"Finnish is easy" -Aleksi, Finnish man

@vi4670

3 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@suomalainenyomo

2 жыл бұрын

Italian is fucking hard- Elia, italian man

@vi4670

2 жыл бұрын

@@suomalainenyomo are you Italian?

@suomalainenyomo

2 жыл бұрын

@@vi4670 yes

@vi4670

2 жыл бұрын

@@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🤣

@AleksiHimself

5 жыл бұрын

Sounds like you invented a great drinking game!

@holoholopainen1627

Жыл бұрын

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 !

@LivingDeadLette666

Жыл бұрын

Same reason I wanted to learn finnish lol

@PrincessofKeys

7 күн бұрын

I just want to learn it cause I made a new friend online that's Finnish

@PrincessofKeys

7 күн бұрын

​@@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.

@AleksiHimself

4 жыл бұрын

Interesting. Thanks for sharing this.

@holoholopainen1627

Жыл бұрын

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.

@fcole90

5 жыл бұрын

Latin based languages are quite logical indeed. But I agree, they're not on the same level as Finnish

@LittleImpaler

4 жыл бұрын

Actually English is very technically.

@aarepelaa1142

3 жыл бұрын

@@LittleImpaler very technically what?

@JosueLopez-kk9us

3 жыл бұрын

excuse me, latin languages are pretty logical, english is the weird one

@JosueLopez-kk9us

3 жыл бұрын

@@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

I believe finnish is quite easy, even though I'm Greek and still a beginner

@jasonlk9472

5 жыл бұрын

I am a Greek too (=είμαι επίσης Έλληνας). Good luck with the Finnish. Do verbs and nouns have many suffixes like the greek language?

@AleksiHimself

5 жыл бұрын

Verbs are conjugated in persons and tenses. Nouns do have different suffixes depending on the case (there are around 15).

@horst29

3 жыл бұрын

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?

@grauwolf1604

3 жыл бұрын

@@jasonlk9472 There are many more suffixes, and not only by flectation.

@AatiNiiranen

3 жыл бұрын

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

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.

@AleksiHimself

4 жыл бұрын

Most likely because at that level you've learned how to learn languages effectively.

@peterk.6093

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@ivantulumovic861

Жыл бұрын

Great! But the second part of learning still scares me 😂

@arturgouveia3491

Жыл бұрын

Which languages did you try ?

@annemurtomaki4337

Жыл бұрын

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.

My motivation boosted. Thank you 😌

@AleksiHimself

5 жыл бұрын

Great!

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

@AleksiHimself

5 жыл бұрын

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

@AleksiHimself

5 жыл бұрын

Yep for you guys it will be easy!

@Valhalla_Heathen

5 жыл бұрын

That is very encouraging amigo! Thanks a lot 👍🏻👍🏻

@kaksidaksi3455

5 жыл бұрын

Daniel Reyes im native finnish speaker and i cant say R

@Mrktn4

2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@kaksidaksi3455

2 жыл бұрын

@@Mrktn4 bruh that comment is 3years old. But i still cant pronounce my R's

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)

@barbershop2536

3 жыл бұрын

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?

@MinhMinh-in1oe

2 жыл бұрын

​@@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

@mostlyfinnishlifeeventsand5112

2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@MinhMinh-in1oe

2 жыл бұрын

@@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!

@margaritasworldFi07

2 жыл бұрын

just put your heart on it and you’ll get it ,if you’re really into learning then you will .

This cleared up so much about the Finnish language. Thank you!

Kiitos, Aleksi, great teacher, great video! 👍🏻😊

@AleksiHimself

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment bebina!

I have a confusion between A and Ä

@YoshiFan100

5 жыл бұрын

"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".

@AleksiHimself

5 жыл бұрын

What the thing you are confused about? Is it the pronunciation or when you should be using it (ex. case endings)?

@josedelsud

5 жыл бұрын

@@AleksiHimself when it should be used? I guess (like in Spanish my mother tongue) there is a grammar rule.

@louisamarie1697

5 жыл бұрын

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.

@alexandernoe1619

5 жыл бұрын

@@louisamarie1697 You missed one: If a word only contains neutral vowels, you use ä,ö,y

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

@AleksiHimself

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment Belinda Lian!

