I just found a Finn here in Los Angeles! I learned the greetings and intros, so she was blown away. I decided to learn the language, soley based off the fact that I love Finnish punk bands. I think there should be a Finnish learning game between a native and non-native speaker, where you have to take a shot everytime you fumble on a word🤣
There Should Be More People - at California to learn another Language ! Americans Are missing The Point of learning European languages ? Some at LA may speak Spanish - Thanks to that They speak Spanish at Mexico !
@@holoholopainen1627That's why I was said as I have online friends who speaks theie native languages and english. Then once I wanted to learn Finnish it just reminded me again how in the US its not really mandatory and if it was should be taught early on in schools
My grandmother kept telling me how much easier FInnish was than English and she spoke it all the time. Only problem, I picked up nothing. This frustrated her too.
Many People never learn any other Language - If They see NO purpose for learning ! In Finland We All learn Swedish and English - at School ! English used to Be The 3rd Language - but many has skipped Swedish - to speak English BETTER !
The thing I like about Finnish is that it's a very logical, straightforward language. English is a mess because it's made up of half the languages of Europe and any Latin based language isn't logical.
@@guruchintanan5686 1. I know very well the history of the language I'm using to write 2. yup, it's germanic, so many people know that fact at this point 3. Nothing of what you said refutes the notion that english is less logical than spanish for example 4. I honestly wrote that comment more as a joke, I like english, I learned it because of it. My native language is spanish so I think I have a good experience to back up what I said. Latin languages (maybe french not so much) are more logical than english, doesn't make them better or worse, although if english was more logical it would be easier to learn and maybe even more widespread
Wait until you have to start bending words. Example- koira, koiran, koiraa, koiraan, koirasta, koiralta, koiralle, koiranne, koiramme, koirasi, koiraltasi, koiraltasi, koirallesi. And many MANY others
Agree that Finnish is more phoenetic. Agree that accent on the first syllable is a good idea, also Finnish. The Finns are very logical people. Agree that you have to be very clever to learn Finnish because of the complicated structure.Agree that Finnish not having genders makes more sense for lots of reasons; words having genders is beyond ridiculous.Agree that it not having future tense is advantage Finnish.Great lesson Aleksi,I would add one additional point; as an American, I love the sound of the Finnish language even though I cannot understand it. It has a wonderful sound to it. Terveisen,Jazzbeau
As a Spanish speaker I have absolutely no problem pronouncing the sharp R letter like when you say Finnish words such as perkele, rakastanut, etc. Finnish is the 4th language I’d love to be good at! Kiitos
@@kaksidaksi3455 😭Bruh. That also happens in Spanish. I had several friends during my entire school life (even in high school) who couldn't roll the Rs properly, and they were native speakers. But the bullying they received for "not knowing how to speak" was brutal.
Every language has their own complexities and simplicities. If Finnish is your second language it will be hard, but if it's your ten-billionth language it's easy.
as a native english speaker, finnish basics is the easiest of all other languages i’ve tried. when you get more in-depth it gets more complex and harder but learning the basics was much much easier than when i tried to learn french, german, and other languages.
It is not for nothing that it is said that we are the most American people , after the Americans. Yes, you can manage with us because we have about 15 years old who know at least two foreign languages and all know English.
Hello Aleksi ,Thank you so much for making this great video ! I am going to learn Finnish in Tampere University soon ,and your video gave me lot more confidence ! As a native Chinese speaker ,I found Chinese grammar is quite similar to Finnish, when it comes to putting words together to make new words, as well simple time tense grammar ,and no gendered words . That is interesting ! :D
How Have You Been ? Have You learned any suomi - sofar ? Listen to a Song called OLEN SUOMALAINEN by KARI TAPIO - and If You know what They Are singing ? Never before Suomen oppiminen ollut näin helppoa !
Kiitos for this video :) I am a german. And I am also a teacher for my language. I know how hard it is for non native speakers to learn our language, especially the aritcles, as you said. For everybody who doesn't know this: The articles are random! Nobody can tell why it is Die Sonne and not Der oder Das Sonne. And we have fucking future tenses. The normal future tense is ok. We have it, we use it. But then we have this thing called Futur 2. Ich werde gegessen haben. I will have finished eating in the future (or something like that). Nobody really uses it often. So, interesting to know that finish does'nt have a future tense :) Reminds me of chinese (okay, they don't have real tenses at all, but particles...). I hope you are right and after the beginning it will become easier. I just startet^^ I really like your videos, and normally I don't comment, but please: turn the volume of the backround music a bit down. It's too loud. Or maybe I just have sensitive ears.
Deutsch ist nicht schwer. Es ist einfach. Am Anfang ist es schwer. Besonders wenn es die Zweitsprache des Eines ist. Deutsch ist systematisch und das ist ein gutes Ding. Viele Sprechen sind nicht so. Wenn man die Ordnung versteht alles ist sehr einfach. Deutsch ist meine Zweitsprache und Englisch ist meine Muttersprache. Ich freute mich an, hatte ich Deutsch in der Universität und in Deutschland studiert, weil ich jede Sprechen studieren kann. 😊 Viele Grüße aus Amerika. 😊
"Nobody can tell why it is Die Sonne and not Der oder Das Sonne." - well, at least this is pretty logical. The Sun is warm and generally attractive / a positive thing; hence it's female :)
@@mostlyfinnishlifeeventsand5112 So it must be "Der Gefriertruhe" and not "Die Gefriertruhe", because it is just cold in there xD Also doesn't work for "die Wunde", "Die Korruption", "Die Krankheit" etc^^ When it works for you with the example sun, then it's a good way to learn. But doesn't work for everything^^
Der Sprung (Ausnahme,Nomen mit "ung" normalerweise haben die als Artikel aber keine Regel dabei, zbs die Handlung,der Anspruch, der Balkon ,das Geduld,,,,,das ist zu verwirrend 😁
Wow! The language seems very, very logical. It kinda expresses the way Finns think - like the absence of future tense indicates to me that Finnish people are really productive, they do what they do, like in the moment, maybe that's why there's no future tense (empty promises :D) IDK. Am I reading too much into it? Finnish people, comment on that one :)
6 ways how Finnish is HARD: 1. a super confusing partitive case you'll never fully understand 2. different verbs require different noun cases and you are always at a loss which case to use 3. cumbersome morphology rules with the added complexity of KPT gradation never fail to drive you mad 4. words unrelated to any other known language looking like random alien gibberish beyond all efforts of memorization 5. a spoken language so vastly different from the written one that it sometimes make you feel as if you've learned nothing 6. forbiddingly expensive textbooks, learning materials very hard to lay your hands on (that is, if you do not live in Europe)
松茸vs松露 Question nr 1: Follow these 4 rules when to use the partitive case: If the object describes an undefined amount ( I drink water, a glass?, a liter ? or a gallon?) = the object takes partitive case. There is a similar rule in french lang. I drink wine = Je bois DU vin = DU partitive construction de + le. Object in a questioning sentence takes part. case. Do I drink water? Juonko vettä? NOT juonko veden accusative case. Object in a negative sentence I do not drink water = Minä en juo vettä. The counted item (from 2 and higher) always takes the partitive singularis case. Three children = Kolme lasta (part. sing) NOT kolme lapset (Defined nominativ plural) Quest. nr 2: You did'nt apply any verb-example only advice I can give you there are not rules to everything. In the long run you have to listen to the lang, and hopefully you can hear what sounds correct/ not correct. For example Before (ahead of) me = Ennen MINUA, but after me = MINUN jälkeen. Not only there is a different case ending but also a different word-sequence. How can you learn this? You can't. You have to wait until your ears tell you what is correct. Your quest nr 3: What is KPT?
