English is much easier to learn and to "keep fresh" as you see and hear it everywhere.

I’m a Swedish speaking finn (finlandssvensk). Born and raised in Finland with Swedish as my mother tongue. I have learned both Finnish and English in school. Nowadays my work languages are Finnish and English and on my free time I use mostly Swedish since family and friends speak Swedish 😊

@benitajulin2734

7 ай бұрын

I`m a Swedish speaking finn too. Eller finlandssvensk, suomenruotsalainen. Nowadays my work language is Finnish because I live in HÄRMÄ perkele😊😊

@vihreelinja4743

7 ай бұрын

Vitun hurri :D

My swedish is at a level where I could go to a swedish cafe and survive the encounter with cashier but not much more. Just like Aleksi says, it's mandatory to study in schools but after that there is practically no use for it. And I'm also living in the southwest coast at the heart of swedish speaking areas. English on the other hand is the language of TV entertainment, the internet, higher education in general, my programming job etc, so english is probably almost at a native level, except maybe some speciality vocabulary.

@amadeuz8161

7 ай бұрын

Are you sure? I had to speak english in Stockholm in a 7eleven because a young girl couldn't understand what I said, I did understand her. I speak fluently Finswe its like my mother tongue. When you learn Swe it opens up the path to German and English so I was able to watch German RTL as a kid and hardest thing with english is that some words are written the same way but with only similar meaning like "motion"(less important now that internet exists). Then you get to practice how to speak a germanic language so that it doesn't sound like rally english even if Grönholm is a Finswe rally english is the safe way to go because you don't even try. I do agree that if you never get to use it then its pretty hard to learn but is then Fin any good in places where you don't get to talk it. I do know that we Finswe's always change to Fin to make it "easier" but really we shouldn't but it is so hard to resist when I can fluently speak Fin too. Only negative thing with having 2 fluently spoken languages is that sometimes I mix both because in my head puu and träd is the same thing so I do not register what word I used. I do notice it when the person I am speaking with gives me that look "what are you saying". Like during corona I forgot how to speak Finswe but after a few days it came back. Like they could make Fin and Swe optional only keeping Eng or then we keep both the languages and try to see the good sides. Like I had 0 use of fin in school and outside school most only spoke Finswe. Its when I got older and moved to Turku that I started to need it. Then if you say that all Finswe's should only learn Fin you might wanna see what our eastern neigbors have done to our siblings, yes my roots are 34% from Karelia area so I have heard the stories what happens when 1 group forces the other.

My Swedish is rusty but quite ok. I didn’t dislike learning it and after high school I got to work in customer service in a city where third of the people spoke Swedish. That means I got to ”fortify” my skills so I remeber more.

"Kahvihammasta" as in "kahvihammasta kolottaa" means "coffee tooth, ache in my coffee tooth" this phrase means to have a strong desire to drink coffee, almost like an addict wanting another hit.

My native language is swedish because I live in the Åland islands, which is a part of Finland, but here Swedish is the #1 language, i think it's over 95% of the population here that speaks swedish fluently

@Rinssi_from_Finland

7 ай бұрын

And there are areas in mainland Finland where the case is same. The force fed swedish through school taught to me to hate swedish but as an adult, especially when I was working at sales and customer service, I noticed that it would have been useful to know swedish. But the finns whose native language is swedish they are so cocky and full of themselves so I don't really care anymore that I don't speak swedish.

@AHVENAN

7 ай бұрын

@@Rinssi_from_Finland cocky and full of themselves? How do you mean? I find it that we are kind of forced to stand our ground or we'll be stomped out by all the swedish hating finns.

@Rinssi_from_Finland

7 ай бұрын

@@AHVENAN I mean that you expect everyone to speak swedish and sometimes demand it. And get offended when someone doesn't. You expect me to speak perfect swedish because you do. Yet your own finnish is either not sufficient to be spoken or you just refuse to speak it. There have been several occasions where customer did not do business with me but with my co-worker because he spoke swedish. Or that customer came to store, learned I don't speak swedish and then learned that no one at the moment speaks swedish. And only after I had to explain all that they agreed to speak with me in finnish. Most often the comment is "But Finland is bi-lingual. You should be able to speak swedish". And I wonder if you are a finn in Finland, why the f you don't speak finnish? Why am I the one wrong for not speaking swedish?

