As they say, Hell is other people. This is why Finland is considered a paradise.

It is not "lack of desire of social interaction". It is "Avoid bothering people".

@magicofshootingstar5825

8 ай бұрын

Yes and that stems from wanting to respect other people and their personal space, time etc.

My mom was born in the US to Finnish Immigrants ( as was my dad), and even with having lived here from birth, The Finnish social norms held sway. She was posed to become valedictorian of her class, and deliberately tanked her grades enough during the last part of the year to assure she wasn't. All to avoid having to make the valedictorian speech at graduation.

A Swedish manager once told me she avoids asking the Finnish software devs "how's it going?" because the reply is invariably "it is".

@EEX97623

8 ай бұрын

The "it's going" response is universal for people tired of the predictable and lazy "how's it going?"

3:58 Sisu means that even if you participate in the running race and there are 20 kids on your foot, you will still run to the finish line. You will not give up until the what you do is done, whatever the obstacle.

"Gather the whole bonfire". "The whole bonfire?" "The whole bonfire".

Kokoo koko kokko kokoon etc. Roughly translates to: -Erect an entire bonfire. -The entire bonfire? -The entire bonfire. And "sisu" is a sort of finish mentality of stubbornly never giving up, even when, and especialy if your odds are slim to none.Grit would be the closest word to it in english And the temperature in a finnish sauna is somewhere between 60-100 degrees celcius, depending on personal preference and how long you plan on spending in the sauna. Katos = canopy Katos katos katos = "Well would you look at that, the canopy disappeared" (Or in a different context its exactly the same as "Well well well, (what do we have here)") And yes, those are all indeed "Maa", though most only in specific contexts. Area for example would more commonly be "alue", but one would certanily understand "maa" in the correct context. And Dirt would more commonly be "multa", but again in the right context a finnish person would understand you mean dirt if you say "maa". "Fetch more dirt" could be translated both as "Hae lisää multaa" or "Hae lisää maata".

The newest metal band "The Government" was not actually a metal band but actually Finnish government for a while 😄

Katos, katos katos: Katos (verb. slang - 2nd person imperative of "katsoa" - to look), katos (noun. nominative - canopy), katos (verb. slang - past tense of "kadota" - to disappear. "Look, the canopy disappeared."

@magpie_girl3741

8 ай бұрын

Nice ;) I love word plays... I like homographic sentences (do they have some specific name?) It is a lot easier to make them in English e.g. buffalo story, than in my native language. In Polish, we can say only simple sentences, e.g. Dział dział dział. ‘The cannon department was knitting.’ or Bez bez bez. "An elder (plant) without meringues" (what really doesn't make sense ;)) Or if you change word order ;) it can be "the elder without meringues" and "a cannon department was knitting" ;) But at least it's a lot easier to make pangrams - we have dozens of them (most of them are utter crap when it comes to meaning). We only consider perfect pangrams (sentences when every letter of the alphabet is used exactly one time, so it needs to have exactly 32 letters: no less, no more) in Poland. So at first I couldn't understand that "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is also called pangram in English, as it has a lot of E or O (and more than 26 letters). I just googled... wow, Finnish can use one word for perfect pangram (Törkylempijävongahdus)? What an impressive language!

@viljanov

8 ай бұрын

Perusta Perusta perusta. Lay the foundation from Peru.

@juhalampola1954

8 ай бұрын

@@magpie_girl3741 "Garbage lover squeal" (sharp, squealing noise [vongahdus] associated to an afficionado of (or one who makes love to) [lempijä] grime [törky]). Nice, didn't know that one. However, the Finnish alphabet also includes the letters, B, C, F, Q, W, X, Z, and Å (which we call the Swedish O), so not quite a pangram - though since almost no native Finnish language words currently use those letters, I would call that a near miss.

@House_of_Caine

8 ай бұрын

@@magpie_girl3741 Here's another... Kärpänen sanoi toiselle: Mennään kattoon kattoon, kun kaveri tapettiin tapettiin.: kattoon (noun. illative singular of "katto" - ceiling) kattoon (verb. slang. from "katsoa" - to look, to watch), tapettiin (verb. passive past indicative of "tappaa" - to kill) tapettiin (noun. illative singular of "tapetti" - wallpaper). "A fly said to another: Let's go to the ceiling to watch how our mate was killed on the wallpaper."

