Aura's Finnish Lesson 1: Pronunciation

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Learn Finnish Language part 1: Pronunciation
In the video I go through the basics of pronouncing Finnish and go through the alphabet.
More videos on the way :)

[@Jezyra]

This video was the most helpful video I've seen thus far. Finnish is such a cute and pretty language. Thanks for this!

[@KenMoss]

I have had many lessons in Finnish and I struggle to learn. You are the absolutely the best and describe lessons perfectly. Kiitos paljon.

[@ecengungor]

Okay, i am Turkish and i can easily say that sounds and pronounciation is freakishly similar to my language. I didn’t have any trouble to say these at all and it was so fun!

[@Ava-cy6qw]

Fantastic approach to learning. Thumbs up. Kiitos.

[@eliz_scubavn]

Just started Duolingo Finnish. This is great!

[@iMacxXuserXx485]

Isn't it interesting that Finnish and Japanese do the same thing where they elongate for double vowels /consonants? But they are not from the same language family.

[@permafrost8894]

there is a hypothesis that includes Japanese to the Altaic language family which was also considered to be related to the Uralic languages. *Altaic language family, generally Mongolic, Turkic, Tunguisic, sometimes Korean, sometimes Japanese.

[@aryamanrajaputra9753]

@@permafrost8894 but altaic is extremely discredited and many people (including myself) do not believe it to be real

[@aryamanrajaputra9753]

@Jacob Houston who gives a fuck tho

[@singleturbosupra7951]

@@permafrost8894 I don't think the Uralic-Altaic family hypothesis is correct, as doesn't many others. But I some times think there may be a chance that some parts of what makes the Finnish language and Japanese language may have evolved together. I'm not very knowledgeable on how genetics works, but on wikipedia at least it is said that part of the genetics that exist in all Uralic peoples orignated in areas of modern northern China about 20,000 years ago. So I think it could be likely those people were in some kind of contact with the ancestors of modern Japanese. And seeing that Proto-Uralic speakers most likely lived around Ural mountains and moving towards west, it may be that those people were a continuation of people very long ago living closer to eastern asia. This is just my thoughts as an armchair historian who is very interested in pre-history, so take this comment with heavy grain of salt. I have no evidence to proof what I have rambled here.

[@niklotzveligradu2522]

A lesson that was very clear and easy to follow, thank you for this!

[@greek4you383]

The way you explain grammar is unique. Congratulations indeed!

[@timothythefinn5005]

I'm a native Finnish speaker and enjoying your lessons as well, and am learning from you :)

[@michaellewis5218]

Amazing video. Took so long to find a helpful one, thank you!

[@Joan-nr9we]

I just started learning Finnish. thanks for this lesson.

[@jeffreywattles3595]

Thorough and very clear. Thank you.

[@user-zy5kk6wg9s]

It's a really rare&happy moment to read other languages like Japanese! :)

[@tommytowner792]

consonants l, t, r can be in the end too, not just n. Kyynel, kyyneleet, manner etc.

[@victorlopez8585]

Thank you very much, this is most helpful.

[@hartree.y]

Press "3" repeatedly for the sound a game character makes when bumping into a wall

[@curtpiazza1688]

Great introductory lesson ...thanks!

[@anikapage8324]

This is excellent.

[@user-oc4ep9iz3q]

very useful video thank you . continue it

[@hartree.y]

"Aja hiljaa sillalla" is something you would hear in a nursery rhyme. Really fun language!

[@pamlp04]

I speak english and spanish, and the finnish pronuciation has some similar things with spanish. I'm quite surprised.

[@1400740]

Great lesson. Kiitos!

[@gabrielablancas9389]

Gracias por su información

[@indujamj4710]

your videos are great!

[@crazyconfenenationconforme2253]

I am learning Japanese in Saturday school and Japanese has diphthongs, lots of the some of them include あい、あう、おい、うえ。When romanized they are ai,au,oi,ue.

[@10qwe10]

I don't think you fully understand what Diphthong is because she was right Japanese language doesn't have them.

[@iMacxXuserXx485]

In Japanese ai means you pronounce the a and then the i. Same with all the others you listed.

[@fritz_von_steiner5544]

What else is あい (ai) - if not a diphthong? Two Vowels? In Finnish, one says `A-I´ and in Japanese it´s also `A-I´! In both languages they are spelled separately after each other! In Greek e.g. you have diphthongs which are spelled like one vowel - e.g. a+i `αι´ which is pronounced only as the `a´ in cat! So, what is a diphthong?