@AHVENAN

7 ай бұрын

@@Rinssi_from_Finland alright, I guess I kinda see your point, I guess it's because we are the minority that we feel we have to fight for the swedish language or it might be eradicated

@amadeuz819

2 ай бұрын

@@Rinssi_from_FinlandHowever you look at it, if we wouldn't have become part of Sweden back in the day our fate would have been the same as for most of the other Finno Ugric people or Uralic people. We would live in rotten houses, speaking Russian and living a life of misery(at least not the happiest country in the world).

The product description for purchases, if there is no Finnish text, I read the Estonian text. So As an older person, I understand Estonia, it's just that it resembles old Finnish or somehow I just understand it.

It is a funny fact too that the work life balance in Finland is defined in law stating when employee is eligible to a break. This law does not specify coffee breaks as such but most of the employment agreements for workplaces define that personnel can have 1-2 paid coffee breaks a day (like 10-15 min breaks) every day

9:44 No, in fact, my grandmother says that I look Greek. Which is fairly fitting because I am studying Greek.

We look Asian?? Never heard that. The Saame people up north look kind of like Eskimos so maybe it comes from that..

@diamondsarenotforever8542

7 ай бұрын

Finland has not even Sami ppl a lot. Norway has the biggest number of them and Sweden is the second.

I can speak and understand English distinctly better than Swedish. That being said, I do understand Finland Swedish quite a bit as well but those skills, for me, are mostly passive (lack of practice...).

Heh. Learned this as a Norwegian kid: Want to get along with a Finn? Talk trash about the Swedes. Fortunately these days FI, SV, DK and NO have a joint air force, for which I am grateful :)

The only thing I can fluently say in Swedish is that I can't speak sweadish very well. Also English is way easier for me since we had cartoon network as a free channel as a kid and I could somewhat understand English before I started school.

@lucone2937

7 ай бұрын

A good way to start a conversation with a Swede is to ask this: "kan du tala finska eller engelska?" (= can you speak Finnish or English?). English is a neutral language for Finns and Swedes because it is not a mother tongue. A native speaker might talk too fast, use more obscure words and speak in certain dialect like Savonian. Swedish is the second official language in Finland, and it is called the second domestic language as a school subject for the native Finnish speakers. If you don't live on the southern or western coastal regions or near the Swedish border in north, there is not much use to maintain your Swedish skills. If you graduate for master's degree at the university, you have to pass so-called civil servant Swedish (virkamiesruotsi), but it's a not hard test. Only time I have used actively my Swedish skills is when I studied my own family roots and history before 1880. Before the year 1880 the Lutheran Church of Finland maintained population registry about births, deaths, marriages, occupations, and some other details in Swedish. So I just needed to understand some basic Swedish words about old civil registry like "okändä" means "unknown", etc.

15:12 Yes, coffee perks and is warm drink, so it's perfect companion for us specially in dark, cold winter months. 👌🏼

What do you think, if Swedish is spoken by about 15 million people in the whole globe and English by 1.5 billion, which one would you prefer to learn in Finland?

Btw the "asian" thing might have to do with some sort of Same/Sami treatment leftover? And Swedes not being that bright? ;) Some of the original Same/Sami can have a bit of - OK not polically correct but a word at the time - oriental eyes.

Here in Finland my 10 year old boy speaks quite fluent English. Have studied at school now for four years. Also also we use subtitles in TV and movies helps, watching KZread, playing in Ps etc.

I'm born in Sweden, but I can fluently speak both Swedish and Finnish. But my type of Finnish haves what you called an Ostrobothnia dialect, which many finns do not sometimes understands me when I speak. But I do understand, due I've huge families in Finland and its very important to understand when I'm in Finland. One plus is when I handle my late dad bureaucracy in Vasa, there was an Swedish speaking finn, to whom was so happy to speaking Swedish with. His Swedish what I calling is "Beach Swedish" which sometimes is harder to understand, due I speaks in Stockholm dialect. Then english comes in the picture and all hell breaks loose inside of my brain. 🤣

I understand Swedish fairly well, just don't ask me to form coherent sentences when I'm actually speaking it lol I have seen some Finns (mostly from near east border) that have a slight slant in their eyes, but it's not a prevalent trait in Finns in general. And yes, I do love coffee, 1-3 cups in the morning, once or twice after lunch (or during coffee break at work, depends) and if I know I'm not going to go to sleep anytime soon, an evening coffee.

