Learn Finnish: Pronouncing Å, Ä, Ö
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- For my debut video on this channel, I figured I would start with something fairly basic. How to pronounce Å, Ä and Ö in a Finnish way. I made an attempt to give out some examples and such...hopefully they help you at least a little! :)
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When I was a young man I was intrigued to learn that Finnish is one of the few languages spoken in Europe that does not belong to the Indo-European Family of languages. That was more than sixty years ago. Now, thanks to your contribution, I have made a tentative start at learning some Finnish though there is not a huge demand for it in Northern New South Wales, Australia, where I live. Thank you for your efforts. I appreciate them tremendously.
That's amazing to hear! I'm glad to be able to help even a little.
KatChatsc Finnish
I know this was 4 years ago, but I'm interested in learning Finnish and I live in Western Australia haha
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I have lived in sweden about 50 years and in finland 9 years as a child. Finnish is easy for me because i listen to Finnish music and the finnish spelling system are so locical and you always say the letters like they sound in the alphapet. Finnish are an Uralic language and came as a written language when Michael Acricola translated the Christian bible to finnish. Uralic languages have existed at least 10 000 years some say. A part off the Finnish people came from Ural , therefore the Uralic connection. I can make Finnish diffecault for you. When you understand what this mean you have a good skill. Älä kantete sitä kanteletta ja kantele siinä..Kantele= a instrument you play. Kantele also to lie.Kantaa to carry something. If you understand this you have a good skill.Mitä tapahtui kun Jerry Lewis ja Tauno Palo ajoi autokolarin?Taunon auto palo ja Jerryn levis.
The Finnish Öö is literally the English vowel found in the word 'air' which is [e] but with rounded lips. So pronounce the word 'air' (non-rhotic - no R sound) and then round the lips - you'll shift from [e] to [ø]. Finnish Öö is [ø], basically.
Since I've been studying Finnish for six months so far, though not on a regular basis, it will be helpful for me to learn more easily about Finnish. I wish I apply for an exchange program in Finland in two years :-) cuz all I had been wanting to do is studying in Finland that's been my most covetous thing:-). Thank you, Katchats for apprising those tips to Finnish rookie and novice ;-). Hyvää huomenta.
Kiitos! And I hope you can make your wish to study in Finland a reality! :)
Some finnish people laugh with the "Ä" like kimi räikkönen
This is something a foreigner told me and i never heard anyone think about it
"hähähähähäää"
well. finnish "laugh" has a meaning for almost all vocals
hah!
heh.
hih :3
hohohoho
Aha I never thought of that xD
Höhöhöhö
@@ars85202height height 💀
I will start studying Finnish tomorrow because of you i loved the language and I liked your videos very much, gonna speak with my teacher now, all the love from me and from Syria 🇸🇾
I sound like a combination of Stitch and a parrot when I say Ä.
And when I try Ö, I sound like some cavegirl.
Lol
@@towobey
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Actually, you explained well. I understood. Thnx.
It's also worth covering the Finnish Y and U, as they're a bit different to how they are in English. I'd say the English U is pronounced somewhere between the Finnish Y and U.
Finnish u is oo sound in English
You can find clear ö sound in word earth. for me it sounds like ööth :D
yeah true!
PiuwPiuw ä
Also "word" has a nice clean Ö-sound
This is only true if you have an English accent. unfortunately it does not work in an american accent
It's close - but not exactly the same. The place in mouth is different, even the manner of forming it, and these are the criterias to define a vowel. Maybe the English don't hear it close the same? People have a tendency to hear the vowels of another language as one of their own, coz with vowels, the mouth is kinda fully divided between them. There's 'no space' for new ones. Except when sound changes take place, but such things last years, a few generations.
Now in Australia and some British dialects the vowels are about to change again, they sorta 'shift', the whole setting moves. It has happened already once, before that English had similar vowels as all the other (European) languages. 'I' was sometimes said like 'ee', and eye, as ay+e (e of bEt, like be').
Though using that English vowel sound in EArth, wOrd, gIrl, bUrn, hEr etc. will work just fine for the Finnish ö.
I just realized that ä sounds weird.
äää
äääääää
äää
ää
ä
Wow. What a smart finn I am.
Hana c it actually doesn’t sound that weird but you finns over pronounce it so much😂 (I‘m german)
@@linajurgensen4698 This is just not true at all. German is from a different language tree.
The german ä ≠ finnish ä.
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@@linajurgensen4698 In Deutschland you say the Ä more like between E and the finnish Ä. it’s not as clear as in finnish
Im from finnish= mä olen suomesta
For Ö: Try to say E while having round lips, liak saying O.