Some years ago I just got off the bus and was on my way to do some shopping in the city center. A man approached me, slightly younger than I was, told me I was pretty and if I'd like to go for a coffee. I said yes and walked away. I'm not single, not interested and I don't drink coffee... (i like the smell but not the taste) just got so weirded out by someone talking to me that my brain could not do braining. It took me 10 mnutes to realize what I'd done. Poor dude, they must have been so confused. At least I could have said a polite no, thank you. Still, it's pretty funny in retrospect.

0:32 Unrealistic meme, those should be thinking bubbles, not speech.

@MikkoRantalainen

8 ай бұрын

As a Finn, I fully agree. There's no way those people would be speaking to each other unless they are friends already.

I had a collegue from India he came from Finland in late 1970 and the retired about 2 years ago, before he retired he hardy made any mistake in spoken language, and written language of Finnish was in a level of a good level only some difficult and rarely used word endings had some difficulties. . So in 50 years ( if you have finish speaking wife ) you (will) might learn it..

@freezedeve3119

8 ай бұрын

To be honest not even every Finn learn it perfectly as there rarely is reason to master it 100%

@KazKaneli

3 ай бұрын

There is a joke about this: What is the language they speak in heaven? - Finnish, because it takes an eternity to learn! My friend had an exchange student in her house for about a year. That exchange student spoke Finnish quite well by Christmas. So truth be told - it's actually not that hard!

I have to say, your scottish accent is awesome. Love it! Have you planned to move to Finland with your family? I think you should. 😊

@Xerdoz

8 ай бұрын

It's too cold in Finland. I'm guessing there's a reason he lives in Malaysia. (Atleast I think he said he lives in Malaysia).

@diamondsarenotforever8542

8 ай бұрын

​@@Xerdozi It is not quite as cold as ppl think. Particularly in the middle and southern part of Finland.

Damn I laughed when u said "keep it simple" when talking about our language 🤣

Ismo Leikola: Nonnii. Standup comedy in english.

Also if someone calls from unknown number is usually horror story for finns. I

@formatique_arschloch

8 ай бұрын

Or if doorbell rings suddenly.

The Finnish part of the weather forecast thing is from an ad for (at least) a weekend of winter sports on the channel it was broadcast on. The ad had the regular channel sportscaster ask their meteorologist (the guy's name is Pekka Pouta, roughly translating to Peter Dryweather (no, really!)) about the upcoming weather. Pekka forecasts "freezing temperatures and snow, meaning WINTER IS COMING!" Appropriately, he is dressed as Ned Stark.

There were actually really good! 10/10

Sisu is the Finnish equivalent of 'never quit" no matter the situation or odds. The film of the same name is worth a peek.

Winters in Scotland, Finland and North Dakota are exactly the same .. I should have moved to Finland decades ago - I've been social distancing since my first run in with the Santa Clause Pandemic of 54 years ago ..

Now that weather is getting colder and mosquitos are winding down it is nice to enjoy deer keds. Them lil buggers make me shave my head every year.

See if you can relate to these: "10 Finnish Nightmares that every Introvert can Relate to". Kekkonen was Finnish champion and medalist in several sport event. Finland won in ice hockey: "ICE HOCKEY CHAMPIONSHIP TO FINLAND 2019 (WTF: Welcome To Finland #14)". On sisu: "'In Finland We Have This Thing Called... SISU". About Moomins: "BBC Moominland Tales: The Life of Tove Jansson".

About the facial expressions. It really doesn't contradict Finland being a happy country as not being forced to wear a fake smile all day every day is very nice.

At least almost everyone has access to a cottage, not everyone owns one. Preferences differ but most seem to like them very modest.

President Kekkonen cool with the puukko knife.

Hi Mert, love your videos! Please, react to more Finnish patriotic music! I know you already did some, but some of the more beautiful pieces were missing in my opinion. I suggest checking out Finlandia Hymn, Oi Maamme and Porilaisten Marssi. At the very least I urge you to listen to Finlandia, it always brings tears to my eyes when I hear it!

these are actually quite funny and accurate xD

By the way, the bear in the window was of the wrong species. We have brown bears and that was a black bear.

