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I'm in Helsinki, finland right now, for the first time (I'm on holiday). I've watched so many videos about it before coming here. I think i wont want to go home 😮

Olen pettynyt että englanniksi... En katso

Buy a dog...youll have a social life🎉

All depends so much where are you born in, what culture are you born in and what kind of challenges life hands over for yous. Safety is as much there for one and not for the other. Might it be the country is choosing to not to place all its trouble in public awareness. US again places a whole lot for the public awareness. Where/what do it serve, do it make problem solving happen? Similarities in all worlds countries and crimes in each, how the society deals with it is different. Have a g stay in Fi, healing healing. 🙏🐣

Allso in south Finland we speak in diffrent dialects so shortend words but in Pohjanmaa everything has extra letters. Some dialects are hard to understand for normal Finnish people

When you go to Mökki you again realize that happiness dosent come from fancy apartments, electronics or even fancy food. Good friends, some beer and meat and nature!❤

Piknik advice for making friends was really awsome and true!

Three pillars of mental health is exercise, sleep and food. Allso when you study go to Opera or Teatteri and Trains are half off so travel inside the country. If your new and your not making friends you just tell us. Everyone needs a friend.

Life is outside your school and workplace. Allso when your 20 you make alot of mistakes so imagine being 200k in debt and whit a diploma you now don't want

Finland is such a difrent language so you cant use swedish or english instead of finnish. In norway you can work as a server whit small swedish and English.

+1 I've been melting Cheddar on karjalanpiirakka since early 2000. Marmite goes better on ryebread IMO, the pies are too fragile to spread it. Best combo for me - dark Reissumies, PBnJ, with Welch's grape jelly.

Absolutely love the videos, big love from Whitsundays Australia! Hopefully moving to Helsinki in 2024!

I love Finland!! I think I want to move there eventually. Love the podcast, but STOP telling everyone! I like that it's almost a secret place. I want to live there to get better with speaking and reading Finnish. I don't have a partner but some really truly awesome friends there. I'm a female and I love traveling in Finland alone. You should mention that if you get a PhD in Finland you get a SWORD!

Currently volunteering in Finland. I‘m curious to know why other people come here!

Any job for me?

One thought. Do you think Swedish and Norwegian's have the same problem to connect to the Finn's ? I actually don't think so, because we "almost" come from the same culture...It's just a guess...

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It's widely known that Finnish and Hungary are relatives and several in this thread have mentioned Estonian to be close relative to Finnish. It's often forgotten or not known that Sami languages, Karelian languages (not to mix up with the dialect spoken in eastern part of Finland) and other minor languages in Nordics and Russian are part of Uralic language family and therefore more of less close to Finnish. As someone who speaks only Finnish of those languages I can understand quite well some Karelian (depending on the Karelian language) and some of the smaller Uralic languages. Just fyi. :D

Karelian pie is the best food in Finland. It's amazing homemade.

Hobbies and sports by far the best way to meet locals. That's how I met some of my Finnish friends and im lucky they speak amazing English and also are helping me to learn Finnish, it's a beautiful exchange. I would say they are two of the most open minded people I have met here in Suomi.

I want to make sure you had leipäjuusto well warmed so it becomes soft and chewy. It totally changes the texture. Because even many Finns nowadays eat it cold which is not the right way...

I am a Finn who has put Marmite and cheese on Karelian pies for like 20 years so I think we actually beat you to it. 😅

Fun fact about oats is that it really gets better the more light it gets. That is why oats from the Nordic countries and Canada are much better quality than from other countries since the day during the summer is much longer.

It is a good advice to reset your brain for Finnish. As long as you do not compare things to your own language it gets easier because it is so different to anything else except Estonian and Hungarian.

I'd definately keep the first date casual like you said, but more often than not I'd do an activity date. Summer or winter. I'm not even a sporty person and my first dates have been for exmple indoor climbing, biking, walks, crosscountry skiing, ice skating, a cup of coffee etc. Cup of coffee was definately the most uncomfortable because then you actively have to think of things to talk about 😄. Thanks for this series. It's been a good binge while cleaning the cupboards.

Ooh, I hate that rise in bathroom if there is one! It makes it sooo annoying to clean the bathroom floor 😂. When it's flat you can just rise the floor toilet top etc. and squikey it off. Very small batrooms of course can get wet and shower curtain doesn't help. Best thing is tightly fitting doors that you can open completly and keep most of the water off the rest of bathroom. Different strokes for different folks 😂.

