Heikki Kovalainen and Kimi Räikkönen speaking Finnish (Fuji 2007)

[@StefanoLinguanotto]

Now Lewis, in finnish of course.

[@alborn4217]

mina ei puhu suomi

[@timewarpeatscrayons]

@@alborn4217 suomen kieli*

[@beenie719]

Herrat, lyhyt katsaus menneisyyteen. Kolmekymmentä vuotta sitten Niki Lauda kertoi meille: "Ota apina, aseta hänet ohjaamoon ja hän voi ajaa autoa." Kolmekymmentä vuotta myöhemmin Sebastian kertoi meille: "Minun oli käynnistettävä autoni kuin tietokone, se on hyvin monimutkaista. - Ja Nico Rosberg sanoi, että kilpailun aikana - en muista mikä kilpailu - hän painoi väärää painiketta ratissa. Kysymys teille molemmille: onko Formula 1 ajaminen tänään liian monimutkaista, kun kaksikymmentä ja useampia painikkeita on ratissa, oletteko liikaa vaivan alla, paineen alla? Mitä toivot tulevaisuudelta kilpailun teknisen ohjelman suhteen? Vähemmän painikkeita, enemmän? Tai vähemmän ja enemmän viestintää insinöörien kanssa?

[@gamergod3378]

Voisitko toistaa kysymyksen

[@amandahuovinen6807]

Kelle tämä kysymys oli tarkoitettu?

[@F-Fun]

Hän sanoi, hän sanoi, hän sanoi Nicolle ja minulle, et kuunnellut, voisitko toistaa kysymyksen uudelleen? (naurua)

[@MikkelMadsen]

A language, that spounds like it has melancholy baked into it... :-)

[@sahiblindberg]

That's because it does! We always laugh when we are told that Finland has been selected the happiest country in the world haha

[@tr11_]

🤡

[@mundotaku_org]

I love the fact that the auto close captions generated in youtube are in Spanish.

[@danielsojkainet7928]

haha +++.

[@carlitoxb110]

jajaja y ole ole joder

[@leopartanen9431]

Those are always either Spanish or Portugese. KZbin just won't get Finnish 😂

[@ketorolac4276]

And they absolutely make no sense...

[@vault4254]

😭😭😭

[@NellasxElensar]

In case you guys want to know what the guys are saying here ☺️ _Heikki_ Good morning to everyone in Finland, I suppose it's still early morning over there. Here we've had a pretty great day, of course it didn't look that great yesterday but we managed to drive a great race today: stay on the track in the difficult weather conditions, there was a lot of water in the beginning and the track was slippery and so on but I believe this is important to the team, the team really deserves this podium position. Though this year has been a rollercoaster, with some difficulties, ups and downs, the team has been working really hard and they deserve a big thank you for that. Let's hope we can keep up the good work, these kind of races are great, and I hope we can have more races like this. _Kimi_ Well, of course it could've gone better. We were starting with the intermedium (?) tyres but then we heard about this rule that everyone must start with proper wet weather tyres - which they had forgotten to inform our team about - so we had to follow the safety car that had a black flag to box and have the tyres changed. That made things quite difficult, having to restart from last place and trying to get past others in that pouring rain, all the while hardly being able to see anything. However, we somehow managed to finish quite well, I know we lost some points to Hamilton but there's no point in dwelling on that. We still have a few races left so we'll try and keep fighting, and we'll see what we can achieve.

[@TheSyd19]

Awesome!

[@NellasxElensar]

@@TheSyd19 De nada! 😊

[@sudijad]

Thank you for this!

[@NellasxElensar]

@@sudijad You're very welcome! :)

[@AnneH1021]

Thanks! Great effort! Love Finnish drivers

[@nickk4125]

Lmao i cannot imagine what this sounds like to a non-finnish speaker

[@FVA979Maximus]

Like language of hell

[@marloeslovestea]

Lalalalalalala

[@maanbanaan5009]

Kakatalekalatopelvatatalomenietentejakokalopola. That is what it sounds like

Like Ievan Polkka

[@kerrykleis9984]

Beautiful

[@andrejll]

I guess Tolkien was inspired in Finnish to creat Elvish language. Sounds very similar.

[@thehelldoicallthis9241]

He was actually. And got inspired by Finnish mythology to write lotr in the first place.

[@arealbigboss]

Finnish sounds like there are no actual words being said, just like weird vocalizations

[@PolosLatinos]

Incredible how distinct this language sounds in Heikki's and Kimi's mouth

[@TheEvilCheesecake]

Compare Coulthard and Mansell for a similar contrast in english speakers.

[@lordquackalot6321]

Finnish sounds like enchantment table

[@alborn4217]

What language is it similar to in your opinion? It's so hard for me to know others perspective on the language since Im a native speaker.

[@MikkelMadsen]

@@alborn4217 To be honest, except Estonian, I have never ever heard anything remotely similar to Finnish.

[@deakksyy]

@@MikkelMadsen Estonian? It's not even close right?