@@barbershop2536 The KPT is the consonant gradation. You can search it on Wikipedia. It's really important to change verbs following the conjugation of verbs
@@MinhMinh-in1oe What's illogical about KPT? It's one of the most logical and consistent parts of Finnish. No exceptions, everything can be deducted from the rules.
@@mostlyfinnishlifeeventsand5112 I totally agree with you. If someone wants to learn this language, you should first learn about verb types, the consonant gradation. It will be easier to understand and avoid making mistakes. Onnea!
i've actually pointed out, that finnish's pretty close to russian in terms of word formation. Even "elokuvateatteri" is just like "кинотеатр" in russian(кино-elokuva+teatteri-театр). There are much more such an examples, so that makes it even simplier for russian natives)
Finnish language also resembles Russian in that, both of them love using suffixes instead of using prepositions. In both languages the nouns can get quite twisted by all of the suffixes, but it's usually easy to guess the meaning from the context, once you know the base word. However it gets difficult when you should form that sentence yourself and know how to twist the word correctly and use suffixes.
@@matsopelle Twisting and suffixes can be complex in Russian and the other slavic languages. However, both usually follow consistent rules/logic. One good thing is that twists & suffixes almost always mean the same thing almost all the time. Ex. A suffix that means location in the plural won't suddenly mean direct object in the singular in a random sentence.
Kiitoksia paljon tästä mielenkiintoistä oppitunnissä. Sorry for completely butchering Finnish right there. I was trying to use the elative (sta/stä) case to express gratitude but obviously I didn't do that correctly. I'm at the base of the pyramid! 🙂
In Finnish the vowels are divided into three groups. 1. Front vowels: ä, ö, y 2. Neutral vowels: e, i 3. Back vowels: a, o, u If the word contains only front (+neutral) vowels, you would use "Ä". If it contains only back (+neutral) vowels, "A" is the one to choose. If front and back vowels are mixed up in the same word (loan words), you would use "Ä". In compound words, you would usually adjust the ending to the last word. The rule is called "vowel harmony" Note: I'm just a learner myself. Feel free to correct me or add missing information.
As a native English speaker and bilingual (Spanish) I am finding Finnish words fairly easy to pronounce. I am just a beginner but I am having lots of funn with this language because its like nothing I have ever come across. I have two Finnish friends and though they both speak English, I would love to speak to them in their own native language. Thank you for this, Aleksi. It is appreciated!
I LOVE your accent! My Mom was a Canadian of Finnish decent who grew up in, as its called by the natives of that part of Saskatchewan, Canada, "The Finn Colony". When she would have a few as Finns like to do, or if she was talking to someone from The Finn Colony on the phone she would start talking with a Finnish accent 🤣😂
My Uncle told me I had to have a proper Finnish Sauna (the Canadian pronunciation of which ALWAYS drove my Mom NUTS) when I visited The Finn Colony, or its also called The New Finland Woods. He laughed at me when I said I had one before at the recreation center. "Non Finns can't handle a REAL Sauna". He was right, it was like nothing I had ever experienced before. I only wish I had been a part of the memories they were sharing about when the whole family would do it on Sunday. I was there in the summer, so I asked him if he rolled in the snow after a Sauna in the winter. He winked at me. He also taught me to call him, "Edvi Seta" probably spelled wrong. Although I read somewhere in a book on Finnish magick that Finn was, although one of the oldest languages, spoken since the Ice Age. One of the last written. Therefore, it is usually spelled as it sounds. My information could be wrong. This book also said the English thought it was bad luck to kill a Finn as we could control the wind lol.
I'm Russian learning Finnish and the only thing bothering me is getting the completely new vocabulary. Everything besides that is very easy, logical and consistent.
Thank you for all your helpful contents! is there any platform or place that students can buy simple second hand furnitures? and what is the most popular online shop like Amazon in Finland? :)
I have been learning Finnish for 4 months. I was wondering, maybe I will get depressed with this language.😅 Thanks so much for the video. It makes me more motivated 😊
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Minä rakastan suomen kielen :) I started to learn this language because finnish sounds like poetry, so wonderful, hard but melodic 😍 I can speak or write a few sentences and count to 1000, change the verb 'to be' but... I am terrified because I must also change verbs, adjectives, numerals, pronouns... OMG xD
One of the reasons Finnish is difficult to learn for many is the distance from all Indo-European languages. So much is different in the way the language is constructed.
All I hear when people say things like this: Oh no! It's different!! Now we must police languages like we do one another!!! How dare "not-English" exist!!! Waaaahhhhh, Americans are terrible language learners, and I want to normalize that!!!!
Not that distant, the word order is the same as English. English is as different to Polish as Finnish is to Hungarian, and the Latin languages are quite different to Germanic ones. The Victorian classification needs to be re-examined and revised as archaeology and DNA can show how people migrated around the world after the ice Age. There probably was migration from China and Japan over the north of Siberia into the region of Finland too.
2:17 he said it as leisure, which rhymes with ledger, which is the British pronunciation. Here in America its leisure but the first syllable (lei) rhymes with the word sea. If we have to use Finnish pronunciation guides: 🇺🇸 liishör (approximate) 🇬🇧 läshör (approximate)
You forgot to mention nonin, the most iseful word of them all. As a Norwegian who don’t speak much Finnish but have aquiered a Finish family. Nonin is extreemly useful 😉 at least to know it is a word that is used all the time, and you only have to listen to the tone of the spoken word to know if it is a greeting, acseptance, impatience, surprise ….. and the list goes on.
As a french speaker myself, i almost killed myself learning all of the french verbal conjugation( in french "conjugaison des verbes"). Later, i decided to not give a flying f888 anymore. Aleksi, have you ever tried to learn french? I can say this. French president(Mr. Chirac) said Finnish cuisine is lame but Finns at least don't have to suffer learning all these hellish verbal conjugation.
Loistava työ, Aleksi! Aika jännä että ihan sattumalta mä tein samanlaisen videon melkein samanaikaisesti :D:D:D Hauska nähdä, kuinka suurin osa aiheista on kyllä samaa, mutta jotkut onkin erilaisia. Jos sulla on aikaa, nii tule vaan kuuntelemaan ulkomaalaisen näkökulmaa :)
I agree on the part that you Finnish pronounce as what’s it written which is good but the pronunciation itself of other vowels are not easy at all 😅 for example ö ä y and many words you combine these together OMG. Many of my classmates still can’t pronounce ö y u properly! Yes the grammar is very tough one but maybe you’re right the more I learn the more I feel a less difficult because I kinda get the logic I guess but still it’s very hard to get to that point. Good thing Finish doesn’t have gender! Thank you otherwise it’s…. I don’t know how to imagine haha. Partitiivi, plural partitiivi all these are already tough but as I said maybe the more we learn we will get the idea and concept. Thank you for your video.