The World Athletics Championship were held in Budapest this summer. For a moment I found myself trying to hear what was being said in the Hungarian stadium announcements thinking they were saying something in Finnish. Both Finnish and Estonian have a lot of Swedish loanwords. While Finland was part of Sweden, Swedish was the language of administration and education, but E.g. church language was Finnish, because that was the language the common Finns spoke. Mikael Agricola, founder of literary Finnish, was a clergyman. On that Asian thing: "How the Finns became White (in America)" and "Italian Hall Disaster 1913 | Footprints of Stampede Disaster".

I'm a Finn and you had a very good point recarding Estonian language - it sounds funny, but is similar in a way, that finns understand some of it. 😊

I love your FInnish vids, I'm a Finn myself and still I learn things :) You do amazing content anyways :)

@9:54 In Finland, mostly in the south, there are finns of every colour. Since the 90s Helsinki, for example, is very diverse. Im a 2000-baby and my schools in East-Helsinki were always 30-50% non-whites. Alot of them were born in Finland, but their parents came from Somalia, Iraq, Congo, Palestina, Vietnam, Thailand, etc.

i learned english basics from our uducation system, but mostly from pc -games, and brittish series lovejoy, monty's etc.

Finnish vs estonian is kinda more similar to english vs dutch than english vs german

@lucone2937

7 ай бұрын

Yeah, Estonian is the only language that sounds similar and have similar kind of words than Finnish. On the other hand many similar kind of Estonian and Finnish words may have slightly different meaning. For instance a word "kalju" means "cliff" in Estonian but is "bald-headed" in Finnish, or a word "vaim" means in Estonian "ghost", but a Finnish word "vaimo" means "wife".

It is only the very northern part of Sweden that is in arctic circle, where sun really doesn't rise above the horizon in the winter. There is a bit more Finland in arctic circle than Sweden, but not that much. I doubt that neither of gentlemen actually live in arctic circle though, what they were referring to is that sun is up only few hours each day if you live in southern parts of Finland or Sweden (or Norway), exact times depending of course on how south you live in and what time of winter it happens to be.

For English speakers comparison of Finnish-Hungarian understanding each other is the same as English speakers understanding Romanian, which is pretty poor I would say, so basically nothing similar, but there is still relation between the languages. English speakers understand Hungarian as well Finnish speakers do. 😂

The reason why Finns still have to learn Swedish is simple, the Swedish-Finnish party. They have only one agenda, and are willing to sell out on every other policy as part of the government negotiations for their dupport, as long as they get a promise that the special status and priviliges of Swedish-Finnish people are never touched

About coffee at 12:23 , Finns don't just drink a lot of coffee, we drink more than anyone else in the world. For several years we've been #1 in coffee consumption in the world per capita, and that goes for 2023 too. Average Finn drinks 4 or more cups of coffee / day, which translates to 12 kg / 26 lbs of coffee grounds per person every year. That amount is over 2 kg more than #2 on the list (Norway). They drink 9.9 kg / 22 lbs and nearly 4 kg more than Sweden (ranked #6), as they "only " drink 8.2 kg / 18 lbs yearly. Iceland #3, Denmark #4 and Netherlands #5 are between 8.4 and 9 kg / year. So Nordics and scandinavian countries are well represented in the top, Sweden is just lagging behind a bit by not drinking enough and "losing" to Netherlands :D

@dwaynesview

7 ай бұрын

Thanks for that info lol! Good information, so you guys really are number 1 when it comes to drinking coffee then. I need to remember to go to the best coffee shops in Finland. I bet you have some awesome coffee :)

The thing with Swedish language in Finland is that the pronunciation differs quite a bit from the language spoken in Sweden. I cope fine with Finns speaking Swedish, but struggle in Sweden. A bit like English versus Scottish. English and Swedish are very similar languages and the reason most people have a better grasp of English is just because we hear it everywhere.

Officially, I am able to converse in complicated technical issues in Swedish (I had to take the "Teknisk Svenska" course in our tech uni), but unofficially I could not even tell you what I studied in Swedish, let alone have a conversion about technology or barely even order a meal at a Swedish only restaurant.

