speed ×2 and you can learn finnish in 2 minutes

@TM-ee6rr

4 жыл бұрын

x4 = 1minute

@lenn1tcore845

3 жыл бұрын

😂

@ariananieves7374

3 жыл бұрын

😂😂💀

@acfern6862

3 жыл бұрын

yeah that's how it works

@Redmasternumber2

3 жыл бұрын

x1000 = a quarter second

What I learned is you can learn Finnish in 4 minutes because people don't want to talk to each other that much

@lacucurrucucu9245

3 жыл бұрын

Lol I heard that is really hard to make friends in Scandinavian countries,just hi and bye 🤣🤣🤣🤣

No smalltalk? Sounds like heaven.

You'll want to watch the whole video from start to Finnish

@neelavathimanda922

3 жыл бұрын

😂😂

@Jemmpl

Жыл бұрын

I've watched it over and over for some reason 😭 I'm not related to this language at all lol

0:49 "Learn Finnish...so you can talk to yourself"

@aladepollo4833

3 жыл бұрын

Lol

"We're bad at small talk." Maybe I'll move there. "If you just order a beer, you get a beer." Okay, I'm moving there.

@darkfrozenwinterstar3639

3 жыл бұрын

As a german, this really made me want to visit Finland😂

“It’s pretty funny how we have so many ways of greeting each other and saying goodbye EVEN THOUGH WE DONT WANT TO TALK TO STRANGERS.” Sounds like the perfect place for me. Polite but don’t really care.

I'm supossed to do my homework how did I end up to learn a language I'm not even related to

@ella353

3 жыл бұрын

I relate to this strongly.

When u realize the "learn Finnish in 4 minutes" video was only part 1 of 4 683 000

@finntasticbeast

4 жыл бұрын

LukesteR 🤣🤣🤣

@eerohorila1109

9 ай бұрын

Good one🤣

"You don't say these things in Finnish." Ah, Finnish is now my favorite language.

I find Finnish a lot easier to understand than French. I think there's this myth that it's so damn hard, and it keeps people from trying! It's not. It's just different than the Romance family of languages. What makes Finnish easy for me is because the sound of the language is so staccato and consistent in pronunciation, that you can actually hear each word being spoken at you CLEARLY. French on the other hand just gets mushed together and I just can NOT hear what people are saying, even though I can read it. And I have no idea how to change that without being able to live there. SO frustrating.

@K-TheLetter

Жыл бұрын

wait until you realize there are dialects

@tapiola61

Жыл бұрын

​@@K-TheLetter yes, as a Finn from Satakunta I feel all other speaking strange Finnish if not using almost official Finnish. Especially Savolax dialect (savon murre) Is difficult to understand.

"If you order a beer, you will get a beer." Ah, good to know.

@Islamicshort90924

2 жыл бұрын

Hi

I found myself laughing at how straightforward and unapologetic Finnish language/culture appears to be. A breath of fresh air! (I’m from Russia, living in America for 7 years with small talks/fake smiles being almost an everyday thing here)

@maksimilianbauer5129

4 жыл бұрын

Тогда почему ты там все-еще живешь?

How many finnish people actually watched this lmao--

@kissatytto0107

4 жыл бұрын

Mä

@wilstrup8

3 жыл бұрын

@@kissatytto0107 Mä = English: baa

Finnish written looks like they were obsessed with vowels and accents over them aännd thëy deccidëd thaat it wäs goiing too be theeiiir wääy of communicäationn.

@IvanIvan-sn5sq

3 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@serapugurlugil9214

3 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@FLA270309

3 жыл бұрын

It's funny because it's soöoooö truuueee 😂

@ArnabDasEE

3 жыл бұрын

LoL 😂😂

@gabrielgabriel5177

2 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂

Thank you so much we are going to Finland in Januray and I can't wait to show everyone how I learnt Finnish in 4 minutes!!!! Hyva!

Laitakaa paljon likejä niin eri maalaiset luulee mun sanoneen jotain hauskaa.

@combo7023

5 жыл бұрын

1000iq

@tiihtu2507

4 жыл бұрын

− ∞ iq

I'm from Finland! 🇫🇮 Who else? 👇🏻

@iloveluru5971

4 жыл бұрын

Mä on suomesta

@mohamedredaamiri4047

4 жыл бұрын

I'm from Algeria

@neeasormunen6968

4 жыл бұрын

@@iloveluru5971 sama

@shalommalca2125

4 жыл бұрын

kosigin

@shalommalca2125

4 жыл бұрын

suami and somalia ?