But Grammar are so tricky and I am a experienced level student now but I can't speak very well.How should I do?How to improve to be fluent in Finnish. Pleace give me an advice.
Itse asiassa se voi olla kumpi vain. Suomessa ei selkeästi ilmaista kestomuotoa (tällä hetkellä tapahtuvaa) samalla tavalla kuin englannissa. Siksi "Syön kalaa." voi olla "I eat fish." tai "I am eating fish."
Im mexican american and ive never heaed finnish but seem to pick up on it whenever i listen to metal and naturally remember much if the words even rho i dont know whst they mean i love and am very attracted to Finland for sme reason. I would love to visit and learn it some day start a Finnish family and learn Finnish sorcery 🙏
I can understand the written word but listening to a Finnish speaker I have no idea what they're saying. That transition from written to spoken is so hard.
Actually in that case it's about the transition from spoken to written. This is difficult in any language at the beginning because your ears & brain is not used nor trained to comprehend the language . Just keep practicing.
And TBH Finnish cases are so regular that they're barely even cases. Russian has cases for both nouns and adjectives, AND they differ between nouns and adjectives, AND they're conjugated for 3 different genders, AND they're conjugated for number, AND they have many different conjugations on top of everything else.
In Slovak it is similar: we have 3 genders of nouns, each gender with 4 types of conjugation, 7 cases for singular and 7 for plural. Specific cases pair with specific verbs. And off course, the exceptions. Two types of verbs for any action - perfect and imperfect. We conjugate nouns, adjectives, pronouns and numbers and decline verbs, off course. All perfectly intuitive for us but I cannot imagine anyone ever learning that.
But all those endings mean the same thing almost all the time. A student won't find -ax suddenly meaning feminine, singular, accusative. Know what I mean. Oh, congratulations on achieving native speaker fluency when discussing grammar in English! 'Conjugation' is used for verbs and 'declension' is used for adjectives and nouns. Native speakers of English (myself included!) make the mistake of switching them all the time, lol. 😂😂 Btw, when you say 'number' in English, most people think just singular and plural. They get very, very confused when they learn that there's a separate dual for 2,3,& 4, lol.
@@peterk.6093 But the good thing is that all those endings have the same meaning almost all the time. They don't change randomly. But I agree it's difficult for native English speakers with no prior exposure. I think it's more the underlying logic that makes the Slavic languages so difficult. I am sooooooooo happy the older people in my family spoke to me in Polish from birth. I can't imagine learning it all as an adult. But have you studied German? German has just 4 cases as well as three genders plus plural. Simple, right? NO! Why? For all the adjectives & nouns with all those cases & numbers and all the verb endings Slowak has like 50 different suffixes, right? From what little I know it's like Polish. Please correct me if I'm wrong. Anyway, how many individual suffixes does German have to cover *ALL* of that? SIX! No ending, -e, -er, -es, -en, -em. That's it. There're just 6 separate suffixes to cover ALL the stuff you mentioned about Slovak. Honestly, I don't see the point of German endings as they so rarely tell you anything😂. Oh, gender in German is completely random. When you look at any noun, here's no way to know its gender. You just have to memorize it.
@@ak5659 Actually like in German "Der", which can mean several things in various genders, also some endings can mean several things in Slovak. I never anallysed this systematically, but I think that only some masculine personal endings are entirely unique - so making an error in them clearly indicates someone with deep level of confusion. (In Slovakia, it would typically be a native Hungarian speaker, as in Hungarian there is just one grammatical gender and quite a lot of them learn Slovak as a second language.) Thanks for your appreciation. Off course I made this mistake again. 🙂 Yeas, I can imagine how difficult it may be for some people to realize that the numbers are in fact a separate grammatical category of words with plenty of rules, depending on what you are counting.
@@ak5659 I agree, I met some adult English and French speakers at my Polish class, and it was a real torture for them to understand it. The only one who did better, spoke already German, so he said that the German language logic did help him a lot. Actually, the number of suffixes is a bit lower, as some of them repeat. Typically, as in Polish, the most similarities are between Nominative-Accusative and Genitive-Accusative. I did some German, but the whole grammar is still before me to conquer. I understand it to some degree and manage basic situations intuitively. It is a question, whether it is better to have more endings, specific for every situation, or less of them, which may mean various things with different words. I think the second option is better for poetry, for finding similar sounding words by putting them in good grammatical category. For me, gender is random in almost any language. If you take just genders for cat and dog in European languages, it is completely random.
Moi Aleksi, I like your videos and I'm a Finnish language lover. I think Finnish is a challenging language to learn but there also are some parts of Finnish grammar which are quite easy to understand. But I struggle with the partitive case!! I can't understand it completely (or maybe I don't understand it at all). Do you know a page or a video that explains it in English? (of course it's a question for everyone) Thanks in advance. It would be helpful to me because I need to know how to make plural form in a right way
Agree, Finnish is a challenging lang. despite those comments it,s 'easy'. The difficulty lies in the fact that you can't compare it to any other lang. unless you are familiar to Estonian, which I doubt you are. Back to your quest. about partitive case. Start with a sentence consisting of a subject, object and a predicate. If the object describes an undefined amount of something = the object takes partitive case. Example I drink beer. (Beer is olut in Finnish.) = juon olutTA = partitive case. If the object describes a counted item = I drink two beers = Juon kaksi olutTA. = part. sing If the object describes a question. Do I drink a beer? = Juonko olutTA? The suffix -ko after the verb marks a question. If the object is a negative clause. I do not drink beer. = En juo olutTA. Remark that the negative word Ei is conjugated for every person. Finally if the object describes a defined amount it takes accusative case. I drink the beer you bought me. Now the object is defined i.e the glass or bottle you bought. Juon oluEN (accusative) jonka ostit (you bought) minulle (to me) HTH Barber
It's funny that you forgot the word "the" in the video's title, and that is also an example of easier Finnish grammar. Se on hauska, että videon otsikossa unohdit sanan "the", ja tämä on myös esimerkki helpommasta suomen kieliopista.
Concerning future in Finnish, it is customary to say that Finnish has no future tense. Still we have "tulee tekemään" which means "will do". This is similar to Swedish "kommer att göra". I first thought this was borrowed from Swedish, but then some linguist told it was already present in some old dialect. Another future expression for "will do" is "on tekevä", which is hardly ever used in spoken language. There is also a form "oli tekevä" which means future with respect to some moment in the past. There is a book written by Paavo Rintala using extensively this form. A main thing to notice is that different languages may use different tenses in the same situations. For instance "Menin eilen töihin" would be in German "Ich bin gestern zur Arbeit gegangen" rather than "Ich ging gestern zur Arbeit". Finnish does not use future tense, when it is otherwise obvious that the verb refers to future. Future can be used to put extra emphasis to a sentence. For instance "You will hear of me again" would be "Kuulet vielä minusta" but if you say "Tulet vielä kuulemaan minusta" it sounds like a threat.