[@pentti3715]

@@deakksyy yes, it is

[@shyviking]

@@deakksyy It is pretty close to Finnish. Not as close as Danish/Norweigian/Swedish, but pretty close (same branch). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnic_languages

[@brucekilby9957]

Not many Finns in F1. Keke Rosberg was a good driver,Kimi a champion who was very frank about ever thing. Crashed in Monaco and walked back to his apartment,Heiki a good driver,,but many as good as him.🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮

[@Kornn66]

You forget best Finn, Mika Hakkinen who beat Schumi in his prime.

[@brucekilby9957]

@@Kornn66 No need to mention Mika. Him beating Schumi at Spa in 99 was amazing,using a backmarker as a Decoy was brilliant. Mika always super cool and fighting Schumi at his best.🇫🇮🇩🇪🇫🇮

[@brunoribeiromachado3332]

parecem até finlandeses nativos

[@R7Sports]

it sounds like an impossible language to learn

[@snifey7694]

Pssh you should look at Hindi

[@Niksuttelia]

It's not difficult it only took me like a year

[@kialumina7123]

Its too easy ;)

[@rivality100]

Finnish is an easy language. I’ve been learning it for couple months and I know it perfectly.

[@MikkelMadsen]

@@snifey7694 Well, easier for many people than Finnish, as it is an indo-european language (that is, in rough terms, familiar structure to almost all europeans (except finns, hungarians, turks and estonians), all north and south americans, many africans (English or French as second languages), many iranians and many pakistanis (urdu--speaking).

[@lovesyria1265]

يا ريت لو تتكرر سنة ٢٠٠٧ وينافس kimi ع البطولة

[@quattro4468]

Sounds like czech. And at times he has an italian cadance.

[@KoprCZ]

Not even close to czech

[@mortimer_22]

Czechs and Finns read the words the same way, so that's why it may sound like that. But except for "smetana" it comes off as complete jibberish :)

[@exhibitit724]

I pretented that I knew it all...

[@grgavin85]

Yea I agree what he said 😅

[@Qwiks]

Hyvä.

[@CreepinCreeper145]

bwoah

[@kolkko_kaarme3109]

Bwoah Kimi

[@johnherbert4646]

r they spwaking two dialects? sounds different

[@leksuxx]

Yeah, i think that Heikki is speaking little bit with savonian dialect and Kimi with southern dialect.

[@johnherbert4646]

leksuxx how different are they?

[@TheRomanRuler]

Do keep in mind Kimi had his throat damaged as kid so his voice sounds different. So he does not speak as lazily as it sounds, though he still is not entirely enthusiastic about talking to press.

[@PetriW]

Savonian dialects are much faster than the southern dialects. People in other parts of Finland make fun of the way Savonians speak.

[@arska1268]

No, Raikkonen just can’t speak

[@MrMattardo]

Love!

[@MrNinjaFish]

o fug :DDD race gar dribers do ebin in race :DDD

[@AKK5I]

gimi raiggonen :DDDD

[@MrNinjaFish]

@@AKK5I heiggi govalinen :DDDD

[@kurkkumopo5479]

Juoks ne lonkeroa? :D

[@jesss1561]

Paikallista hanavettä, hyvin puhdasta.

[@alborn4217]

@@jesss1561 näyttää sakeiselta

[@jarmooooo]

what the fuck are they speaking jotai saatanan arabia kieltä, niiko jotai intiaa tai muuta sellasta, kuulostaa iha semmoseelta or something?

[@czattila0142]

Mario

[@KING-FISH]

orcs sound

[@dwipard]

Sounds like India little bit

[@TheDazzler420]

On Which Planet?

[@blackcoffeebeans6100]

First Time I hear this.

[@MikkelMadsen]

Like hindi? Aren't that two completely diffferent language families (finno-ugrian and indo-european)?

[@narvin3]

Not even close brother, it has that russian mix polish kinda feel

[@jimmertubigan3271]

Sounds like a filipino language

[@Darkuser333]

sounds like arabic

[@omaralhashmi3905]

Lehnar nnnaaahhhh

[@dwipard]

India

[@McQueenRLZ]

Heikki sounds like a machine gun

[@TheSyd19]

no entendÍ

[@kolkko_kaarme3109]

Heikki Kovalainen

[@carlitoxb110]

@@kolkko_kaarme3109 yo creo que el tampoco entendió lo que el mismo dijo jajajaj

[@NellasxElensar]

Ellos hablan finés aquí, así que eso no me sorprende 😄

[@TheSyd19]

@@NellasxElensar gracias por tu traducción!

[@NellasxElensar]

@@TheSyd19 De nada! 😊

[@LmdsLucas]

it sounds really ugly this language.

[@kasuaarikanava3446]

Yes. We finns are ugly, but smart.

[@aatujaaskelainen3871]

If you understand finnish language it's not ugly, many languages are uglier

[@Swagduckyyy]

@@kasuaarikanava3446 but finns are not gay / Mutta suomalaiset sentään eivät ole homoja

[@carlitoxb110]

you are ugly Finnish is cool it's useless but it's cool

[@Catinkontti]

You know that elven language of LotR is based on this very language. You think that it is ugly as well?