« Your place or mine? » is accepted while « I love you » and « you’re pretty » is too intimate wow I definitely don’t understand this culture

@peterk.6093

3 жыл бұрын

Actually as a man I love this aspect and feel sorry for not knowing that before I got married. What needs to be scratched gets scratched and we do not have to make our lives too complicated. At least for some period of life this seems like a perfect approach to life. You can keep "i love yous" for the one you settle down with.

@serapugurlugil9214

3 жыл бұрын

YES, IT IS REALLY STRANGE !!!!

For a native spanish speaker finnish pronunciation is very easy

I was soooo happy when I first heard how Turkish is quite similar to Finnish, my dream country to live. I decided to give it a try today, love from Turkey :).

@byptts1384

4 жыл бұрын

@iikisu Wish I can say the same about here one day.

I got excited when I learned there was no grammatical gender in Finnish. But when I learned about the case endings, I died

@nellaemilia_

4 жыл бұрын

Finland is easy af! Olen suomalainen, joten tää on helppo homma :)) Btw, finnish guys are into free buckets xD

@darkfrozenwinterstar3639

3 жыл бұрын

@@nellaemilia_ sorry but what do you mean with a „free bucket“?

@dcel6430

3 жыл бұрын

@@darkfrozenwinterstar3639 just google ”Free buckets” u see then XD

@dcel6430

3 жыл бұрын

@@darkfrozenwinterstar3639 Thousands of people queue for hours for… free buckets

please HEEEEEEEEELP i need to turn into a hyper polyglot gigachad and i need to learn this language

@ElNinoLego

2 жыл бұрын

Chad to gigachad transformation

@saurfish

2 жыл бұрын

Literally the reason I’m here

Me- "Hei! Meille vai teille?" Finnish girl- "Fuck Off!!!!!"

Kaikki tykkää tästä ketä on suomesta 🇫🇮🇫🇮 👇

@suolanenkape6944

4 жыл бұрын

Suomi perkele

@miialappalainen7323

4 жыл бұрын

PERKELE SAUNAAN SIITÄ

@therealOWC

4 жыл бұрын

Mä

@esatapiola4349

4 жыл бұрын

Jepp !!!

@millaannukka

3 жыл бұрын

Minä

A language with no "please" and no small talk and no one saying "sorry" - love it! Sounds like Finns would be difficult to offend! Also you are so cool in this video , love the subtle humor.

@tiihtu2507

4 жыл бұрын

There are other ways to indicate politeness such as the use of conditional and -han/hän suffix.

@tiihtu2507

4 жыл бұрын

Although when you're ordering something there's no need to use either of them.

About Finnish - Hard: the agglutination, ending up with very long words. Easy: you say what’s written, the rules are clear, and it’s pronounced in staccato, the syllables are easy to discern. I’d love to learn a non-romance language (I speak Spanish, English, some Italian, and a little French), but there aren’t many Soumese people in my neck of the woods...

@lorenzocabrini

3 жыл бұрын

English, a romance language?! Sorry, but no. It is a germanic language with a lot of latin vocabulary, which mostly came via French.

American here fluent in US English and Mexican Spanish. I learned from several Finns that many American English speakers struggle with pronunciation. However, I discovered that if I speak with the accent I use to pronounce Spanish, they come out close to fluent because of the rolling R and emphasized vowels. Not certain if this trick applies to other accents like Italian though. For complicated words, stick to pronouncing them exactly how they're written. If there are double letters just say that letter for a bit longer. For example, "Ravintola" (Restaurant) is kinda said RA-veen-tohl-ah and "Ravintolaan" (To the restaurant) sounds like RA-veen-tohl-aaahn. You can do the same for non-vowel letters like "kk" when she says "Moikka". Also, "Yks kalja" is a good example of pronouncing tricky letters that sound different in English to me like Y = U and J = Y

Onko täällä suomalaisii!

@ar-gamessuomi7537

5 жыл бұрын

Kielo on

Eihän täällä ole muita kun suomalaisia!

Damn! She's got a great sense of humor

@mx112e6

2 жыл бұрын

​@卄ㄚㄒ丂ㄚ Not all finns people, but most of them have a very good hearts❤ And they are very respectful people. i like that

"We're really bad at small talk." Introvert heaven, I'm moving now!

