American Reacts Geography Now! Finland

[@LaurenticAspie]

No polar bears here in Finland. We use the Latin alphabet, not the Cyrillic. (Together with Estonians, Hungarians and a bunch of minorities mostly in Russia, we are linguistically Uralic, not Slavic or indeed any type of Indo-European.) Temperatures mid-winter have risen somewhat in the past few decades, but where I live (Oulu, North Ostrobothnia, roughly halfway between the most northern and southern tips of the country) there still tends to be a few bitter days of minus 20 to 25 degrees centigrade. In Lapland, there are still regular winter temperatures below minus 30 degrees centigrade (in his youth, my father from Sodankylä actually experienced a "dry weather" of minus 48 degrees centigrade!). In Helsinki, I would expect it to be more like minus 10 to 15 degrees centigrade. While this may only be relevant to a misanthropic deep green like myself, out of that "80% forest coverage" only about 1/5 is natural forest; most of it is tree crops and looks very monotonous in places.

[@KaregoAt]

Yeah the cultivated forests are depressing to roam sometimes 😔 especially when the forestry machines rip up the earth and make it hell to walk through.

[@OliviaSthlm]

Most of the Nordics are quite hot in the summers (25-30 C°), thanks to the Gulf stream, carrying the hot waters from the Mexican gulf.

[@imthatdude5453]

In finland 20-25C° summer

[@Jappe132]

@@imthatdude5453 Nowadays it has been like 25-35c in summer. Some people would say global warming.

[@potatoking3840]

@@imthatdude5453 more like 15 to 25 C

[@pentti3715]

@@Jappe132 35C in Finland is very rare.

[@Jappe132]

@@potatoking3840 perhaps in the northern Finland. Like Jyväskylä and above

[@HumppaTomppa]

The Finnish-Estonian connection is mainly because of the same language group. We can almost understand eachother. But not quite anymore

[@ristusnotta1653]

and similar culture and history

[@ristusnotta1653]

@Big blue whale welll yeah but no Estonia is actually pretty similar when you compare the whole countries

[@nervanderi]

Hungarian is closer to Finland

[@2506754250675]

@@nervanderi in a way but it isn't that comprehensible as estonian. when i hear hungarian friends talking i have no f'n way understanding it, but with estonian friends it is quite easy to pick up things and know what they are talking about event tho i dont understand it completely.

[@markustaitokari899]

The Estonia is for Me the Main/Foreign Ministers All Marxists/Socialists and They were like a Traitos or Agents of Kreml. The Finland should do a lot to have Goog Relantionship with Finns Old Friend back! The Evil Russia and their KGB,/FSB had been done a Good Job to get Us away Each Others. The Best Friend should be: 1 Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania 2 Sweden, Norway and Danmark 3 US, Great Britannya, Canada, Austsralia, New Zeland

[@jaatynytenkeli]

To answer the climate question, I'd say from coldest to warmest, it's about -32c to +32c, give or take 5 degrees. Depends a lot what kind of year it is.

[@user-fo2ik1vt4b]

nah it never gets that cold anymore, if gets its extreme. The southern parts have the same temperature as Estonia. Like Helsinki and Tallinn average yearly temperature is exactly the same

[@jaatynytenkeli]

@@user-fo2ik1vt4b well just last winter it was -31c 30 kilometers from Helsinki, Soo I call bullshit on that.

[@mr.ak1113]

@@user-fo2ik1vt4b You have to remember that Finland is a long country. If you live in Helsinki and its -10 degrees, elsewhere at the same time can be -40. Don't just live in your little bubbles.

[@temet_fin]

I quite agree. We've had bad summers but like this year (2021) even the lake water temperature was occasionally like 28°C. That's was even too much for me, I wanted to swim, not being in a bathtub. But you never know what's ahead.

[@Alexandros.Mograine]

i like your reactions because you pay way more attention to the video than most people.

[@teepm]

And not cocky like some US reacters

[@yorkaturr]

When I was in the army in 1999, the winter was extremely brutal with northern Finland having temperatures below -50C and the base I was in had about -35C for a month straight. When it got to -10C, we took our jackets and shirts off and wore only our t-shirts because it felt like spring then. In recent years the summers in the south have been suffocatingly hot with +30C temperatures for extended periods. It might not sound like much, but since Finnish apartments are designed to retain heat instead of dissipating heat, very few homes have air-conditioning, so indoors it can be terribly hot.