[@Pyovali]

@@fritz_von_steiner5544 You should Google that. There's a difference. Japanese doesn't have syllables in theory either. It's a morae based language.

[@fritz_von_steiner5544]

@@Pyovali Japanese DOES have syllables! Their syllables consist of consonants + vowels! You do know what consonants are? And you know what vowels are? Then put them together and you will get all the possible Japanese syllables! They are called `Hiragana´! And phonetically they ARE SYLLABLES!!!

[@EtArcadiaego]

interesting the comparison between finnish and japanese.. always similar customs

[@umukhaalid2957]

Aura! Kiitos paljon Mä Kiinnostaa.

[@mielipidevanki3958]

The letter Z pronunciation is almost every time /tʃ/, /ts/, /tɕ/ or /dʒ/ or something between those. Very rare finn pronounces it like zzzzzzz (voiced s /z/).

[@thereisnorighteousperson1049]

Mitähän noilla merkeille yritit sanoa ei tullu oikeen selväksi 😂😂 ja muuten z on monissa muissa kielissä kuten englannissa ihan eri asia kun suomen z

[@mielipidevanki3958]

@@thereisnorighteousperson1049 ne ovat kansainvälisen foneettisen aakkoston merkkejä, äännemerkkejä, yksi sellainen vastaa yhtä äännettä (olet varmasti nähnyt näitä esim englannin kirjassa: ʃ ʒ θ ð ŋ ɑ ʊ ə ɪ

[@learnalanguagewithleslie]

Thanks!

[@kalawatieroop2616]

Such a cute and pretty language ,thank u sooo muvh for thisvedio.

[@ellevehaler1758]

May I ask what is the tongue’s position when pronouncing “L”? Finnish L sounds very distinct, it sounds like a Russian L to my ears sometimes (the tongue is between teeth).

[@aurasfinnishlessons7626]

I think it is behind the front teeth :)

[@ellevehaler1758]

@@aurasfinnishlessons7626 Thank you so much! Kiitos paljon!

[@haydnforisz4459]

hyvin kiva!

[@geraldkabamba]

Kiitos paljon

[@villagepope7661]

You've got some interesting videos. I have a question though... I've noticed this a lot in Finnish... Why do you pronounce some esses as "s" and others as "sh", like the word "roska" you pronounced "roshka", while "rösti" you pronounced the way it's written? Is there a rule to that or is it just haphazard?

[@aurasfinnishlessons7626]

Thanks for pointing that put! Officially, Finnish has only one 's', but it might sometimes sound different depending on the dialect of the speaker or the letters surrounding the 's'. In the word 'roska', it is easier to say 'sh' than 's', because of the hard 'r' sound. It just rolls more naturally for a native speaker. There is no official difference, though.

[@villagepope7661]

Thanks. Ok, makes sense. So it's not actually official but would it sound wrong to pronounce it differently then (regardless of dialects)?

[@aurasfinnishlessons7626]

You will be understood either way :)

[@villagepope7661]

Thanks. Sure, the most important thing is to be understood, perfection comes with time :)

[@aleksinuutila2315]

village pope In principle every letter, with only a few exceptions, is pronounced the same no matter what. But thats not the complete truth. Very often the same letter has slighty different pronouncuation in different words, but thats not on purpose. The reason for these differences is that the sounds blend with neigbouring sounds. Maybe the best way to think why this happens is to think that the tongue is "cutting corners" or being lazy, one sound may partially change to resemble the next in some way, in order to make the transition between the two easier fot the tongue. I have never before noticed that roska is more like "roshka", but I think that the s sounds like sh, because the part of the tongue that pronounces 'k' is already preparing for the k. You can get rid of this by trying to say roseka instead of roska.

[@danielrodriguezperez8655]

Kiitos

[@michaelrees350]

"forigin origin" XD

[@peterk.6093]

Great explanation, thanks. I only missed the rule on pronouncing the "c". When is is "ts" and when "k"? Is it like ka ko ku tse tsi system, like in Latin?

[@Pyovali]

It goes like how the foreign word goes. Finnish doesn't use C otherwise at all.

[@peterk.6093]

@@Pyovali Thanks, that simplifies things somehow.