I'm a Finnish-American who grew up in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Most of my town is Finnish. My dad and my uncles would speak Finnish with grandpa when they didn't want us kids to understand. Which was most of the time. Even though I've never been to Finland, I also have many of the cultural characteristics of Finns, which I learned from my family and neighbors. It's subtle. Throughout the video I kept saying "Oh yah, me too."

@pixiegirl33

4 жыл бұрын

My Dad grew up in Toivola, Mi. I wish I had learned to speak Finnish.

You can also use very well known finnish phrase ”Kahvi mustana ja Suomi valkoisena” which means one black coffee thanks.

@serapugurlugil9214

3 жыл бұрын

STRANGE THEY SAY ( KAHVI ) FOR COFFEE.. IN TURKISH 🇹🇷 IT IS (KAHVE...) IN ARABIC IT IS (KAHWA قهوة)

As a German it's really cool to learn about that, since our language is, for whatever nonsense reason, widely considered as harsh sounding, but we have like tons of ways to say please, sorry, etc. Also we do not quickly open ourselves uo to strangers but then again, we're very warmhearted and talkative, as we go. Finnland (German way of writing it) is not quite our neighbour but is also not too far away from us....yet completely different when it comes to the people, as it seems. My Hyundai was a reimported car from Finnland and the whole manual book was in Suomi. I tried to read a single sentence and thought.....PEEEEEERKELE!

Unless you speak Hungarian, Finnish is probably one of the hardest languages to learn

@BenDover-kv1oi

4 жыл бұрын

Btw, Im finnish and I dont think its so hard to learn. Heippa kaverit. Goodbye friends.

@blackcoffeebeans6100

4 жыл бұрын

@@BenDover-kv1oi of course it isn't hard for finns. Finnish is one of the hardest languages in the world. This is offical.

*When you see the Russian tanks over the horizon* *PERKELE*

@Taavetti20035

5 жыл бұрын

Tai EI VITTUJEN KEVÄT

Want to learn finnish in 2 seconds? Perkele That's the whole language.

@mindflower89

4 жыл бұрын

What does it mean ?/

@valhoundmom

4 жыл бұрын

Oh c'mon it gets more filthy than that! ( meant with love)

ah yes, the finnish distance, a nation that practised social distancing before 2020, where a youtube video makes the creator too unconfortable, because it's too personal of an exchange, and when they see someone walk down the street in their direction, they tell them that they are Too Close. that actually sounds pretty nice.

I heard that Finns practice naturally 'social distancing', part of culture. Someone said also that they have the word for 'wondrous' - ihmeellinen - and if you drop some letters, you get the word for a 'human being' -'ihminen'. Sounds like something useful, how to perceive each other. Peace.

I'm Finnish on my dad's side of the family (my great grandparents were from Finland then moved to Canada), but I don't know the language very well - just a few phrases that you might pick up in a tourist phrasebook. That said, I have a distant Finnish cousin who I'm in contact with and I have a standing invitation to come visit, which I hope to do some day. So I'm beginning to make an attempt to be able to at least struggle through a full conversation in Finnish.

@K-TheLetter

Жыл бұрын

that’s cool

Her English has a charming Irish twang to it

@samnrob1

3 жыл бұрын

Bit of Scottish as well

@zloychechen5150

3 жыл бұрын

@@samnrob1 yeah, these Polish notes always sound nice.

@pk-fi1ok

3 жыл бұрын

You mean the "aarrr", ya?

@liambarry35

3 жыл бұрын

It actually sounds pretty Canadian

As an English speaker some annunciations of Finnish words sound Japanese.

02:36 "What did I just say?" Even she struggles as a native so I consider myself very successful.

Kuka muu tuli tänne koska osaat suomea? 😎 Edit: Omg kiitos laikkeist!!! (Likes)

@Caro_they

5 жыл бұрын

Mää

@sofiapirhonen8311

5 жыл бұрын

En ainakaan mä....😂

@saimihm

5 жыл бұрын

MinÄ

@miljavainio9194

5 жыл бұрын

Mä

@julietttthehooman1635

5 жыл бұрын

Miks muuten tulisin😁

I don't know the Finnish language, but whenever I hear someone speaking Finnish it makes me think that it is the music of fairies. It's so beautiful sounding.

You're still responding to your 3yr old video. That's so sweet 😊

I'm Finnish and Mexican. I'm finding from watching this video. I can say Finnish words so comfortably. Spanish words are hard for me

@jessicahope2225

2 жыл бұрын

To add I grew up in the USA and only speak english

@jessicahope2225

2 жыл бұрын

I also am not good at small talk😂

I'm from Brazil, have no idea how I ended up here but now I wanna learn Finnish

@finntasticbeast

4 жыл бұрын

Hahah glad to hear it!

