HOW GOOD IS MY FINNISH, REALLY?! Final Language Test 🇫🇮🤞
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F.A.Q.
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• How old are you?
34
• How tall are you? •
6ft 3 (or 192 cm)
• Where do you live? •
Helsinki, Finland
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Canon EOS R (body)
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6:47 No worries, there're very many words to call your grandpa or grandma in Finnish and it's up to the family to decide what words to use for each grandparent.
Yeah and I think he had heard the Sweadish word for wolf which is ”varg” and pronounced somewhat like ”vari” and got those two mixed up!!😄
Oh nvm he figured it out himself and even mentioned it in the video lmao😂
My other grandma liked to be called "mummo" and the other one hated the word so we would call her "isoäiti". In reality we just used their names.
@@companyjoe I had the same.
Our grandmother was called mamma
Good job Dave! Your Finnish has improved so much and your pronunciation is so good! You should be proud of yourself!
WOO YOU DID IT!!!!! :D
11:00 you wrote herkkulista = list of delicacies
you were supposed to write herkullista = delicious
😉
"This chocolate is a list of delicacies." 🤣
@@KoichiFirst8092 assorted chocolates in a box maybe. They do have a list of the different fillings, like in the lid...
CONGRATULATIONS! 🥳
It definitely helps that finnish is written how it's pronounced. As a Finn I remember I first thought that it is weird how in English you pronounce the words differently compared to how you write them😅
English pronunciation is such a pain in the arse to be honest. There's just no logic to it whatsoever 🤣 For example though, cough, bought, and through? Bow and cow? Ok, this last pair was a bad example, as bow will of course rhyme with cow if it means bending as in "take a bow", not the archer's weapon. I'm so happy I started studying English as my first foreign language and just believed that learning languages is supposed to be that hard, as if I'd taken it on after Spanish, Swedish or even Dutch I would have given up 😂
@@janakatri You're correct that Finns rarely speak proper Finnish in everyday situations. That's mainly used in the news and old movies, in some official situations, and often by teachers or professors when teaching.
However, the pronunciation of letters still matches, since different dialects can be written out in a recognisable way. For example the word minä is often replaced by mä, mää, mie etc. We're mostly required to use general Finnish when writing anything official, and every Finn will understand it if you read it aloud, even if we'd otherwise use a different version of the language.
@@janakatri Jep, onhan se haastavaa. Toisaalta murteita ja aksentteja on muissakin kielissä, englanti hyvänä esimerkkinä. Suomessa meille opetetaan lähinnä lontoolaisenglantia, mutta oikeasti jo pelkästään tällä saarella on niin paljon erilaisia murteita omine sanoineen ja sanontoineen että samalta paikkakunnalta olevat tunnistavat toisensa puheesta ihan samoin kuin suomalaisetkin. Amerikanenglanti samoin jakautuu useampiin erilaisiin tyyleihin, texasilainen ei kuulosta samalta kuin New Yorkissa kasvanut, ja sitten vielä Australian ym. aksentit siihen päälle. Ero arjen ja kouluopintojen välillä on haaste siis muissakin kielissä. Ymmärretyksi tulee kyllä, vaikka ei paikalliselta kuulostakaan, mutta joidenkin vahvempien murteiden ymmärtäminen ottaa aikansa.
You are teaching Finnish, my native and I am learning English, your native. I was so suprised how good you are at Finnish.
im genuinely so impressed, im a swedish speaking finn and youre pretty much on my level of finnish now even tho ive been speaking and hearing finnish my entire life!
GOOD JOB DAVE, YOU DID IT!!!🔥
Todella mahtavaa nähdä, että kova suomen kielen opiskelu vihdoin tuottaa hedelmää. Well done bro :)
You've come so far! Concrats! :) It must be hard being british and having a finnish-swedish wife in Finland and trying to learn two new languages!
That wolf mixup was pretty funny ngl :D
Varg på svenska
As a native finnish, i would've gotten the "We do not live in France anymore" wrong, because it's also correct if swap the places with "enää" and "Ranskassa". So i would've answered: "Me emme asu enää Ranskassa"
Or even "Me emme enää asu Ranskassa". We could also just drop the pronoun and make it into "Emme enää asu Ranskassa." Not sure which versions would be accepted, but all are fine.
That was shown as another correct answer. I would have gone with that one, too.
Kyllä minä olen myös suomalainen
It would've been correct either way. Enää Ranskassa feels more natural though. The word order depends on if you want to emphasize anymore or France.
@@TheBloodyOne oon mäki
I would love to see you take a swedish test aswell!
That would actually be really interesting!
