The Problem With Learning Finnish!
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- Опубліковано 8 тра 2020
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I am on episode 3 talking about finland, learning finnish and a little bit about Scotland. So enjoy this clip of my stand up debut on a streaming platform!!
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Yoooo! So this obviously went way better than I thought it was going to. Thanks for watching! I'll try to get some more stuff filmed when it's possible again. Again, you're all amazing and thanks!!!
I was very surprised to hear the Scottish accent, but I'm glad haha
you deserve,you are very talented hope see more from you soon
Finnish isn’t real mate, someone just fell asleep on the keyboard
-_- it's a goddamn alien language, nothing about it makes sense or sounds real to my human ear holes. (am trying to learn finnish lol)
It's definitely strange to the native English speaking ear. To quote an image I seen online, "to be fair English is just 3 languages on top of each other disguised in a trench coat."
Nah that's Icelandic
Police police police police police police.
Is a real sentence.
We drive in Park Ways But Park in Driveways
Bomb,Tomb, and Comb all have different pronunciations
And the word "Set" has the most different meanings than any other word in the English language.
Conclu: English is a Giant meme and hard to learn for foreigners who have not been exposed to it
as a finnish person i agree
"Can you teach me some Finnish words" got such a reaction that the joke didn't really even need to continue. That could have been the whole joke. Everyone knew exactly what where it was going.
Ei.
What about us, who don't now wtf is this about? :)) "HILAVITKUTIN " wtf is that?? Or the other thing ?? :)
@@PeacefulCountryLife I don't know either and I'm from finland.
@@PeacefulCountryLife hilavitkutin is just a word for a general gadget that's function is kind of unknown to the speaker.
Vesihiisi sihisi hississä. Is just a tongue twister. "Sihisi" means "hissed", "hississä" means "in the elevator" and "vesihiisi" is a mythical creature.
Tuukka ohhh kiitti!
FYI. Vesihiisi sihisi hississä roughly translates to ”The water pixie hissed in an elevator” or ”The sea monster was hissing in the elevator.”
Water pixie to sea monster well that escaleted quickly
Selene Van Der Nix a sea monster is just the evolved form of a water pixie
@@selenevandernix9353 depends on her mood tbh
Oh, what a hero ty, also thats hysterical lol.
I'm scared of how that sentence must have come to be.
When I was on exchange in Finland, I took a three week course called "survival Finnish". I looked through my notes and on one page it just says "Apua! Veitsi!", which means "Help! Knife!", so that's survival Finnish for you.
I remember using memrise or something and one of the words was siepata, which they translated as - to kidnap. What are they trying to tell us!?
@@RayZambino There was an occasion not too long ago when "Apua! Veitsi!" was very applicable ... but the Finnish police were there to sort that out amazingly fast. The incident didn't really get any international attention but for those of us paying attention ... well ... we noticed :_(
@@RayZambino And those books and courses etc. still "forget" to tell you not to mix up Tappaa and Tavata. There also seem to be so many words that somehow get at least partly mixed up with Pillu, if my memory services me right; usually in situations when people have to read out loud and class have to try to stay silent.
Because we had to try to behave I have forget to write down those words... Maybe good so Finnish troll level can continue and there's no warning system in place.
@@RayZambino I used to like to go to the woods until i found a word ilves (lynx) in 600 most used finnish words on memrise
@@stanislavefimov8964 nah lynx are rare, worry about bears and wolves instead! ;-)
I got so distracted by his accent I thought he was a Finn speaking English at first
smame
Nah, you need to watch Ismo for that
He is obviously Scottish, not a bad accent in fact it's great
you got confused by a scottish accent? did you know it existed?
@@noms341 yeh, Scotland, isn't that the country SW of England? where all the singers come from, like Tom Jones
The accent, the beard. Now that's what a Scottish should look like. Anyway, Troll level: Finland
His accent sounds Irish
@@Ianassa91 I thought so too, I put him somewhere Northern Irish.