@SimoExMachina2

7 ай бұрын

To reply to the original question: I can confidently say, I am fluent in English. I have studied it longer (English since 3rd grade as opposed to Swedish since 7th grade), I have literally lived in the US (California), for one year, was a pupil at a school there, had English-only speaking friends, have been watching English language movies, TV shows, games, read books in English, wrote my own stories in English, played and wrote games in English, I often even *think* in English! So yeah, there is doubt which language is my strong suite.

As to the "looking Asian": I live in the US, and am of Finnish descent. Oddly enough, my sister just reminded me of something that happened while we were in Elementary school. Her class was doing some type of presentation about people from around the world with the kids dressed in costumes. We lived in a rural area (not very ethnically diverse), and they decided that my sister looked the part the most, so they put her in a kimono. It must be a subjective thing. I don't see it, but some people seem to.

@lyondragons8898

7 ай бұрын

They may think Sami people tho

@janus1958

7 ай бұрын

@@lyondragons8898 Well, one of my grandfathers does come from the more Northern part of Finland, so it is not beyond possibility that there is bit of Sámi in me.

@diamondsarenotforever8542

7 ай бұрын

I lived in other countries and nobody told me I look like asian. I am a finn. Ppl always asked if I come from Scandinavia, Germany, Netherlands etc. The same with other finns I know.

Usually Finns seem to be blonde, with fair skin. But I have met some with really black hair and a bit slanted eyes, only very little. The same goes for some, only some, Sami people. Not the majority. I wonder if it has to do with some eastern genes in the mixture???

@kartsap8787

7 ай бұрын

In late 18th and 19th century Europe, the concept of Finns being Mongolian or other Asian minority was born and some think so to this day even though genome tests have proven otherwise. The point was at the time prove that Finns are lower beings.

@diamondsarenotforever8542

7 ай бұрын

The same thing in other Nordic countries.

I still do remember basic Swedish, but not that well. English = No problem. This is due to; 1 = English starts at 1st grade, Swedish on 7th. 2 = Western Internet in mainly English. 3 = We don't dup movies unless they are for the small kids. 4 = Swedes understand English quite well too. Finnish is closer to Estonian than English is to German. Closer comparison would be German/Dutch or Spanish/Catalan/Italian(/Portuguese)

Hello Dwayne! It's the first clearly nippy day here on the west coast so we ask where the hell are the hot days of July? Well I speak and use English more but I understand also Swedish well because we have to listen Swedish since we are kids. But wouldn't be able to speak it so fluently as English.

Fun story, I apparently speak better english than my classmates in Scotland (accordingto them!), Besides, sinnish swedish and swedish they speak in Sweden are rather different. We tested this with some swedish exchange students and lets just say we went back to speaking english right away. I began learning english when I was around 5, way before going to school and swedish came way later. And coffee is life! And anti-murder potion as well.

I speak Swedish, Finnish as my native languages, and English as well, or better, through media osmosis, video games, and the internet. Also as I'm a programmer, most programming languages use English for internal names.

The history of coffee drinking in Finland isn't even something you would have to necessarily look up, I remember spending one history lesson in elementary school learning about it in the late 90s.

When I was in school (80's and 90's) we started English studies on third grade, at age 9. Swedish studies started on 7th grade. On 8th grade we could start studying other languages. We were constantly influenced by English music, tv programs and movies, and as Aleksi said, the programs are rarely dubbed (only children's programs). Everything else have subtitles. Now there is also internet and gaming, where kids deal with english all the time. Also I think they start teaching languages way earlier. My nieces started to learn English already in pre-school at the age of 6, by singing English songs etc. and they also had option to start studying other languages way earlier in school. I can get by with my Swedish, but I can not carry a conversation. I have studied also commercial and restaurant/hotel swedish. But I haven't had a chance to use the language after school for so long, I have forgotten most of it.

I'm half Finnish from Sweden I had Finnish language lessons in School. I could choose that cos it was my home language.

