Finnish Language Explained: Vowel Harmony - a simplified overview

Heippa kaikille! Hello everybody!
In this video I go over (almost) everything you need to know about one of the pivotal features of the Finnish language, Vowel Harmony, in a simple and hopefully fun way.
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Пікірлер: 109

  • @Paul_Herr
    @Paul_Herr3 жыл бұрын

    This is the amazing part of the internet. An Italian, speaking German perfectly, teaches Finnish. Thank so much, this was very helpful for a beginner. Greetings from Germany

  • @linguaEpassione

    @linguaEpassione

    3 жыл бұрын

    Danke Dir, Paul, lovely comment!

  • @Vuusteri
    @Vuusteri3 жыл бұрын

    It's funny that IQ (intelligence quotient), which is ÄO (älykkyysosamäärä) in Finnish, is often written incorrectly as ÄÖ. Must be a vovel harmony thing, because it feels weird to say ÄÄ-OO. The common joke is that the person writing ÄÖ must have a low IQ to make such a stupid mistake :D

  • @linguaEpassione

    @linguaEpassione

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hahah didn't know about that joke yet! :D But yeah, it must be vowel harmony doing its thing there :)

  • @Ketutar
    @Ketutar2 жыл бұрын

    It's lovely to hear you pronounce the Finnish words, because your accent is great :-) You sound like a Finn. :-) Never has my mother-tongue sounded so sweet as in the mouth of a foreigner :-) Kiitos

  • @linguaEpassione

    @linguaEpassione

    2 жыл бұрын

    OMG this is one of the best comments I've received lately, SUURKIITOS!

  • @Ewan_Smith
    @Ewan_Smith3 жыл бұрын

    Very interesting video! It seems like Finnish vowel harmony is very similar to that of Kazakh, except for that Kazakh has a few more vowels in each category. Also the way that loanwords break the rules is the same in Kazakh with Russian loanwords. I'd love to see some more videos about Finnish!

  • @linguaEpassione

    @linguaEpassione

    3 жыл бұрын

    That sounds interesting indeed! Kazakh has intrigued me for a while... Thank you for your comment!

  • @Ewan_Smith

    @Ewan_Smith

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@linguaEpassione If Kazakh intrigues you enough to try to study it I have a number of useful resources to share!

  • @linguaEpassione

    @linguaEpassione

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Ewan_Smith Thanks man, that's really cool to hear!

  • @mrgenetics4063

    @mrgenetics4063

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Ewan_Smith what are the resources?

  • @Ewan_Smith

    @Ewan_Smith

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@mrgenetics4063 So the best one I found was a website called soyle.kz, they also have a KZread channel with lots of content for Kazakh. The website works better in Russian, but it has an English version too. It provides a structured course, lots of vocab, short dialogues etc. Apart from that I used Colloquial Kazakh and another book in Russian called казахский язык самоучитель. Also, the Kazakh Tourism KZread channel has some videos in Kazakh with Kazakh subtitles.

  • @jerkkub
    @jerkkub2 жыл бұрын

    This was very interesting as a Finn :D Haven't paid attention to these things but they make so much sense! Love your passion for my not so widely spoken language.

  • @timokk3
    @timokk32 жыл бұрын

    I have learned so much about the Finnish language watching your videos. You just make it so much more fun and interesting than my oppikoulun kielioppi opettaja kuuskut luvulla (my family emigrated to the USA in 1968 so I have not had formal training in Finnish since then). You have a naturally relaxed and unintimidating style has given me the courage to start studying the language that sounds the most beautiful to me: Italian. PS. My father's name was especially intimidating to pronounce for Americans, despite it's utter simplicity (only four letters): Yrjö so they called him George instead.

  • @Xloudy
    @Xloudy2 жыл бұрын

    I never knew the origin of "tällainen" or even considered its absence of vowel harmony lmao. You learn something new every day even as a native speaker.

