My children are now studying Swedish and English at the same time. And they are 10 and 11. 😂 Learning several languages is quite normal.

@touma-san91

6 ай бұрын

And in some schools they can also add for example German as additional language to learn. There is probably differences between schools in which extracurricular activities they offer though, but I do remember studying German in elementary school myself.

He is so part of Finnish society. We do need and appreciate these strong voices like Dave Cad, Chico Muya, Irish in Finland, Very Finnish Problems and so on. They are representing our English (finnish) speaking population and they are important part of ..of...of Finland. They are our people. It was heart-warming to hear him call Helsinki his Home

You have already integrated quite far into Finnish society when you're able to sigh "joo-o" when you INHALE. It is a special Finnish skill :D

Dave is speaking swedish and finnish, since his wife is finnish svede or "finlandsvensk". :) Here in finland we have to learn at least swedish and english in elementary school and we are given an opportunity to pick some other languages too, in my area there was just german to choose. I didn't study it and now I regret it but maybe someday.

The dialect / accent change often changes even just moving around in your own country. I'm finnish, moved to a different region years ago and I think I've somewhat lost my dialect, but it always always turns back on immediately when I'm around my family.

If i had to choose Sweden or Finland i would choose Finland, safer country, better healthcare, better schools, and i am a introvert.

@kalegolas

6 ай бұрын

As an introvert you should have it good in Sweden to. There is a reason the restrictions during the pandemic was softer in Sweden than most countrys, we already holding more than two meters distans and isolates ourselfs 😅

@MissSylvia67

6 ай бұрын

Sweden and Finland are more or less the same, and that comes from a Swede/Finn from Sweden. Finland is safer, that's true, not as much gang violence. We are also quite introvert here, but we are a bit more social. Swedish is much easier to learn 😅 Nothing is wrong with our healthcare, but schools are most likely better in Finland. I love both countries 💕

@Basca112

6 ай бұрын

Sounds like me, i even have a finnish citizenship granted i did not apply for it for my sake but my fathers in his last years and that was the thing that made him proud of me i guess it was the Sisu in him. I do live in a suburb with alot of gang activity but i was born here and raised and seing the failure of the Swedish goverment up close planted a thorn in my heart.@@MissSylvia67

@MissSylvia67

6 ай бұрын

@Munther12 That was very nice of your father. My mom is Finnish, she came to Sweden with her parents when she was 13. I have Swedish and Greek citizenship that I got when I lived in Greece as a toddler. I live in one of the bigger cities in Sweden and we do have gangs here too. I hope something will be done about them, but if this government can do anything, well we will see...

So glad to see you do more reactions to Dave Cads content, he is the ideal youtuber for you to react to since you're both from the UK!

Finnish swear words are definitely sharper and stronger than english and swedish ones.

@EpicBurritto

6 ай бұрын

I cant take swedish people cursing seriously cause swedish sounds so flamboyant and priviliged.

@ACorpseWithoutSoul

6 ай бұрын

Perkele!

@HerrDirektors

6 ай бұрын

Comparing perkele with any other languages swear wörd is like you'd swap from Beach boys to the Rammstein. 😂

@jereulmanen7093

6 ай бұрын

Idk finnish ones are more like based to christianity like jumalauta translates to god help and you are never suposto say name of your god without reason and yeah we dont fck here each other so fck you doesn hit so hard

Some language videos: "Mexican Guy Speaking Fluent Finnish Language - How Did He Learn?", "Luke Bland Speaking Finnish All Day", "Dave Cad REACTING TO FUNNY LITERAL FINNISH TRANSLATIONS", "Reacting to Finnish sayings: sauna edition", "Dave Cad REACTING TO WEIRD FINNISH SAYINGS & IDIOMS", "Mandelin Memesplained: Rally English" and "Anni´s show How to pronounce words in Finnish accent?".

@puhistagram

6 ай бұрын

Stefano from linguaEpassione

I've followed Dave and & Cat for 8-9 years now. Damn the time flyes fast..

These kind of videos just makes, at least me, to feel a little bit more proud of my country. We are so small and I might say modest about finland and pretty much always looking up to other countries. But definitely I might say that at least 90% of Finns has at least some kind of understading of english, so I think that´s wh6 british people find it quite easy to move in and living in finland. Dave is a great guy, been following him for years now and really happy for him and Cat! Keep up good work Dwayne! 💪

Hmm, I studied Swedish, English and German and of course Finnish and I've been using all the languages at work.

As a child many Finns learn English, Swedish, Finnish and a second foreign language at the same time.

It definitely can! This is my 23rd year living in lovely Turku. Learning the language is the most obvious "in" but it requires dedication and it's NOT easy. Great to see Dave and Aaron (to name but a few) not only surviving but thriving in Finland. Well done lads!

I don't know if it was said on that video that Dave's wife is a Swedish speaking Finn who also speaks fluent Finnish, so that is why Dave is trying to learn both: His wife's mother tongue and then Finnish on top of that.

The attitude to studying other languages is actually quite familiar to finns also as we also have to learn Swedish all the way to uni making quite frustrating to try to keep up if you get left behind. I recently started my university studies again to work towards a new career and I need to relearn swedish after a decade of not using it with the expectation having the basic down making it really hard to get anything done. English is fine for me as I use it on the internet almost daily but swedish is awful as even back in school I was bad at it but the course starts with the expectation of being conversational in it.