@Mika-mc5ms

4 жыл бұрын

😂

@funfacts5221

4 жыл бұрын

I am here because of Sana Marin

For me finnish is such an beautiful and mysterious language at the same time I like hearing it! I wish I could learn it, but only learning from the internet is quite complicated for me! I love Finland.

@teemuturunen9651

4 жыл бұрын

I love Finland too

I've been learning finnish for 3 days, it's not that complicated, I can already do a 5 minute conversation on basic topics

@staropramen478

3 жыл бұрын

The easy phrases and pronunciation aren't hard at all, but you will notice later down the path how insanely complicated the language is, however you don't need to fully master the language. But in practice the hardest part is when it comes to all the slang and dialects because there are so many of them.

Yo i just learned Finnish in 5 minutes. Now I feel like i have the energy to learn all world's languages today 😃

Finnish sounds like japanese. I'm shocked. It's beautiful to hear.

@mx112e6

2 жыл бұрын

Finnish sounds like Korean also 🤣🤣, but they are same family language with Hungarian, because they are both Finno Ugric

Finnish sounds like reverse Japanese lol

@ilaly6391

4 жыл бұрын

Hahaaa I'm glad someone else thinks this way! (I really love Japanese but find Finnish still more beautiful to the ear!)

@humdrumyokel9890

4 жыл бұрын

you are not correct, it is the other way round, Japanese sounds like Finnish in reverse ... for sure ... The Japanese have even chosen to have the color of their hair in reverse to the Suomesians ... It is Japanese that twist everything, me think ...

On the other hand, if the Finnish words are difficult to pronounce, you can always speak English to us. Not a big deal.

@otobustutkusu303

5 ай бұрын

My native is Turkish and the pronunciations are so easy to me =] very similar to Turkish pronunciation,

as someone with commitment issues i feel like Finland is a wonderful country to live in

I have no use for it, and I will probably never use it. But Finnish sounds funny as a Spanish speaker and I kinda want to learn the language now 😂

One cannot be a master of the Finnish language without knowing the proper use of "Perkele".

@serapugurlugil9214

3 жыл бұрын

DEVIL ??

Great lesson. Your accent is nice and clear, sounds as if you learned English in Ireland.

Your sense of humour is adorable. I’m an old man, so I can say that. LoL Thanks, I started learning Finnish today with this video. Kiitos!

Ketä suomalaisii tääl? I'm from finland

@minjawwsx3219

5 жыл бұрын

Maisa Stenberg mää oon

@viltsu6265

5 жыл бұрын

Mää tietty XD

@sanlansini1925

5 жыл бұрын

Minääääääää. Mee to

@markikonen7627

5 жыл бұрын

Maisa Stenberg mä

@sini6026

5 жыл бұрын

Mie!:3

Miks mä katon tätä. 😂

That's a pretty strong Irish accent..

As a hungarian speaking person I find these words reltively easy to pronounce

@Jyyhjyyh

2 жыл бұрын

Hungarian and Finnish definitely have a similar sound to them, despite being so distantly related, as opposed to many Uralic languages spoken in Russia which you could easily mistake for being Slavic based on the way they sound.

Kuka tuli ettii suomalaisii kommenttei😂😂

@niksuuytyt5104

4 жыл бұрын

Minä

@kaikilledubbeja5720

4 жыл бұрын

Sama

@rand0m782

4 жыл бұрын

Minää

@Dollyav_

4 жыл бұрын

Mää ja joo oon myöhäs mut🤷🏻‍♀️

Okay sooo, why when finnish people talk english....they sound Irish, seriously no joke

1:58 Canadians: *heavy breathing*

@KittStone

4 жыл бұрын

Lmao yes

Don’t order: “Yks Kalja”, because next they have to ask, which size of beer you want. THE CORRECT way to order a beer is to say: ISO KOLMONEN. If You want a beer with little more alcohol content, you say: ISO NELONEN ISO means big, i.e. half liter beer. If you want yo be an absolute PRO in your visit in Helsinki and awe everybody, just be cool and say: “Stobe” pronounced [stobɛ] This word is not known outside Helsinki area, so don’t use it in other parts of Finland; they might hit your in the face.

Pistä like jos oot suomalainen 👇

@wilstrup8

3 жыл бұрын

Ei puhuu Helsingin murre, kiitos! (Helsinkin?)

