Really alex you are smart,because you help us suomen kieli. I am samuel from eritrea. I live in suomi 1 year and 7 months but suomen kielu its difficult for please you can get puhe kieli videos in your channel thanks for your supports. Terveisin samuel
Moi Aleksi, another awesome video! I am learning so much from you. I really want to learn modern Finnish because my greatgrandparents were from Pohjanmaa and my grandfather taught us Finnish words and culture until he passed away. I remember the sounds and his stories. Kiitos! 👍👏🏻😊
Terve, Aleksi! Here's Michal from the Czech Republic! I've started learning Finnish last week. I really don't know why, maybe because even Sheldon Cooper tried to learn Finnish, too, and I love The Big Bang Theory? Heh. Anyway, my first step into this language were the numbers, and I really enjoyed that! In Czech, we have something in common: as in Finnish, you also add -náct (which is exactly the same as -toista) to the numbers from 11 to 19. It's also very similar from 20 and on (e.g. 34 = třicetčtyři, because 30 = třicet and 4 = čtyři, so you just glue it together, which is exactly the same as in Finnish: 34 = kolmekymmentäneljä, because 30 = kolmekymmentä and 4 = neljä, so 34 is kolmekymmentäneljä, easy system!). I think I can easily count from 1 to 9 999 without any problem. Well, what's next? I wanted to create some real sentence, but what could I do without any knowledge of the very basics? I obviously started browsing youtube and google, looking for any help. When I found out there are 15 cases... I was like: WOW! This is insane! But don't worry, unlike English speaking people, we Czechs also have cases, although there are "only" 7 of them and works quite different. Many people can say: "the case system is insanely hard and impossible to learn" or something like that. If we are familiar with the case system in our language, why not to try to understand the Finnish case system? Unlike some people, who may get scared, that's exactly what convinced me to explore that! Now I think I understand the locative case (hope it's something called like that) where you have -lle, -lla, -lta and -on, -ssa, -sta for the inner locative case. Well, that's already 6 cases :) But I guess these are the easiest ones. Next, I noticed how you work with the verbs. It's also quite similar to our system. I'd like to compare the English, the Finnish and the Czech verb antaa (which means "to give" as I remember, "dát" in Czech). This is the infinitive form. In Finnish, it goes like (and correct me if I'm, wrong): minä annan, sinä annat, hän antaa, me annamme, te annatte, he antavat. In English: I give, you give, he/she/it gives, we give, you give, they give. In Czech: já dám, ty dáš, on/ona/ono dá, my dáme, vy dáte, oni/ona/ono dají. As you can see, the Czech is also quite complicated, especially for the foreigners of course. But once you understand the formula (and by that I also mean the Finnish formulas and rules), you can easily apply it to the other verbs, also. Okey, that's enough for today. I just wanted to thank you for your videos and advices as an excellent material for my first steps into the Finnish language! Anteeksi, mutta minä en puhu suomea hyvin, yet! :D Greetings from the Czech Republic!
Thanks Michal for the comment! That's a very important insight that language learners should realize: people should try to get inside the nature of the language as soon as possible. When they understand those it's much easier to get a grip of the grammar and other rules. Good luck learning Finnish!
Voi että matikan tehtävä ei pelitä. mut suomea pelittää sun takii. mun pitää kelata matiikkaa. Sä jeesaat mua paljon suomen kielellä. Mä oon kotona chillimassa, chillisti 👍. Mun täytyy tsekata kaikki sun videota. Joskus me hengaillaan elokuvissa. Mä tajuun että, videosi on very tärkeää. kiitos paljon sulle bro🙏👍😍
Your use of Anglicisms in the video was a clever instruction technique on your part! It engages your Non-native (Finnish) speaker at once, downplays his/her potential frustration and fear over the complexity of the language, and the viewer leaves with the perception that s/he can get a *hengata* on the language! (Good job!)
Your vids are getting more and more useful 🤘😍 Finnish sounds more "germanic" with those borrowed verbs from english... However do you also have a verb for.. "to google something"? :) Googletaa? Or something? .. in Czech we would say "googlovat or vygooglovat" 😀 anyway would be googletaa right?
Found your video by chance. Very good videos, you have very cool way of teaching. Please do more. Do you have other media means or interactive lessons ?