Nice video👍I am learning finnish. But i find it a little bit difficult that "aa" or "ää , sometimes is pronounced different . In a song I heard , : päivät , päällämme ei . It's not a real big A sound, in this song. But it's true , it's mostly pronounced , like you Writer it . That helps alot. But I think I (wil ) understand it , in a while🤣👍. I keep doing my lessons .
I can say pasta and candle in Finnish. Pasta and candle. Actually, at this point, my reading skills have outpaced my speaking skills. All is not lost! It's just a matter of time and practice.
Every language uses punctuation marks, but of course in Finnish there are some differences. For example they always put a comma "," before secondary clauses (interogative clauses, relative clauses, object clauses etc): Minä tiedän, että Aleksi on valmis = I know that Aleksi is ready. So basically a comma everytime before että, jos, miksi etc. Finns, please correct me if I'm wrong.
No present tense! *MINDBLOWN* I only speak English & German, tried Dutch but my mouth couldn't make the sounds happe , so i am starting Finnish.... as for compound words - i look forward to the Finnish versions, cause German is great at them, i've always loved Schwartzwälderkirschtorte both as a word & as a cake. Kiitos & hei from Australia
I already like this channel and truth Finnish is not that hard I have many friend that are foreigners, and they learned Finnish in *1* year and all of it but its because they didn't give up but they didnt do that alone as I'm Finnish I help them as I could.
Ich kann mir gut vorstellen, dass Deutsch am Anfang auch sehr schwer ist, in der Mitte fast schon einfach und dann nochmal so richtig schwer wird. Naja, es ist auch meine Muttersprache, also kann ich es nicht so wirklich nachvollziehen.
So hungarian is easy too. Idk why people say it's hard 4 years old can speak it really well. 🤷♂️😂 the i will eat fish in hungarian is simple too: halat eszek vs holnap halat eszek or we rather say something like: holnap halat fogok enni. 😆
Finnish is not easy. Specially taking into account that formal language is significantly different from spoken/modern language as written and spoken daily.
Very easy to learn Finnish language just go to krjala Daddy I near the Russian border the people there are talking non-stop sooner or later you'll take it up I don't go to the middle of Finland because over there they don't talk at all
If you.ve studied LATIN then the Finnish grammar is easy. Did you know that in Finland Yle (if I remember right) broadcasts news in latin on teletext!!!!!
anyone who thinks that the Finnish language is difficult, never tried to learn Russian and Hungarian, i'm saying it, but i don't know the English very good
Whassup Finntastics! Is Finnish really that hard? Let me know in the comments! Also don't forget to sign up & get the bonus for Italki: go.italki.com/aleksihimself
"Finnish is easy" -Aleksi, Finnish man
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Italian is fucking hard- Elia, italian man
@@suomalainenyomo are you Italian?
@@vi4670 yes
@@suomalainenyomo me too, and yeah, Italian is fucking hard 😂
I just found a Finn here in Los Angeles! I learned the greetings and intros, so she was blown away. I decided to learn the language, soley based off the fact that I love Finnish punk bands. I think there should be a Finnish learning game between a native and non-native speaker, where you have to take a shot everytime you fumble on a word🤣
Sounds like you invented a great drinking game!
There Should Be More People - at California to learn another Language ! Americans Are missing The Point of learning European languages ? Some at LA may speak Spanish - Thanks to that They speak Spanish at Mexico !
Same reason I wanted to learn finnish lol
I just want to learn it cause I made a new friend online that's Finnish
@@holoholopainen1627That's why I was said as I have online friends who speaks theie native languages and english. Then once I wanted to learn Finnish it just reminded me again how in the US its not really mandatory and if it was should be taught early on in schools
My grandmother kept telling me how much easier FInnish was than English and she spoke it all the time. Only problem, I picked up nothing. This frustrated her too.
Interesting. Thanks for sharing this.
Many People never learn any other Language - If They see NO purpose for learning ! In Finland We All learn Swedish and English - at School ! English used to Be The 3rd Language - but many has skipped Swedish - to speak English BETTER !
The thing I like about Finnish is that it's a very logical, straightforward language. English is a mess because it's made up of half the languages of Europe and any Latin based language isn't logical.
Latin based languages are quite logical indeed. But I agree, they're not on the same level as Finnish
Actually English is very technically.
@@LittleImpaler very technically what?
excuse me, latin languages are pretty logical, english is the weird one
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1. I know very well the history of the language I'm using to write
2. yup, it's germanic, so many people know that fact at this point
3. Nothing of what you said refutes the notion that english is less logical than spanish for example
4. I honestly wrote that comment more as a joke, I like english, I learned it because of it. My native language is spanish so I think I have a good experience to back up what I said. Latin languages (maybe french not so much) are more logical than english, doesn't make them better or worse, although if english was more logical it would be easier to learn and maybe even more widespread
I believe finnish is quite easy, even though I'm Greek and still a beginner
I am a Greek too (=είμαι επίσης Έλληνας). Good luck with the Finnish. Do verbs and nouns have many suffixes like the greek language?
Verbs are conjugated in persons and tenses. Nouns do have different suffixes depending on the case (there are around 15).
I am also greek, I am thinking of learning Finish because I like the country. Is it hard for a fluent English and Greek speaker?
@@jasonlk9472 There are many more suffixes, and not only by flectation.
Wait until you have to start bending words. Example- koira, koiran, koiraa, koiraan, koirasta, koiralta, koiralle, koiranne, koiramme, koirasi, koiraltasi, koiraltasi, koirallesi. And many MANY others
Agree that Finnish is more phoenetic. Agree that accent on the first syllable is a good idea, also Finnish. The Finns are very logical people. Agree that you have to be very clever to learn Finnish because of the complicated structure.Agree that Finnish not having genders makes more sense for lots of reasons; words having genders is beyond ridiculous.Agree that it not having future tense is advantage Finnish.Great lesson Aleksi,I would add one additional point; as an American, I love the sound of the Finnish language even though I cannot understand it. It has a wonderful sound to it. Terveisen,Jazzbeau
Thanks for the comment jazzbeau507!
As a Spanish speaker I have absolutely no problem pronouncing the sharp R letter like when you say Finnish words such as perkele, rakastanut, etc. Finnish is the 4th language I’d love to be good at! Kiitos
Yep for you guys it will be easy!
That is very encouraging amigo! Thanks a lot 👍🏻👍🏻
Daniel Reyes im native finnish speaker and i cant say R
@@kaksidaksi3455 😭Bruh.
That also happens in Spanish. I had several friends during my entire school life (even in high school) who couldn't roll the Rs properly, and they were native speakers. But the bullying they received for "not knowing how to speak" was brutal.
@@NyrVindr bruh that comment is 3years old. But i still cant pronounce my R's
My motivation boosted. Thank you 😌
Great!
I liked the part about the pyramid! I'm at the bottom of the pyramid and it is hard, but it's encouraging to know that gets easier ❤️🇫🇮
Keep up the good work!
Every language has their own complexities and simplicities. If Finnish is your second language it will be hard, but if it's your ten-billionth language it's easy.
Most likely because at that level you've learned how to learn languages effectively.
