When I was a young man I was intrigued to learn that Finnish is one of the few languages spoken in Europe that does not belong to the Indo-European Family of languages. That was more than sixty years ago. Now, thanks to your contribution, I have made a tentative start at learning some Finnish though there is not a huge demand for it in Northern New South Wales, Australia, where I live. Thank you for your efforts. I appreciate them tremendously.
@KatChatsFinnish8 жыл бұрын
That's amazing to hear! I'm glad to be able to help even a little.
@SvendAaquist4 жыл бұрын
KatChatsc Finnish
@NeatGentilis4 жыл бұрын
I know this was 4 years ago, but I'm interested in learning Finnish and I live in Western Australia haha
@cludiix2 жыл бұрын
wa
@kosmosaki4 ай бұрын
I have lived in sweden about 50 years and in finland 9 years as a child. Finnish is easy for me because i listen to Finnish music and the finnish spelling system are so locical and you always say the letters like they sound in the alphapet. Finnish are an Uralic language and came as a written language when Michael Acricola translated the Christian bible to finnish. Uralic languages have existed at least 10 000 years some say. A part off the Finnish people came from Ural , therefore the Uralic connection. I can make Finnish diffecault for you. When you understand what this mean you have a good skill. Älä kantete sitä kanteletta ja kantele siinä..Kantele= a instrument you play. Kantele also to lie.Kantaa to carry something. If you understand this you have a good skill.Mitä tapahtui kun Jerry Lewis ja Tauno Palo ajoi autokolarin?Taunon auto palo ja Jerryn levis.
@SpongiousBird3 жыл бұрын
I feel it's quite useful that my first language is French! Ä, Ö and Å sound almost exactly like our A, E and O. They're easy for me to pronounce.
@codelyo_ko9123 Жыл бұрын
the problem is the difference between ä and a
@PaulVinonaama4 ай бұрын
ö is more like eu in French (bleu, for example)
@SpongiousBird4 ай бұрын
@@PaulVinonaama yep
@denismatthews26018 жыл бұрын
I spent just a week i Finland in.2010. As my friend drove me from the Airport to her home in Espoo the duplicated Road signs made a huge impression on me. First in Finnish then in Swedish. I was informed that as one gets closer to Sweden the order of the languages changes. Yet as we drove east the Swedish signs disappeared.
@wardeni96037 жыл бұрын
+Denis Matthews That's because the language of the road signs is dictated by the dominant languages in every individual municipality. If Swedish is the more common language in a municipality, the signs will be primarily Swedish with a Finnish translation, if Finnish is more common, then the signs will be in Finnish with a Swedish translation. If the municipality has something like 98% Swedish speakers, then the signs will only be in Swedish, and if the municipality has pretty much only Finnish speakers then the signs will only be in Finnish. Why all the signs can't be in both languages, I don't know. I don't think anyone does.
@mrj.kottari84533 жыл бұрын
Coastal provinces from southeast up to Kokkola/Karleby level in north are bilingual, so all road signs are in both; Finnish and swedish. In counties where swedish-speaking population is dominant those signs are first in swedish, then in finnish. Helsinki metropolitan area is in Uusimaa province (swedish: Nyland) and in the coast so all the street signs are bilingual. You can often hear especially the older people speaking swedish, their native language in the public in Helsinki. Both Helsinki and Turku (Åbo) have significant finland-swedish minority and many small counties around Helsinki metropolitan zone are dominantly swedish
@kosmosaki4 ай бұрын
Only about 5,6 million people understand finnish today on this planet and about 12 million people Swedish. You swedish skill are good if you understand this.Sju sjö sjuka sjuksköterskor seglade på de sju haven. First it can be diffecault to say the sju sound.
@kosmosaki4 ай бұрын
There are swedish road signs because Finland have belonged to Sweden nearly 700 years, lot off people forget that.Sweden lost Finland to Russia in a war about 200 years ago.Finland get liberated from Russia about 1917. Stalin try to take over and invade Finland in a war about 1939-43 but did not succeed .