You don't have "please"!? OMG, I don't know if I can live without it :o

@tissot233

5 жыл бұрын

There's no she or he either and that has never been a problem. ;) "Please" depending on the context could be replaced "olisitko ystävällinen" (would you be kind) or "kiitos" (thank you) is often used when you have example finished saying your order.

@MicheleSantanaBerry

5 жыл бұрын

@@tissot233 I know. It's amazing how different languages are. My first language is Spanish and for me the word please is essential, but of course I understand that in other languages things are different :)

@basiapustelnik2388

5 жыл бұрын

i cant live with it lol

Osaan Suomea tosi hyvin ja läpäsin koko Suomi duolingon kiitos kun teit tän videon arvostan työtäs.

Excellent, thank you! You Suomi are among my very favourite people in this world. There is so much about the people, the culture, and the language that is truly fascinating. I've travelled a lot and lived in many places (mostly in Europe), and I can't think of a single culture I've encountered whose people are more practical and straightforward than the Suomi. Now, see what you've done? You've made me miss Finnland very much. Note to self: Book that trip to Kontiolahti soon. Cheers!

Actually we do have a ‘please’ in finnish, and it’s the same word as ‘thank you’. So you can say ‘kiitos’ when ordering or receiving something, which most people do in Finland.

@hepatiitti4569

5 жыл бұрын

A beer thank you

Only words/sentences you need is: Tuo olut!, Vittu, perkele, and most importantly Torilla tavataan

@axelkovero1449

4 жыл бұрын

Kyllä

@tormendor8585

4 жыл бұрын

t a v a t a a n v a i k k a h e t i

I've loved Finland since I was 12! My favorite band is from Helsinki, so I started learning the language. My favorite part of the language is how you pronounce double consonants with a slight pause (I don't know a better word for it), like matematicca, it's a glottal stop at the CC. I've visited 3 times and I will be coming again soon!

@kman2492

Жыл бұрын

COBHC!

@SkMus1c

Жыл бұрын

What band

I never felt in place at school. Now that I’m learning the language it’s just like me. My great great grandfather fled from Finland from Russia and married his wife who grew up eight miles from him. Their last name was Asphores but changed it to Alexander because America. I am learning the language and think it is easy to learn for me. Duolingo has a lot of compliments and I didn’t think they were necessary. For example: Terve ja tervetuola.

Sounds like a country I would like to visit perfect for an introvert lol

Sounds like my kind of place. No fishing for compliments, no doting, say your business and go. Moi moi

@danielliew8819

2 жыл бұрын

me too. cut down so much nonsense hahahahaa

I spent 3 months on student exchange on Oulu many many years back - spent *all* my spare time at the laskuverjokerho at the edge of the airport. Many adventures. Also jumped at Rovaniemi and Helsinki. I remember buying makara perunat - close to British food. Hyvaa Paiva ! Huomenta Huomenta ! Kiitos paljon. Finnish - Suomilaienn is a great mental workout - after that other languages are less intimidating. Wish I could have stayed....

Alussa voikin tuntua , että Suomen kieli on yksi helpoimmista , mutta sitte kun alkaa opettelemaan lauseita niin sitten voi olla vaikeeta.

Suomi on paras maa elää

"Kaputsiino" "Lattttte".. I am italian and this blew my head up 🤣

@finntasticbeast

4 жыл бұрын

Hahahaha sorryyy 😂😂😂

@corneliusscipio777

4 жыл бұрын

@@finntasticbeast no sorry!! It's so funny and you finns are very nice people 😊

@serapugurlugil9214

3 жыл бұрын

WRONG IT IS LATTTTTTE WITH 6 Ts NOT 5 😇😂

This is perfect..I have a cousin from Finland and whenever they are having vacation here in the Philippines I always heard the word kiitos to them

Will be going to Finland in a couple of months to attend a wedding so Im trying to pick up some phrases that could be good conversation starters at the reception. :p

Suomi mainittu torilla tavataan :D

Suomi ei oo vaikea kieli. Vaikeus riippuu ihan lähtökielestä. Esim. kiinalaiselle oppiminen on vaikeampaa kuin virolaiselle.

@lotta_627

5 жыл бұрын

Toi on täysin totta, mut kyl aika monelle suomen kieli on vaikea

@hapiialsar2097

5 жыл бұрын

Kuusi palaa

@tattiestacorn84

5 жыл бұрын

Espanjankieliselle oppiminen on aika vaikea (mä :’’’((( )

@holoholopainen1627

4 жыл бұрын

@@hapiialsar2097 Moni sanoo että kusi palaa - mutta en ole niinkään varma ? Mutta että se nousee päähän - niin siitä on Suomessakin ihan eläviä esimerkkejä ! Did You get it ? Finnish Humor is The Best in The World !