Thanks for the feedback! I have done a few videos here on UA-cam plus a free online course for basics of spoken Finnish : ua-cam.com/video/6-B1lgk5p9U/v-deo.html
This list teaches you how to sound like someone from Helsinki. We use some 6/10 of these elsewhere, but not really the rest. Also, 'fiksata' could also easily mean 'to rig something'.
you could ask them about where should a tourist go then he comes to Finland and what kind of stuff to and when is the best time to come to Finland and you could ask them about what do they think about Finnish stereotypes and is it right or wrong
Aleksi, I have a question regarding to the chillata verb. In the example you say: me chillataan rannalla. Why don't you say: "Me chillatamme rantalla"? Kiitos paljon for making your videos! They are really useful
I was expecting someone to ask this. In spoken language, when say "we", we don't actually use the -mme form. Instead we use the passive form of the verb. There is no logical explanation to this, but this is how we Finns speak pretty much 98% of the time. Check this video. I have explained it here: ua-cam.com/video/zJ_FLTzl3hA/v-deo.html
I don't understand why these words didn't get the *mme Suffix when you use them in combination with "me". For example at 3:17 it's "Me chillataan rannalla" instead of "Me chillatamme rannalla." Anyone know the answer to that?
In spoken language, when say "we", we don't actually use the -mme form. Instead we use the passive form of the verb. There is no logical explanation to this, but this is how we Finns speak pretty much 98% of the time. Check this video. I have explained it here: ua-cam.com/video/zJ_FLTzl3hA/v-deo.html
Aleksi Himself - Videos about Finland Thank you very much for that explanation. I already have watched that video but I couldn't remember. Like I constantly forget several words. But now I think I will remember at least that rule. :-)
Olisko aluekohtasta ton "jeesata" sanan kanssa... Kyl sen varmasti kaikki ymmärtää, mutta mä oon kyl enemmän sanonu "jelpata". Tyyliin: "Jelppaaks vähä tän kans?" (tuli vaan mieleen, että vois olla murteesta riippuvainen)
Chillata sound cool, better than Norwegian, witch are "å chille". Tjekkatta(å sjekke)and Hengailla(å henge(ut)) sound little bit like the norwegian, but longer. Somehow, norwegian likes to but 'å' in front of verb in their basis form
Jossitella seems like it's similar in meaning to "second guess" or not to commit to a decision. It possibly describes a person who is indecisive. I assume tää is tänä.
mä tajutaan tässa video, is it right? xD grettings from Mexico, after all finnish is not as dificult as I imagine, like hengailla and hypettä hehehe xp
Se on ok. ei hatta . olin vähän ihmetelty että kuinka monta uusia sanoja vielä en tiennyt. minä opin paljon tärkeä asiat sinusta. paljon kiitoksia. jatkasamamaali
Really alex you are smart,because you help us suomen kieli. I am samuel from eritrea. I live in suomi 1 year and 7 months but suomen kielu its difficult for please you can get puhe kieli videos in your channel thanks for your supports.
Terveisin samuel
Moro Samuel! More puhekieli videos are on their way. ;)
Chillata is awesome 😁 keep going !! To display Finnish sentences with English translation is very helpful.
Thanks Sarah!
Moi Aleksi, another awesome video! I am learning so much from you. I really want to learn modern Finnish because my greatgrandparents were from Pohjanmaa and my grandfather taught us Finnish words and culture until he passed away. I remember the sounds and his stories. Kiitos! 👍👏🏻😊
That's great Bebina. :) Keep on learning.
Terve, Aleksi! Here's Michal from the Czech Republic! I've started learning Finnish last week. I really don't know why, maybe because even Sheldon Cooper tried to learn Finnish, too, and I love The Big Bang Theory? Heh. Anyway, my first step into this language were the numbers, and I really enjoyed that! In Czech, we have something in common: as in Finnish, you also add -náct (which is exactly the same as -toista) to the numbers from 11 to 19. It's also very similar from 20 and on (e.g. 34 = třicetčtyři, because 30 = třicet and 4 = čtyři, so you just glue it together, which is exactly the same as in Finnish: 34 = kolmekymmentäneljä, because 30 = kolmekymmentä and 4 = neljä, so 34 is kolmekymmentäneljä, easy system!). I think I can easily count from 1 to 9 999 without any problem. Well, what's next? I wanted to create some real sentence, but what could I do without any knowledge of the very basics? I obviously started browsing youtube and google, looking for any help. When I found out there are 15 cases... I was like: WOW! This is insane! But don't worry, unlike English speaking people, we Czechs also have cases, although there are "only" 7 of them and works quite different. Many people can say: "the case system is insanely hard and impossible to learn" or something like that. If we are familiar with the case system in our language, why not to try to understand the Finnish case system? Unlike some people, who may get scared, that's exactly what convinced me to explore that! Now I think I understand the locative case (hope it's something called like that) where you have -lle, -lla, -lta and -on, -ssa, -sta for the inner locative case. Well, that's already 6 cases :) But I guess these are the easiest ones. Next, I noticed how you work with the verbs. It's also quite similar to our system. I'd like to compare the English, the Finnish and the Czech verb antaa (which means "to give" as I remember, "dát" in Czech). This is the infinitive form. In Finnish, it goes like (and correct me if I'm, wrong): minä annan, sinä annat, hän antaa, me annamme, te annatte, he antavat. In English: I give, you give, he/she/it gives, we give, you give, they give. In Czech: já dám, ty dáš, on/ona/ono dá, my dáme, vy dáte, oni/ona/ono dají. As you can see, the Czech is also quite complicated, especially for the foreigners of course. But once you understand the formula (and by that I also mean the Finnish formulas and rules), you can easily apply it to the other verbs, also. Okey, that's enough for today. I just wanted to thank you for your videos and advices as an excellent material for my first steps into the Finnish language! Anteeksi, mutta minä en puhu suomea hyvin, yet! :D Greetings from the Czech Republic!