I'm really bad at Swedish, schools teach that to us but it was really hard to learn, I understand some words here and there and can speak few sentences but that's it lol, so could say my Swedish is 2-4 out of 10 lol, English has always been easy for me, I learned more like myself than from schools, I think I was like 2-3 years old when I started to sing songs in English, every song I heard in radio I singed along lol, always had music ear, mum told me that already when I was young I listened other countries songs and then remembered lyrics and sang lol, and it continues today, doesn't matter what language lol, so yeah, I have British boyfriend and we talk English everyday, he lives here at Finland but talking in English has been good to me too :) so English has been always easier and I bet many can relate to this lol

I understand written Swedish quite well. Spoken Swedish depends on the dialect but usually I get what they are saying. I speak Swedish rarely, so it's not at a very good level. I've never heard Finns look Asian. Lol. Maybe way back in time, sami people looked a bit like mongolians etc. but not anymore,

I didn't get it in school why we have to learn swedish and therefore I didn't really learn it and forgot that little amount of it right after the school. Fast forward couple of years when I met my future ex-wife who happened to be, ta-dah, finnish swedish (finnish speaking swedish as their native language). So after an intensive period 20yrs hearing and trying to communicate with the personnel in my kids' schools etc. I think I manage swedish quite ok nowadays. Anyway it's really only on basic level and my english is much better, thanks to TV without dubbing and nineties with computers. English is so much more common so it's easier to keep up.

For the Asian thing, some of us do have more Asian looking eyes. I always wondered why my eyes are what they are. Then after some googling found that we do have in general about 10% Asian Dna, as earlier settlers came both from south and east here.

I think I can read and write Swedish text and understand spoken Swedish pretty well but speaking it is more difficult for me. I actually hear Swedish daily, because my partner is Swedish and he speaks Swedish with our kids. I am able to understand almost all of their conversations but the conversations are pretty simple because the kids are small. :D However I don't speak Swedish with my partner because I find it easier to speak English. I should try to speak Swedish with him more often. Would be nice to be more fluent in Swedish.

I follow both of these guys

I can say "my name is nyytti" and "i live in this town" in swedish. also some words from here and there. but if you work for covernment you have to speek swedish because of that official status of swedish. it's called "forced swedish" = "pakkoruotsi" and there is big amount of finns against that.

My guesstimation of Swedish skills in Finland (including the Swedish-speaking Finns, of course): 6 to 7 % - like a first language 7 to 13 % - excellent or very good 13 to 25 % - fairly good or not too bad 25 to 50 % - gets by in some situations 50 to 100 % - poor or no knowledge at all The situation varies regionally, i.e. Swedish skills are much stronger in the West, Southwest and South than in the rest of the country.

I have forgotten swedish, because I live in eastern-Finland.

My swedish is... not as good as it used to be I guess. I can follow swedish news on tv and radio plus read stuff on social media but I would not be able to speak well. I have always struggled with vocabulary and pronouncing. Also, "why finns look asian", I do know a person that is 100% finn but does have brown eyes and does a bit look asian. She happens to have relatives in north and east finland. Some eastern finns do have darker hair and features, maybe it is some further genetics from russian side or something.

6% of population in Finland has Swedish as mother tongue and about 1 million can Swedish. Half a million Finns have moved to Sweden and if you ask them if they can Swedish or English better, the answer is given.

"Why do finns looks like asian?" I think this has to do with the Sámi. If you Google Sámi Finland and look photos you see a lot of people with way more similar appearance to Asian than your average Southern finn.

@butterflies655

7 ай бұрын

And yet Finland has a Sami population far less than Norway and Sweden.

I'm a Finnish speaking Finn. I can understand and speak English well. I can also speak Swedish, but not as fluently as English. Therefore many things contribute to whether I understand a person when they speak Swedish or not, the biggest difference being whether they are Swedish or Finnish. In English there isn't as much difference between dialects, but I have to admit that I understand a drunken Scottish as well as a drunken Swede. Hungarian and Finnish are so appart from each other that there aren't loads of same words that mean the same thing. Hungarian is the furthest from Finnish in the Uralic language family. Estonian is quite similar to Finnish. Many times, if I hear an Estonian sentence, I can understand it after few seconds when my brain has had some time to prossess it. Might be as close to Finnish as Germany is to English. Not as close to each others as Swedish and Norwegian though. I have heard that Finns would look a bit Asian. I don't know if that's true, but I think many Estonians look a lot similar to Russians. And I don't mean Russians that live in Estonia but Estonian origin people. Aleksi looks like a typical Finn and I don't think us Finns generally look very Asian. The Swedish guy in the video also looks like a typical Finn.