@@davecad Det skulle vara roligt! Bra jobbat med detta test, congrats!! Hälsningar från en halvfinska i Sverige 🇸🇪 🇫🇮 🙂
Ei mitää ruottalaasia
@@kaapa7373 Why not?
Ootko muuten suomalainen syntynyt Ruotsissa vai? Puhutko suomea ihan mielenkiinnosta kysyn?🙂
When you typed koira, I was like "don't you do it!" but you tricked me!! Well done with the test, you did really good!
This was so well put together I wish I could have given it two thumps up. Huolellisesti hiottu video oli, oli nautinto katsoa.
You got me with the koira....t! 8:50 Good work Dave, job done surprisingly well honestly
Fun fact, 5:47 in Finnish both "emme asu enää Ranskassa" and "emme asu Ranskassa enää" are perfectly fine! I don't know if Duolingo would agree but at least personally I would prefer the former.
I think you can actually put the "enää" anywhere in that sentence. You can even start with it. Each version would have a slightly different nuance, but they could all be translated to "we don't live in France anymore".
@@JiihaaS Yea, Finnish plays pretty fast and loose with the order of words sometimes. I definitely think it sounds weirder if you put the "enää" in front (although "Me enää emme asu Ranskassa" might be the weirdest and possibly wrong), but I'm not sure if it would be wrong per se. Possible and I _think_ correct word orders would also include the following:
Ranskassa emme me enää asu.
Me Ranskassa asu enää emme.
Emme me asu enää Ranskassa (I think this implies that you're telling someone who mistakenly thinks that you still live in France that you don't anymore).
Finnish is wacky sometimes 😄
P.S. I was always bad in the Finnish class so I can't say for sure that all of my ramblings are accurate. I kind of just intuit things as a native speaker 😅
@@backonlazer791 ah yes, there was "me" in the original sentence too. But I referred to the one in your post, without "me".
@@JiihaaS Yea, I probably should've quoted the whole thing but I was too lazy 😂
@@backonlazer791Kieliopillisesti mikään järjestys noille sanoille ei liene virheellinen. Jotkut järjestykset kuulostavat toki hieman oudoille arkikäyttöön, mutta runollisessa kielessä menisivät aivan hyvin.
Onneksi olkoon! Hyvinhän sinä pärjäsit! Hauska nähdä, että muualla joku on kiinnostunut opiskelemaan suomea. Jatka samaan malliin! T: Outi Suomesta 😊
I'm a fellow brit who just happened to stumble on your channel in my quest to learn finnish and thank you! Its refreshing to see someone also British trying to do the finnish thing. I feel like a prized idiot speaking finnish out loud with so many words being so similar!
YOU DID IT! 🎉 Also my niece learned some english while watching this video with me. So between book releases you can expand childrens english-finnish-swedish teaching to videos too, seemed to do the trick. 🤭 "Kai pelaa kauhupeliä"... 😂
Haha that's wonderful 😊😊
Tervehdys, kaima!
"Vaari" is actually derived from Swedish as well, from the word "far".
The Finnish way to congratulate: NOT BAD!
Heh, herkkulista would be a "delicacy list"!
CONGRATULATIONS ON THE TROPHY!
Thank you Dave for introducing me to Duolingo in one of your earlier videos. I've been using it ever since almost daily, for over two years now! Brushing up languages I studied in school and learning new ones just for fun. :)
Way to go Dave! Years following you and still enjoying myself, keep up the good work!
Love the editing and you tricking us with "not knowing" 😆 Well done! I'm super impressed!
You're so good at finnish!! Hyvä Dave!!
Native Finnish speaker here.
At 5:33, they had the official translation for "We are having fun in Estonia" as "Meillä on hauskaa Virossa", but if it were me, I would probably have translated it as "Me pidämme hauskaa Virossa". It sounds more natural to me, but others may disagree.
"Meillä on hauskaa Virossa" sounds more like a general statement about something that's always true, i.e. "We have fun in Estonia (whenever we go there)" while "Me pidämme hauskaa Virossa" sounds like it's happening right now (I believe you call it present progressive in English), which is more in line with "We are having fun in Estonia."
Just me being pedantic, I would guess they probably had that as an acceptable answer anyway. Congratulations btw, it's been really fun to follow your progress over the years. You've improved a ton. :)
This was more exciting and nail-biting content than I thought it would be when I clicked. Congratulations from Åland, där vi bara pratar svenska
MENNÄÄN DAVE , ONNEA! Your pronunciation is getting much better since I last saw your videos. Youre making excellent progress, keep it up
Noniin. Nyt voi alkaa kirjoittaan kommentteja vain suomeksi. 👍 Hyvä Dave!