@kosmosaki4 ай бұрын
Last time i was in Finland was about over 30 years ago but i still understand it.
@irou958 жыл бұрын
Some finnish people laugh with the "Ä" like kimi räikkönen This is something a foreigner told me and i never heard anyone think about it "hähähähähäää" well. finnish "laugh" has a meaning for almost all vocals hah! heh. hih :3 hohohoho
@KatChatsFinnish8 жыл бұрын
Aha I never thought of that xD
@ars852024 жыл бұрын
Höhöhöhö
@pomegfox5 ай бұрын
@@ars85202height height 💀
@belgradewanderer8 жыл бұрын
Your efforts of explaining the pronunciation of ä and ö is definitely one of the cutest things I have ever seen. :)
@KatChatsFinnish8 жыл бұрын
Haha I tried my best :P
@belgradewanderer8 жыл бұрын
+KatChats I've been learning Swedish so I totally get you :)
@jonnyspeed89742 жыл бұрын
Creepy. Would you say that to a man?
@severalcauseforeurope65072 жыл бұрын
I feel very lucky to be Turkish. We can say all the letters you mentioned: Å=Oğ , There is not Å in Turkish Alphabet but we can say it. I can read Ä as Â. There is not Ä or  in Turkish Alphabet but the letter  is often used to pronounce foreign origins in Turkish. The letter  is not in our alphabet, but we can read it. Also there is Ö in Turkish Alphabet(as 19th letter of Turkish Alphabet). Also as other letters: There is Ç,Ğ,İ,ı,Ö,Ş letters in Turkish also there is not W,Q,X but we can say them so I feel very lucky myself as a vocabulary. Since I can pronounce many letters from the Middle East and European Geography, I don't think I will encounter any problems in the alphabet pronunciation training part if I start learning a language. But of course there will be an accent problem as a natural.
@entwistlefromthewho5 жыл бұрын
The Finnish Öö is literally the English vowel found in the word 'air' which is [e] but with rounded lips. So pronounce the word 'air' (non-rhotic - no R sound) and then round the lips - you'll shift from [e] to [ø]. Finnish Öö is [ø], basically.
@Darkangelrock928 жыл бұрын
We have the same 3 letters in Norway too. Å one is the same while ä is an æ, while ö is an ø in norway, written slighty differently, but the å one is the same like you guys in finland and in sweden :) but they are pronounced the same.
@KatChatsFinnish8 жыл бұрын
Oh awesome! I didn't realize that ø and æ is the same pronunciation as ö + ä ! Thanks for sharing! :)
@r.chamaemorus80256 жыл бұрын
Jag undrar om det har att göra med att Norge har tillhört Danmark. Dom har ju också æ, ø och å.
@АринаМалютина-ж1д2 жыл бұрын
It is a PERFECT lesson, my mother tongue is Russian, but still it's super clear!! Thank you a lot!
@KatChatsFinnish2 жыл бұрын
Wow so happy to hear that! Thank you!
@PiuwPiuwChannel8 жыл бұрын
You can find clear ö sound in word earth. for me it sounds like ööth :D
@iidalaukkanen22688 жыл бұрын
yeah true!
@majamusenjeppsson63197 жыл бұрын
PiuwPiuw ä
@orp0piru6 жыл бұрын
Also "word" has a nice clean Ö-sound
@sierra58836 жыл бұрын
This is only true if you have an English accent. unfortunately it does not work in an american accent
@timomastosalo6 жыл бұрын
It's close - but not exactly the same. The place in mouth is different, even the manner of forming it, and these are the criterias to define a vowel. Maybe the English don't hear it close the same? People have a tendency to hear the vowels of another language as one of their own, coz with vowels, the mouth is kinda fully divided between them. There's 'no space' for new ones. Except when sound changes take place, but such things last years, a few generations. Now in Australia and some British dialects the vowels are about to change again, they sorta 'shift', the whole setting moves. It has happened already once, before that English had similar vowels as all the other (European) languages. 'I' was sometimes said like 'ee', and eye, as ay+e (e of bEt, like be'). Though using that English vowel sound in EArth, wOrd, gIrl, bUrn, hEr etc. will work just fine for the Finnish ö.
