How I Learned To Speak FINNISH

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[WildwoodVagabond]

Thanks for watching! Much love to all of you! ❤️

1:18 Finnish Course for Foreigners
2:33 Speaking Finnish with other foreigners
3:09 Translating Finnish text
3:45 Reading Finnish text out loud
3:59 Watching children’s TV shows
5:09 Speak Finnish everyday
5:39 Speaking to myself in Finnish
6:42 Become like a child

[teaisfortired-]

The main issue you have is fluency. Grammar is okay, but as a native Finnish speaker, for you my advice is to listen more to fluent speakers and copy their face, tonality, and accent. Don’t be afraid to take it slow :)

[Hypetreme]

Like some wise dude said: "Everything is impossible until someone does it."

[Virpukka]

I think part of the reason why Finns tries to help you to learn the Finnish right through correcting your mistakes is that there are so many words that have just one letter difference and they mean totally different things. Because of that you can easily end up offending someone when you change the meaning of the word. Also I think it also helps that we all study at least two different languages besides our mother tongue (that can also be Swedish in Finland with it being our second official language), so everyone in here knows what it is to try to learn a new language and how hard it can be.

[hiivatti-]

No eihä suomen kieli oo edes vaikiaa, tällleee puhuu menemää vaa!

[Cobleemil]

Here is my story about how i learned to speak finnish

*cough*


i was born here

[sapphiredany]

girl i respect you finnish is a hard ass language, as a finn i can say that most of us don't even get everything right

[yorkaturr]

You're doing great. When I was a kid our family used to mingle with this one multinational family whose dad was Swiss, and since he was an upper-class Swiss who had nannies and housekeepers and butlers and such as a kid, he already spoke very fluent German, English, Italian and French before moving to Finland in his 40's. It took him like 2 years to learn the language and get a very neutral Finnish accent with no particular telltale signs of him being a foreigner. I suppose being one of the lucky few with that sort of background helps a lot :D I am now 40 myself and work in a very international environment (ICT), and that old man is still the only foreign-born person I have met to this day who is able to speak Finnish without an obvious foreign accent.

[emppu]

Wow, your Finnish is really good considering you only lived here for 4 years, I'm impressed :o I really appreciate you going through so much trouble to learn our humble little language, kiitos tosi paljon~

[franklinclinton]

She's speaking the language of gods!

[jounik]

06:37 "To learn a language you have to become like a child."


That's true – to learn a language one needs to be willing to explore, to scrape a knee once or twice... Finns themselves are a bit hampered by the innate worry about "what will they think of me/us" so when we see someone else working to overcome that very obstacle about something we personally know something about is one of the few situations when we feel it safe to insert ourselves in the process.


Sometimes it even works.

[ohmp]

Finnish is not a hard language, that's just an urban legend. It just depends very much about the learner's mother tongue. For germanic language speakers it is hard in the beginning. Eg. Turkish people learn Finnish quite easily even though Finnish and Turkish aren't related. They just have many similarities in the "basic system" of the language, so they don't have to learn the basic system first like you English speakers have to do.
I have used that same method when learning Russian. I have dialogs with myself in Russian :)
If you are in Facebook you should join to some Finnish groups and read what people write there. I have joined eg. in a Swedish group to "get my Swedish back" and also chatted with some Swedes in Messenger. I was quite good at Swedish at school but I have forgotten it because of lack of use.

[MagiskaSamtal]

Once again, I'm thoroughly impressed by your skills. Specifically the pronunciation of Finnish words. 😊
It's necessary to regularly speak a language to maintain your skills even when it's your mother tongue. I was brought up speaking Finnish in Sweden. Didn't really speak Swedish on a daily basis until 7th grade and I was in my late teens when I finally made the switch from Finnish being my main language. Now I've spent half my life speaking mainly Swedish and English and half (the first half) speaking Finnish. And I'm severely lacking in Finnish. Can't get by without trying to insert a few swedish of English words into every sentence.

[itsjorina]

I’m on exchange in Finland for 11 months and I honestly feel so lost in this language. I’m here since 3 months and I can understand quite a lot, but speaking is so hard. This video really gave me motivation, thank you!

[rententee]

That was amazing! You can still hear you aren't a native speaker, but it doesn't take any effort figure out what you're saying.

[manolpaskalev]

I totally loved your video! I am a beginner with the language and this you pointed out is very helpful! Finns seem to be cold and self-centered, but when they hear their language they somehow open up their hearts! I subscribe to your channel and wish you all the best! ❤️

[gpsfamilyjournal]

I lived in Finland for 10 years and only a year ago I took my time and learn to speak Finnish.
I totally feel you about desperate tears. Even though I can chat in Finnish, every now and then I see some words which blow my mind and I feel like I’ll never have a full grasp on it.

[blutbad]

I am happy when somebody loves suomi Suomi sanottu torilla tavataan suomi on paras I am trying to learn english too

[Q-Mac_]

You just motivated me to put more effort into learning Finnish. I pretty much have every opportunity to learn it but due to the difficulty I get discouraged. I live and work in Finland, I’m married to a Finnish woman, and I like learning languages. So why the hell am I not speaking Finnish?! Mitä vittua! 😂🤦🏾‍♂️

[taijat]

Wau! Your suomen kieli is really good! I'm impressed. Definitely try to use Finnish whenever you have a change so your language skills won't get rusty. 💙 Suomi ei ole helppo kieli, mutta hiljaa hyvä tulee.