Hes not finnish
@@Ianassa91 no he's very scottish
it's snap scottish, he sounds exactly like dunno, count Dankula, can't miss that scottish accent
I mean, he's not wrong
We're just total trolls
not like it's any different with any other language and it's speakers
A friend once taught me 'sahaiset sissijuustolle', so useful.
@@trackanalysis6369 well yeah but atleast most languages are somewhat easy to learn.
Finnish is not. Like most of us cannot speak our own language even near perfectly. The grammar is just on another level
@@Celatra i find it very logical and straightforward, pretty much any indoeuropean language is just a total mess
@@trackanalysis6369 it's logical and straightforward, definitely, but its got so many conjugations it's honestly difficult to remember them all even as a native. I'm fairly good at my own language but I tell you, i struggled to become fluent in the written language.
As a Swede, I find the look of a room full of laughing Finns very heartwarming.
I know right? Normally they are just drunk by themselves and being all grumpy like, this is a nice change of pace for them, lol.
I’m half Finnish (born and raised in Sweden)… don’t even get me started on how svennar behave
@@pariszhow they behave?
@@parisz
You mean gays behave?
@@mmr1137 Im finnish-swedish as well. I dont know what they meant. But I do know, we look at swedes and think they are a lot more outgoing and too kind (as in, approachable but not in a good way sometimes) :D
as an Estonian person I spent the entire time trying to read the subtitles and understand them before realising that I can’t
HILAVITKUTIN ON HELVETIN TÄRKEE SANAA
antichrist. Ink kyllä olet fiksu ihminen kun kerrot toisille uusia sanoa. 🤣😂
Käytän kyseistä sanaa jokapäiväisessä elämässäni enkä selviäisi ilman sitä
Vihdoin joku Suomalainen joka kattoo tai edes tietää SU:n (Steven Universe)
Eikö se ookkaan jojo viittaus?
@@coolwolf1425 Ei perkule luulin et oon ainoo!
The first and only Finnish word I've ever been taught is perkele
Which IS useful!
i only learned moi
god my mother needs to teach me it, she's finnish
@@sxnshinemabel9768
My mom moved here from Finland and I grew up saying aiti instead of mom
@@ferretneedssleep8451 oh cool
I only know a couple: Noita, perkele, hei/moi, Viinamäen Mies (I think?) Ämmanhäuta, Iske, Ruotsi, and Suomi. Yeah, random words that will get me nowhere that I also learned from either Korpiklaani or random fanfiction.
You got it wrong. First swear words then others.
Perkele!
Accurate. My fiance taught me the swear words and now that I'm attempting to learn the language I realize he did not prepare me by throwing the fun ones at me all at once. Everytime I think I know a word I'm informed it changes based on context..... fml lol
@@509Gman I was just going to comment this..7 months too late, saatana.
@@509Gman the classic never fails
"First swear words, then others."
It's like that for most languages, no? :)
Well, as Ismo said: The only finnish word you really need to learn is "Nonii"
And Perkele!!
Dami Fly wait mitä on “nonii”?
Dami Fly minusta se on “No niin”
The most practical word my boyfriend has discovered is "vai niin". One might argue it's even more useful than "yksi olut".
@@rescatooor LMAO
A Scot with an Italian surname making jokes about talking Finnish. Awesome job!
Europe being Europe is what that is and i'm so here for it! :-)
Veh-see-he-see see-he-see he-see-SAH got me
When I was in high school in 2005-2008, I once asked from a transfer student what Finnish words she had learned while being here and she just said "the cuss words". Made perfect sense🤣
This accent 😍
Fennish
@@mauquack *Finnish
@@pacman1789 i hope you did that on purpose
@@mauquack Yeah, I did because you spelled it wrong.
@@pacman1789 You're jesting right?
So, theres more to Finnish than just "perkele" and "Saatana"? Because Ive seen those two words ward off bears and figured that would be all I needed to know lol
Who would have thought it’s a whole entire language!
Love your Denholm Reynholm pfp by the way :)
@@Emiliapocalypse
lol Yes, and thank you :D If there was ever a face I would like to have, its this one.
Of course there's more, unless bears are your only priority. Then there is no more.
It kind of a depends what kind of bears you meet.