They say the first 20 languages are the most difficult ones.
as a native english speaker, finnish basics is the easiest of all other languages i’ve tried. when you get more in-depth it gets more complex and harder but learning the basics was much much easier than when i tried to learn french, german, and other languages.
Which languages did you try ?
It is not for nothing that it is said that we are the most American people , after the Americans. Yes, you can manage with us because we have about 15 years old who know at least two foreign languages and all know English.
Terve! I'm from Bangladesh and I think Finnish is a pretty easy language! Finland is also a beautiful country.
Love from Bangladesh 🇧🇩🇫🇮
Write it in finish
Hello Aleksi ,Thank you so much for making this great video ! I am going to learn Finnish in Tampere University soon ,and your video gave me lot more confidence ! As a native Chinese speaker ,I found Chinese grammar is quite similar to Finnish, when it comes to putting words together to make new words, as well simple time tense grammar ,and no gendered words . That is interesting ! :D
Thanks for the comment Belinda Lian!
How Have You Been ? Have You learned any suomi - sofar ? Listen to a Song called OLEN SUOMALAINEN by KARI TAPIO - and If You know what They Are singing ? Never before Suomen oppiminen ollut näin helppoa !
Kiitos for this video :)
I am a german. And I am also a teacher for my language. I know how hard it is for non native speakers to learn our language, especially the aritcles, as you said. For everybody who doesn't know this: The articles are random! Nobody can tell why it is Die Sonne and not Der oder Das Sonne.
And we have fucking future tenses. The normal future tense is ok. We have it, we use it. But then we have this thing called Futur 2. Ich werde gegessen haben. I will have finished eating in the future (or something like that). Nobody really uses it often.
So, interesting to know that finish does'nt have a future tense :) Reminds me of chinese (okay, they don't have real tenses at all, but particles...).
I hope you are right and after the beginning it will become easier. I just startet^^
I really like your videos, and normally I don't comment, but please: turn the volume of the backround music a bit down. It's too loud. Or maybe I just have sensitive ears.
Deutsch ist nicht schwer. Es ist einfach. Am Anfang ist es schwer. Besonders wenn es die Zweitsprache des Eines ist. Deutsch ist systematisch und das ist ein gutes Ding. Viele Sprechen sind nicht so. Wenn man die Ordnung versteht alles ist sehr einfach.
Deutsch ist meine Zweitsprache und Englisch ist meine Muttersprache. Ich freute mich an, hatte ich Deutsch in der Universität und in Deutschland studiert, weil ich jede Sprechen studieren kann. 😊
Viele Grüße aus Amerika. 😊
"Nobody can tell why it is Die Sonne and not Der oder Das Sonne." - well, at least this is pretty logical. The Sun is warm and generally attractive / a positive thing; hence it's female :)
@@mostlyfinnishlifeeventsand5112 So it must be "Der Gefriertruhe" and not "Die Gefriertruhe", because it is just cold in there xD Also doesn't work for "die Wunde", "Die Korruption", "Die Krankheit" etc^^
When it works for you with the example sun, then it's a good way to learn. But doesn't work for everything^^
And the passive Form im Futur Zwei :werden+Partizip 2+worden+ sein :die Nudeln werden gegessen worden sein,!!!! mamma mia
Der Sprung (Ausnahme,Nomen mit "ung" normalerweise haben die als Artikel aber keine Regel dabei, zbs die Handlung,der Anspruch, der Balkon ,das Geduld,,,,,das ist zu verwirrend 😁
Wow! The language seems very, very logical. It kinda expresses the way Finns think - like the absence of future tense indicates to me that Finnish people are really productive, they do what they do, like in the moment, maybe that's why there's no future tense (empty promises :D) IDK. Am I reading too much into it?
Finnish people, comment on that one :)
Nice analysis! Never thought about it that way.
6 ways how Finnish is HARD:
1. a super confusing partitive case you'll never fully understand
2. different verbs require different noun cases and you are always at a loss which case to use
3. cumbersome morphology rules with the added complexity of KPT gradation never fail to drive you mad
4. words unrelated to any other known language looking like random alien gibberish beyond all efforts of memorization
5. a spoken language so vastly different from the written one that it sometimes make you feel as if you've learned nothing
6. forbiddingly expensive textbooks, learning materials very hard to lay your hands on (that is, if you do not live in Europe)
松茸vs松露 Question nr 1: Follow these 4 rules when to use the partitive case:
If the object describes an undefined amount ( I drink water, a glass?, a liter ? or a gallon?) = the object takes partitive case.
There is a similar rule in french lang. I drink wine = Je bois DU vin = DU partitive construction de + le.
Object in a questioning sentence takes part. case. Do I drink water? Juonko vettä? NOT juonko veden accusative case.
Object in a negative sentence I do not drink water = Minä en juo vettä.
The counted item (from 2 and higher) always takes the partitive singularis case. Three children = Kolme lasta (part. sing) NOT kolme lapset
(Defined nominativ plural)
Quest. nr 2: You did'nt apply any verb-example only advice I can give you there are not rules to everything.
In the long run you have to listen to the lang, and hopefully you can hear what sounds correct/ not correct.
For example Before (ahead of) me = Ennen MINUA, but after me = MINUN jälkeen. Not only there is a different
case ending but also a different word-sequence. How can you learn this? You can't. You have to wait until your
ears tell you what is correct.
Your quest nr 3: What is KPT?
@@barbershop2536 The KPT is the consonant gradation. You can search it on Wikipedia. It's really important to change verbs following the conjugation of verbs
@@MinhMinh-in1oe What's illogical about KPT? It's one of the most logical and consistent parts of Finnish. No exceptions, everything can be deducted from the rules.
@@mostlyfinnishlifeeventsand5112 I totally agree with you. If someone wants to learn this language, you should first learn about verb types, the consonant gradation. It will be easier to understand and avoid making mistakes. Onnea!
just put your heart on it and you’ll get it ,if you’re really into learning then you will .
i've actually pointed out, that finnish's pretty close to russian in terms of word formation. Even "elokuvateatteri" is just like "кинотеатр" in russian(кино-elokuva+teatteri-театр). There are much more such an examples, so that makes it even simplier for russian natives)
Good stuff! 😃🙌
Finnish language also resembles Russian in that, both of them love using suffixes instead of using prepositions. In both languages the nouns can get quite twisted by all of the suffixes, but it's usually easy to guess the meaning from the context, once you know the base word. However it gets difficult when you should form that sentence yourself and know how to twist the word correctly and use suffixes.
@@matsopelle Twisting and suffixes can be complex in Russian and the other slavic languages. However, both usually follow consistent rules/logic. One good thing is that twists & suffixes almost always mean the same thing almost all the time. Ex. A suffix that means location in the plural won't suddenly mean direct object in the singular in a random sentence.
Kiitoksia paljon tästä mielenkiintoistä oppitunnissä. Sorry for completely butchering Finnish right there. I was trying to use the elative (sta/stä) case to express gratitude but obviously I didn't do that correctly. I'm at the base of the pyramid! 🙂
I have a confusion between A and Ä
"Ä" is pronounced like the "a" in "Cat", "Bat", and "Matt". The Finnish "A" is pronounced like the British way of the "A" in "father".