  • @Ka1aMa1ja
    @Ka1aMa1ja3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you Stefano❣️ You make a grate job! Since 60years I haven’t thought anything about Finnish gramma. It’s wonderful how you make it alive and understandable! I’m native Finnish spesking guy🤩

  • @linguaEpassione

    @linguaEpassione

    3 жыл бұрын

    Kiva kuulla että tykkäsit!

  • @seand6482
    @seand64823 жыл бұрын

    In Turkish the vowels are split into two categories, and native words typically contain only vowels of one type: front (e, i, ö, and ü) or back (a, ı, o, and u). Words originating in foreign languages aren’t necessarily obliged to follow this dichotomy (banliyö, otobüs, İsfahan), but I notice the influence of the predominate vowel type on the pronunciation of other vowels in certain mixed-vowel words (İstanbul being pronounced as Istanbul, rüzgar being pronounced as something similar to rüzgär). Interestingly, the “mode of transportation” suffix in Turkish is also le/la (“trenle,” “vapurla”).

  • @linguaEpassione

    @linguaEpassione

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks so much, Sean, for chiming in with some details on Turkish vowel harmony! Turkish is definitely on my list of future exploration, and it sounds really intriguing :)

  • @aaropassi1833
    @aaropassi18333 жыл бұрын

    I'm here because I was interested how you had improved from your My Finnish Story video. Your Finnish sounds pretty amazing. I was already impressed by your skill in that older video but this time you really didn't make one mistake!

  • @linguaEpassione

    @linguaEpassione

    3 жыл бұрын

    Kiitos kovasti, Aaro!

  • @derzeitpunkt124
    @derzeitpunkt1243 жыл бұрын

    Idk why but this man speaks almost every single language that I'd Like to learn

  • @linguaEpassione

    @linguaEpassione

    3 жыл бұрын

    Awww this is a golden comment, thank you! :)

  • @SilentPolyglot
    @SilentPolyglot3 жыл бұрын

    That's a really interesting video. Thank you, Stefano! ♥️

  • @linguaEpassione

    @linguaEpassione

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you, Kate, happy you liked it!

  • @topi252
    @topi2523 жыл бұрын

    Interesting video, I didn't even know the origin of the word tällainen :D And funny part of that ending is that the Estonian word aitäh basically means something like "huh, what?" in Finnish :D Actually lots of Estonian words sound similar as in Finnish but they usually have completely different meanings and seem like complete gibberish to Finnish person.

  • @linguaEpassione

    @linguaEpassione

    3 жыл бұрын

    Moi Topi, kiitoksia paljon kommentistasi!

  • @petrirantavalli859

    @petrirantavalli859

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@linguaEpassione However before "germanization" of Estonian the language was almost identical to Finnish to an extent that a Finn can read 1600-1700's Estonian with relative ease but doesn't necessarily understand a word of Estonian spoken today.

  • @curtpiazza1688
    @curtpiazza1688 Жыл бұрын

    Very well explained!

  • @linguaEpassione

    @linguaEpassione

    7 ай бұрын

    It's great to hear that!

  • @retchilmendiola1173
    @retchilmendiola11732 жыл бұрын

    Hyvää iltaa jUst started learning finnish and this help. Kiitos

  • @puhistagram
    @puhistagram2 жыл бұрын

    Kiitos brieffistä! Olen tähän asti luullut että tällainen on lyhenne sanasta tämänkaltainen. Sulla on hyvä kanava 👍🏻🙏

  • @linguaEpassione

    @linguaEpassione

    2 жыл бұрын

    Morjens ja kiitos itsellesi, että katsoit ja kommentoit! Lisää tulossa (viihdoinkin)...

  • @Finn_sisjon
    @Finn_sisjon6 ай бұрын

    You explain soooo well. I’m not learning Finnish but I needed to know what vowel harmony was and I loved your explanation! I love the Finnish language! I’m 25% Finnish :)🇫🇮

  • @linguaEpassione

    @linguaEpassione

    4 ай бұрын

    So glad to hear this video was helpful! Thank you for the comment!