[@misiddiai]

Hello, I've just stumbled across your video by accident, as I'm not learning Finnish, but have a fascination with languages in general. Just wanted to say that it's kinda weird that, although finnish pronunciation is supposed to be "plain and simple", with little to no variation, when speaking english you very often tend to mispronounce simple letters (or apparently so) such as "v" (you say wowels instead of vowels). It strikes me as a weird inconsistency, since I'd expect you to struggle more with vowels than with consonants. Also, 9 times out of 10 you say "finniss" instead of finnish, which is incredibly cute, but makes very little sense 😅 Anyway, thanks a lot for teaching us! Don't let small countries' (population) languages die out! It'd be a terrible loss!!! ❤️

[@untitled6578]

Finnish doesn't contrast between v and w, or between s and sh, which would explain why she struggled with these in English (other difficult pairs are p/b, k/g, ch/j). As for why specifically she said "wowels" even though the letter v is only rarely pronounced as w in Finnish - it could be either hypercorrection for the foreign w consonant, or it could be a coarticulation thing - e.g. when I am speaking Finnish, if I were to enounter the word "kyykkyyn", I would keep my lips rounded throughout the pronunciation of the entire word as in Finnish it's more important to get the vowels spot on than to prevent slight adjustments to the consonants. She may be using this same coarticulation pattern in English causing her to unintentionally convert her Vs to Ws.

[@misiddiai]

@@untitled6578 Woah, such an interesting and complex explanation! Wasn't expecting that much! Thank you very much for taking the time to reply 😊

[@talkshowhost5989]

Your accent is very funny, but nevertheless your video has helped me pronounce Finnish greatly :)

[@jrh_transformativesolutions]

Useful video

[@pumpulipuikko988]

You can hear a lot of diphthongs in colloquial Japanese though.

[@spell666hell]

La pronunciación es muy similar al español

[@Noctem0wl]

Eso estaba pensando yo!

[@RoyTelling]

Kiitos I have been looking for good video for learning soumi as I live in Jyväskylä and want a Soumi passport :)

[@hakimbenjelloun9749]

Roy Telling where are you from ?

[@bror8228]

There is no country called Soumi, did you mean Suomi...

[@alexandruchiriac2179]

5:58 forigin origin:)))

[@suguaakini4478]

"Finnish R is very hard to pronounce even for Fins" Me, a French native : RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

[@user-os4ep9vl9v]

Y = ы Am I right ? But I'm not actually russian

[@simovihinen875]

The word she's using is actually "foreigins", that is those of foreign origin. Examples of use: "Hey, are you foreigin?" "My mom is foreigin." "I can't stand those foreigins!" BTW: There are some factual inaccuracies, like saying "Japanese doesn't have dipthtongs" when it really does have similar kinds of vowel combinations, just not in the same syllable/mori (except if you count "kyo" etc.) Heeee? Doesn't matter in terms of learning what you came here for though.

[@ilonapeck7022]

In Finnish 'n' doesn't make a syllable by itself, like in Japanese. For example: minun (my or mine), syllables are: mi-nun. In Japanese the final 'n' is a syllable by itself, but never in Finnish.

[@SammyNeverEver]

It seems that if you speak Spanish natively, you have a headstart on Finnish pronunciation. RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

[@Elijah_Markin]

In fact, Spanish has 2 Rs

[@clayton8009]

Cierto :3 I can sing Finnish songs

[@thereisnorighteousperson1049]

@@Elijah_Markin you mean r dobble r ?

[@Elijah_Markin]

@@thereisnorighteousperson1049 Yeah, like in perro, ratón or enrique.

[@TheQuiQuestion]

Finnish people sound like they're dancing with their mouth.

[@Kolya_Volkov]

Any finnish could translate this into english? Kiitos Eilinen : kaikki huoleni vei tyhjyyteen tänään sain taas harmit tunnen sen mut silti uskon eiliseen Huolet vaan tältä elämältä joskus saan Tahdon kaiken onnen kokonaan siis saavu mennyt uudestaan Pois kun häivyit tiedän mä jälleen totuuden Koskaan mulle ei enää saavu eilinen Rakkauden eilen luonani mä pitää sain nyt vain pakopaikan tarvitsen kun turhaan sua mä tänään hain Pois kun häivyit tiedän mä jälleen totuuden Koskaan mulle ei enää saavu eilinen Eilinen kaikki huoleni vei tyhjyyteen tänään sain taas harmit tunnen sen mut silti uskon eiliseen

[@subhasharma4425]

I wish i had a finnish frriend to talk to

[@kftspss]

same. If you're currently learning too, we could talk/text if you want to!