Kippis and/or hölökyn kölkyn is also important.
how did you leave "Vittu"
My foreign friends: "Can you teach me finnish words?"
Me: "lentokonesuihkuturbiiniapumekaanikkoaliupseerioppilas"
Onkohan tuo vielä käytössä? Tai koskaan ollutkaan?
Johannes Koskela epäjärjestelmällistyttämättömyydelläänsäkäänköhän
well, google translate can't explain what does this mean to me, so can you do it instead?
@@user-mf7lh1jw6c airplaneshowerturbinenginehelpmechanicianofficerstudent
Thats what lentokonesuihkuturbiinimoottoriapumekaanikkoaliupseerioppilas means
The Problem With Learning Finnish, is that you will never finish.
Ok you made it as a joke but it is actually true.45 year old swedish speaking finnish citizen all my life and I still learn stuff.I speak very good finnish but still now and then something new pops up.
You meant 'never Finnish', right?
German: _We have long, composite words with no spaces!_
Finnish: _Hold our spaces!_
Hilavitukin = Thingamajig
Vesihiisi sihisi hississä =
The water pixie hissed in an elevator.
Thank god for google translate.
See, important phrases. Come up all the time.
What is thingamajig...
@@Kointa It is similar to a thingymabob but definitely more familiar under its American name whatchamacallit.
Seriously though, it's a thing whose name or function you either can't recall or don't know. A contraption sometimes. Sometimes humorous.
"Where do I dispose of the papers?"
:pointing to a rather esoteric-looking shredder:
"Just use the thingamajig"
”Perkele!” and ”No niin” will go a long way.
Fun show btw 😁
Both are very useful 😆
I am Finnish Australian & tried to teach my kids finnish... but the only words they wanted to learn & remembered were the dirty words. So now I can't ever take them home to meet our family. Which is sadder for me coz their my aunties, uncles & cousins & I haven't been there since I was young & I am starting to forget how to speak suomea!
Teach them normal words and tell them that they are bad words. They don't know!
play them some songs from winter war xd. Never underestimate a power of good meme.
and show them duolingo that could help.
Oh, nobody told you yet? If you need an ambulance, all you have to say is "vesihiisi sihisi hississä PERKELE" and they'll know.
What's really amazing here is that the Finnish audience understands his English perfectly. English must be as strange for a Finn as Finnish is for an English speaker, yet they've all learned it so well they can easily follow a complicated and subtle stand-up-comedy routine.
no, english is a lot easier than finnish when it comes to learning
And Finns learn it in the school. (Or most do). And foreign programs in the telly are with Finnish subtitles (easy to learn from there).
Now, that's the whole thing, right? No one in their right mind would expect anyone outside of Finland to actually learn Finnish, so it's much easier to just teach each one of us to talk with the other peoples' tongues.
Hilariously enough, I found that English was easier to learn than Swedish, and Japanese of all things was easier to learn than English! So there's that.
@@Ichigoeki 😆
When I asked to learn some Finnish words, I learned “saatana perkele vittu.” Very useful.
My Finnish friends helped correct my pronunciation of Espoo after they stopped rolling around on the floor laughing. #S💩
Ray I felt exactly the same when I was learning Swedish as a Welsh man. No one would let me speak the language and the phrases I was 'taught' were utter shite.
Actually, "hilavitkutin" is very useful word in Gigantti. Just the tell the merchant you want that, when they ask you if you need help, and watch their agonizing stare as they try to figure out what you really want to buy.
Tärkeä myös: Kokko kokoo koko Kokko koko kokkoko koko Kokko 😁
Se on kokoo koko kokko kokoon. Koko kokkoko? Koko kokko.
Kokko, kokoo koko kokko kokoon.
Koko kokkoko?
Koko kokko.
Kokkookko?
Kokko
@@sudanemamimikiki1527 Paitsi, että Kokko ei voi koota kokkoa, kun ei ole Kokko nimisiä ihmisiä Suomessa.
Some of the first sentences that my American girlfriend was taught were "Haluutsä turpaan?", "Älä lääpi!" and "Mä annoin sulle tonnin setelin". At least some of those may actually be useful.