  • @riccardoc9552
    @riccardoc95523 жыл бұрын

    Amazing job! You should make a video about consonant gradation if you can :)

  • @linguaEpassione

    @linguaEpassione

    3 жыл бұрын

    Kiitos Riccardo!

  • @habicht6

    @habicht6

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yeaaaaaaaah

  • @matandacd
    @matandacd Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for sharing this vowel harmony interesting

  • @Georgian2go
    @Georgian2go3 жыл бұрын

    well explained!

  • @elizabethraitanen5057
    @elizabethraitanen50573 жыл бұрын

    Great video! Kiitos!

  • @linguaEpassione

    @linguaEpassione

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you, Elizabeth!

  • @Zyklonite
    @Zyklonite2 жыл бұрын

    Joo, jätkä puhuu parempaa suomea kun iso osa suomalaisista :) Hyviä videoita!

  • @kiasoneja11
    @kiasoneja113 жыл бұрын

    Excellent! ❤️

  • @anttikuusmetso
    @anttikuusmetso2 жыл бұрын

    Tämmönen kiva video!👍

  • @linguaEpassione

    @linguaEpassione

    2 жыл бұрын

    Kiva kuulla että tykkäsit!

  • @jellytartthief6830
    @jellytartthief68303 жыл бұрын

    The way you grinned after you said 'kaksi', very cheeky xD

  • @linguaEpassione

    @linguaEpassione

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hahah, you think so? :D I swear I was just enjoying the moment :)

  • @willmurphy4073
    @willmurphy40733 жыл бұрын

    Ekki nærri á myndbandinu þinn Ég elskar það upphæðinni af tíminn þinn sem þú hefur notaður í lærum tungumál þvílíkt íslensku! Bless bless. Jeg har begynte også å lære flere språk likså. Språkene som norsk og Íslandsk og nederlandsk virker sine ut å bli interessant for meg, jeg syns. Det ble i fjor siden jeg hadde begynte lært språkene. Et år etterpå, funnet jeg min kjærlighet på språk! Begge lære eller lærerer. Nå jeg vil å bli en lærere av engelsk i det avanserte nivået. Har det bra. That's enough rambling for me. Love your inspirational videos! Just gained a new subscriber in me! (Apologies for my bad speaking)

  • @seishonagon8170
    @seishonagon81703 жыл бұрын

    Faresti sembrare semplice anche il Klingon !😂 Scherzi a parte, complimentissimi !

  • @linguaEpassione

    @linguaEpassione

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hahah grazieeee! 😂

  • @Auritilien
    @Auritilien3 жыл бұрын

    En ookaa aikasemmin ajatellut sen enempää Tälläsestä :O kaikkea sitä oppii, kiitos!

  • @linguaEpassione

    @linguaEpassione

    3 жыл бұрын

    Kiitos itsellesi että jaksoit katsoa! :)

  • @habicht6
    @habicht63 жыл бұрын

    Kiitos

  • @linguaEpassione

    @linguaEpassione

    3 жыл бұрын

    Kiitos itsellesi! :)

  • @mastereric1013
    @mastereric10133 жыл бұрын

    Hei Stefano, mitä kuuluu? I have been learning Finnish for about a month and it is a difficult but great language! Do you have any tips for learning Finnish/ Finnish cases? As always, hyvä video ja kiitos! 🇫🇮

  • @linguaEpassione

    @linguaEpassione

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hei Eric, hyvää, kiitos? Entä sulle? :) Have you already watched this one: kzread.info/dash/bejne/pIeD0Jd-hLqzn6w.html ? My extra tip would be to learn the cases as they come to you instead of trying to cram them all out of context. Hope this helps a little bit :)

  • @AinoHiat
    @AinoHiat3 жыл бұрын

    I found your channel years ago, lost it, forgot it, remembered it and found it again. So glad to be back here, thank you so much these videos! You're such a delightful person and the way you explain things is always clear and easily understandable. Kiitos! :-)