What the thing you are confused about? Is it the pronunciation or when you should be using it (ex. case endings)?
@@AleksiHimself when it should be used? I guess (like in Spanish my mother tongue) there is a grammar rule.
In Finnish the vowels are divided into three groups.
1. Front vowels: ä, ö, y
2. Neutral vowels: e, i
3. Back vowels: a, o, u
If the word contains only front (+neutral) vowels, you would use "Ä".
If it contains only back (+neutral) vowels, "A" is the one to choose.
If front and back vowels are mixed up in the same word (loan words), you would use "Ä".
In compound words, you would usually adjust the ending to the last word.
The rule is called "vowel harmony"
Note: I'm just a learner myself. Feel free to correct me or add missing information.
@@louisamarie1697 You missed one: If a word only contains neutral vowels, you use ä,ö,y
As a native English speaker and bilingual (Spanish) I am finding Finnish words fairly easy to pronounce. I am just a beginner but I am having lots of funn with this language because its like nothing I have ever come across. I have two Finnish friends and though they both speak English, I would love to speak to them in their own native language. Thank you for this, Aleksi. It is appreciated!
I LOVE your accent! My Mom was a Canadian of Finnish decent who grew up in, as its called by the natives of that part of Saskatchewan, Canada, "The Finn Colony". When she would have a few as Finns like to do, or if she was talking to someone from The Finn Colony on the phone she would start talking with a Finnish accent 🤣😂
Thanks Shawna!
My Uncle told me I had to have a proper Finnish Sauna (the Canadian pronunciation of which ALWAYS drove my Mom NUTS) when I visited The Finn Colony, or its also called The New Finland Woods. He laughed at me when I said I had one before at the recreation center. "Non Finns can't handle a REAL Sauna". He was right, it was like nothing I had ever experienced before. I only wish I had been a part of the memories they were sharing about when the whole family would do it on Sunday. I was there in the summer, so I asked him if he rolled in the snow after a Sauna in the winter. He winked at me. He also taught me to call him, "Edvi Seta" probably spelled wrong. Although I read somewhere in a book on Finnish magick that Finn was, although one of the oldest languages, spoken since the Ice Age. One of the last written. Therefore, it is usually spelled as it sounds. My information could be wrong. This book also said the English thought it was bad luck to kill a Finn as we could control the wind lol.
Kiitos videosta. Kuuntelen sua kun harjoittelen suomea. Toivon että kaikki sulla hyvä on. Kiitos auttamasta mua Suomen kielen kanssa🙂
Kiitos sulle!
Kiitos paljon Aleksi!!
Kiitti kommentista Janco van der Westhuizen!
Kiitos videosta!
Kiitti kommentista Irina T!
These points make it look easy ! Just need to learn the suffixes and their meaning . Kiitos Aleksi ! 😊
Yep. Once you learn and practice them enough , you can use the same knowledge/skill later on.
If you know the main words…
An example: "tuli" is "fire". And "tuuli" is? More fire? a longer fire? No, it means "wind". :-D
@@grauwolf1604 Yes, tuli is fire but means also he/she came. Derived from infinitive-mode
'tulla' to come.
I'm Russian learning Finnish and the only thing bothering me is getting the completely new vocabulary.
Everything besides that is very easy, logical and consistent.
Just take your time and keep learning. It will start making sense little by little.
Good to know. I am also Slavic speaker and it seems to me that with logical grammar it should be doable.
Another Slavic lang speaker here. Good to know that Finnish grammar wouldn't be overwhelming.
Thank you for all your helpful contents! is there any platform or place that students can buy simple second hand furnitures? and what is the most popular online shop like Amazon in Finland? :)
For second-hand stuff: FB marketplace, Tori.fi, Kierrätyskeskus
Online shop: Verkkokauppa.com
@@AleksiHimself I deeply appreciate your help, Thank you!
Do you have a video about what is required to become a citizen of Finland?
Not yet but it's on my list.
I would love to see a video on this topic
@@AleksiHimself about now?
Here you go ua-cam.com/video/quL5OpuXVxY/v-deo.html
I have been learning Finnish for 4 months. I was wondering, maybe I will get depressed with this language.😅
Thanks so much for the video. It makes me more motivated 😊
Keep up the good work!
It's hard af, but at least it's logical and pretty regular. So that makes it a little less hard.
This is really what I needed to hear to keep me going in this study :) I'm full of hype now, I got this!!!
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Minä rakastan suomen kielen :) I started to learn this language because finnish sounds like poetry, so wonderful, hard but melodic 😍 I can speak or write a few sentences and count to 1000, change the verb 'to be' but... I am terrified because I must also change verbs, adjectives, numerals, pronouns... OMG xD
"suomen kieltä" is correct. :) Yea it seems difficult at first but you need to take it one step at a time.
@@AleksiHimself thanks!😉 Now I 'll know :)
One of the reasons Finnish is difficult to learn for many is the distance from all Indo-European languages. So much is different in the way the language is constructed.
Yep!
All I hear when people say things like this: Oh no! It's different!! Now we must police languages like we do one another!!! How dare "not-English" exist!!! Waaaahhhhh, Americans are terrible language learners, and I want to normalize that!!!!
Not that distant, the word order is the same as English. English is as different to Polish as Finnish is to Hungarian, and the Latin languages are quite different to Germanic ones. The Victorian classification needs to be re-examined and revised as archaeology and DNA can show how people migrated around the world after the ice Age. There probably was migration from China and Japan over the north of Siberia into the region of Finland too.
2:17 he said it as leisure, which rhymes with ledger, which is the British pronunciation. Here in America its leisure but the first syllable (lei) rhymes with the word sea.
If we have to use Finnish pronunciation guides:
🇺🇸 liishör (approximate)
🇬🇧 läshör (approximate)
You forgot to mention nonin, the most iseful word of them all.
As a Norwegian who don’t speak much Finnish but have aquiered a Finish family. Nonin is extreemly useful 😉 at least to know it is a word that is used all the time, and you only have to listen to the tone of the spoken word to know if it is a greeting, acseptance, impatience, surprise ….. and the list goes on.
Good point!
As a french speaker myself, i almost killed myself learning all of the french verbal conjugation( in french "conjugaison des verbes"). Later, i decided to not give a flying f888 anymore. Aleksi, have you ever tried to learn french? I can say this. French president(Mr. Chirac) said Finnish cuisine is lame but Finns at least don't have to suffer learning all these hellish verbal conjugation.
Loistava työ, Aleksi! Aika jännä että ihan sattumalta mä tein samanlaisen videon melkein samanaikaisesti :D:D:D Hauska nähdä, kuinka suurin osa aiheista on kyllä samaa, mutta jotkut onkin erilaisia. Jos sulla on aikaa, nii tule vaan kuuntelemaan ulkomaalaisen näkökulmaa :)
Moi ja kiitos kommentista! Käyn tsekkaamassa sun videon. :)
Teacher, how to say FAR FROM HERE and NEAR HERE? Would it be (1) kaukana täältä and (2) lähellä täällä?
Correct
This cleared up so much about the Finnish language. Thank you!