Kyrpäjyrä is my favorite to teach. Because why not.
I lived in Finland for a while and the only word I knew was "kiitos".
When I asked anyone if they could teach me Finnish the just laughed.
Normal reaction 😂
Well if you memorize tongue twisters, that'll help you understand all those pesky cases! Like when you're learning the inessive -ssa/-ssä, you'll remember that the water goblin hissed in the lift!
Great stuff keep it up man!
the Finnish language sounds like Music in my Ears. the few times I've been to Helsinki it's like going to live with the fairies and friendly forest folk, poor little English speaker, yes, we can understand you and speak your language, while they're ripping the filth in Finnish. no, no, they are way too polite for that.....uh huh...
Finnish people immediately taught me how to say "perkele" and then demanded I use it
Huh, turns out one of my cats can type fluent Finnish! Nonchalantly walked over the keyboard and it looked just like the subtitles.
Good stuff :D
I love your accent, always loved the Scottish accent, it's the best. :D
ua-cam.com/video/Kuqrj8uBZ5U/v-deo.html He's the best.
Loved your video . I am learning Finnish myself. And taking my first small steps in stand up comedy. But I found it still very difficult to have a conversation in finnish 😉 .
Let's be honest. All of you foreign folks just want me to teach you our curse words.
Eipä ollu.
I am waiting
@@user-bn8ie5zt9x The most important ones are saatana and perkele they even scare bears so when you see a bear go like this
Vitun perkeleen karhu painu saatanan helvettiin
Karhu=bear
Painu= go to
Helvettiin: hell
And
Vittu saatana and perkele are just random swear words wich idk the meaning to
Saying: "Vesihiisi sihisi hississä" is just a cover-up story, so you can open a beer can without anyone noticing it. Sometimes it may even work.
I'm dying, this is hilarious and it's true
Good thing you don't need to speak Finnish to connect with your non-Finnish friends.
In fact you dont need to speak at all.
@@mahtavaa5585 speaking as a Finnish person, under 'normal' circumstances I feel it would be extremely rare to form a meaningful relationship without participating in meaningful conversations.
Saatana, Vittu, Perkele, Nonii, and Hei is the extent of my Finnish knowledge thanks to my friend.
oh god😂
Try 'niinpä' which means agreement of physical facts has been achieved.
That's amazing
Jep (yeah) is more efficient. If you really want to go crazy, its jep jep. You can slide thru a long conversation with a Finn only muttering niinpä and jep with different intonations. If youre real high level conversationalist, throw noniin (so it is) in the mix and youre set for life.
Because of you I'm learning Finnish 😉 and I'm like... where have you been all my entire life?
Onnea!
A Scot with an Italian surname living in Finland, there's a joke in there somewhere
That SSSSS word sounds so impressive rolling off the tongue! Good for him for mastering it! Wish I could say it even though I don't know what it means lol; but it just sounds so cool!
that so true....the first Finnish thing I was though was "saatanan runkkari". A nice start indeed
KIPPIS
PERKELE
Those were the 2 first ones to pop out of my head.
Nice to see a new video from you!
I'm going to try and up my game!
One of the very few Finnish words I understand is the greeting “moi”, because we use the same word here in the (north-)east of the Netherlands.
Another word I know is “moottorisaha”, as it is similar to the Dutch translation “motorzaag” (chainsaw).
As a Finn i can confirm all this
God damn! Never think about it in that perspective
As a Swede I just know "Ei saa peittää" which is "do not cover".
Is that from that word show? Where the family goes for a vacation at their parents childhood home?
@@mamamatt7774 I just know it from when I was on the loo as a kid and there was a radiator in front of the toilet. It had Finnish, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish on the label.
@@NotASummoner I thought so 😂
@@mamamatt7774 What was that show again...? I remember that it was mentioned somewhere.
@@NotASummoner Did the label have Icelandic on it?