German Ö, simpler
French eu
Der Meister des Spiegels einfacher für deutche menschen dein idiot
I've been trying more than six months to say this letter! Thank you! I'm happy now hahahah
FinnSalsa You mean a finnish E, right? Just making sure.
Thank you so much for this ! I'm a dual-citizen and never understood Finnish (like ever), but now its so cool to actually be able to learn it for when I go to Finland ! x
I'm glad I could help a little bit :)
Moi mitä kuulu sä et kyl tunnista mua ja saanko mä nyt lipittää sitä sun pilluas😎
Ö in Finnish is "E" in French, that is interesting!
Or perhaps even like in the word "eau" there is the longer, two vowel version
"deux" has the single vowel "ö" pretty close also
Oui c'est pareil, ou alors comme le son de "oeuf". :)
Ah tiens des Français. C'est tellement rare de voir des Français qui s'intéressent au finnois.
english E sound like finnish I. so, becouse english is pronaunced in correctly. finnish only language that pronaunce words like it written lol
The problem is that we have the "Ä" too in the german language. But your "Ä" sounds more like our normal "A" our "Ä" is pronounced deeper. It's so confusig xD
Ohh is that so? Yeah that must make it a bit more challenging!
+. Stimmt ^^
I remember when this young german woman was visiting our school and we had to pronounce some sentences to her in our german lesson. She was smiling so widely at us and we were trying so hard to not laugh :DD
Of course we couldn't pronounce anything right as we were just starting to learn the language.
. Exactly :d
DarkObsession German Ä is more closer to Swedish Ä a very deep vocal
Ö is exactly the same in French in the way we say eu
Soo... I'm swedish and I'm learrning finnish! So... :D
@- Tri108 - he is gay
@- Tri108 - потому что японцы д геи
@- Tri108 - переводчик... это есть !
I am too lazy to change my name Are they Japanese language? Lol, you know the kanji for Japanese person is different right?
Åbo, OO-bu.
I like the video, it was helpful to me as an English speaker to hear the sounds and be able to see what your mouth was doing. It could be helpful in future videos to perhaps explain what your mouth is doing. For example, with Ö : I found that if I say an English A like in hat then keep my tongue the same while making an o with my lips, I was able to get the sound of an Ö. So just trying to suggest that as a teacher, explanations like that and being able to see what your mouth is doing, could be even more helpful to your students. Keep up the good work! I.M.H.O. it's the vowels of a language that are the trickiest, but most important.
I’m starting to learn my grandparents” language, Finnish.
I have heard from learners in other language to start by just learning words and dialogue. Others say you have to learn Finnish grammar first.
Thoughts?
(I have to admit, Finnish grammar terrifies me !)
Places, street names etc. don't always have to be written in both Finnish and Swedish, only in cities and municipalities that have two official languages. If you go inland, everything is usually just in Finnish.
Of course in practice, even the places that have two "official" languages, usually are bi-lingual only on paper, not in reality so much. On some of these cities Swedish is not even among the TOP3 spoken languages! Yet it is treated like it was widely spoken. This is due to corruption related to "Swedish speaking money".
Yeah that's true!
Fur...bird? No, you are totally correct. The sound of Ö is a completely different mouth-shape! To me it is much more like the Lancashire O. Bolton or somewhere around there.....
"Oh no", would be a Finnish "ÖHThank you for this video; it helped me a lot!
One comment though...."The British Accent": Scottish (all of them), Welsh (all of them), and ALL the various English accents are ALL British. I know you are referring to the Hellyweird idea of the British accent, but that's like saying "The European Accent". 😐
Great language teacher, it is great way for me as a beginner.
i don't know but like your pronunciation of å and ö sounds like it's the same as in norwegian, but we use the letter ø instead of ö
You are a great teacher
Thank you :)
Tätä on kiva kattella.
Hyvää huomenta! Terve!
the face you make when pronouncing "ö" is, well... ö
thanks for the explanation, i'm struggling with front vowels :l
Thanks for this video. Really helpful. Please keep making videos like that. I want to learn Finnish language so bad.
Thank you so much! :)
Strating to find that Finnish is not so hard language :) hope I will get to learn something from here 💪🏼 ah yeh I forgot to mention my name is György (Hungarian)
ö , at least in the kind of English spoken here in the south of England, is pronounced exactly as the vowel in "her" because we don't pronounce the final r at all.
HI, KATYA! In English, "I STOPPED doing" is different from "I STOPPED to do". How to say it in Finnish? Make a video about it!
Moi! Kat do you have alphabet video in finnish language.. You are a big help for me..