[@teppotulppa]

Yea, last winter it went down to -39°C in Sodankylä. At the time we had 2 weeks long exercise going on so we slept in tents. Wasn't the best experience i've had.

[@Jappe132]

@@teppotulppa last winter it was -15C here at worst. Barely got any snow. This winter however has been worse. -23C for couple of days and when you think the snow is melting away you just keep getting more of it.

[@oakstrong1]

"Airtight" buildings should also be good at keeping the heat out, if you keep the windows and doors closed and curtains withdrawn during the day. That is why tinted window panes are popular in SE Asia. Most households do not have an air conditioning, they are expensive to buy and run, but fans are cheap if you have electricity, and you can open the windows a few hours after sundown.

[@pamelakilponen3682]

Only polar bears you will see in Finland are at the zoo. Finnish is in it's own language group(Uralic), and our letters are from the Latin alphabet. It can get quite hot in summer in the Helsinki regions(Uusimaa). can get up to 35C. Duolingo has Finnish in its choices for language.

[@SK-nw4ig]

I often thought we could have our very own alphabet, if someone just started to write finnish earlier. Of course Agricola will write in the alphabet he was used to. There is tree bark from 1300's written in cyrillic, but is finnish/ karelian: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birch_bark_letter_no._292

[@pamelakilponen3682]

@@SK-nw4ig Very interesting, I did not know this! Thanks.

[@maijahelena716]

Finnish weather records as of today: Highest temperature: +37.2 ° C in Liperi, Joensuu Airport, July 29, 2010. Lowest temperature: -51.5 ° C in Kittilä, Pokka, January 28, 1999 Highest monthly average temperature: +23.0 ° C in Puumala village, July 2010 Lowest monthly average temperature: -29.7 ° C in Kuusamo, January 1985 Maximum daily rainfall: 198.4 mm in Espoo, Lahnus, July 21, 1944 Maximum monthly rainfall: 301.9 mm in Laukaa, July 1934 Maximum yearly rainfall: 1242.2 mm in Puolanka, Paljakka, 2015 Maximum snow depth: 190 cm in Enontekiö, Kilpisjärvi, April 19, 1997 Maximum mean wind speed: 32.5 m/s in Kökar, Bogskär, January 1, 2019

[@tsuhna1167]

Yes, sir. English grammar is quite easy. Having studied English, Swedish, French and German in my youth, English was by far the easiest one to learn. Finnish though. Umph, that's from another universe. It belongs to a unique language group altogether, separate from any other European or Asian language, so for anyone not natively Finno- Ugric will find Finnic languages less understandable than Klingon.

[@victorcapel2755]

Neither Finnish/Estonian nor Latvian/Lithuanian are Slavic languages. Finnish/Estonian/Hungarian are Uralic and Latvian/Lithuanian are Baltic. The Baltic language group (Latvian, Lithuanian and the now extinct Old Preussan) is the oldest branch of the Indo-European language tree still in existance in Europe by the way, and they share a lot of roots and words with Hindi.

[@RodneyEnt]

Latvia and Lithuania are not slavic, they are indo-european. Finnish and Estonian are finno-ugric. Rest of the nordic are germanic. Finns use ordinary latin alphabet with some added characters like ö and ä. One theory says that people who later became finns, migrated from the area, that later became Estonia, hence almost the same language, and pushed samis out to the dark and cold in the north.

[@ajarofdeliciousjam6930]

There were so many mistakes :´D - Savonlinna and Olavinlinna are not separate castles. Savonlinna is not even a castle but the name of the city which is named after its most famous feature, Olavinlinna. - The fish is muikku not miukku. - Children are obligatorily schooled at around the ages of 7-15 and if he meant studying English in particular, 8-15. Not 9-11 in either case

[@blissfull_ignorance8454]

The differencies with temperatures between the southernmost and northernmost parts of Finland can be quite huge; where I am now in the north (Ivalo), above the Arctic Circle there is still tons of snow on the ground, while at the same time trees are already starting to have leaves and flowers blossoming in the southern parts of the country.