Everytime a foreigner speaks about Finland and their experience and what finnish people are like, im asking the question what Finland do you live in? Because it´s so strange and not at all what i see and what im like. Yea i see sauvakävelijöitä but that´s not some national sport of Finland. I guess everyone sees the world differently

Almost all the sustainable actions you speak about apply to California. We bring our own bags, have lots of vegan options, etc. Our power production is mostly sustainable. Transportation is improving but could be better. but all cars must be electric by 2035. Our state has set climate goals ahead of the rest of the country. So generalizing about the US based on New York might give the wrong impression. Can’t wait to visit Finland this summer to see for myself. Haven’t been there in 50 years.

Heat pumps should really start being mandatory nowadays. Great chat!

Love the podcast guys 🤙

Finnish sounds more like Estonian than Hungarian. But then also sounds like Sami. The language and culture is something of a mystery. Most theories are just speculation.

I think a good epilogue for this conversation would be: How is the reverse culture shock when Felipe got back to New York? Having been to Japan for almost a full year I know I had some trouble reintegrating into high school in Finland. Especially with the languages since I had chosen to take German in addition to mandatory Swedish. English wasn't a problem, since I hadn't completely stopped using it, but German and Swedish were extraordinarily tough for the first 6-9 months.

One of the major ways I spent time conversing with people, when I was in Japan for a year, was forcing myself to say everything in Japanese. Whenever I encountered things/words I couldn't express, I tried to ask how/what in Japanese and in desperate situations use the English word for something to ask for the Japanese one. Then I'd immediately try actually saying that thing which would then get corrected if the person I was talking with was comfortable doing that (it all depended on how respectful they wanted to be). I believe that is one of the greatest tools for getting comfortable with speaking. In terms of actually learning a language, input is king. TV shows, movies and reading are the best ways to learn new stuff. If children's books feel awkward, I suggest looking for "Graded Readers". They are books/stories that are written in a simplified way to transition from barely reading to reading native texts. Selkosuomenkieliset uutiset is good for subject matter but graded readers come with clearly defined difficulties that offer a way to progress methodically. No need to waste time reading something you understand 100% instead of 95%. 95% is apparently the sweet spot for learning a language by reading. You are also meant to read them without the use of external aids like your phone/dictionary.

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Wait hang on, (17:14) you are ACTUALLY taught (or conditioned) to only read the start of the word and guess the rest? That's been like my top complaint when watching foreigners try to pronounce Finnish words, where it seems like they often just give up before even looking at the whole word. I didn't know it's actually almost a subconscious thing for you guys. >_>

When you said to give your finnish friend advice to speak finnish instead of english to help you to learn finnish i felt like i couldn't possibly speak finnish the way you could actually possibly understand what i'm saying because i am from oulu region and i speak finnish in a very strong northern/oulu-dialect, so i think you would not understand a word i said since it usually feels like even the finnish people in the southern finland struggle to understand what i am trying to say.

Hahaha, that was an invitation to learning Finnish... Not! But how you described the difficulty of reading in Finnish is exactly what I've been saying for years (section on passive learning). Now, I'm a native Finnish speaker, but I want to read my books in English (I've done all my academic studies in English and lived for a decade in English speaking countries), because it is just much quicker, be this something academic or just a book I'd read for entertainment.

great stuff! keep this podcast going

does either of you have a same sex partner?

Ooh, didn't know you were on yotube as well guys 👋

Finnish food: Pizza, kebab and Hamburgers.

So proud of you, Diana. Love this interview ❤️❤️❤️

FLORIDA has a bit higher population than NY and has 1/2 the budget with much, much better infrastructure and did not lockdown (except the first several weeks)

I attended one of the first gay pride parades in (about) 1996....a small showing

When I met Latin Americans in their country and we spoke in Spanish, they forgot that I had difficulties with subtleties in Spanish as they assumed that my Spanish ability encompassed their own ability with subtleties

What happens when the family and mutual dependency of individuals gives way to single individuals dependent on the government as parents?

Re: 'traditional' vs 'progressive', being truthful, loyal, prudential, and empathic are traditional

You two are really adorable. If you were single, this should have drawn proposals. As an Amerikansuomaleinen I did appreciate your appreciation of Suomi.

As an Amerikansuomalainen with friends and relatives in Finland I both enjoy the solidarity and calm of Finland and I have concerns about the obedience and Big Brother nature of the system. If Finland becomes significantly less homogenous, then you will see far more social conflict and loss of trust. All studies show that. Note Sweden, the UK, and the major increase in conflict in previously co-operative and previously (Nordic) homogenous Minnesota.

Decades ago at Stanford I was not aware of any drinking culture