@holoholopainen1627

Жыл бұрын

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 !

These points make it look easy ! Just need to learn the suffixes and their meaning . Kiitos Aleksi ! 😊

@AleksiHimself

5 жыл бұрын

Yep. Once you learn and practice them enough , you can use the same knowledge/skill later on.

@grauwolf1604

3 жыл бұрын

If you know the main words… An example: "tuli" is "fire". And "tuuli" is? More fire? a longer fire? No, it means "wind". :-D

@barbershop2536

3 жыл бұрын

@@grauwolf1604 Yes, tuli is fire but means also he/she came. Derived from infinitive-mode 'tulla' to come.

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 ❤️🇫🇮

@AleksiHimself

Жыл бұрын

Keep up the good work!

wow.. so helpful.. thank you so much

This is really what I needed to hear to keep me going in this study :) I'm full of hype now, I got this!!!

Kiitos paljon Aleksi!!

@AleksiHimself

5 жыл бұрын

Kiitti kommentista Janco van der Westhuizen!

Kiitos videosta!

@AleksiHimself

5 жыл бұрын

Kiitti kommentista Irina T!

"Used in everyday speech" 6:40 Me: Yes we are using that word literally every day, no we are not psychopaths

Thank you so much!!!😊❤️

@AleksiHimself

3 жыл бұрын

Any time!

Terve! I'm from Bangladesh and I think Finnish is a pretty easy language! Finland is also a beautiful country. Love from Bangladesh 🇧🇩🇫🇮

@Letsdoitbuddy

4 ай бұрын

Write it in finish

Kiitos Aleksi!

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.

@AleksiHimself

3 жыл бұрын

Just take your time and keep learning. It will start making sense little by little.

@peterk.6093

3 жыл бұрын

Good to know. I am also Slavic speaker and it seems to me that with logical grammar it should be doable.

@ak5659

Жыл бұрын

Another Slavic lang speaker here. Good to know that Finnish grammar wouldn't be overwhelming.

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 🤣😂

@AleksiHimself

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Shawna!

@vanadians3819

3 жыл бұрын

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.

Great video

@AleksiHimself

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@toxkravitzvevo5010

3 жыл бұрын

@@AleksiHimself you really make a nice promotion of Finland. Would be glad to visit that pretty country soon

tosi hyvää , kiitos 😃

@AleksiHimself

2 жыл бұрын

Kiitos Marga!

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!

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.

@LittleImpaler

4 жыл бұрын

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. 😊

@mostlyfinnishlifeeventsand5112

2 жыл бұрын

"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 :)

@yessy5494

2 жыл бұрын

@@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^^

@pinapippina1228

Жыл бұрын

And the passive Form im Futur Zwei :werden+Partizip 2+worden+ sein :die Nudeln werden gegessen worden sein,!!!! mamma mia

@pinapippina1228

Жыл бұрын

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 😁

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)

@AleksiHimself

2 жыл бұрын

Good stuff! 😃🙌

@matsopelle

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@ak5659

Жыл бұрын

​@@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.

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? :)

@AleksiHimself

Жыл бұрын

For second-hand stuff: FB marketplace, Tori.fi, Kierrätyskeskus Online shop: Verkkokauppa.com

@asal2232

Жыл бұрын

@@AleksiHimself I deeply appreciate your help, Thank you!

Kiitos videosta. Kuuntelen sua kun harjoittelen suomea. Toivon että kaikki sulla hyvä on. Kiitos auttamasta mua Suomen kielen kanssa🙂

@AleksiHimself

Жыл бұрын

Kiitos sulle!

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 :)

@AleksiHimself

5 жыл бұрын

Nice analysis! Never thought about it that way.

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 :)

@AleksiHimself

5 жыл бұрын

Moi ja kiitos kommentista! Käyn tsekkaamassa sun videon. :)

I love the a and ä in Finnish. It makes me chuckle thinking how if you think of accents in UK with those letters that the north would probably have to spell words with ä and the south just a Like grass in North would be gräss and south would be grass bäth and bath etc XD

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 🙏

Do you have a video about what is required to become a citizen of Finland?

@AleksiHimself

5 жыл бұрын

Not yet but it's on my list.

@justinmanzo3945

5 жыл бұрын

I would love to see a video on this topic

@nicolaspaquet9500

2 жыл бұрын

@@AleksiHimself about now?

