Learn To Speak Finnish In 4 Minutes

Basic useful things in Finnish language everyone should know before visiting Finland.

[ilpresidentedimarte]

speed ×2 and you can learn finnish in 2 minutes

[PikRabbit]

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

[brandonvillatuya]

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

[gabor]

"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.

[MonteyCarlo]

“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.

[josephglover]

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

[googlewasmyideacom]

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

[koyaaanisquatsi]

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)

[byptts]

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 :).

[pookoos]

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.

[zumzzhoney]

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!

[Mandy_]

I'm from Finland! 🇫🇮
Who else?
👇🏻

[ridinwithjake]

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.

[straypurplecat]

"You don't say these things in Finnish."

Ah, Finnish is now my favorite language.

[Slashco]

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

[Boner_Champ]

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.

[R_sse]

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

[alejandroleguizamo]

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...

[FrankSerpico]

Her English has a charming Irish twang to it

[domilontano]

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."