Well, I'm relieved that no-one asked do we learn and use sorcery, do we see in pitch black darkness or can we read peoples minds... The world doesn't need to know.

RE: Finns looking asian Some of us do. I think it's down to a certain fenotype, because somehow I look like both of my parents who look very Finnish, but their features combined in me made me look almost half Japanese (or so I have been told).

just a thing about trust. I live in australia and I googled for a place to spend the night i vaasa. the lady on the phone said she want cash money. she gave me instructions how to get in to the appartment in the middle of the city and said just leave the money on the bed when you leave

When I was at the secondary scool in Finland , some boys called me asiatic, because, I have brown eys and my skin get really brown in summer. It’s still that way.

@85sharifa55

5 ай бұрын

About languages: first swedish, then german, and later (in Germany) also English.

During the days of my parents in school (let's say around the 60's and before that), it was more common to learn German than English at school. It was only later that the role of English replaced the German.

it is in the law to have a ten minutes coffee break during the working day in Finland

Yet another Finn commenting here. I can communicate in Swedish, but I must try to remember words all the time because lack of use of the language. In reality Swedish is quite useless language for an average Finn, because almost all of them who speak Swedish as their first language here, can speak perfect Finnish. English is my only foreign language that I can "directly think in" and I believe that's quite common in Finland. We hear and read (mostly American) English all the time from the internet, movies, series etc. In Finland movies etc. are subtitled, not dubbed except the programs made for children. About our related languages Hungarian is just gibberish, but it's quite easy to understand Estonian text eg. on signs, ads etc. Their speech is another thing. As a Finnish speaker I usually get the context when I hear Estonian, but it's far from understanding everything.

English is much more useful so basicly everyone else focuses on english more and ofc we have more english than swedish in schools. Finns are considered one of the most english friends countries for a reason

9:48 The more Finnish your heritage is, the more Asian features you have, since the original settlers to Finland are part of the same mass migration that populated Asia, but then followed the retreating glaciers back to the West. The high cheekbones are one of the most noticeable legacies, and yes the Finnish women's eyes as well Especially Finnish women can have very distinct facial features normally found mostly in mixes that are for example half-Korean or half-Japanese.

@kimreinikainen

7 ай бұрын

Laura Lepistö comes first to my mind. Former figure skater

@diamondsarenotforever8542

7 ай бұрын

Not true. My brother is 99% Finn and nothing asiatic in him. He is 180cm tall. Blond hair and big very blue eyes. He lived in Australia and everybody asked if he comes from Scandinavia.

@diamondsarenotforever8542

7 ай бұрын

​@@kimreinikainenWhat about Kira Korpi? She is a Finn too.

@butterflies655

7 ай бұрын

There are quite a few finns having 100% finnish dna For instance my brother's wife. She looks nothing like asian. She has big blue eyes, white complexion and blond hair. Also with very nordic features. Just like most of the finns look like. When will the lies of finns end? I lived in Australia and many ppl were surprised when I told I come from Finland. Oh you don't look like mongol at all they said. Finns have been described as short, black haired, black eyed with dark complexion( nothing wrong with that, but it is not true)very often and in reality they look the opposite.

@kimreinikainen

7 ай бұрын

@@diamondsarenotforever8542 she does not have asian features. Atleast in my opinion

It is not rare for kids to speak english to some degree in a very young age. English is definately what you should speak in Finland, if not finnish. It is easier to keep up, as it is everywhere. Swedish not so much.

Back in the day you could survive with Swedish in many parts of Finland, like there was a time period when they sort of tried to remove Finswe. Like one of my ex gf's mother was fin speaking and her parents too but their parents spoke Finswe. I think it was a little payback because until 1892 Swe was the main language(Like there is still 1200 Finswe in Tampere but there was a lot more earlier). I again am a Finswe speaking Karelian by blood but grew up in the Finswe region. It really doesn't matter for me what we speak but have to say that being able to speak both fluently really has made many things easier for me when I compare to only Fin speaking friends. Could a Swede survive on their Swe here, no because they don't understand Finswe anymore. They just look at you confused because Finswe is the old pure swe while theirs is a mutation with new madeup words. If they know how to speak real/pure/old swe then they would survive along the coast but inland the "purge" pretty much removed Finswe, some are shouting for a new purge because its too scary for us xenophobes to explore other options(there are even rumors that your sexuality can change if you learn swe, yes its that lame).