@AleksiHimself

2 жыл бұрын

Here you go kzread.info/dash/bejne/o6mAl7Gppbu8qLw.html

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)

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 😊

@AleksiHimself

Жыл бұрын

Keep up the good work!

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! 🙂

Kiitos

@AleksiHimself

5 жыл бұрын

Ole hyvä!

5:50 in Dutch we say bioscoop not kino, that’s german I think

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.

@AleksiHimself

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Shammy!

I determined to speak fluent Finnish. Kippis !!! Aleksi ❤

@AleksiHimself

11 ай бұрын

You can do it!

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 .

@rasseranch9393

Жыл бұрын

Ä is a different vowel (than A) and it has a different sound. A always makes A sound, and Ä always makes Ä sound! 👍

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

@barbershop2536

2 жыл бұрын

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

Hello Aleksi! Loved the Finnish language lesson! I have a question: Does the Finnish language use punctuation marks? Thank you!😃

@virvalehmusvuori1469

5 жыл бұрын

Deborah Carter yes, we do

@loredanab4389

5 жыл бұрын

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.

@AleksiHimself

5 жыл бұрын

Yes like Virva & Loredana explained, we do use them.

@grauwolf1604

3 жыл бұрын

@@loredanab4389 A "," in all cases when germans set a ",". :-) Kerro, että aatoksissain …

thank you

@AleksiHimself

3 жыл бұрын

Welcome!

the intro was basically me at the start after 2-4 weeks after start it makes sence. its hard but not imposible

@AleksiHimself

5 жыл бұрын

Good stuff!

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.

@AleksiHimself

Жыл бұрын

Yep!

@callmeswivelhips8229

11 ай бұрын

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!!!!

@karhukivi

11 ай бұрын

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.

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

@AleksiHimself

5 жыл бұрын

"suomen kieltä" is correct. :) Yea it seems difficult at first but you need to take it one step at a time.

@Glory7RedemptionPrincess

5 жыл бұрын

@@AleksiHimself thanks!😉 Now I 'll know :)

The student needs to develop his or her own individual learning system adapted to your daily routine, area of activity, rhythm of life, interests, etc. First of all, you need to understand what problems are preventing you from learning a foreign language effectively. There is a lot of good material for learning a language on the Internet, but many people don't know how to use it as effectively as possible. However, the practice of Yuriy Ivantsiv "Polyglot Notes. Practical tips for learning foreign language" will help you structure and organize your individual language learning process, allow you to find a method of language learning that will be interesting and unencumbered. Also, subscribe to this channel, because here the author puts very useful videos on learning a language! Thank the author of the channel for the great work in the creation of training videos!

I have a man crush on Finland

@AleksiHimself

5 жыл бұрын

Good stuff!

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. 😂

@AleksiHimself

5 жыл бұрын

Haha :D

Ich kenne nur juusto. Ich guck mal noch ein paar Videos, Aleksi xD

@AleksiHimself

3 жыл бұрын

Mach das. :)

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.

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.

@AleksiHimself

Жыл бұрын

Good point!

Teacher, how to say FAR FROM HERE and NEAR HERE? Would it be (1) kaukana täältä and (2) lähellä täällä?

@AleksiHimself

2 жыл бұрын

Correct

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.

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.

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.

@AleksiHimself

5 жыл бұрын

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.

@peterk.6093

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@ak5659

Жыл бұрын

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.

@ak5659

Жыл бұрын

​@@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.

@peterk.6093

Жыл бұрын

​@@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.

@peterk.6093

Жыл бұрын

​@@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.

It's hard af, but at least it's logical and pretty regular. So that makes it a little less hard.

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.

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.

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

Uskon, etta "Syön kalaa" ja "Syön kalaa huomenna" ovat "I am eating fish" ja "I will be eating fish tomorrow", mutta en oo varma.

@AleksiHimself

5 жыл бұрын

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."

cool

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.

@butterflies655

11 ай бұрын

It is not quite similar, but there are similarities.

Finnish language is not easy,but I can learn,if I work hard to learn,and I love this language,

@AleksiHimself

5 жыл бұрын

Yes it's completely learnable!

