speak Finnish so well! wow.

Tervettuloa Suomeen uudelleen❣️🇫🇮

There are pickup trucks in Finland, they just aren't that common. Probably even rarer in cities. My parents had one when I was a kid, a chevrolet.

Kiitos for my Fazer 💕💕

Midsommer bonfire are common in all nordic countries.

Finland and Scandinavian in general is the best country respectively has the best countries ever.😍

mopo/ mopoauto age is 15. A mopo is as he said a 50cc, but most teens with a mopo are as we call it "jonne" and make their mopeds go faster, and especially in small towns or suburbs you wont find a legal moped. And stunting with mopeds or motorcycles is also very big here.

I'm from Michigan I'm watching

Colombia here!!!

i cant wait to move there for school and to enjoy life!!!!

The midsummer bonfires are a thing in Bavaria Germany too.

Wow! Great accomplishment in Finnish :)

trust is a good point, but if ya fail that trust its almost impossible to reclaim.

mämmi is actually rye malt and flour which is baked in the oven to sweeten it via maillard reactions. so not far from rye bread, but a bit different.

How do you guys learn such good Finnish in a short period of time. I cannot understand that. You must have a serious work ethic.

Nice, owning a Mökki near Joensuu as a foreigner :) Lived the whole last winter there. Beautiful landscapes! Being there in summertime twice as well. Living in Jyväskylä now. Nice parallels. Living for 3 months in this city now. Interested in Espoo and Helsinki as well. As you took the bus from jyväskylä south over a bridge, you don't mean Säynätsalo or not that far south?

You spoke good finnish👍

dude speaks better finnish than me even tho i’ve lived here for my whole life lmaoo

In Espoo is a villa owned by Mohammed Al-Fayed, and so on. On the water, it´s more expensive.

Epäjärjestelmällistyttämättömyydellänsäkäänköhän? … is that longest Finnsih word build so far which he said. Meaning about like 'I wonder if not even with his/her disorganization non-causing ability?' :) It's not really used anywhere, it's an artificial (yet technically sound) word. I once managed to ask that in a Fb message to my cousin talking about a 3rd person :) It's based on the possibility to derive new words from already existing derivations for very, very long chain. Like English can make from that word organ. Well, more like Latin & French already did a great part of that work. But in real life compounds (like laptop from lap + top) are the longest used words in Finnish. More than 2 can be connected. Then Finnish is not making much longer words than Swedish or German, who use the same principle. But the core words in Finnish tend to be 2 syllable long, when in English, Swedish & German they are often 1 syllable long. And a few derivational elements are longer than one syllable long, which is a bit cumbersome. (compare Latin -ation - well, the -at- comes from a verb, but in English it doesn't show). Numbers should be written together in Finnish, like kaksikymmentäyksi - 21 (yksi = 1, kaksi = 2), spoken is easier: kakskytyks. So because this can carry on theoretically forever, because what's the biggest number? Not found yet, but it's close to infinity. So you can always add one more number - and all that should be written together. BUT - in English the chemical compounds should be written together, as compound words, if not in code form. So you can actually build English words which are minutes long to say. There's a RU-vid video where one crazy Russian (or Ukrainian) actually reads such a word. There's likely a practical limit how complex chemical mixes you can make, so the compounds are not as close to infinite as numbers. But long they can be!

Oh, so you went to Kuokkala? What did you think about the "hole" statue?

Good points in this video but a few thing the editor should have fact checked and added to the video as a correction. But still good video.

Финны пожалуй самый добрый и цивилизованный народ. Люблю этих людей =)

Hyvinkää is the best!

Well, already the first sentence is wrong. Always have at least a bag of them.. They are THE BEST thing ever invented. :)

That's a great word! Epäjärjestelmällistyttämättömyydelläänsäkäänköhänkö = I wonder if it's really possible even with his/her unintentional urge to anti-unorganizationalize.

i love this as a finn

You lived in Oulunkylä? Its a great place! Btw I live there.

Plz come back. You seem like a guy that would make migration look good again

Impressive pronunciation this guy has!

You speak Finnish well for only being there for such a short time

Very nice language!

I live in Hyvinkää

Turkish pepper is really tasty

Suomi on paras maa maailmassa 🇫🇮❤️

Well, dogs ARE the best people, why wouldn't we love doggos?

ruisleipä is rye bread in english also "dont eat the turkish pepper" ? are they really that bad to foreigners?

Suomi mainittu torilla tavataan :)

Makkara on hyvää🤤

Espoo is a bit west of Helsinki, yes - it's the western neighbour of Helsinki, and they have practically grown together; as has the city north of Helsinki, Vantaa. Together these 3, plus a small city inside Espoo, Kauniainen (or rather Grankulla - in Swedish, because the majority there speaks Swedish), are called the Greater Helsinki (area).

Estonians and Finns understand each other on an elementary level in both directions. Yes, that takes some time, but still. Genetically proven that Estonians and Finns were the same nation 2500 years ago. Estonians learn Finnish swift, and Finns learn Estonian ideally.

Sweden has the bonfires too, but for 1st of May, not midsummer. And I won't go more into the Swedish midsummer tradition 😅

I have lived in Finland since 1974 ! and it's great ! So if any forigner living Finland complains about it, Then go to where you feel ok! SUOMI , SAUNA, SISU; SIBELIUS

Nordic winter isn’t cool. In England we have a black pudding but never had it or blood sausage. I love the aposolte trust and directness. Sorry I can’t spell. The summer celebration I’ve done in Germany.

it seems to me like you understand Finnish culture better than most Finns.

I would.love to live in Finland

Second gen Finns watch too. :)