Btw, history behind "hilavitkutin" is that it was used in past as thing father house did send older kids to fetch as hed lend it to neighbor, who then had then lend it to other neighbor etc to keep kids busy when there was something happening in farm which kids shouldn't have to witness ie either yearly butchering of animals or their mother giving birth to their new sibling. So neighbors did help to send them this wild goose chase to find "hilavitkutin" or other similar made up item and feed them etc. Me grandma did tell her experience about this firsthand. Life at that time was hard and her own mother had died giving birth her sibling, but at that time bonds people in villages had to each other was something we have lost now.
Other example of those bonds was that me grand parents did move south for easier city life, but failed in that and when they did return to me grandma's home village, all neighbors did give something to help them start their life, like giving them 2 cows for free, food, help to fix house and barns etc. That wouldn't happen nowadays, at least in that level anymore...
We have gained much, but we have lost lot too and sometimes I'm not sure if the gains has been enough to contempt the loss...
Huh, super interesting. Thanks for sharing!
@@RayZambino As history buff, your welcome. And scottish accent is just so beatiful and sexy! ;)
Just say PERKELE! And it works hahahaha
PASKAPUHETTA!
Kirosanat opetetaan ihan ekaks
Niinpä. Tämä jätkä ei osaa asiaansa.
Perkele on ihan ykkösenä kun opetat jollekin suomea
I don't even speak Finnish, but this made me laugh so much!
Finnish sounds so particular!
The secret is, I don't really speak Finnish either!
So true :D I met some Lithanians and they knew some finnish. Of course the word, which they knew was Runkkupaska. Now all my colleagues know some Finnish .D...
i bet you already know all the most popular curse words though
Honestly all you need is Viina, Sauna, and Perkele. You've got everything important with those three. Hungry? Rub your stomach and "perkele". Hurting? Grimace and "oi perkele". Lost? Look around and "Uhh, ah perkele....".
I find looking confused and saying, oh ho, works quite well
Me as a finnish person gonna approve "HILAVITKUTIN ON TÄRKEIN SUOMALAINEN SANA, JOKA TÄYTYY TIETÄÄ!!!"
Those Finnish people you met were very nice as I usually tell the most use curse words. They may be a bit frowned upon, but serve much more meaningful purpose in every day conversation. :)
Can someone explain what does "vesihiisi sihisi hississa" and "hilavitkutin" mean?
@@elsiesrifle i dont even know if you google translated them or came up with them yourself
"hilavitkutin" is hard to translate, but englsh words in the style of 'thingamabob' have similar meaning. Basicly any device, machine or apparatus the speaker doesn't know the actual purpose of, can be called hilavitkutin 😅
(literally it means: "clasp scuffler")
@@ember_falls
Those are real explanations. Literally hilavitkutin means "clasp-scuffler" but it's used in same manner as 'thingamajik' and 'gimmick'
The water goblin sentence is just wordplay full of Ss and is used example in speech therapy to hone the right pronouncication of Finnish "S"
Hilavitkutin also means male genitalia which is most likely the reason the word was taugth to him.
@@mrj.kottari8453 a widget
...do i want to ask for a translation?
It's all very PG, which is genuinely unexpected of the Finnish language
I have an American friend who came up to me really excited that they just learned a Finnish word, which was "viuhahtelisinkohan". It is, to this day, the only word in my language they know.
I...I.... Why?
I'm starting to believe this. Tried using Duolingo and one of the first word you learn is velho. I'm like whut? Not even numbers? Good morning or good evening?
Well, Duolingo is bit trivia tool for learning languages anyway...
Yes I also was taken aback that Duolingo put velho (wizard) in the early lessons! Recently I learnt ilves (lynx), wondering why aren't they teaching more common animals 😂
When you learn these words and get to Finland and you don’t know how to say towel lmao.
Encontrei isso por acaso, ri bastante e agora quero aprender finlandês
É complciado kkkkkk
so true, suomi perkele :D
Well. I was dead when he said "hilavutkutin". Don't give a clue what the hell it is, but it was enough.
Suddenly, somehow this is a useful word
I swear Finnish started from a Scrabble game but then though a good idea was to add 15 bags worth tiles of just vowels
Then, just for fun, they added 3 extra vowels!