[@vagabond142]

12:20 Finnish use the latin alphabet with heavy (and I mean HEAVY) use of umlauts. What makes the language so hard to learn is that it is of the least used language bases in the world, Balto-Finnic, which is a subset of the least used language base in the world, Uralic. The only two countries that use Balto-Finnic are Finland and Estonia, and there are many words that both countries use that mean entirely different things. Balto-Finnic is a subset of Uralic, meaning that the language base came Westward out of the Northern Ural regions, instead of the more Southern Russian and North Caucasian (aka Cyrillic) regions. I lived in Finland for a good 10 weeks in 2006, September through October and November. I'm Canadian, so naturally I consider myself extremely friendly and polite, but the Finns are a whole other step above us. You will never meet a more intelligent, considerate, polite, and generally lovely and welcoming people in your entire life as the Finnish... with one exception: when they're drunk. Then they turn into loud, boisterous, funny drunks that often cut holes in the ice over a lake, jump in, hop out, run around in the snow, and are so goddamned pickled on vodka (Koskenkorva!) that it doesn't affect them. Also, the only time I was ever properly, truly, "what did I do last night?!?" drunk was in Finland on a Saturday night, and I really regretted being alive the Sunday after 🤣⚰ Of course, this was remedied with a good helping of mustamakkara (I was living in Tampere, which is a couple of hours North of Vantaa in the Helsinki area)

[@2506754250675]

i tried to feel and hear euskara, basque language when i was living in catalonia and that is extremely strange :D nothing like indoeuropean languages. but then again it is a relic but still kicking and jumping strongly

[@vem9583]

I wouldn’t say Finnish uses umlauts heavily. We only have Ä and Ö (and those are considered their own separate letters with distinct pronounciations. They can’t be replaced by A and O.)

[@disadadi8958]

I'd say ±30°C are the average peaks. Typically doesn't get quite that cold in Helsinki, maybe closer to -20 or -25°C, and during summers, 30 is rare but achievable.

[@ThatBonsaipanda]

2:34 - Because we're up north, the sun is stuuuuupid high in the sky during summer. Depending on how air is moving, a good summer usually yields 30°C (86°F) temperature, a normal summer is around 24°C (75°F), a meh summer is 18°C (65°F)(rare) and a wtf is this bs summer is over 35°C (95°F)(has happened a few times now). Summer is usually warm throughout the country because of the Gulf Stream, but at the very very top it's still a bit chilly. In my hometown, which is at the center, summer at the center of town is sometimes unbearable for us because the sun warms up all the asphalt and it just radiates heat througout the night. Also, the sun lights the up the sky during the night making summer nights here visually breathtaking.

[@kentabrahamsson]

Finland has since the dawn of time been part of the western civilization. With a Western European cultural basis, lutheran protestantism, roman alphabet and Western democracy. Finland was an integrated part of Sweden for some 600 years, 100 years as a semi-independent Grand-Duchy of the Russian Empire and fully independent for the last 100 years.

[@80009]

Finland has the most lakes in relation to country size. Although it’s not as large as Canada or Russia, its smaller size boasts an impressive number of lakes (187,888 to be exact).

[@TheGuilty11]

Normal temperature changes in southern Finland is like -20 to +35. And that is pretty broad assumption. It needs to be very cold winter to have -20 in long term in southern Finland. Wh i typen this there was couple days with -25 100km north from Helsinki but that was just short period. In north it can be -35 or below easily and long times.

[@oakstrong1]

At the end of millennium, most of January and occasional days in February was around -30 in Helsinki, the rest of the winter varied between +1 and -20. There was enough snow for the usual winter activities. However, I have noticed the trend of warmer weather over the decades: snow even in the forest is not deep enough to prevent you walking in there (before it would reach at least up to the knees making skiing or snow shoes were necessary) and where before the trucks would take heavy building materials over ice roads to the island we built a house (because the wooden bridge couldn't take the weight) I wouldn't even trust to walk there any more.

[@rondenseikkailut]

You need come finland! Summer and winter is amazing!!

[@Alexandros.Mograine]

In Finland people like to say "you know you're finnish when 28 degrees celsius is too hot".

[@dominikmanthei4546]

I think 28 is too hot for a lot of people

[@temet_fin]

For me 28°C is fine, but this summer the water temperature in a small lake was exactly 28. That was like being in a bathtub.

[@codyyh9421]

even 22C is hot

[@Alexandros.Mograine]

well yes but most people in the world live in areas where its hotter than that.