Yes I do! ua-cam.com/video/1VoD4_0Gxzc/v-deo.html
If you lengthen the æ the word hat you get haat or häät witch is the Finnish word for wedding
hi katya! i love you videos! the way you put effort on it, it is clear to understand especially for beginners like me! I'm planning to move in finland to be with my husband and your videos are so helpfull! keep it up! (following you on ig as well :))
Aw thank you so much for the support, glad you like my videos! :)
Sharing knowledge is good.. Thanks for sharing and making us learn Finnish.. Welcome your efforts.. Your videos shows how much you like your land and language
Thank you so much :)
HYVÄ VIDEO
English doesn't have the Finnish "y" either. You might want to talk about that. Also, "j" isn't pronounced the same way in English as it is in Finnish, even though the sound exists in both languages.
Great points!!
I guess both y and j sounds similar in both Finnish and swedish!
Great video! Could you please also teach us what is the pronunciation difference between D and T, as well as L and R. Thank you! :)
Thanks! Will add that to my list! :)
Hi can you please do a vedio about entroducing you're self for a job thanks
hahahah just "a little hard" :D. I wanted to check if Suomi really is "the most difficult language on the planet". Conclusion: it might be. But is sounds fun. ps. Ö pronunciation is not far from German pronunciation of the same letter.
2:21 She sound like Gawr Gura first word
It's gold! Love the explanation :)
Thanks! 😃
@@KatChatsFinnish no problem! I'm so glad you are here! What you do to teach in Finish on YT is so beautiful as there are few if anyone at all who talks Finnish learning online & for free a bit at least :)
- Subscribing before seeing the content?
- KatChats channel :D
+Jaouad Hajjami Haha awww that's so sweet of you! ^-^ Hopefully it lives up to your expectations haha xD
Hi there! Thank you for your video. I was trying to improve my Finnish pronunciation and found your video. What a luck!
However, could you go into more about this topic for "ää", "öö", "uu"?
Thank you :)
Thanks! And yeah good idea, I'll add that to my list as well! :)
2:10 - I can't do it. I cant. I just sound like Jarjar Binks. Now I'm having Jarjar Binks flash backs. This is very traumatic.
(All jokes aside, great video!
It sounds amazing
Pajlon kiitos
Hi
Thanks!
Thank you so much for your support 😊
how introducing my self in Finnish???
"Minä olen souha bnds"
what ?
aah yeahh.. I understood 😅 thank you 😊
Souha Bnds nimeni on ____ (My name is)
Sibuli really no vocal letter?
It is my idea or when combining: ö d ä the d does not sound? I mean mutes the d?
Where is savo dialect video? Hope you will make one? :D
Haha I doubt I could speak with that murre :P
Kiitos
Awesome video! keep up the good job!
Thanks!
Kiitos❤
Hi, Katya. What is the difference between the sound of "A" (without dots) and "Ä" (with dots)? As I notice in some audios, both "A" and "Ä" have similar sounds. I notice that "Ä" (with dots) MOSTLY has the SAME sound as "A" (without dots), or ALMOST THE SAME! Only, in a few words, the "Ä" (with dots") has the "English E-sound" as in "bEd", "AmErican". MAKE a video explaining this!
A in Finnish is like the a in the English word "call" and Ä in Finnish is like the a in the English word "hat"
I've watched your video about alphabet and I learned the A-Finnish-sound. BUT, on "dotted Ä", as I hear in some audios, such as www.forvo.com, a website with native Speakers recordings, I noticed that the "ä" in "käsi", "hän", "pää", "sänki", "sydän", "tähti" and "järvi" is more like the "Enlgish-E" as in AmErican, BUT in most Finnish words, the "dotted Ä" has a DIFFERENT sound, something similar to the "English-A" as in "After", for example, "minä", "sinä", "päällä", "nähdä", "elää".
No, the 'ä' is always pronounced the same way, it's just a longer sound when there are double ä's in a word. I'm a native Finnish speaker and can't detect a difference in the way I pronounce "käsi" and "minä"...
What a great job
Is it a rule in Finnish grammar that the letter 'd,' perhaps other consonants as well, is silent when preceded by the letter ö?
+William Distracted I don't think so
KatChats
OK. Of course I ask based on your pronunciation of a couple of words in this video vs those of another video, with the letter 'd' in both.
Ö to me sounds like the vowel sounds in the English words book, cook, look, took, shook, ect.
Interesting! To me as a Finn it sounds very different to those. Closest sounding to me is the vowel written with A at the end of "comma" (a bit similar to "comö")
The way I'm hearing it, the ö is pronounced kind of like the "ou" in "could." Does that sound about right? Or am I way off here?