[@kurapan_clips]

All syllables have a vowel and the only exception is 'n'. Is Finnish language a cousin if Japanese? lol

[@Pyovali]

No

[@singleturbosupra7951]

@@Pyovali Hey, you said on another comment that you are a linquist. Do you think there's any merit to my thoughts about possible (thin) relation between the origins of Finnish and Japanese? I posted this on another comment and I'm copying it here: "I some times think there may be a chance that some parts of what makes the Finnish language and Japanese language may have evolved together. I'm not very knowledgeable on how genetics works, but on wikipedia at least it is said that part of the genetics that exist in all Uralic peoples orignated in areas of modern northern China about 20,000 years ago. So I think it could be likely those people were in some kind of contact with the ancestors of modern Japanese. And seeing that Proto-Uralic speakers most likely lived around Ural mountains and moving towards west, it may be that those people were a continuation of people very long ago living closer to eastern asia. This is just my thoughts as an armchair historian who is very interested in pre-history, so take this comment with heavy grain of salt. I have no evidence to proof what I have rambled here." Like I said, those are just evidenceless thoughts I've been thinking about recently. Would like to hear some opinions of people who actually know about stuff like linquists and/or genetics. Just to make it more clear, I'm not necessarily saying there is some common Proto language between Finnish and Japanese, just that some very old Proto languages of the two might have evolved close to each other and loaning things between each other.

[@Pyovali]

@@singleturbosupra7951 Only way I can think of any relation is the migration to Asia where the people split to different paths, but we do not have any written evidence of the languages spoken around 25.000BC. 27.000 years is a really really long time for languages to develop, so if there was relation, it would be some proto-proto-proto language, that wouldn't look anything like the languages we hear today. Languages without standardization can mutate really really fast. Dyirbal language of Autralia is a great example where a language changed so much only in decades they had to make a distinction between new language and old language!

[@smittywerbenjagermanjensenn]

wowels

[@paypigdonatedonate]

I don’t even want to learn Finnish but her voice is so cute I can’t bring myself to not listen 😭

[@thereisnorighteousperson1049]

"Finnish is always accentless" does not make any sence becouse finnish accent is to put the emphasis to the first syllape and that is accent itself

[@mayclark3659]

ok... watch it first time....and... time to watch it second time.... -_-

[@broytingaravsol]

could this speaker speak japanese?

[@vape9319]

When it comes to pronounciation, then it's pretty much yes, but there are some exceptions like the way finnish pronounce "j" and how japanese pronounce it. Only problem is the finnish accent which doesn't match at all when compared to japanese accent

[@l8nni]

3:12 I am German, nothing is difficult for me ;)

[@haydentaylor5250]

forigin origin

[@thereisnorighteousperson1049]

Finnish people can make even english sound funny

[@user-he9cb2fm6b]

Well get to fluent level one day guys.

[@itsminja4273]

Oon suomalainen mut opettelen uudelleen kielen jota puhun joka päivä😂

[@paulostube998]

kitos

[@philbertmill2]

I am confused with J, its sounds just like "i" to me 7:20

[@venla4691]

philbertmill2 J sounds like the letter Y in yellow

[@arijarmala2037]

Jes, it is jellou.

[@shermancaruthers7667]

i think we have the same name lol

[@agrippinafofanova4891]

This language is so weird. I doubt if I could learn it...

[@ilonapeck7022]

These are the diphthongs of Finnish: ai, ei, oi, ui, yi, äi, öi, au, eu, iu, ou, äy, öy, iy, ey , ie, uo, yö. So, 'eo' or 'ae' are not Finnish diphthongs.

[@ianker-lindee9539]

Aura are you single

[@PaulVinonaama]

There is no eo diphtong in Finnish.

[@uljasviljakainen2172]

Keko keossa keosta kekoon Teko teon teonsana

[@koukkula5]

@@uljasviljakainen2172 Noissa antamissasi esimerkkisanoissa e ja o kuuluvat eri tavuihin, joten ne eivät muodosta diftongia.

[@baldinib1055]

Yawn

[@hakimbenjelloun9749]

Not very clear your explanations .. and difficult language

[@bror8228]

Pronunciation...? Did you mean pronounciation? ...You are not the only one, even native english speakers have no idea... that´s embarrassing...

[@AL-sm8ww]

Bror its spelt pronunciation lol

[@peketee2278]

Pronounciation=uttalet Pronunciation=Uttal

[@bre232]

Kiitos