I want to learn Finnish bcs the way its pronounce is quite similar with Indonesian

@AleksiHimself

3 жыл бұрын

Good stuff!

How long does it take to learn Finnish? I'm Latvian and I'm studing Finnish🇱🇻🇫🇮❤️

@AleksiHimself

Жыл бұрын

If you're an active learner, I'd say 1-2 years.

@latvian_elevators04

Жыл бұрын

@@AleksiHimself Thanks for the reply

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.

Where English is more used, in Finland or Sweden?

@AleksiHimself

2 жыл бұрын

Hard to say. It's used in both.

3:29 what chords

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.

@bj0405

2 жыл бұрын

Und wie lange lernst du schon finnisch? xd

En ole suomalainen ja asu Afrikassa mutta puhun vähän Suomea. Suomi ei ole vaikea kieli.

@AleksiHimself

3 жыл бұрын

Kiitti kommentista Victor Muturi!

@landofw56

3 жыл бұрын

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All the days of the week end in "tai" in Finnish but Wednesday.

@barbershop2536

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, no rule without an exception.

Krossi can also be 12 * 12 = 144. Source: fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/krossi

@AleksiHimself

5 жыл бұрын

First time for me to hear about that one!

saira + ala = krank + Haus hahahaha.. nice!

Why am i watching this i'm a native speaker lol

@AleksiHimself

3 жыл бұрын

Haha

Now I want to learn Finnish!!!!!

@AleksiHimself

3 жыл бұрын

Good stuff!

the strees of the words is the opposite to French which is in the end of the word LOL

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.

@AleksiHimself

Жыл бұрын

Exactly! It's a maraton, not a sprint.

T'es oufff ou quoi ?! C'est un bordel sans nom !

Iam trying to learn Finnish language in Duolingo.

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. 😆

15 declination cases......and he says it's easy!!

@mrstetson9886

3 жыл бұрын

And that's the bottom of the pyramid he was talking about. When you learn those they will eventually become second nature, and they are used literally all the time.

@lucadellalombardia9055

3 жыл бұрын

@@mrstetson9886 when I was student I had to study Latin, and was hard with only 6 cases. German has 4 cases, even if usally only 3 are used, and 3 can be affordable, but 15 needs you to be a native or a genius.There is not a third option.

@peterk.6093

3 жыл бұрын

@@lucadellalombardia9055 Once I tried Hungarian and the teacher told us their linguists are not sure about the number of their cases but it was something about 32. They just express any grammatical construction by a different case. Very regular and fair for me. I just gave up because of the vocabulary - none international.

@lucadellalombardia9055

3 жыл бұрын

@@peterk.6093 lovely language but I think it's impossible if you are not a native speaker or you did not spend the most of your life in Hungary.

@peterk.6093

3 жыл бұрын

​@@lucadellalombardia9055 Actually, I think if you moved to Hungary and had a good teacher, after like 6 months you could understand the news a have the basic conversation in the street. Just need to get like first 1000-1200 words, about 10 per day, while it is quite easy to start reading, and basic cases from the grammar, to get over the hill. You could have that in Italian or Spanish, but not in French or Portuguese (unless you already are some Roman language speaker). Defnitely not in Slavic languages (except maybe Bulgarian if you get over cyrilics and off course except for the other Slavic speakers). I almost got to that point in Hungarian, I just had poor motivation to learn those words as I knew I was not going to stay there. From what I know so far about Finish, it seems to me a bit more complicated with those consonant changes.

Finnish is the most difficult language I have ever learnt ! (And I speak 8 languages.)

@AleksiHimself

2 жыл бұрын

Wow you're amazing! Finnish is hard but not impossible.

Im from finland

@AleksiHimself

2 жыл бұрын

Hyvä juttu!

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

Thank God that finnish is a phonetic language as romanian. Rakastan suomen kieltä💙

Pronunciation seems pretty easy

@AleksiHimself

5 жыл бұрын

It is actually.

5:51

As Finnish standup comedian Ismo Leikola says, "Finnish it pretty easy, typically even 3 year old children can speak pretty well already".

@AleksiHimself

Жыл бұрын

Well said!

Jos muistaa "minä sinä hän me te he älä sinä minulle vittuile" ni kaikki on hyvin

@AleksiHimself

Жыл бұрын

hyvä muistisääntö 😄