I KNEW YOU CAN DO IT! WAY TO GO!
CONGRATS!
Mahtavaa!
Excellent job! You're going to be fluent very soon.
Let's gooooooo Dave!! I'm close to that trophy too!! Hehee i thought it was harder tbh but I'll get there! You're cool ❤️
CONGRATULATIONS DAVE!! YOU HAVE COME SUCH A LONG WAY!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
(hope that’s enough caps for you 😜)
ONNEA!!
i like your videos, you keep so calm trying understand finish language, its so really complicated
Well done, Dave! You’re amazing :D
Duolingo considers "My horse is not an artist but an architect" a vital sentence in Russian so... xD
(It's Моя лошадь не художник, а архитектор btw)
I recall that prompt. :p
Later you get stuff like Всё плохо и лучше не будет which i've probably misremembered and is likely incorrect because i'm doing terribly at it, which the correct statement would certainly be a reflection of how i feel about it heh.
@@Aeduo looks correct to me. Something like "everything's bad and it won't be/get better."
@@joemamium yeah that's what the answer to the prompt is. Kinda a downer one though even for Duolingo.
@@Aeduo Well, for Finnish sentence it wouldn't even be a downer, but just an everyday expression, a common saying, like itku pitkästä ilosta or kel onni on se onnen kätkeköön or joka kuuseen kurkottaa, se katajaan kapsahtaa. So too much fun only ends up in sadness, hide your happiness and don't try anything, because you will fail. Great life advices!
CONGRATULATIONS DAVE!!!🎉🥳🎉
I think not coming across the word friendly in every day life means you are very much embracing the Finnish culture.
WOO DAVE! I’ve been studying Finnish since 2006 and am at your level with zero immersion here in the states, so you are doing great, I hope your Swedish is also good. 🎉
Your pronunciation has improved greatly!
Hyvää työtä Dave!!!
I really appreciate how you show your desire to learn our language. Some English people live in Finland for a long time and don't really want to learn, because, especially in the capital region, you can do well without, when Everyone here understands and speaks (if necessary) English, anyway. You have an authentic way of doing this work and I like, so I'll even tolerate the ads for you.
Wow, am impressed. Good job 👏
Awseomeee !!! I fin(n)ished the Finnish Duolingo course a couple of months ago and I was also pretty disappointed with that trophy animation haha I was expecting at least some kind of a congrats or something but this is quite underwhelming😂 Nevertheless it was fun and I'm proud of myself and you should be too🥳
GO DAVE! I tried doing it the same time as you. I feel like I should be able to get everything correctly, but I got basically the same as you. I speak Swedish and have studied Finnish in school since 2011, but I still suck at it😅😂
Är du finsk med svenska som modersmål?
@@filiposterberg7522 Ja e finlandssvensk, liksom Cat. Skillnaden är att jag int kan finska😅😶
Yuo need to stop studying Suomen kieli and just start using it in your everyday life!
GO DAVE!! Amazing job!! Hyvää työtä!!
WOOHOO GREAT JOB, DAVE!!!! 😄🥳🥳
OMG WHAT A GREAT JOB, I WAS ROOTING FOR YOU THE WHOLE TIME AND I WAS EVEN SCARED AT THE LAST SEGMENT EVEN THOUGH I KNEW YOU WERE RIGHT!! NOW WE CAN GET SOME FULL FINNISH VIDEOS FROM YOU. (MAYBE)
Great job getting the trophy!!
Great progress!
WOOO CONGRATS YOU DID IT!!
Very good Dave, you did great! Now just start speaking Finnish 😃
😳😳😳
🎉🎉🎉 that was well done! And also fun!🎉🎉🎉
Really good Dave!!!!!
Minä menen pähkinöiksi, mahtavaa Dave!💪💪
Hello Dave, you should go skiing to Lapland this winter!
Hienosti sujui Dave! Hieno pokaali👍
Good work Dave :)
Great vid loved it 🇫🇮🇨🇦
Today Canada plays Germany at Tampere IIHF - World Championships Final ! Yesterday They were The better Team vs Latvia !
Erittäin hienoa työtä Dave😊
😍😍
Hyvää duunia
WOOOOOOO! GRATE JOB DAVE!
ONNEA!
Great job 🥳
You did well! 👍
LET'S GO CADDY I KNEW YOU COULD DO IT! It's so inspiring to see how far you have come in your Finnish studies. That Karjala beer camping scene was obviously a joke cause there wasn't enough beer in it. We will meet you at the marketplace!
YEAHH YOU MADE IT!! HERE IS YOUR TROPHY:
🏆
YEI DAVE! WELL DONE, MAN!