How are you supposed to meet new people or make friends in Finland when it's considered impolite to talk to strangers? Not just as a foreigner, but how does that even work when you're a native?

@Karpousti

3 жыл бұрын

It doesn't work.

@azulazi4316

3 жыл бұрын

alcohol.

@taitjones6310

3 жыл бұрын

@@azulazi4316 So everyone in Finland is just stuck up and need to get drunk to pull the sticks out of their asses?

@rodduke2040

3 жыл бұрын

@@taitjones6310 ahahahaha i agree too, that's mess up but it's their culture, if I would go to Finland I would talk to strangers no matter what

@viia8401

3 жыл бұрын

It's not impolite, it's just not a commln habit to do, we like our personal space. It's still okay to come talk to us haha

"Your place or mine?" is ok but "I love you" is too much?... speaks a lot about the hookup culture here in Finland.

@528Circle

5 ай бұрын

😂😂

Put this video on 2x speed so u learn it in 2 mins

@sorapantsu8598

4 жыл бұрын

What a pretty logic!

@lattethefartlord9297

4 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah this is big brain time

This is great. I watched it for four minutes, and i speak Finnish fluently now.

@shilohmorap3548

3 жыл бұрын

Umm... No you don't I speak finnish fluently cuz I live in finland

@nasdaqua

3 жыл бұрын

@@shilohmorap3548 Prove that you live in Finland...i'm guessing you live in Brooklyn, NY.

My dad used to speak finish but he forgot. I always wished he could remember when I was a kid I wanted to learn.

‘How to speak finnish in 4 minutes’ is a nine minute and one second long series split up in two episodes. It was great to watch though

You’re accent in English sounds like you must have learned English in Ireland.

@davidtinoco2484

4 жыл бұрын

Tang Li not to me. It is a totally Finnish accent. My boss was Finnish and I have a few Finnish friends; typical.

@halfmoon6433

3 жыл бұрын

Lmfao

I was always told a man should not finnish in 4 minutes.....

Your accent sounds very similar to some Irish pronuncations of English words. It's really cool!

step 1. be finnish

@Oktytto

4 жыл бұрын

I am finnish 🤣

@kais3297

4 жыл бұрын

@@Oktytto perkele ku ei voi mennä torille

@AzatskyDungeonMaster

3 жыл бұрын

Hei!

0:08 Finnish peoples: We got hard language Poles: hold my Konstantynopolitańczykowianeczka

@saaga2235

4 жыл бұрын

Spelling in Finnish isn't that hard. Almost every single word is spelled just like they're pronounced (few exceptions of course). It just that the grammar is from an another dimension and really hard to learn.

So I'm trying to learn a language spoken by people that don't want to talk to me?

@finntasticbeast

3 жыл бұрын

Yes but it’s useful for your inner monologue

@John_Smith76

3 жыл бұрын

@@finntasticbeast That's awesome. :D

I need more of these! Great channel! Toivottavasti sinulla on hyvä päivä tänään

@finntasticbeast

4 жыл бұрын

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Finns don’t use small talk. It’s pretty much the same for Scandinavia and a lot of Europe. They’ll give it to you straight on what they think. It’s doesn’t mean they don’t like or think less of you, it’s just their culture. Americans like to be passive-aggressive, beat around the bush, and polite and use small talk. In Finland this would be called paskapuhe or roska!

@CaptSNES

4 жыл бұрын

@Teminator 2084 Well it also depends on what type of small talk it is. There are more than one. One variation of small talk is considered bullshit. Basically a way to get off a topic or away from a person without causing a potential scene from an unsuspecting unstable and possibly argumentative person. Another form is just filler to try and make awkward silent moments less awkward. Ironic though. Then there is the more, what I personally describe as sincere small talk, or good natured small talk, in which it is used out of respect for the person you're communicating with, despite not really having much to say, perhaps because you have much on your mind or simply aren't in the proper mood to have discussion. It's not exactly better, but at the very least not meant to offend while vacating discussion sessions. With trained ears and eyes, one can tell the difference between the two. Body language usually helps. Language is a means to an end afterall. I'm currently learning basic words in Finnish but I never knew the about certain things Fins avoid in terms of communication. It's good to know these things.