Brit Reacts to Why Finnish Is One of The EASIEST Languages

Is Finnish really an easy language to learn? Let me know in the comments section below.

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[SK-nwig]

"Cats" is plural, "cat's" is possesive :) "It is the cat's toy".

[m.cfender]

A small example of wordplay.

-Kokoa koko kokko.
-Koko kokkoko?
-Koko kokko.

-Build the whole bonfire.
-Whole bonfire?
-Whole bonfire.

[leopartanen]

Koskea is also a partitive form of the word koski (rapids). 👌🏻😂

[johannesmarkstrom]

Hi there. When I was working in Tanzania and struggled with learning Swahili somebody told me that Swahili and Finnish sentences were built the same way. Didn`t help me though since I don`t speak Finnish.

[puhistagram]

Thanks for nice video, Dwayne.
You pronounced Finnish pretty good, really good actually.
Take care 👍

[perkl]

Wer have a song called Musta Aurinko Nousee. It means three literal things:
- Black sun rising
- I think sun is rising
- The sun is rising from my body

And then there is the symbolic meaning used in song.

[matshjalmarsson]

Kissa means Peeing in Swedish. :)
Cat is Katt, but we have the slang word Kisse, or Kissekatt, or Misse.

[hejsannnnnnnnnnnnn]

3:45 Kissa means "to piss" in Swedish, but "Kisse" in Swedish is like a slang of cat which is called "Katt" in Swedish

[janus]

The fact that Finnish spelling and pronunciation work in the manner that they do, makes a word like yksityisyyttä, which looks like a nightmare to pronounce, not as hard as it looks. The Y is always a vowel pronounced similar to the "u" in cute, and the "i' like a long e. Then you can break the word up as yk-si-tyi-syyt-tä ( the yy just means you hold the sound a bit longer.)

[Gibbetoo]

Aleksi is pretty good in this, he is teaching 2 languages at same time.

[dasmarkopo]

Many finnish speakers are quiet and don't say much, and if you want the speedtrack to conversation - all you need is: Terve, Kippis, Perkele, Joo & no niin.

[scyphe]

Finnish dude says: "Finnish is easy". The rest of the world: "@#$%&!".

[tsuhna]

Ha. That bit about kurkku reminded me about my mom telling about her years living in Sydney, Australia in the 70's. She did not know English at all, apart from the basic touristy stuff, so she basically stayed as a housewife. But, the day came when my oldest brother, then a little kid, got ill and he had to be taken to the doctor. Welp, the dad was at work so she had to manage herself. She looked up kurkku in the dictionary and told the doctor that the boy's cucumber hurts..
Obviously the doctor had no freaking clue what this crazy lady from the other side of globe was babbling about, until she pointed at the word in the dictionary. Two different meanings and she obviously picked the wrong one. In the end it was sorted fine, my brother got the proper medicine and they all had a good laugh about it. And a good story to tell afterwards.

[killerkonnat]

You always hear about how Finnish is one of the most difficult languages to learn... But I don't think that's accurate at all. I think it's because it's difficult to learn from the perspective of an English speaker because the languages are so different. And any time you see someone talk about the hardest languages on the internet... it's almost always somebody who's a native English speaker. Or secondary English language with their native langue being an another Germanic language. (In the same family of languages.)

I don't think Finnish is a difficult language, it's just difficult for English speakers. There are many other languages that are a lot more difficult to learn, it's just that Finnish grammar and pronunciation rules conflict heavily with English or other Germanic languages.

English, French etc. are also very difficult languages because you have to learn so many exceptions to exceptions to exceptions of rules. Or memorize stuff like word genders. There are so many things you can't get correct by just hearing or reading English. You have to memorize a bunch of hidden rules which are impossible to learn from the spoken or written text. And the pronunciation and written word are so different, so if you read a word you don't know how to say it. And if you hear a word you don't know how to write it. There's a million things you have to memorize because there are more exceptions to the rules than words that follow the rules. Finnish grammar might be more difficult but it's consistent, and pronunciation is consistent too. There are very few exceptions. If you learn the rules, you know how to work with any new words you learn. The rules of how words work might be more complicated but when you've learned them, you don't have to memorize anything about individual words except for the word itself.

Like one of the difficult parts for an English person to learn is that a Finnish word is often not a word but a word and affixes combined together. For example in English you could say "My cat is going to the door" but if you wrote that with the Finnish rules, it would be "Catmy going doorto" The extra words got turned into suffixes and it looks complicated because it looks like the same word has many different versions but 90% of those are adding a prefix or suffix to a word, which in English would be a separate word with a spacebar in between. But when you start learning the suffixes and prefixes you will understand that they are just the separate small words that English uses but missing the space deleted between them. If in English you saw "My cat going to door" or "Mycat going todoor" you would understand what those mean. (Though those are with the "the", "a" etc. filler words deleted because Finnish doesn't use them.) The prefixes and suffixes are about who owns the thing or where that thing is related to other things. So for example "my", "his", "yours"for ownership or "at", "from" and "to" for the location. When you figure out those common prefixes and suffixes you will realize that the words themselves don't have 20 different forms. It's just saying "my cat" as "mycat" or "from the door" as "fromdoor". (The words do have a couple different forms. And that's the trickier part to learn. But if you mess that up your sentences will still be understandable, just sound wrong.)

I think that for example a Japanese speaker would be able to learn Finnish much easier than English. We have similarities in pronunciation and grammar rules, even though the languages aren't related to each other at all. AND both the pronunciation and grammar are consistent.

Finnish isn't hard because it's hard. It's hard because it's different from English/German/French/Spanish who are closely related and because the people who call it hard speak one of those languages natively. "French is easier because I already speak a similar language."

[cayenigma]

I have to remark that his english parts had a lot of typos, so the correct form for 'syömme' is 'WE eat' lol

[eastfinn]

The Finnish word kissa is a loanword from Swedish, where cat is katt. In Finland it has become the word katti, which is also cat in English

[Logoht]

Actually he made a mistake -> Syömme is we are eating :) also his tenses are off, söin - I ate (correct) Söit (you ate or you have eaten both are correct) - I have eaten (Olen syönyt) is correct and Olet syönyt (you have eaten) is also correct HOWEVER! it was not correct there :)

[eetuhuttunen]

Well here are some of the different forms of car: auto, auton, autoa, autona, autoksi, autossa, autosta, autoon, autolla, autolta, autolle.

[Henryxon]

suomi on maailman kolmanneksi vaikein kieli venäjä ja kiina ranks yksi ja kaksi. Dwayne you successfully pronounced Ä Ö, while many people take several months to successfully pronounce them

[lullebulle]

8:00 Its like The cat's hat, not like 3 cats. Thats why its (Possession)