Brit Reacts to Finnish Language l Can Swedish Speakers Understand it?

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Can Swedes understand Finnish?

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"Can Swedes understand Finnish?" Nope, not even close. It's a completely different language from a different family (Finno-Ugric languages) that seems as different to Swedish as Japanese does.

scyphe
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Finnish is in a completly differnt language group, Scandinavians trying to understand it is similar to if Italians tried to understand Polish.

matshjalmarsson
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I hope you could do some kind of collab with Dave Cad. He is a Brit with Finnish-Swedish wife, living in Finland. He have studied both Swedish and Finnish, and he have said it have been easier to learn Swedish than Finnish.

Susirajantakaa
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11:03 Your Absoulutely right.
Finnish is Famous for beeing one of the hardest languages in the world to learn.
There are 15 different case that governs the inflection of nouns (endings for nouns) and a seriously complicated grammer structure.
German was hard enough for me and it has 4 !
The swedish/norwegian talkshow Skavlan tested a language-genius in how much finnish he would manige to learn in one week..
I dont speak a word of finnish my self.
But I worked for a german companie in Norway with a Finnish costumerbase, and the smartest doctor in the lab tryed to learn finnish.. he gave up.

hwplugburz
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As a Swede, I've tried learning Finnish but it's almost impossible.

beachboy
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Of course it would be easier for you to learn Norwegian, Swedish and Danish beacause of the influence those nordic languages have had on the modern English language since the viking era!

karstenstormiversen
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I understand all these languages but never thought of it as an unusual ability. But on reflection it is and has given me friends for life.

dennislindqvist
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Pretty much all food packaging and lots of other things have mulitilingual text on them in Nordic countries so as a Swede you likely understand some odd words in Finnish. For example there's Ei saa peittää which means do not cover, it's on lots of radiators.

henriknykvist
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English is closer to Hindi than Swedish is to Finnish.

stormmoster
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This is pretty funny video I must confess, but no, people from other Nordic countries have no clue about our language, and that's totally undestandable. 😂

finman
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Finnish is one of the most difficult languages in the world (for native English speakers; generally ranked #6 most difficult). Reason being that - although it has many loan words - it mostly has an unique vocabulary and grammar is highly complex. It's also very flexible in a sense, that people can basically invent totally new words on the fly during casual conversation. Some of them then become more widely used. This is of course true with basically any language, but in Finnish it happens much more frequently. But the most difficult aspects are unique words (lot's of them) and complex grammar. I study Japanese at the moment, and as a Finnish person, I don't find it very difficult. Japanese writing systems (hiragana, katakana and kanji) seems to be a total mess at first, but actually they are not that difficult after all. Also the grammar is way easier than Finnish grammar. Japanese also has loads of unique words, which is the most difficult aspect of it.

osemarvin
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Old Finnish proverb:"Jos ei sauna, viina ja terva auta, on tauti kuolemaksi." ( If sauna, booze and tar don't help, it's a deadly disease.) ( Om bastu, sprit och tjära inte hjälper är det en dödssjukdom.) I'm bit sceptical of that Swedish translation.

eerokutale
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Both Swedish and English are Germanic languages, and the vikings raided England a lot of times, and some vikings even settled in England, Scotland, Ireland and Isle of Man. Not so many in Wales though.

Since we are all Germanic languages we do have much in common, and the vikings influenced the English language a lot. About 200 of the most used English words are from old Norse.
Examples are "here", "there", "window", "this", "that", "them" and many more.

Finnish on the other hand is NOT related to Germanic, and not even to Indo-European languages. FInnisg is part of the Finnic-Ugric languages, together with Estonian, Sami, Karelian, Hungarian and some other language. Finnic-Ugric are NOT Indo-Eiropean languages. They come from the Uralic languages.

dannestrom
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Swedes may recognize some Finnish words due to the fact that many words from Swedish have been borrowed into the Finnish language over time. We Sweden - Finland have a long history together...

More than half of Finnish loanwords have come from or through Swedish. The oldest Swedish loanwords date back to the 800s AD, when they came from Old Swedish. The youngest loans are from modern times. Words borrowed from Swedish are considered the latest loanword layer.For example, the words monkey, trousers and hat have come from Sweden.

anukatariinasutinen
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Finnish language is not as difficult to learn as it first seem. It is very consistant language without many exceptions. Every letter have exactly one pronaunciation, and ephasis is always at the first syllable of the word. Finnish only seem hard because it is different than english, but if someone from asia for example without prior knowledge of either language tries to learn them, finnish would be easier to learn than english.

Tyrisalthan
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The Finnish pronounciation is very logical and every letters count unlike in French. Why do the French write many letters but left them to pronounce? The phonetic values of Finnish letters resemble the original Latin ones, not those occurring in English.

Besides unlike in German, there are no three grammatical genders (der, das, die) in Finnish language. Even the third person pronoun "hän" means both he and she, it doesn't tell if "hän" is a man or a woman. The other third person pronoun "se" means same as it in English, and it is used for animals and things, not for humans.

A Finnish word for a car is just "auto", not "das Auto" like in German or like "en bil" in Swedish. In the Finnish language there are no definite nor indefinite articles, and all the locations can be tell without prepositions but with case endings. For instance "autossa" = in a car, "autosta" (elative) = from (inside) a car, "autoon" = into a car, "autolla" = on a car, "autolta" (ablative) = from a car, "autolle" = onto a car. Luckily my parents told all about 15 noun cases when I was just a baby boy!

lucone
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Swedish, Danish, German, English and Norwegian are Indoeuropean languages. Finnish is Finno-Ugric language, not in same language group.

STMR_LOVE-DnrSitumorang
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The Finnish is difficult for everyone but not impossible.

LoneWolf
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Finnish is hard at beginning but once you learn the basic and understand the logic in gets easier.

TheArseen
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I'm Swedish but my grandfather was a Finn, and i know some basic stuff because of it but i pretty much only remember the bad words😂

dirreeN