[@jussimustonen6829]

Finnish summer is great. It is usually around 20 degrees celsius but it can be as warm as 30 degrees. Winter is different in different parts of Finland but summer is quite same everywhere only that the more North you are the shorter the summer is. In the winter it can be even colder than -30 degrees.

[@pentti3715]

2:40 average temperature in Helsinki in summer is 17°C but it is often 20-25°c. In winter average temperature in the north is about -20°C but it can be even -40C. The record is over 50 degrees below zero. And the warmest temperature recorded in Finland is 37C.

[@pippastin]

In recent years summers have been quite hot. +-30 degrees Celsius. And the temperature doesn't go below 20 C even at night. Greetings from a sweaty Finn in a hot ass apartment without aircon. And given how our houses are built to keep warmth inside, it's like 32 C (90 F) inside my home for weeks/months 😅

[@SK-nw4ig]

Right now, peak of summer, it is +30C in Tampere region, rather south of Finland. Six months ago it was -27C. At the same time the coldest last year was northern Finland's -45C. So there's that. It is not enough though so we use sauna to get it up to +100C :D He explained the Åland-part a bit weirdly. It's not that Åland belonged to Sweden, but whole of Finland did. Yes, Finland has even more hevy metal bands than Norway. Norway is big on black metal, Finland with basically everything else. Also noteable is that in Finland metal music is very mainstream. My Norwegian bf tells me there is a clear difference there - in Norway it is not so. Finns and Estonians are related by blood and by linguistics, this likely affects on the relationship Estonia has with Finland versus Latvia and Lithuania. They belong in a different linguistic tree, very much like all the other Nordics belong to a different language tree than Finland.

[@karitilsala9297]

temperatures in summer + 35 (95 ° f) - in winter -35 ° c (-31 ° f) or slightly more ...

[@user-fo2ik1vt4b]

not -35 in the south tho, -25-30 is the coldest in the south, (specially South-West doesnt have those kind of temperatures)

[@TheGuilty11]

There hasn't been solid snow cover in few years in Helsinki. Until last year so "normal" temperature difference is about -15 - +32. But those are peak temperatures. And in celsius ofc. In middle/west country it is about -20 - +30, East/north east -25 - +30 and in north -40 - +30. And these are normal peak temperatures. So it is +-5C normally

[@leopartanen9431]

16:27 Estonia and Finland get along, because they are both Finnic people, but of course both countries are influenced by Scandinavian, Slavic and Baltic people, and vice versa. Ps. Maybe Slavic and Nordic meets a little bit in Estonia and Finland, but for example Swedes are more Slavic than Finns, since they have more Slavic genes.

[@hdahlia]

Actually I believe it's the other way around. Slavs (esp Russians) have some Swedish genes. It's due to the Vikings settling in around Novgorod.

[@victorcapel2755]

@@hdahlia And also around Kiev. Holmagardr and Konugagardr were the two major Viking kingdoms in Russia. To be fair though, even if I don't know that it's true that Swedes have more Russian genes than Finns, I could see the basis for that claim. The Vikings brought a lot of slaves (and there's even a debate over if the word "Slave" comes from the word "Slavic") back to Sweden from Russia over centuries.

[@leopartanen9431]

@@hdahlia Maybe so. Vikings also kidnapped people to be slaves for them. Throughout the centuries, Swedish have been more interactive with Eastern Europe and vice versa, but Finns have been more isolated.

[@jarkkakivikanta8520]

Helsinki has been between -27C to +31C in my lifetime. And I was born in 1975.

[@Ama-Elaini]

The warmest we've measured here in the locally (in the southern part) was around 35C though there has been more than that somewhere.

[@jaeger233]

we use same western alphabet except we also have Ä, Ö and Å. (even Å is more swedish)

[@Leoooo._.1.-.1]

Helsinki is around 20-30 C° on summers and 5 to -20 C°

[@jiggy7108]

In summer it gets to +30°C and in winter it gets to about -30°C

[@uikonimi]

It can get above 30 degrees Celsius in the summer, and the coldest recorded was -51 degrees Celsius

[@uikonimi]

Also Olavinlinna is a castle located in the city of Savonlinna

[@Jrgosman]

In Helsinki and literally everywhere In Finland, it can get up to 35°C In summer and In the northern parts of Finland like Lapland, it can get down to -35°C In winter

[@name028hfjsiwh2]

As a Finn I probably can speak English better then my own language

[@leopartanen9431]

than*

[@Tip_Boi]

I'm a Finn too and same but, ya got to admit it's a little funny to say you're good only to get immediately grammar nazied.