Germans: We are so special, we got long words and Umlaute like ä and ü
Fins: Hold my olut
Czech hold my ř č ž š etc...
The fenish language is tough
seems you are having problem with english language too
The Finnish language sounds like they are working their way through winter
This is exactly how I feel as a Glaswegian preparing for a month in Helsinki. Actual kill me 😭
Naah, it's great!
@@RayZambino I know, it's a beautiful language. I'm excited.
Opeta suomea: proceeds To teach swear words :D PERKELE
Vittu
I mean... You're not wrong. The only words my Finnish friend has ever taught me were swear words.
The first thing my gf told me was mulkvisti 😑 enough said I decided it’d be best if I tried to learn on my own
Sounds like true love!
Just got a couple jokes enjoyed it thank you
Wow this is super funny. If only I could speak Finnish
Apart from perkele of course, the only finnish I know is "maukas lohi," which means tasty salmon. However in my language (Latvian) that means "whores idiots."
So I had just arrived in germany from brazil as a foreigner college student and I discovered that my new flatmate was Finnish. Right in the first day he was pretty nice to help me out with arranging everything and coming with me to the supermarket to buy the rest of the things necessary ad it was kinda far, on the way back hahah I suddenly remember like "God dammit!! I freaking forgot to buy a pillow!! now how am I supposed to sleep at night, Mikael?? I can't sleep without one and I don't wanna sleep with a clothes' pillow!" and then I heard him laughing so hard and asking what kind? I was like "it can be a cheap one no high standards" and for some reason made him laugh even more. I got very annoyed and asked what's up??? and he finally explained "do you know what pillu means in Finnish?" I said no, obviously, and he responded: pussy :| and that's how I learned my first Finnish word.
FYI pillupuhelin is the name of that water hose near the toilet that you use to clean your butt and it literally means "pussy-phone". It's another weird story about how I got to learn this lol
This works in other way aswell :D
In Finland we have "pussi"
It means a bag (usually plastic and paper etc)
When I heard Fennish I knew you have to be Scottish. One day I want to hear how some homophones (like they're and their, or knead and need) sound like with this accent.
perkele!
I'm danish trying to learn Finnish. I would say a lot of the grammar is "easier"
and better understandable than danish shit silent letters and different sounds of letters depending on the word.
Ray, you are spot on with your critique there.
It is not even funny anymore how much the finnish street language is departed from what schoolbooks teach.
Many foreigners coming to finland, have proudly with sweat and tears learned finnish from books perhaps university classrooms before they enter the country.
And then already on the (Air-)port they discover they understand shit all what is spoken around them.
And as soon they open their mouth, ___everyone___ and their dog know thats either an immigrant, or a tourist 🙂 Not only because of the obvious accent that you will never be able to get rid off your entire life (forget the plan about blending in so well that people take you for a native, its not gonna work) - they will also detect you because you are the only one around speaking "school book finnish"
At that point, some turn away from you - some turn towards you (also methaphorically) - but you will not get the native2native treatment.
Is that a good thing? i let you decide.
I know a guy that speaks Finnish and japenses and when I asked which was harder from and English speakers perspective he just said yes. Like how do you have grammar so hard it competes with a language that has three alphabets that their use denotes connotation?
Anyways I wanna learn Finnish now
As a Finn I can with no hesitation tell you that Japanese was way easier to learn than learning English ever was...
You're lucky though, you learned a lot. I've been to Finnland a few times for work and for a few day-trips and all I know is how to scare people and keep them at distance with Perkele and Satanaa, so...:-)
Perkele!
Hän on hyvä ihminen (I'm just learning Finnish) as an Indian.
Ok I feel kinda bad now 😂
My experience as the american son of a finnish father, is that finns only will teach you swears. The first finnish word I ever learned (at a very young age) was
paska.
Me mom is pre-school teacher and time when Yugoslavian wars first thing me cousin and other kids at the school yard did teach refugee kids first all profanites...
im fennish too and speak fennish
I speak Finnish all the time at work. Which is to say that I say "vittu" to stuff like the soda machine or buckets of ice a lot.
Very Finnish behavior.