  • @linguaEpassione

    @linguaEpassione

    3 жыл бұрын

    Voi että, Aino, suurkiitos tästä ihanasta kommentista! Great to have you back on board! :)

  • @AinoHiat

    @AinoHiat

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@linguaEpassione Ihanaa olla täällä taas! Nyt en kadota sinun kanavaasi uudestaan. :-)

  • @stefanodigaetano1627
    @stefanodigaetano16273 жыл бұрын

    Mahtava! but I have to say that those "rules" had helped me more to avoid mistakes when writing in Finnish...not much on pronunciation...that came more automatically...but seems for Italians is easier to have good pronunciation in Finnish 😉

  • @arvoitus4649

    @arvoitus4649

    Жыл бұрын

    My mother told me how there were some illiterate Italians in the area that they had immigrated to in Canada (1950's) that sought out Finns to read them their letters from Italy. They said the Finns read them like natives.

  • @elderscrollsswimmer4833

    @elderscrollsswimmer4833

    6 ай бұрын

    ​@@arvoitus4649and the Finns did not understand anything they read in those so the content remained private. ❤

  • @Ishay7227
    @Ishay72272 жыл бұрын

    Chuvash vowel harmony: Ӑнланатӑп, ӑнланатӑн, ӑнланать, ӑнланатпӑр, ӑнланатӑр, ӑнланаҫҫӗ - I understand you understand etc Ӑнлансан - if he you understands Пӗлеймерӗм-и? If I wasn’t able to know ? Пурнӑҫскер Like life (no harmony) Пурнӑҫу-ши - your life apparently (I type Harmony doesn’t implore vowel harmony)

  • @tsotne2896
    @tsotne28962 жыл бұрын

    What is the site where you're learning the languages? Could you tell me some advices, thank you in advance.

  • @linguaEpassione

    @linguaEpassione

    2 жыл бұрын

    I don't use any site in particular, I choose the resources depending on the language. But I always use italki.com for practising speaking. You can register on Italki for free by clicking here: www.italki.com/i/ref/BfEbeE?hl=en (lessons are not free, but you can find very interesting rates there!)

  • @lacrimosa164
    @lacrimosa1642 жыл бұрын

    Espero que o senhor comece a falar o turco (da Turquia) um dia de mode que eu possa analizar o seu discurso :) seria maravilhoso :D. Um vídeo muito bom e útil, obrigado muito.

  • @lauraaxelsen6128
    @lauraaxelsen61283 жыл бұрын

    Mielenkiintoista! Mistä tiedät tämmöstä (hi hi hi ha ha) tiedot? (Anteeksi kaikkile, että en vielä puhu hyvin suomea ja ehkä kirjoitin väärin=

  • @linguaEpassione

    @linguaEpassione

    3 жыл бұрын

    En mäkään enää tiedä, mistä tämmöstä tiedän xD

  • @sprucefurniture
    @sprucefurniture2 жыл бұрын

    Even though i know how you are suppose to say "Tällainen" but my mouth wants to correct that "a" to "ä"

  • @cactusowo1835
    @cactusowo18352 жыл бұрын

    Vowel harmony is also present in Mongolian :D Edit: Even tho they eventually end up eating all the vowels ins mongolian language xD

  • @turinturambar3592
    @turinturambar3592 Жыл бұрын

    Do you know Finnish poet Eino Leino and his poem "Nocturne"? It has interesting words like "puunto pilven", can you figure out what that means? :) Ruislinnun laulu korvissani, tähkäpäiden päällä täysi kuu; kesäyön on onni omanani, kaskisavuun laaksot verhouu. En ma iloitse, en sure, huokaa; mutta metsän tummuus mulle tuokaa, puunto pilven, johon päivä hukkuu, siinto vaaran tuulisen, mi nukkuu, tuoksut vanamon ja varjot veen; niistä sydämeni laulun teen. Sulle laulan neiti, kesäheinä, sydämeni suuri hiljaisuus, uskontoni, soipa säveleinä, tammenlehväseppel vehryt, uus. En ma enää aja virvatulta, onpa kädessäni onnen kulta; pienentyy mun ympär' elon piiri; aika seisoo, nukkuu tuuliviiri; edessäni hämäräinen tie tuntemattomahan tupaan vie.