[@hansuilija6605]

Clearly not.

[@Alexandros.Mograine]

in lapland there are more reindeers than people.

[@user-fo2ik1vt4b]

In the south its much warmer, here in south west Finland it might not snow at all. If does, it stays for a little time and then melts. Around -25-30c is the absolute coldest it can get here in south but thats very rare, was more common in the 1800 n 1900 hundreds when it reached -35 at most. 33-34 C hot (92-94 fahrenheit)has been recorded four years in a row now in Finland, and the warmest temperature ever is 37.2c, which is higher than Denmark, Norway or Estonias highest ever temperature, for real.

[@hono6644]

2:21 i usuly it can be 25-30c° and some Times ~50c° but it's rare but it can happend some Times. i have my self expitienced 50c° (in the sun) like 4 years ago i think if i remember corectly but 25-close to 40 its norm in the summer.

[@Skege1000]

We use this kinda alphabet. And summer it might get over 30C, but normally it's about 25C in Helsinki. Northern parts winter is cold, -30C

[@codyyh9421]

warmest tempatures in finland are around 35C and coldest normally are -35C.

[@Jmvars]

I'm not in Finland but I'm only 40km from the border: Here it gets down to -40C (-40F) pretty much every winter, with a record of -51C (-60F) in 1999.

[@usdibad6292]

Yo HistoryMarche continued the Hannibal series!

[@McJibbin]

!!! Really? I’ll check it out! Thanks ! 🙏

[@kiliansjoblom7535]

The reason for the close relationship with Estonia is language. Estonian is almost intelligible to Finns. Still there are lots of tensions between Estonians and Finns that mostly rise from the economic disparity between the two. Estonia was a part of the USSR and was really poor when they got their independence.

[@finnish_geography24]

in winter it got to -15 degrees celsius

[@tezvx]

Here are some answers to your questions: 2:36 On summer it's often between 20 and 35 degrees celcius or 68 to 95 farenheit in Helsinki. I don't live in northern Finland but I'd estimate it's around -20 degrees celcius or -4 degrees farenheit in there. 7:39 Finland is too warm for polar bears ESPECIALLY on the summer so they can't really survive there. 12:23 The alphabet used in Finland in the latin alphabet/the western European one.

[@mehsatunnainen9726]

37.2 °C (99.0 °F) (Liperi, July 29, 2010). The lowest, −51.5 °C (−60.7 °F) (Kittilä, January 28, 1999). Are the temp records.

[@somebody1253]

Why everyone thinks there is polar bears in Finland?

[@teotik8071]

Aren't they ? Perhaps you haven't witnessed them until now..... 😇

[@leopartanen9431]

Maybe because Canada and USA have polar bears in northern parts, but majority of their citizens live much souther than Finns. Actually Russia and Norway too, and technically Denmark, since Greenland has them... 🤷‍♀️

[@StanleyMilgramm]

I find it funny when videos like this say "Finland is nordic, don't call it Scandinavian!!!!!" I am a Finnish person and not once in my life have I encountered a Finn who would care at all about that. I can't imagine anyone being offended by that.

[@avatara82]

English is easy... thats why we speak it so well. Swedish is bit harder but still easy... Spanish is pretty easy also but French was a nightmare.

[@cinderellaandstepsisters]

There is no huge differences between Scandinavia and Nordic countries. Only difference is that Finland has more ppl with blue eyes and blond hair. There are no post soviet buildings in Finland. Finland was never a part of Soviet union, never under communism and never an eastern bloc country. Finland 🇫🇮 is a Nordic country with Sweden 🇸🇪 Norway 🇸🇯 Denmark 🇩🇰 and Iceland 🇦🇽 Politically, economically, religiously, geographically and culturally.

[@odraciskatube7725]

well least i learned something..thats rare in it self finland dont have much sun in the winter? hmm i never knew this.

[@mehsatunnainen9726]

Standard latin alphabet with some adjustments: Finnish has three extra vowels: å ä and ö and almost never uses the letters: c q w z and x but otherwise the alphabet is: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzåäö And the pronunciation never changes, so that part is fairly easy to learn

[@oakstrong1]

There are slight changes but not enough not to be understood.