@michonnepossible11 ай бұрын
Thank you, Kat! That was so fun and simple. I just discovered your channel today. I recently moved here in Finland and it's been hard to learn Finnish on my own. So please, continue your channel!. Kiitos!
@KatChatsFinnish11 ай бұрын
Kiitos for your sweet comment! Good luck with your Finnish journey, I’m glad this video was helpful :)
@PLep-xu6wo8 жыл бұрын
Your Finnish and English is so good, I seriously can't tell which one is your primary language.
@KatChatsFinnish8 жыл бұрын
Thank you ^-^I'm bilingual so I consider both my 'mother tongue'
@hauxone6 жыл бұрын
What language do you *think* in?
@Pining_for_the_fjords8 жыл бұрын
It's also worth covering the Finnish Y and U, as they're a bit different to how they are in English. I'd say the English U is pronounced somewhere between the Finnish Y and U.
@JGHFunRun11 ай бұрын
Finnish u is oo sound in English
@teoverna8512 жыл бұрын
Many greetings from Greece and thank you for your help! I love Finland (Helsinki is sooo nice town) and I try to learn Finnish language 😀
@hanac55868 жыл бұрын
I just realized that ä sounds weird. äää äääääää äää ää ä Wow. What a smart finn I am.
@linajurgensen46985 жыл бұрын
Hana c it actually doesn’t sound that weird but you finns over pronounce it so much😂 (I‘m german)
@roberth43954 жыл бұрын
@@linajurgensen4698 This is just not true at all. German is from a different language tree. The german ä ≠ finnish ä.
@@linajurgensen4698 In Deutschland you say the Ä more like between E and the finnish Ä. it’s not as clear as in finnish
@gambaishiito3 жыл бұрын
Im from finnish= mä olen suomesta
@inievezi8 жыл бұрын
the letter that cost me the most to pronunciate in suomi is "y". the ä å ö I have them more or less controlated.
@Celia_al264 жыл бұрын
I will start studying Finnish tomorrow because of you i loved the language and I liked your videos very much, gonna speak with my teacher now, all the love from me and from Syria 🇸🇾
@하이용-g5v8 жыл бұрын
Since I've been studying Finnish for six months so far, though not on a regular basis, it will be helpful for me to learn more easily about Finnish. I wish I apply for an exchange program in Finland in two years :-) cuz all I had been wanting to do is studying in Finland that's been my most covetous thing:-). Thank you, Katchats for apprising those tips to Finnish rookie and novice ;-). Hyvää huomenta.
@KatChatsFinnish8 жыл бұрын
Kiitos! And I hope you can make your wish to study in Finland a reality! :)
@finnsalsa93048 жыл бұрын
For Ö: Try to say E while having round lips, liak saying O.
@dermeisterdesspiegels35186 жыл бұрын
German Ö, simpler
@quantumsoul34956 жыл бұрын
French eu
@belotiisnotreal25395 жыл бұрын
Der Meister des Spiegels einfacher für deutche menschen dein idiot
@BrendaRokker4 жыл бұрын
I've been trying more than six months to say this letter! Thank you! I'm happy now hahahah
@immortannojoe95233 жыл бұрын
FinnSalsa You mean a finnish E, right? Just making sure.
@Ms3queen8 жыл бұрын
I sound like a combination of Stitch and a parrot when I say Ä.
@Ms3queen8 жыл бұрын
And when I try Ö, I sound like some cavegirl.
@towobey5 жыл бұрын
Lol
@jahnavikodaganti57753 жыл бұрын
@@towobey Lip
@Деловкепке6 жыл бұрын
Actually, you explained well. I understood. Thnx.