I agree on the part that you Finnish pronounce as what’s it written which is good but the pronunciation itself of other vowels are not easy at all 😅 for example ö ä y and many words you combine these together OMG. Many of my classmates still can’t pronounce ö y u properly! Yes the grammar is very tough one but maybe you’re right the more I learn the more I feel a less difficult because I kinda get the logic I guess but still it’s very hard to get to that point. Good thing Finish doesn’t have gender! Thank you otherwise it’s…. I don’t know how to imagine haha. Partitiivi, plural partitiivi all these are already tough but as I said maybe the more we learn we will get the idea and concept. Thank you for your video.
Thanks Shammy!
Thank you so much!!!😊❤️
Any time!
wow.. so helpful.. thank you so much
I determined to speak fluent Finnish. Kippis !!! Aleksi ❤
You can do it!
How long does it take to learn Finnish? I'm Latvian and I'm studing Finnish🇱🇻🇫🇮❤️
If you're an active learner, I'd say 1-2 years.
@@AleksiHimself Thanks for the reply
5:50 in Dutch we say bioscoop not kino, that’s german I think
But Grammar are so tricky and I am a experienced level student now but I can't speak very well.How should I do?How to improve to be fluent in Finnish. Pleace give me an advice.
Uskon, etta "Syön kalaa" ja "Syön kalaa huomenna" ovat "I am eating fish" ja "I will be eating fish tomorrow", mutta en oo varma.
Itse asiassa se voi olla kumpi vain. Suomessa ei selkeästi ilmaista kestomuotoa (tällä hetkellä tapahtuvaa) samalla tavalla kuin englannissa. Siksi "Syön kalaa." voi olla "I eat fish." tai "I am eating fish."
Im mexican american and ive never heaed finnish but seem to pick up on it whenever i listen to metal and naturally remember much if the words even rho i dont know whst they mean i love and am very attracted to Finland for sme reason. I would love to visit and learn it some day start a Finnish family and learn Finnish sorcery 🙏
Finnish language is not easy,but I can learn,if I work hard to learn,and I love this language,
Yes it's completely learnable!
I have a man crush on Finland
Good stuff!
Kiitos, Aleksi, great teacher, great video! 👍🏻😊
Thanks for the comment bebina!
I can understand the written word but listening to a Finnish speaker I have no idea what they're saying. That transition from written to spoken is so hard.
Actually in that case it's about the transition from spoken to written. This is difficult in any language at the beginning because your ears & brain is not used nor trained to comprehend the language . Just keep practicing.
And TBH Finnish cases are so regular that they're barely even cases. Russian has cases for both nouns and adjectives, AND they differ between nouns and adjectives, AND they're conjugated for 3 different genders, AND they're conjugated for number, AND they have many different conjugations on top of everything else.
In Slovak it is similar: we have 3 genders of nouns, each gender with 4 types of conjugation, 7 cases for singular and 7 for plural. Specific cases pair with specific verbs. And off course, the exceptions. Two types of verbs for any action - perfect and imperfect. We conjugate nouns, adjectives, pronouns and numbers and decline verbs, off course. All perfectly intuitive for us but I cannot imagine anyone ever learning that.
But all those endings mean the same thing almost all the time. A student won't find -ax suddenly meaning feminine, singular, accusative. Know what I mean.
Oh, congratulations on achieving native speaker fluency when discussing grammar in English! 'Conjugation' is used for verbs and 'declension' is used for adjectives and nouns. Native speakers of English (myself included!) make the mistake of switching them all the time, lol. 😂😂
Btw, when you say 'number' in English, most people think just singular and plural. They get very, very confused when they learn that there's a separate dual for 2,3,& 4, lol.
@@peterk.6093 But the good thing is that all those endings have the same meaning almost all the time. They don't change randomly. But I agree it's difficult for native English speakers with no prior exposure. I think it's more the underlying logic that makes the Slavic languages so difficult. I am sooooooooo happy the older people in my family spoke to me in Polish from birth. I can't imagine learning it all as an adult.
But have you studied German? German has just 4 cases as well as three genders plus plural. Simple, right? NO! Why? For all the adjectives & nouns with all those cases & numbers and all the verb endings Slowak has like 50 different suffixes, right? From what little I know it's like Polish. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Anyway, how many individual suffixes does German have to cover *ALL* of that? SIX! No ending, -e, -er, -es, -en, -em. That's it. There're just 6 separate suffixes to cover ALL the stuff you mentioned about Slovak. Honestly, I don't see the point of German endings as they so rarely tell you anything😂.
Oh, gender in German is completely random. When you look at any noun, here's no way to know its gender. You just have to memorize it.
@@ak5659 Actually like in German "Der", which can mean several things in various genders, also some endings can mean several things in Slovak. I never anallysed this systematically, but I think that only some masculine personal endings are entirely unique - so making an error in them clearly indicates someone with deep level of confusion. (In Slovakia, it would typically be a native Hungarian speaker, as in Hungarian there is just one grammatical gender and quite a lot of them learn Slovak as a second language.)
Thanks for your appreciation. Off course I made this mistake again. 🙂
Yeas, I can imagine how difficult it may be for some people to realize that the numbers are in fact a separate grammatical category of words with plenty of rules, depending on what you are counting.
@@ak5659 I agree, I met some adult English and French speakers at my Polish class, and it was a real torture for them to understand it. The only one who did better, spoke already German, so he said that the German language logic did help him a lot.
Actually, the number of suffixes is a bit lower, as some of them repeat. Typically, as in Polish, the most similarities are between Nominative-Accusative and Genitive-Accusative.
I did some German, but the whole grammar is still before me to conquer. I understand it to some degree and manage basic situations intuitively.
It is a question, whether it is better to have more endings, specific for every situation, or less of them, which may mean various things with different words. I think the second option is better for poetry, for finding similar sounding words by putting them in good grammatical category.
For me, gender is random in almost any language. If you take just genders for cat and dog in European languages, it is completely random.
Moi Aleksi, I like your videos and I'm a Finnish language lover.
I think Finnish is a challenging language to learn but there also are some parts of Finnish grammar which are quite easy to understand.
But I struggle with the partitive case!! I can't understand it completely (or maybe I don't understand it at all).
Do you know a page or a video that explains it in English? (of course it's a question for everyone)
Thanks in advance. It would be helpful to me because I need to know how to make plural form in a right way
Agree, Finnish is a challenging lang. despite those comments it,s 'easy'. The difficulty
lies in the fact that you can't compare it to any other lang. unless you are familiar to Estonian, which I doubt you are. Back to your quest. about partitive case.
Start with a sentence consisting of a subject, object and a predicate.
If the object describes an undefined amount of something = the object takes partitive case. Example I drink beer. (Beer is olut in Finnish.) = juon olutTA = partitive case.
If the object describes a counted item = I drink two beers = Juon kaksi olutTA. = part. sing
If the object describes a question. Do I drink a beer? = Juonko olutTA? The suffix -ko after
the verb marks a question.
If the object is a negative clause. I do not drink beer. = En juo olutTA.
Remark that the negative word Ei is conjugated for every person.
Finally if the object describes a defined amount it takes accusative case.