[@heliheikkinen6326]

You are right! English grammar is not easy, there just isn't any. The thing with English is that you have to learn multicle idioms for every special need. It's easy to speak English "understandably", but it's really merciless, if you want anything close to good. This makes English a very exclusive and differentiating language. (American English is not that bad, but it's changing more quickly than BE.) Finnish, on the other hand, has two advantages: it's pronounced exactly like it's written, and there are no exceptions from the rules. Or rather, every exception has its own rule. So, welcome to learning Finnish, if you are good with learning about 2100 000 000 rules by heart!

[@fortuna7469]

Thanks for educating yourself about different countries including Finland! That is very admirable indeed. Yes, we love saunas, nature, berry picking, quietude and heavy metal, but I think important things that were left unsaid would be our social democratic system with high taxes but free health care and school system (also universities) and gender equality. In 1906 Finnish women, first in the world, received unrestricted rights both to vote and stand for parliament. Here you can see our prime minister Sanna Marin give a talk in Columbia University on how Finland is going to tackle becoming a carbon neutral society in a socially just way by the year 2035: kzbin.info/www/bejne/q57dmGuBmt6smNE

[@oakstrong1]

First to have the right to stand for Parliament, perhaps, but only second to give women the right to vote.

[@anu83]

Hello from Finland 💙🇫🇮💙 Just wanted to let you know, Finland is not a he. "He" is SHE. Yes, she is the Suomi neito ( Finnish maiden, because our country used to look exactly like a maiden waving her hands in long, flowing dress. Now after Russia took her another arm and part of her dress, so she is little bit smaller. There is a painting, where the Finnish maiden is waving the Finnish flag. I think it´s beautiful.

[@moonliteX]

between -30 and +30c usually

[@StormDrago]

Canada has 563 lakes while Finland has 187,888 lakes.

[@ratyjoona]

Coldest recorded temperature in Finland is -51.5°C

[@halpaoranki7386]

I'm from Finland I just watched this video again even tough I have wacthed a long time ago but that One test in the whole time in school is a lie like we have 3 tests in every month I dont know where they have get that 1 test in the whole school time thing

[@oakstrong1]

I can't remember if it is FBI that has categorised world languages according how difficult they are to learn: Finnish isn't even in the hardest group! Written Finnish and pronunciation are quite easy (although other language speakers naturally may have difficulties with sounds that do not occur in their mother tingue) but the main problem is that Finnish grammar is not similar to Romance languages and neither Slavic ones, so the speakers of European languages do not have a reference point.

[@vekets69]

The coldest is -50c

[@moonliteX]

well yea we finns consider ourselves extremely western

[@f1allu459]

In summer its like 30 C

[@ristusnotta1653]

well do Estonia next since there was talks about it

[@BlondeNordic]

Sorry no polar bears no penguins either we do have wolves, foxes, lynxes and even the brown bears. Temp wise i think the coldest was around 50-C few years back it was in Kittilä but other that around 20-- 30 -C and during summer it can reach 30+ C. We have Latin based alphabets and about Estonia their language is similar to ours but the meaning of their words is a bit odd like lets say piimä which means buttermilk over here but in Estonia it might mean something totally different. Same kind of lang but different meanings behind the words...

[@hono6644]

And coldes can be like -30c°

[@joelcollander1973]

I actualy think we got more lakes than canada

[@mehsatunnainen9726]

The grammar pic: if it can't even keep it's own grammar right, I wouldn't pay that much attention to it. Finnish is hard mostly because it doesn't use any of the normal rules. English is way more difficult, 'cause you have all these idioms floating around and nothing's pronounced like it seems. Oh and grammar? Feels like English just wings it.

[@heh9392]

15:15 this is exactly why me as a Finn, I think that the trade between us and Russia will be ruined after and if we join Nato :(

[@SteamboatW]

I don't agree with the video. Sisu to Funland is like Hygge is to Denmark. "Janteloven" is mostly something used to slander Scandinavian countries. Not anything embraced...

[@tommi7554]

Population is little by little starting to have more and more middle easterns and africans, because of the refugees who are mostly male. Sweden have allmost 1/4 of the population from same regions and allmost half the people under 18, are allready from another culture. In this rate native swedish are vanishing within few generations.

[@0Quiwi0]

Yeah. Estonia is better friends with Finland than their ground neighbors

[@evahernberg2624]

I am from Finland and I think was nyt the Best presentation I have seen about Finland. Why do you speak so rapid, it does nyt give any Bitter valuu to the presentation.