@UwuRawr615 жыл бұрын
Turku in swedish (Åbo) is pronounced like Åbu but like a bit higher
@skeptic7814 жыл бұрын
a bit higher?
@Turtleman12343212 жыл бұрын
For anyone struggling with Ö, try saying "Learn" then only the "ea" part, that helped me greatly with pronunciation. Excellent video!
@InDefenceOfIslam2 жыл бұрын
Exactly! Aleksihimself said it similarly 'with "Earth'
@jhonatasrobertodelima50153 жыл бұрын
In Portuguese we have â, ã, á, à, ç, ê, é, í, ô, õ, ó and ú. These are not considered separated letters. Instead, they are variants of the letters a, c, e, i, o and u. The hardest ones are ã and õ. The Estonian language has õ too, but the pronunciation is totally different. Here in Brazil, we have the word "pão", which means "bread" in English. Many foreigners find it hard to pronounce the 'ão' sound, so they say "pau" instead. And, here in Brazil, "pau" is a piece of wood and it is also means "dick".
@rebeccaherrmann17758 жыл бұрын
The problem is that we have the "Ä" too in the german language. But your "Ä" sounds more like our normal "A" our "Ä" is pronounced deeper. It's so confusig xD
@KatChatsFinnish8 жыл бұрын
Ohh is that so? Yeah that must make it a bit more challenging!
@rebeccaherrmann17758 жыл бұрын
+. Stimmt ^^
@hanac55868 жыл бұрын
I remember when this young german woman was visiting our school and we had to pronounce some sentences to her in our german lesson. She was smiling so widely at us and we were trying so hard to not laugh :DD Of course we couldn't pronounce anything right as we were just starting to learn the language.
@hanac55868 жыл бұрын
. Exactly :d
@rooppyguyy05628 жыл бұрын
DarkObsession German Ä is more closer to Swedish Ä a very deep vocal
@agnishom2 жыл бұрын
Great Video, Thanks!
@KatChatsFinnish2 жыл бұрын
Glad you liked it! Thank you so much for your generosity, kiitos todella paljon. It means a lot! ^-^
@jungsuk8888 жыл бұрын
You're pretty 😍 and thanks for the lessons! I'm Polynesian (Samoan & Tahitian) but part of my ancestory goes back to Finland so I'm kind of obligated to learn it now lol
@KatChatsFinnish8 жыл бұрын
Aw thank you! Haha hopefully my videos can be of some help at least xD
@fuzz2035 жыл бұрын
@@KatChatsFinnish More like gorgeous :) Not being a creeper! I came here for some pronunciation lessons and kept smiling the whole time, enjoying your personality and charming delivery :)
@juliaspolander98658 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for this ! I'm a dual-citizen and never understood Finnish (like ever), but now its so cool to actually be able to learn it for when I go to Finland ! x
@KatChatsFinnish8 жыл бұрын
I'm glad I could help a little bit :)
@arnolqz79172 жыл бұрын
Moi mitä kuulu sä et kyl tunnista mua ja saanko mä nyt lipittää sitä sun pilluas😎
@antsfourmihermany8 жыл бұрын
Ö in Finnish is "E" in French, that is interesting!
@shake5448 жыл бұрын
Or perhaps even like in the word "eau" there is the longer, two vowel version
@shake5448 жыл бұрын
"deux" has the single vowel "ö" pretty close also
@gilbertquintereaudelachanc49067 жыл бұрын
Oui c'est pareil, ou alors comme le son de "oeuf". :)
@lucasj58727 жыл бұрын
Ah tiens des Français. C'est tellement rare de voir des Français qui s'intéressent au finnois.