I drink the beer you bought me. Now the object is defined i.e the glass or bottle you bought. Juon oluEN (accusative) jonka ostit (you bought) minulle (to me)
HTH Barber
It's funny that you forgot the word "the" in the video's title, and that is also an example of easier Finnish grammar. Se on hauska, että videon otsikossa unohdit sanan "the", ja tämä on myös esimerkki helpommasta suomen kieliopista.
Concerning future in Finnish, it is customary to say that Finnish has no future tense. Still we have "tulee tekemään" which means "will do". This is similar to Swedish "kommer att göra". I first thought this was borrowed from Swedish, but then some linguist told it was already present in some old dialect.
Another future expression for "will do" is "on tekevä", which is hardly ever used in spoken language. There is also a form "oli tekevä" which means future with respect to some moment in the past. There is a book written by Paavo Rintala using extensively this form.
A main thing to notice is that different languages may use different tenses in the same situations. For instance "Menin eilen töihin" would be in German "Ich bin gestern zur Arbeit gegangen" rather than "Ich ging gestern zur Arbeit". Finnish does not use future tense, when it is otherwise obvious that the verb refers to future. Future can be used to put extra emphasis to a sentence. For instance "You will hear of me again" would be "Kuulet vielä minusta" but if you say "Tulet vielä kuulemaan minusta" it sounds like a threat.
Nice video👍I am learning finnish. But i find it a little bit difficult that "aa" or "ää , sometimes is pronounced different . In a song I heard , : päivät , päällämme ei . It's not a real big A sound, in this song.
But it's true , it's mostly pronounced , like you Writer it . That helps alot.
But I think I (wil ) understand it , in a while🤣👍. I keep doing my lessons .
Ä is a different vowel (than A) and it has a different sound.
A always makes A sound, and Ä always makes Ä sound! 👍
I can say pasta and candle in Finnish. Pasta and candle. Actually, at this point, my reading skills have outpaced my speaking skills. All is not lost! It's just a matter of time and practice.
Exactly! It's a maraton, not a sprint.
En ole suomalainen ja asu Afrikassa mutta puhun vähän Suomea. Suomi ei ole vaikea kieli.
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Hello Aleksi!
Loved the Finnish language lesson!
I have a question:
Does the Finnish language use punctuation marks?
Thank you!😃
Deborah Carter yes, we do
Every language uses punctuation marks, but of course in Finnish there are some differences. For example they always put a comma "," before secondary clauses (interogative clauses, relative clauses, object clauses etc): Minä tiedän, että Aleksi on valmis = I know that Aleksi is ready. So basically a comma everytime before että, jos, miksi etc. Finns, please correct me if I'm wrong.
Yes like Virva & Loredana explained, we do use them.
@@loredanab4389 A "," in all cases when germans set a ",". :-)
Kerro, että aatoksissain …
No present tense! *MINDBLOWN*
I only speak English & German, tried Dutch but my mouth couldn't make the sounds happe , so i am starting Finnish.... as for compound words - i look forward to the Finnish versions, cause German is great at them, i've always loved Schwartzwälderkirschtorte both as a word & as a cake. Kiitos & hei from Australia
Where English is more used, in Finland or Sweden?
Hard to say. It's used in both.
I already like this channel and truth Finnish is not that hard I have many friend that are foreigners, and they learned Finnish in *1* year and all of it but its because they didn't give up but they didnt do that alone as I'm Finnish I help them as I could.
Great video
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@AleksiHimself you really make a nice promotion of Finland. Would be glad to visit that pretty country soon
Do you pronounce Ä how you would pronounce it in german?
A good illustration of english pronounciation can be found at de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghoti . The german page is funnier than the english one.
tosi hyvää , kiitos 😃
Kiitos Marga!
Finnish is the most difficult language I have ever learnt ! (And I speak 8 languages.)
Wow you're amazing! Finnish is hard but not impossible.
Kiitos
Ole hyvä!
I want to learn Finnish bcs the way its pronounce is quite similar with Indonesian
Good stuff!
Thank God that finnish is a phonetic language as romanian.
Rakastan suomen kieltä💙
Ich kann mir gut vorstellen, dass Deutsch am Anfang auch sehr schwer ist, in der Mitte fast schon einfach und dann nochmal so richtig schwer wird. Naja, es ist auch meine Muttersprache, also kann ich es nicht so wirklich nachvollziehen.
Und wie lange lernst du schon finnisch? xd
Finnish is easy, even children knows it. (As well as chinese kids know chinese, or japanese kids etc, you get the point).
It's not really saying anything to say that a language is easy because a child knows it, they learn much faster and easier than us grown ups.
As I’m used to the sound of Finnish and words when I started learning it wasn’t too hard put I have no idea how to move on from knowing some basics
the intro was basically me at the start after 2-4 weeks after start it makes sence. its hard but not imposible
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Ich kenne nur juusto. Ich guck mal noch ein paar Videos, Aleksi xD
Mach das. :)
Now I want to learn Finnish!!!!!
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The vowels and consonants are the same as Turkish.So,I don't think it would be that difficult for me since both languages have similar grammar.
It is not quite similar, but there are similarities.
3:29 what chords
Krossi can also be 12 * 12 = 144.
Source: fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/krossi
First time for me to hear about that one!
All the days of the week end in "tai" in Finnish but Wednesday.
Yeah, no rule without an exception.
thank you
Welcome!
So hungarian is easy too. Idk why people say it's hard 4 years old can speak it really well. 🤷♂️😂 the i will eat fish in hungarian is simple too: halat eszek vs holnap halat eszek or we rather say something like: holnap halat fogok enni. 😆
Finnish is not easy.
Specially taking into account that formal language is significantly different from spoken/modern language as written and spoken daily.
It's important to learn both!
Yes, each letter has only one pronunciation. Like C in cheddar.
Very easy to learn Finnish language just go to krjala Daddy I near the Russian border the people there are talking non-stop sooner or later you'll take it up I don't go to the middle of Finland because over there they don't talk at all
the strees of the words is the opposite to French which is in the end of the word LOL
What a beatyfull language Finland. Wellcome to NATO. Greetings Jens from Denmark.
Thanks!
I know Turkish. And Turkish is harder. If I know Turkish I can learn Finnish too because Finnish is easier.
The sound for some of your points makes me think of those gambling machines. Lol. I've noticed it before but really noticed it today. 😂
Haha :D
Pronunciation seems pretty easy
It is actually.
If you.ve studied LATIN then the Finnish grammar is easy. Did you know that in Finland Yle (if I remember right) broadcasts news in latin on teletext!!!!!
Suomi on kyl sillee vaikeeta koska kaikki sijamuodot pitää opetella. Ite en edes muista kaikkia xD
Jep mut sit ku ne on opetellu nii homma skulaa!
Ja, du hast Recht! Unsere deutschen Pronomen nerven!
anyone who thinks that the Finnish language is difficult, never tried to learn Russian and Hungarian, i'm saying it, but i don't know the English very good
Whassup Finntastics! Is Finnish really that hard? Let me know in the comments!
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So many languages I want to learn, so little time...
Slow but steady!
T'es oufff ou quoi ?! C'est un bordel sans nom !
Why am i watching this i'm a native speaker lol
Haha