Hienoa Dave!! Niin sitä pitää!! 🤩🤩🤩
Onnea!!! I was trying together with you go through questions...i think i would not pass... congratulations!!!!😆😆
MAHTAVAA !!
I would love to see you use a better resource to learn from where we and you could see your improvement better and actually learn things. Love your content. I'd love to see more serious learning content.
Good job!!! 🏆🏆
Jee! Hyvää!!! Onnea!!!!!!!!!
At 2:30 I wasn't expecting you to be that good! I thought it was the exercise reading the question at first haha :D
LETS GO DAVE!!! 💪🥳🎉
HURRAA! SÄ TEIT SEN! 🥳🎉🎊 There you go, all in caps! Congratulations 👏🏻
And I didn't know you were also learning Swedish 😯✨ Or maybe you briefly mentioned it before 🤔 but that's really cool nevertheless. I speak both languages as well. Learning two languages at the same time though is very difficult, so good luck with that!
My wife is Swedish speaking, so it's more passive learning and Finnish definitely takes more effort to sit down and learn!
@@davecad Oh, I see. Your wife is probably also a Swedish speaking Finn just as I am 😄
@@Nothingbutdust92 hurri perkele
@@kaapa7373 Haha, voit kyllä kutsua mua ihan miten vaan haluut, en oo Suomi vastainen tai suomenkielen vastainen kuitenkaan vaikka mussa on suomenruotsalaista verta neljännes osa. On mulla myöskin saamelaista verta isoäidin puolelta varmaan alle viidennes osan verran. Mutta kaiken kaikkiaan oon enimmäkseen umpisuomalainen. Ja muuten, suomea puhun jostain syystä paremmin kuin ruotsia vaikka oonkin käynyt ruotsinkielistä koulua. Että sitä vaan meinaan että meitä suomalaisia on moneen lähtöön, sen vaan sanon 😄
@@Nothingbutdust92Sori ei ollut tarkoitus loukata tai väheksyä suomenruotsalaisia ihan vitsillä tarkoitin. Vähä tökerö heitto myönnän, mutta ei mitään teikäläisiä vastaan.🙂🤝
YEEEEEYYY YOU DID IT DAVE!!
LETS GO! YOU DID IT!!
Got the notification...but haven't logged in myself. 🙈 So I welcome you back in here.😁
U did super great Job! Finland is very hard language! Not too many can get good at Finland! I'm super happy for you!!! Congratulations 👏👏👏🎉🎉🎉
GJ DAVE YOU DID IT!
Hyvää työtä🙂
Miksi mä lukenut ” hyvä tyttö” 🤦🏽♀️ fucking dislexia…
HYVÄ DAVE SÄ OSASIT! 😄
JEE, GO DAVE! GREAT JOB!
Well done sir.
i am one of those that congratulated you being back on Duo 😂 Onnea! 🎉
GOOD JOB DAVE! YAAAASS QUEEN!!😂
Gotta thank you, it was you who introduced me to Duolingo. Been learning French (in English, as a Finn) there for 2,5 years now I think? Sometimes just doing a lesson a day to keep the streak alive, sometimes like really making an effort. Just reached the level 8 last week, so I have the last two levels left. I'm now able to understand written French well enough so I can eg. understand what French news articles are about and recently read the Little Prince in French and noticed I could follow the story (albeit it was a familiar one to begin with). Listening comprehension is still hard, but I can catch bits and pieces when I watch French films, series and interviews - and sometimes even more if people speak slowly enough. I didn't have a chance to study French at school as there weren't enough kids to form a group, so I had to choose German.. But thanks to you the little child in me is at least a little more satisfied now. 😇
(Sadly when I logged onto Duolingo today, I noticed the graphics had changed drastically.. Not digging the new look, we shall see if this is enough to kill the motivation. But at least I got this far 🥐🍷)
Congrats for getting the trophy (Onnittelut pokaalista)
Excellent Dave! Whoops sorry EXCELLENT DAVE!!!!!!!!!!!! WOHOO MAHTAVAA!!!
MAHTAVAA DAVE!
Mennään Pähkinöiksi, Cadi!🌰🥜
Congratulations, pal!
Great! You did it!!!
daam man it was so close but u got it so wp! :D
Oh my god! Your pronounciation is so good!!!!
CONGRATS! I was sweating for you! :) Oh shees I hate Duolingo. The strange sentences.. This is a victory for all victims of Duolingo! You rock Dave!
YOOOO THIS WAS FUCKING MAD KEEP DOING GREAT JOB DAVE!!!!!!!