[@urosleijona]

There is polar beats on Finland, but tulee is in zoo 😝

[@mikkolaine4883]

Atleast Swedish has easier grammar than English. A lot of common things but not so many exceptions.

[@catbitmaster8216]

Not sure where to recommend this on Discord, so I will comment here instead. Cogito has a video on the Sami people which ties in with the Nordic series of videos you are doing now: kzbin.info/www/bejne/lWfWgoOAq6yUhZI

[@oshixxxx]

To answer a couple/apparently all of your questions, first about the temperatures here. Would say the average/max/min(Depending on where in Finland you live) temperature here is +30C in the summer, down to --20C during the winter. Will shift about +5-5 in summer and +10-20 in the winter(The shift is plus degrees or negative of the average values.) on average depending on if you live close to the gulfstream/inland and north/south. 2nd question about the lakes. They are everywhere, especially in the east. Grammar chart is bullshit. In Finland, we use the latin alphabet, same as in english. About Estonia, estonian belongs to the same language group as the finnish one, so that alone makes strong relations between the countries. The border of finno-urgic and balto-slavic language groups goes between Estonia and Latvia. But I think only Russia, Belarus and Ukraine in europe uses the cyrillic letters.

[@carsanddrivers1570]

Scandinavia is Denmark, Norway, Sweden. AND Iceland, get your geography right.

[@cinderellaandstepsisters]

Get your geography right. Scandinavia is Sweden, Norway and Denmark. Nordic countries are Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Iceland. They are all members of Nordic council.

[@WhitedeathBelajaSmert]

40 celcius and minus 40

[@mhh7544]

Finnish is 6th hardest language.

[@KaregoAt]

LMAO, compared to the Finnish language English is a cakewalk to learn... Just look up some of the conjugations and forms 😂

[@stephenpodeschi6052]

A country with the population of 5.5 million its easier to focus on things like education if that's what they they want to do .Most of the top countries at this ? or that ? have small populations which is a misleading in these most happy countries lists etc.....

[@TheRawrnstuff]

Smaller population also means fewer human resources to do the work that keeping it up requires. "It's a small country" is a cop-out excuse. Also, most US states have fewer people than Finland. If doing it small is so easy, why not implement it on state level?

[@Mise22]

In US people pay less taxes than in Finland. Schools in Finland are paid from tax money and they are fully free (high schools are free also)

[@WhitedeathBelajaSmert]

Miukku 🤣

[@niklasmalmberg7721]

Man looks like Elon musk

[@Zardagbum]

Calling Finland Slavic gave away that you actually know noting and took way nothing from this video.

[@mhh7544]

Western alphabet

[@melkor3496]

3:39 worst Swedish I’ve ever heard. lmao

[@temet_fin]

Understandable, however. I don't mind foreign people talking "bad" Finnish, which is a way harder to learn. As long as you can understand what a person wants to say, it's just ok to e.g. use just the basic, nominal forms. It's just fine in everyday talk. Not even all Finns can speak proper Finnish. That's easy to discover in different commentary pages of newspapers and in the social media. I had no problem to understand his pronunciation of the Swedish sentence, although I'm a Finnish native speaking Finnish as mu mother tongue.

[@cranberrybe]

well, it's not his fault sweden is written so weirdly or rather the written and the spoken forms are so far apart. it allways amazes people when i tell them in ikea how the names of the products should be pronounced. i'm a finn living in france by the way.

[@temet_fin]

@@cranberrybe no difference here. Often wonder why'd people are taught litelar Finnish instead of the spoken language, which after al!l lis different in numerous places of the country. Annoying!

[@meliblonde]

Maybe it’s because I’m Finnish, but I didn’t enjoy this video…

[@heliheikkinen6326]

Finland and Estonia are siblings, because they are Finno-Ugric countries, not Slavic. The Finno-Ugric language group is a kind of "anomaly" in Europe, it doesn't belong to the Indo-European language group like most languages from India to the British islands. You can read more: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finno-Ugric_languages

[@cinderellaandstepsisters]

The language of Finland is finno ugric. Finland 🇫🇮 is a Nordic country with Sweden 🇸🇪Norway 🇸🇯 Denmark 🇩🇰and Iceland🇦🇽 Finland is culturally, politically, economically, religiously and Geographically a Nordic country.