Nah you're way off. It's not the same sound
I think "A-pple" better than h-A-t. The A in apple is more sounding like Ä. And double Ä is just spoken out a bit longer.
Good point!
love your video .make more plz😀
Thank you :)
Amazing Katya, yes now i will annoy you on this channel too :P . But I am trying to learn Finnish. So Mitä kuuluu? Hauska tutustua. Kyllä Kiitos. aaaand that's all i know :P You should teach us how to count in Finnish. I only know yksi, kaksi and kolme :(
Oh good idea! Haha hope I can help you learn Finnish! :)
Ö can be imagined as a Puking Zombie (Weird)
Sounds like the German O-umlaut.
In german we have ä and ö too :)
Is Å similar to German ö ?
No Ö in Finnish is like Ö in German, while Å is like O in German.
Well done, Knew nothing but Finn as a child, lost it growing up. I still have a reasonable understanding of the language but there is no way I will learn the verbage again
Thanks a Lot
Could you tell me how to pronounce Aho?
I have a video on hockey players where I pronounce Sebastian Aho :)
I found your video. Thank you. Aho was my mother's pre-married name. Part of the family pronounced it as you had - ah hoe - and the others like - ey hoe - fortunately no one used the - uh hoe - example you gave.
The ö always sounded to me like when someone is disgusted and they just react like "ugghhh", it's like an instant surprise reaction. The ä sounds like a very high-pitched feminine type of sound in English, like a little girl screaming kind of "Ah!", which for native English speakers makes it quite an awkward sound for men to make, I know some men who just refuse to make that kind of noise when speaking Finnish, they just feel awkward.
Hi, Do u have a page on Facebook?
I do, it should be linked in the description box :D
I always think the ö sounds like learn
Tell us how to type these letters on an English-language keyboard.
With num-lock activated, hold in ALT and type 0229 for å, 0228 for ä and 0246 for ö. I'm not sure about the capitals, but they can all be found in the charmap program if you're using Windows. Or you can go into the system settings and install the Finnish keyboard layout.
Subtract 32 for capitals.
lol the ö explanation
With the ö sound you want to close your lips to a small 'o' then say eeeeeee. Kapeesh there you go
N. 66
Isin't (Åå) as (Oa)?
Just looking for the pronunciation of Åkerfeldt lol
Não sei como eu vim parar aqui.
Sometimes ä sounds like English a and other times it sounds like English e
Starting learning finish is like learning quantum physics - you just don't know even where to start and what's going on here)
anyone to meet me in ruistola?
Kittos
Aika kivaa kun on Suomalainen xd.
Oh, so, do you have another UA-cam channel?
Now lets learn Lithuanian: Š Č Ž Ė Ę Į Y U, Ū ... 🤭😂😂🤷🏻♂️
now let's learn Hungarian: á é í ú ü ű ó ö ő lol😂
Now lets learn Turkish ı,İ,Ü,Ö,Ğ,Ç,Ş
Now let's learn Portuguese: á à ã â é ê í ó ô õ ú ç
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Now let's learn Polish: ą, ć, ę, ł, ń, (ó), ś, ź, ż
I feel it's quite useful that my first language is French! Ä, Ö and Å sound almost exactly like our A, E and O. They're easy for me to pronounce.
the problem is the difference between ä and a
ö is more like eu in French (bleu, for example)
@@PaulVinonaama yep
We have the same 3 letters in Norway too. Å one is the same while ä is an æ, while ö is an ø in norway, written slighty differently, but the å one is the same like you guys in finland and in sweden :) but they are pronounced the same.
Oh awesome! I didn't realize that ø and æ is the same pronunciation as ö + ä ! Thanks for sharing! :)
Jag undrar om det har att göra med att Norge har tillhört Danmark. Dom har ju också æ, ø och å.
I feel very lucky to be Turkish. We can say all the letters you mentioned:
Å=Oğ , There is not Å in Turkish Alphabet but we can say it.
I can read Ä as Â. There is not Ä or  in Turkish Alphabet but the letter  is often used to pronounce foreign origins in Turkish.
The letter  is not in our alphabet, but we can read it.
Also there is Ö in Turkish Alphabet(as 19th letter of Turkish Alphabet).
Also as other letters: There is Ç,Ğ,İ,ı,Ö,Ş letters in Turkish also there is not W,Q,X but we can say them so I feel very lucky myself as a vocabulary.
Since I can pronounce many letters from the Middle East and European Geography, I don't think I will encounter any problems in the alphabet pronunciation training part if I start learning a language.