I remember living one summer in UK when I was 15. It was lifechanging experience. Learned new language and culture.

the trees talk to you, if you talko to trees. good heart.

I speak normal Finnish but I have heard that we in Espoo have special s. In Finnish it is said suhisee. In English suhisee is like what snake sounds like.

As a finn I can speak seven languages. Even my 10 year old boy speaks really good English.

Finns try to speak more clear to foreigners aswell, which sounds extremely stupid to Finns and usually just condescending😅 might be a personal issue but I prefer talking like I normally do, to teach a way of speaking that is natural - rather than "literal" way of speaking with foreigners. Finnish language has a "written way of speaking" and "casual way of talking" simplifying your way of speaking usually takes the form of the former which isn't the way people talk in Finland.

It has to be said,that Helsinki is a far cry from other parts of Finland where less speak English that well and are "too shy" to even try.

I would assume, the pronouncing better also comes with the the fact that hes learning finnish and swedish. As in finnish, we pronounce all letters written, exepet ng... ye, not gonna try type that 😂

About swearing "[some thing is] päin vittua" -> "[some thing is] fucked up" -> literally: "[...] towards/against pussy!" Love our language.

I think any longer durarion off from your home country will change you. You will notice both bad things and good things in both countries. This will change your view on things. Btw. Finns usually speak something more towards American English with some UK/Fingrish twist. So beware. I bet there is quite many UK people coming home from London going ”phew”. The same thing happens in Finland coming home from Helsinki.

Yes, it can. Been here for 13 years... Massive difference to Spain. Now I am such a cold t.wat...

You are not rolling the R in perkele as you should - the harder and more you roll the R the stronger the curse, so "Perkele!" is not so bad, but "Perrrrrkele!" is very bad.

As you said, English is the lingua franca of today, and I find it perfectly acceptable that you guys don't _need_ to learn other languages. English is such a nuanced language anyway, why would you need to learn another language? Unless it was a bit of French, German and old Norse just to see how the pudding was made. I studied German and Swedish before I started English, can't use either in any meaningful way. German started when I was 9, Swedish at 11. First class in English must've been around 13, but at that point I was getting into Shakespeare and translating Poe into Finnish as a "hobby", so I was mainly bored in the English class. I fell in love with English when I was 7 and learned it on my own, mainly because we always had a computer and this was in the 90's - one had to use the queens English to use ones computer, and ones computer happened to have quite a few games about the queens English.

@kpt002

6 ай бұрын

"..English is the lingua franca of today, and I find it perfectly acceptable that you guys don't need to learn other languages." I so much disagree!! I am a Native Finnish speaker but I also speak fluent Danish, English and Swedish. On top of that I have studied the basics of Spanish, French and Arabic and am now learning some Korean on my own. While living in Israel I also learned some Hebrew and while living in Tanzania some Swahili. From my point of you studying different languages is important for everyone. I could not imagine living only speaking and understanding one language. Fex. just following news online, when something big happens - like a pandemic or a war - you can follow discussions in different countries and have different points of views on issues. And knowing different languages just windens your thinking in everyway. I am using several languages daily and huh.. can't imagine how boring by life would be, if I only knew one language..

You know the feeling when you accidently hit your toe on something hard and it hurts like h*ll.. ??! Then I naturally use the whole list of all the Finnish curse words there exist. Since I am a native Finnish speaker, cursing in any other language (which I speak and can curse too) at that moment would just not help at all. 😅

You'll cteate your own experience... some hate, some love, some be depressed...

I would like British TV-show, they are more realistic than USA. But most of time i don't have a clue what you are saying. And i understand you both, that is weird. And I'm from Santa's sweat shop.

I have been following Dave for years now. He has definetly learnt more finnish, but he is still not near proficient in finnish

Number 1 country in the World ❤

AHA! is very Swedish.

@Juhani96

6 ай бұрын

and "ahaa" is Finnish way :D

@friswing

6 ай бұрын

@@Juhani96 :D

Majority of the world.. don't speak English... I think there might be more or similar numbers of people who speaks mandarin Chinese

Finnish swearwords are not just curses but "power words" that you can use to cut mountains. Swedish words are a lot softer and this is why between swedes and finns we see how barbarian finns are.

@TheObscureRambler

6 ай бұрын

"barbarian"? 'scuse you! 😂

Interesting, the swear words thing! I'm Finnish, and to me, the English words sound lame compared to the Finnish ones... The exact opposite than how you feel about it.

This dark weather makes people act like zombies. People are angry, because they just have to survive. We are not friendly during the winter. And we hate this !!

@lamppulaamanen8084

6 ай бұрын

Pls don't say we when you're speaking about yourself.

@saturahman7510

6 ай бұрын

​@@lamppulaamanen8084 So sorry if I insulted you. You are just a typical finnish male with minimal confidence.

@alohamai273

6 ай бұрын

That is so not true! Some of us (like me) feel alive at winter. I love darkness and cold ❄

To a finnish ear the accent was a tad bit too russian.

Dave is my favorite KZreadr. And I'm glad to see that you found him.😊 I believe that if you download instagram and are in touch with him, you could make a collaboration video. as long as you've watched more of his videos. 😘 greetings from Sievi, Finland