Thanks Michal for the comment! That's a very important insight that language learners should realize: people should try to get inside the nature of the language as soon as possible. When they understand those it's much easier to get a grip of the grammar and other rules. Good luck learning Finnish!
Kiitos Aleksi! This was super useful!!!😄
Thanks for the comment Marija Velickovic!
Haha, Very interesting. They are so easy to learn. I really like no. 5. I always learn something whenever I watch your videos. Thanks.😊
That's great Olivia! :)
Voi että matikan tehtävä ei pelitä. mut suomea pelittää sun takii. mun pitää kelata matiikkaa.
Sä jeesaat mua paljon suomen kielellä. Mä oon kotona chillimassa, chillisti 👍. Mun täytyy tsekata kaikki sun videota. Joskus me hengaillaan elokuvissa. Mä tajuun että, videosi on very tärkeää. kiitos paljon sulle bro🙏👍😍
Kiitti kommentista LIL CHANCE!
I really like this video ! Kiitos Alexi !
I'm glad you liked it Gab. :)
Your use of Anglicisms in the video was a clever instruction technique on your part! It engages your Non-native (Finnish) speaker at once, downplays his/her potential frustration and fear over the complexity of the language, and the viewer leaves with the perception that s/he can get a *hengata* on the language! (Good job!)
Thanks for the comment Merseyrock!
Alexi, you are great!!! Thank you tonnes. Happy to see you so entertaining!
Thanks Yani!
This is genuinely cool!
Thanks for the comment Yicha Cha!
Your vids are getting more and more useful 🤘😍 Finnish sounds more "germanic" with those borrowed verbs from english... However do you also have a verb for.. "to google something"? :) Googletaa? Or something? .. in Czech we would say "googlovat or vygooglovat" 😀 anyway would be googletaa right?
VlastYs Music Two words, you can choose:
1. Googlata
2. Googlettaa
Seems you already got the answers!
I did not expect the meaning of hengailla because i thought that it was closer to hengittää but no problem, mä tajuan sitä 😉
Good stuff! "Mä tajuan sen." is correct but what you said is completely understandable.
Found your video by chance. Very good videos, you have very cool way of teaching. Please do more. Do you have other media means or interactive lessons ?
Thanks for the feedback! I have done a few videos here on UA-cam plus a free online course for basics of spoken Finnish : ua-cam.com/video/6-B1lgk5p9U/v-deo.html
Kiitos Aleksi! Ihana video kuten aina.
Kiitti kommentista TheKingaSwing!
Now I sound like a Finn!
Good stuff King!
This list teaches you how to sound like someone from Helsinki. We use some 6/10 of these elsewhere, but not really the rest. Also, 'fiksata' could also easily mean 'to rig something'.
Mä chillaan jännittäviä oppituntejasi Aleksi! Tuo on aika siistiä! Btw how do you say in Finnish ''Keep it up!''? Kiitos paljon ajastasi!
aleksi do more interview videos I love it :D
Alright! Any topic suggestions?
you could ask them about where should a tourist go then he comes to Finland and what kind of stuff to and when is the best time to come to Finland and you could ask them about what do they think about Finnish stereotypes and is it right or wrong
Aleksi, I have a question regarding to the chillata verb. In the example you say: me chillataan rannalla. Why don't you say: "Me chillatamme rantalla"?
Kiitos paljon for making your videos! They are really useful
I was expecting someone to ask this. In spoken language, when say "we", we don't actually use the -mme form. Instead we use the passive form of the verb. There is no logical explanation to this, but this is how we Finns speak pretty much 98% of the time.
Check this video. I have explained it here: ua-cam.com/video/zJ_FLTzl3hA/v-deo.html
I don't understand why these words didn't get the *mme Suffix when you use them in combination with "me". For example at 3:17 it's "Me chillataan rannalla" instead of "Me chillatamme rannalla." Anyone know the answer to that?