But of course there will be an accent problem as a natural.
I spent just a week i Finland in.2010. As my friend drove me from the Airport to her home in Espoo the duplicated Road signs made a huge impression on me. First in Finnish then in Swedish. I was informed that as one gets closer to Sweden the order of the languages changes. Yet as we drove east the Swedish signs disappeared.
+Denis Matthews That's because the language of the road signs is dictated by the dominant languages in every individual municipality. If Swedish is the more common language in a municipality, the signs will be primarily Swedish with a Finnish translation, if Finnish is more common, then the signs will be in Finnish with a Swedish translation. If the municipality has something like 98% Swedish speakers, then the signs will only be in Swedish, and if the municipality has pretty much only Finnish speakers then the signs will only be in Finnish. Why all the signs can't be in both languages, I don't know. I don't think anyone does.
Coastal provinces from southeast up to Kokkola/Karleby level in north are bilingual, so all road signs are in both; Finnish and swedish.
In counties where swedish-speaking population is dominant those signs are first in swedish, then in finnish.
Helsinki metropolitan area is in Uusimaa province (swedish: Nyland) and in the coast so all the street signs are bilingual.
You can often hear especially the older people speaking swedish, their native language in the public in Helsinki.
Both Helsinki and Turku (Åbo) have significant finland-swedish minority and many small counties around Helsinki metropolitan zone are dominantly swedish
Only about 5,6 million people understand finnish today on this planet and about 12 million people Swedish. You swedish skill are good if you understand this.Sju sjö sjuka sjuksköterskor seglade på de sju haven. First it can be diffecault to say the sju sound.
There are swedish road signs because Finland have belonged to Sweden nearly 700 years, lot off people forget that.Sweden lost Finland to Russia in a war about 200 years ago.Finland get liberated from Russia about 1917. Stalin try to take over and invade Finland in a war about 1939-43 but did not succeed .
Last time i was in Finland was about over 30 years ago but i still understand it.
It is a PERFECT lesson, my mother tongue is Russian, but still it's super clear!! Thank you a lot!
Wow so happy to hear that! Thank you!
the letter that cost me the most to pronunciate in suomi is "y". the ä å ö I have them more or less controlated.
Now I know where the term "yrjö" comes.
I hear absolutely no difference between "a" and "ä" :(
'A' is pronounced in the back of the mouth, 'ä' in the front of it. The same applies to the pairs 'o'-'ö', 'u'-'y'.
Neither do I.
@@YeoweChiffewar now I feel the difference in the way I pronounce o and ö, u and y. But every time I try to say ä in the same way, it sounds differently from the previous one.
i saw someone say it's like the difference between saying "far" and "fat". Far being a and Fat being ä.
You can hear the diffrence in the A in: Back (Ä)
And: Dark (A)
In Portuguese we have â, ã, á, à, ç, ê, é, í, ô, õ, ó and ú. These are not considered separated letters. Instead, they are variants of the letters a, c, e, i, o and u. The hardest ones are ã and õ. The Estonian language has õ too, but the pronunciation is totally different. Here in Brazil, we have the word "pão", which means "bread" in English. Many foreigners find it hard to pronounce the 'ão' sound, so they say "pau" instead. And, here in Brazil, "pau" is a piece of wood and it is also means "dick".
Many greetings from Greece and thank you for your help! I love Finland (Helsinki is sooo nice town) and I try to learn Finnish language 😀
Merci beaucoup, tu es magnifique au passage.
Just started to Finnish today 😊 It's my 16th language 😄
Wow!
Oh, I forgot a word "learn" 😅
"Just started to learn Finnish today".
By the way, my mother tongue is Cantonese. Finnish is so different from my mother tongue, it would be a challenge for me, but I hope my knowledge of Korean/Japanese will help me a little bit in terms of grammar :) And I was very curious about Finnish - one of the most difficult languages in the world! 😊
@@mirae9163 Yess the grammar can be a bit tricky, but if you have studied 16 languages already maybe the background can be helpful for you (or I hope so at least!!)
Turku in swedish (Åbo) is pronounced like Åbu but like a bit higher
a bit higher?
This made me laugh. I like how you were showing pronunciation and just couldn't hold in the laughter. I'm half Finnish and live in Canada, and sadly I lost mostly all of my Finnish. I remember some words. Hmmmmm, pulla... My little brother's nick name when we were small was yunta pulla. Not sure how to spell the first word. Cheers from Canada.
Hahah I'm glad you enjoyed xD
Junttapulla xD
Could be translated to Stubborn Scone 💚 😄