As a native Finn, my level of swedish is low, but I can understand it. I am at a native level on english, due to living in the UK for half a decade and was quite good even before then :) Funnily enough almost all Estonians can understand finnish, but almost no one in here without concentrating can't understand estonian. It's like a really weird like they scrambled finnish words and went at it :D Personally if people talk to me estonian slow and carefully I can understand it but it takes concentration :) It's like Finnish on LSD XD Almost everyone in Finland can speak and read english. We get exposed for it and it's taught in schools and we even have english schools and kindergardens and language baths :) Also when people come here we love to speak english to people, a common complaint among immigrants is that they don't get to learn the finnish langauge because everyone just wants to talk/practice english with them hahah :D He's also a very typical finn, we typically are white white with blond to ashen blond light brown hair with blue/grey eyes. We have to learn swedish because we used to be part of Sweden and fuck that. we are trying to abolish that stuff now so that it wouldn't be mandatory. We are one of the biggest coffee drinkers in the world, we drink most coffee by capita :) And it's just something we do. It's something we've always done, even during the winter war, I remember my granny telling me that they send thousands of finnish marks via post to get coffee, and coffee came :D The substitute by the way is horrible. It's just really a part in our culture. We have something called "Kahvihammasta kolottaa" which means my coffee tooth is aching :D And morning coffee is sacred!!

The Finns looking Asian was something that was believed in the US 100 years ago. It was thought that for more nefarious reasons, though. It was a way to determine if they could become citizens at that time. The US has always had the problem with racism.

As a finn who got 9 as my final score for swedish in elementary I can confidentaly say that after 2/3 of a year I could barely remember how to introduce myself.

My english is ok in written form coz use that much more than speaking. My swedish is thrash,can count to 20. Im near eastern border so havent heard it in ages. Maybe saami people can look lil bit like mongols or inuits but not really chinese

I studied German more than Swedish but somehow I always felt I knew Swedish better. I haven't actually ever really used either in a conversation since it's just easier for everyone to speak English. Or Finnish in the case of Swedish-speaking Finns. Oh, and can you guess which language we expect Swedes to speak to us when they come visit instead of Swedish? Hint: It's not Finnish.

As a Finn born and raised in Sweden, I’d say I’m not very adept in Finnish at all, even though we spoke Finnish at home, though only with my parents. Me and my siblings only spoke Swedish among ourselves, still do. English is actually much easier to me at least than Finnish.

I can read Swedish quite well, but I do not understand spoken Swedish that much, and I can produce only some very short and basic sentences myself. My English is definitely better than my Swedish.

To me as a finnish person Estonian language kinda sounds like a really drunk person talking finnish

When I meet swedish people they speak automatically in English:) luckily

I vas born in Finland stil live ther but only spek Swedish and English

I can understand Swedish decently well, but I don't really talk in Swedish.

Funny story about going to other places and speaking a certain language. When I was about 7 years old me and my family took a trip to Tenerife in the Canary Islands, and I dont remember this myself but my parents have told me that when we were approached by people trying to sell lottery tickets or whatever on the street, I would instantly pretend to speak finnish and they would go away xD I did not know any finnish at the time but apparently I was decent at faking it xD

The coffee thing is actually very simple...the reason why we drink so much coffee is, that it has long traditions in Finland. We are very accustomed to it. We drink coffee in the morning, take coffee breaks at work, drink coffee in the evening, if friends pay a visit, we drink some coffee with them, and so on. People start drinking coffee at fairly young age, and they follow those traditions. But that's just the start of it.. Real reason is that since we drink so much coffee to begin with, we build up a high tolerance to caffeine - which means, that we need to drink more of it in order to get the same effect. So in a nutshell; we start by drinking a lot of coffee when we are young - and that makes us to drink even more coffee when we get older. No mysteries, no magical explanations or mythical reasons - it really is that simple.

@haneski8020

7 ай бұрын

Except older people drink less coffee.I know many who have problems with coffee and they prefer tea when older.They are also adding more milk or using caffeine-free coffee. I myself do drink coffee but not that often anymore.Few times per week is ok.