  • @heh9392
    @heh93923 жыл бұрын

    I myself just say tälläinen, in finnish, but I guess it's writen like that.

  • @heh9392

    @heh9392

    3 жыл бұрын

    Or actually just tälläne

  • @linguaEpassione

    @linguaEpassione

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yep, that's a colloquial form and it's widely used as far as I know :) I even found that in a book I've read recently: "Pintaremontti" by Miika Nousiainen

  • @netsong2239

    @netsong2239

    3 жыл бұрын

    I'm surprised by how many people use the "tälläne". Though when I thought of it I could definitely see people around me using it. I personally view it as a compound word and I'm drawn to say the end as "laine" or "lane" in this case because that's the word, that's the word for "kind of". I personally use "tällane" or "tällanen". Am from western Uusimaa. Don't know if the dialect affects it.

  • @elderscrollsswimmer4833

    @elderscrollsswimmer4833

    3 жыл бұрын

    Noo jaa, voihan olla että siitä vielä tulee tälläinen ihan oikeasti. Olympialaiset voi hyvinkin olla olumpialaiset vielä joskus. Iikat ja äärit saa jäädä, ne on niin yhdyssanamäisiä.

  • @Nonnnnaq3
    @Nonnnnaq33 жыл бұрын

    Vaikka oon sua jo pitkään seurannut sua, niin silti on vaikee uskoo, että osaat suomea 😅. Ja aiheeseen liittyvää sen verran, että on tää suomen kieli kyllä varsin huippu kieli (mun mielestä), vaikkakin välillä itselläkin vaikeuksia tuottaa sanoja, vaikkakin vaan puhun pelkästään Suomeen 😅. Mut on tämä mein kieli silti ihan huikee 😅

  • @linguaEpassione

    @linguaEpassione

    3 жыл бұрын

    Eiks oo huippu kieli? Ei ihme että mä päätin oppia sen! ;)

  • @Numbskis

    @Numbskis

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@linguaEpassione Miten ihanaa että osaat puhua ja kirjoittaa puhekieltä 😘 Niinku oo ja silleen 🙃

  • @paoloangeletti1226
    @paoloangeletti12262 жыл бұрын

    Ciao Stefano, tutto bene? e' un po' che non ti sento/vedo. Posso chiederti un favore? Conosci qualcuno che studi arabo e voglia praticare arabo standard (msa) a livello 'intermediate'? Oppure qualcuno che conosce qualcuno...Posso usare le 6 maggiori lingue europee russo escluso, per intenerci. Grazie in ogni caso e scusami se abuus

  • @paoloangeletti1226

    @paoloangeletti1226

    2 жыл бұрын

    ...abuso. Tuo P.

  • @linguaEpassione

    @linguaEpassione

    2 жыл бұрын

    Ciao Paolo, grazie del messaggio e mi dispiace per il lungo silenzio, sono stati mesi non proprio facilissimi... Sto tornando in pista in questi giorni, e finalmente a breve uscirà un nuovo video (ennesimo ritorno hehe). In ogni caso non conosco parlanti di arabo standard che possano fare al caso tuo, quindi stavolta temo di non poterti essere utile. Buona continuazione e spero a molto presto!

  • @paoloangeletti1226

    @paoloangeletti1226

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@linguaEpassione Grazie comunque Stefano. Aspetto il tuo video. A presto

  • @subrosa7708
    @subrosa77083 жыл бұрын

    You have to be foreigner to think those issues. Or professional linguistic. We average Finns are amazed of how intriquite our language is!