In spoken language, when say "we", we don't actually use the -mme form. Instead we use the passive form of the verb. There is no logical explanation to this, but this is how we Finns speak pretty much 98% of the time.
Check this video. I have explained it here: ua-cam.com/video/zJ_FLTzl3hA/v-deo.html
Aleksi Himself - Videos about Finland Thank you very much for that explanation. I already have watched that video but I couldn't remember. Like I constantly forget several words. But now I think I will remember at least that rule. :-)
Olisko aluekohtasta ton "jeesata" sanan kanssa... Kyl sen varmasti kaikki ymmärtää, mutta mä oon kyl enemmän sanonu "jelpata". Tyyliin: "Jelppaaks vähä tän kans?" (tuli vaan mieleen, että vois olla murteesta riippuvainen)
Se voi olla. Oisin senki voinu mainita tässä. Jelpata taitaa olla suoraa ruotsista (hjälpa). Teen varmaan ruotsin lainasanoista oman videon.
Findi90 En oo kuullu kenenkää sanovan pk-seudulla ”jelpata” 😄 mutta ”hjälpa” oon
6:32 so tajuta is basically ymmärtää, right? So ive heard of käsittää, hiffata, hahmottaa, are they the same?
I'm chilling at the Couch with my baby, who is also currently watching, both of us learn finnish now I guess xD
Great! I hope you both learned something. :)
Jossitella - hesitating? Even sounds a bit similar! :)
Thanks for the comment Egor Panfilov!
Good stuff! Are there any Russian loanwords in Finnish language?
Yes, there are plenty
Yes there are! quite a list actually.
Sami Lindgren for example?
Findi90 what are some of them?
well, I remember: lusikka (spoon), kapakka (tavern), toveri (a friend) and tavara (stuff)
I suggest you google it! :)
Chillata sound cool, better than Norwegian, witch are "å chille". Tjekkatta(å sjekke)and Hengailla(å henge(ut)) sound little bit like the norwegian, but longer. Somehow, norwegian likes to but 'å' in front of verb in their basis form
Thanks for the comment Mina Tokstad Bakken!
Hello dear, are these words as a slang or you can use them in classic language?
That's a good question. You can use all of these in every day language except "kusettaa" which a bit crude slang word.
Jossitella seems like it's similar in meaning to "second guess" or not to commit to a decision. It possibly describes a person who is indecisive. I assume tää is tänä.
That's well said!
Moi! Mitaa kuuluu? :) Hyvä video! Kiitos erritain paljon! Nakemiin ! :)
Kiitos hyvää kuuluu!
Plus is there a translation for knitting or to knit or purl/purling?
To knit is "kutoa" and knitting is "kutominen" as far as I can tell. :)
No ei ihan. Kangaspuilla kudotaan ja puikoilla neulotaan. Tosin täällä Tampereella puikoillakin kudotaan :-P
Mä chillaan Shangaissa mutta huomenna menen Helsinkiin (^_^)
Hyvä homma!
Spoken finnish is so hard....
That's why I'm here to help you out!
Mä chillaan sänkyllä (idk if that’s right i am just learning)
mä tajutaan tässa video, is it right? xD grettings from Mexico, after all finnish is not as dificult as I imagine, like hengailla and hypettä hehehe xp
"Mä tajuan tämän/tän videon." would be right, but what you said is completely understandable. :) Keep on learning!
I'm chilling in my art room at home doing alcohol ink painting.
Thanks for the comment Guadalupe Perez!
Trollata:D
Toimii!
Laura it's "IFing" 🤔
On hasu mutta onko nämä ovat koikissa Suomessa. Kun se on vain Turissa ei tarvi enä.
Oikeasti.☺☺☺☺☺
Sori, mut nyt en ymmärtäny.
Se on ok. ei hatta . olin vähän ihmetelty että kuinka monta uusia sanoja vielä en tiennyt. minä opin paljon tärkeä asiat sinusta. paljon kiitoksia. jatkasamamaali
i have turkish girlfreind and she want learn finnis words what are Basic words easy teach to him
Thanks for the comment suomi ensin rajat kii unkown!
Vitsi tää ois varmasti hyödyllistä, jos osaisit artikuloida omaa äidinkieltäsi ymmärrettävästi.
Voit tulla mukaan seuraavaan videoon ja näyttää kuinka se tehdään.
hold the words more longer) i cant write so fast)))
You can pause the video. :)
Before we fin(n)ish this video..
Thanks for the comment Sister Finland!
All of these are "slang" words btw., so if you trying to understand proper finnish this is not it.
I would say kusettaa and chillailla are the only slang words. I have used the other work example at work with my colleagues and boss.