Finns need Swedish if they want to study their family history since all the official documents are written in Swedish before surtain time. Thanks to our Swedish history and clercybooks you can follow your family line back even over 300 yrs.

I dont look asian at all, BUT i did an dna test and i got 2% of Japanese descent. Pretty interesting to me.

I can understand some swedish but i dont speak it well, whereas english i can do fluently

Well, I couldn't write this sentence in swedish.

i got at school 8/10 swedish now i dont remember a think

That Swedish guys English was good, usually Swedes are lazy with their pronunciation.

@butterflies655

7 ай бұрын

Often they are represented as finns. Fun fact: the Sami population is smaller in Finland than in Norway and Sweden. Also their culture is completely different from Finland, Sweden and Norway.

Americans used call as swedish chinese.

@notkearotta

7 ай бұрын

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@diamondsarenotforever8542

7 ай бұрын

Chinese look very different.

I speak bouth Finnish and Swedish. I live in westcoust and In our town swedish spoken are more than finnish.

Im a swedish speaking finn

I think it is accurate that 90% of Finns really don't need Swedish at all despite we all have to study it. That being said I'm one of that 90% but once I moved from the inner country to the west coast I realized that if you would want to work in customer service job of any sort you would actually need some level of Swedish to get the job. But luckily most people will know at least basic English and Finnish people are generally pretty decent in English outside of the older generations. So really Swedish is NEEDED only to communicate with Swedish speaking Finns from the older generations.

@diamondsarenotforever8542

7 ай бұрын

Actually swedish is the second official language in Finland.

9:55 I would consider myself very finnish, and im very pale, very blonde hair and a ginger beard 😂 Atleast im 6ft

I would not starve to death if dependent on speaking Swedish, but English has always been stronger. My British husband agrees my grammar in English is better than his 😂😂.

Eastern finns may look a bit darker and have some slight Asian features. Finns have more genes from Asia than the rest of the Europeans.

I forgot 99.9% of Swedish as soon as I left school. Or more accurately as soon as the last exam was done. I know English way better. I can't even introduce myself in Swedish. I can easily talk in English without any problems. I think I've heard Swedish being spoken where I live maybe... twice... SO.. not much need for it. Also hated learning it. Seemed like a waste of time to me.

ruotsi (swedish in finnish) zero, even it was mandatory subject at school, english near ten as I think most people in Finland

My swedish level is around -10 :D

Basics of swedish are...almost allways worese than in english. 6 years english - 3 years swedis.

finnish, swedish and english all goies ;)

English is so much easier than Swedish

Swedish is, well.. problematic. As a swedish speaker in Finland, specifically from the Åland archipelago - this is an issue for me since I barely know any finnish. I think it is bogus that finns with finnish as their mother tongue need to learn swedish, but at the same time you can't just "quit" the language, because then you're essentially screwing over a sizable amount of the society. I would be fine with finns not being able to speak swedish, but i still need public services in swedish, which funny enough is required by law, but often is neglected. What I also find problematic is that many multinational companies see language based by region in black and white, so I often encounter situations where all info is in finnish, but I essentially have no knowledge of the language. "Just learn finnish then" - you say, but is equally as hard for us to learn finnish as it is for you to learn swedish, not to mention that our part of society don't speak finnish to support the learning process.

There is a reason why the "finns look asian" is a "thing". And the thing is mostly racism and bigotry upon ignorance. Interestingly enough not coming not from Sweden directly, but from United states. This dates back to the 20th century when hundreds of thousands Fins emigrated to the United states. The regions within the states were moslty the same where most Scandinavians moved. (shocking) At that time.. the notation was that Fins (like my self) were from the east.. (omg) Which is correct in a sense of people moving from place to place especially after the ice-age. (was like yesterday) The "do finnic people look asian" as a phrase might be an after-tought of the slandetory term: "china-swede". This degatory term is not that different from the slanders made about for example Irish emigrants at the time. This had slighty more to do about the economical circumstances than actual racial bigotry at this time period. But when you put an idea on the head of a bunch it tends to multiply. Every northern, or past northern human tribe poses this "slanted" trademark of the harshness. goddamn that Khan eh? (old joke)

The only ethnic group in Finland with Asian features, aside from actual Asians, are the Gypsies whose origins are somewhere in India.

I understand mutch more English than Swedish