  • @linguaEpassione

    @linguaEpassione

    3 жыл бұрын

    Sometimes it can sound complicated but it all makes sense in the end, and it's one of the most logical languages I've encountered :)

  • @IdkWhatToNameTbh
    @IdkWhatToNameTbh3 жыл бұрын

    Hii love you ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ I remember that you know Georgian, can you talk me with it? შეგიძლია დამელაპარაკო ქართულად? მადლობა❤️❤️❤️❤️ მაგარი ხარ, მიყვარს შენი ვიდეოები❤️❤️❤️

  • @linguaEpassione

    @linguaEpassione

    3 жыл бұрын

    მადლობა შენ, ანანო! კი, შემიძლია დაგელაპარაკო ქართულად მაგრამ არ ვიცი ბევრი სიტყვა 😅 მეტი უნდა ვისწავლო

  • @IdkWhatToNameTbh

    @IdkWhatToNameTbh

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@linguaEpassione ისწავლი, აუცილებლად ისწავლი!

  • @stefanoportinari9302
    @stefanoportinari93023 жыл бұрын

    Ciao Stefano, scusa se ti disturbo, posso chiederti un ultimissima cosa?

  • @linguaEpassione

    @linguaEpassione

    3 жыл бұрын

    Ciao Stefano, qui su KZread puoi porre le tue domande anche senza chiedere il permesso, i commenti servono a questo :)

  • @stefanoportinari9302

    @stefanoportinari9302

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@linguaEpassione vorrei chiederti, se una persona sta imparando una lingua, ade esempio l' inglese, qual' è il miglior modo per riuscire a capire quello che viene detto e dopo quanto tempo si capisce. Ti ringrazio , buona giornata

  • @linguaEpassione

    @linguaEpassione

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@stefanoportinari9302 Grazie per la domanda ma se non sbaglio ti ho già risposto nell'altro video. Non esiste un tempo valido universalmente, dipende da troppi fattori diversi. Buona serata anche a te!

  • @stefanoportinari9302

    @stefanoportinari9302

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@linguaEpassione Sei stato gentilissimo. Ti ringrazio molto e ti auguro una buonissima serata

  • @stefanoportinari9302

    @stefanoportinari9302

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@linguaEpassione Sei stato gentilissimo. Ti ringrazio molto e ti auguro una buonissima serata

  • @Zeroless
    @Zeroless3 жыл бұрын

    meidänkaltaisillemme

  • @zami8827
    @zami8827 Жыл бұрын

    Elämän A ja O välissä L ja K.

  • @linguaEpassione

    @linguaEpassione

    Жыл бұрын

    Haha toi oli aika hyvä :)

  • @EnnaOjala
    @EnnaOjala3 жыл бұрын

    Kyllä on paljon oppimista tässä kielessä mitä ei itse tule edes ajatelleeksi 😅 jos Suomi ei olis mun äidinkieli niin vois olla aika hiljaista mun osalta oppia sitä 😂

  • @Ishay7227
    @Ishay72272 жыл бұрын

    My comment about chuvash just got deleted

  • @linguaEpassione

    @linguaEpassione

    2 жыл бұрын

    Hi Kimbil, I can see it - thanks for chiming in !

  • @Ishay7227

    @Ishay7227

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@linguaEpassione your welcome :)

  • @Jeejeetyyppi123
    @Jeejeetyyppi1233 жыл бұрын

    Ai täh?

  • @brokenheart1290
    @brokenheart12903 жыл бұрын

    fyrkka )

  • @linguaEpassione

    @linguaEpassione

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hehe totta, en tullu ajatelleeks :)

  • @omenoid

    @omenoid

    3 жыл бұрын

    The Stadi slang doesn't follow always vowel harmony and many other Finnish features such as lack of consonant clusters.

  • @penaarja
    @penaarja5 ай бұрын

    Kiitos