You have to investigate Muumit! It´s a big part of Finland. Written by Tove Jansson ( swedish speaking finn!) Muumit are HUGE in Japan!

Some might say some Finns got a wee bit excited for winning Hockey world championship. You might want to check "ICE HOCKEY CHAMPIONSHIP TO FINLAND 2019 (WTF: Welcome To Finland #14)" if you want to see what it was like.

Other instance where the dots matter: Älä välitä! = Don't you mind! / Now now! Älä valita! = Don't complain! Ala valita! = Start to choose!

Moomin is a very famous cartoon/book character from Finland by an author called Tove Jansson.

You could say it was a big thing when Finland won the Ico Hockey Championships, yes 🤔 There's videos about it on youtube internet as well.

0:43 That is not real, that is a funny komedia one tv show programs, but man is real Weather Forecast guy. Pekka Pouta is name.

The bread one is very accurate. I ate a rye bread last year. It was very hard to eat and my tooth just got broken 😂

Finnish bread vs Swedish knife

Katos katos katos means "see the canopy disappeared". In FIN it's a same word in every word. It's a bit slang but every Finns knows that.

yes, there is a particular way to open the milk container, that is very easy once you know but at the beginning is like the photo you just showed, the way is just to pill off the part that is marked, no the other part, and just follow the pilling in the right direction. all the instructions are shown in the milk container but is not easy to see it if you are not used to it.

Nuuttipukki is not the same as Joulupukki (santa claus), it's true tho that Joulupukki didn't originally wear red. 13th of January is Nuutin päivä (Nuuttis day), and there's saying "Hyvä Tuomas Joulun tuopi, paha Nuutti pois sen viepi." "Good Tuomas brings the Christmas, evil Nuutti takes it away." If you have the time and interest google more about Nuuttipukki and what they did on that day. There is also a movie named Rare Exports, which has gotten it's inspiration from Nuuttipukki, it's in english but i think filmed in Lapland. Ps. my family has a rescue cat named Nuutti.

Well the most Finnish problem was when my pet polar bear excaped and I had to cross-country ski to school

After 8 months of winter. everybody basically become Vampires and a small dash of sunlight burn you're skin and make ones balls sweat like a shower head. Sauna is different as you do not sit there all day and when you come out the air feels cool.

for me... as absolute finn, +20 celsius outside is about to be too hot... but me insauna... +120 celsius is starting to be too hot... :D i usually sit 30min in 100 celsius cooking myself lol

u asked how ong it takes to speak fluently finnish and all the people that I know and can compare to I would say 5 years or more and really wanting to learn the language

0:49

the suitable sauna temperature is 70 celsius. Every day is a sauna day 🙂👍

The Finnish-Russian border is guarded by bears, winter and casual shouts of "sukabliet" and "Siihe et koske saatana!"

Täh? "Moomin meat" ? Mozzarella? Who and when and What? Never heard of that one.

frets I mean

mozzarella moomin meat? as a finn i dont have any idea what this means. its just mozzarella, isnt it?

Sisu is roughly translated into Badass :P

5:46 --> Kokoo, koko kokko kokoo == Assable the whole Bonfire as a whole,, koko kokkoko? == The whole bonfire? , Koko kokko == (yes), Whole Bonfire

Moomin meat! Haha :D!!

Moomin ❤

You like feel very average finnish guitarist and his smile? see vilko play or ten freds wonder

See? This is why Scotland needs to drop the UK and join the Nordics. You're even at the right distance for us to feel comfortable 😄

The "Nainko vaarin" can also mean "Should I (f-word) the grandpa".

@PaulVinonaama

8 ай бұрын

No it can't. That would be "Nai(si)nko vaaria." A difference between accusative and partitive.

Nainko vaarin? did I marry (a) grandpa. Nainko vaarin?

You know yoy videos are really bad you should put the main video on big screen and you talking somewhere in small screen now we cant even see what you are reacting and then talking with accent its even harder to understand this kinda style

@penaarja

Ай бұрын

No problema To understand. Ei sanaakaan mene ohi