@jarisipilainen38757 жыл бұрын
english E sound like finnish I. so, becouse english is pronaunced in correctly. finnish only language that pronaunce words like it written lol
@tomasmladek11675 жыл бұрын
There is a village in Norway, which is just called "Å". It must be pretty funny such a dialog. "Where are you from? " "Å" :D Just to add, it´s an amazing place and cute word Å :)
@okaro65958 жыл бұрын
Now I know where the term "yrjö" comes.
@mengenwertskala Жыл бұрын
Hei Kat, I am learning Finnish by a paid online course for 3 months now and already reached level A1. I have some friends from Tampere and Lappeenranta so there are enough people I can ask for help. Though I need more practice so I want to watch all your videos. Let's see how far I come. Nähdään pian!
@KatChatsFinnish Жыл бұрын
That’s great! :D
@danielledeschamps3769 Жыл бұрын
I just started learning some Finnish, and I watched some of your videos and I love how you teach the language. Your pronunciation is perfect! I wondered do you have a video on the Finnish alphabet? My boyfriend is Finnish and I kind of want to surprise him and learn some of the language, he’s very proud of it!
@bizbite25 жыл бұрын
Now lets learn Lithuanian: Š Č Ž Ė Ę Į Y U, Ū ... 🤭😂😂🤷🏻♂️
@hannakisshannakiss5 жыл бұрын
now let's learn Hungarian: á é í ú ü ű ó ö ő lol😂
@furkan85405 жыл бұрын
Now lets learn Turkish ı,İ,Ü,Ö,Ğ,Ç,Ş
@ThuyGamesPRO5 жыл бұрын
Now let's learn Portuguese: á à ã â é ê í ó ô õ ú ç
I’m starting to learn my grandparents” language, Finnish. I have heard from learners in other language to start by just learning words and dialogue. Others say you have to learn Finnish grammar first. Thoughts? (I have to admit, Finnish grammar terrifies me !)
@kathyl66777 жыл бұрын
Maybe describing the shape of the mouth, position of the tongue will help one pronounce that last one.
@nisselarson32274 жыл бұрын
"Ä" as in "Apple" is also a good example to think of. Us Swedes usually say more like the.. A in "Älska" (almost an E) Especially in Stockholm. =)
@KatChatsFinnish4 жыл бұрын
That's right! :D
@egeozkanbolukbas26268 жыл бұрын
We use the Letter ö in turkish too
@alv27247 жыл бұрын
And ü also
@presidentforlife17326 жыл бұрын
OH MY LERD NON INDO EUROPEAN LANGUAGE MUST BE TURK ANKARA IS ALSO A WORD IN FINNISH FENZ R TRUKS CONFREMD P.S. This is a strawman and if you say anything akin to this post, then you will only prove your intellectual inferiority. :DD
@thynisia3966 жыл бұрын
Ö is exactly the same in French in the way we say eu
@sometator7 жыл бұрын
@KatChats ö is like trying to say "e" while putting your mouth as if you were to say "o"
@MehmetOrdu Жыл бұрын
In Turkish we have the ä sound but we don’t have a specific letter for that and it’s just represented as “e” when it’s followed by n, l and r because that’s when it usually replace the regular e. So since it’s an assimilated version of e, they didn’t create a specific letter not to complicate the orthography. For example, Turkish “sen” (you) is actually pronounced like “sän” in Finnish but when it’s “seni” (direct object of you) it’s pronounced with a regular “e”as it’s written as “seni” in Finnish because the syllable no longer ends with the “n” sound so it’s not assimilated. But this sound would never be at the end of the syllable like minä so that’s a bit challenging. But the other central asian languages like Kazakh and Turkmen have this sound on its own and they spell it as ä too.
@mirae9163 Жыл бұрын
Just started to Finnish today 😊 It's my 16th language 😄
@KatChatsFinnish Жыл бұрын
Wow!
@mirae9163 Жыл бұрын
Oh, I forgot a word "learn" 😅 "Just started to learn Finnish today". By the way, my mother tongue is Cantonese. Finnish is so different from my mother tongue, it would be a challenge for me, but I hope my knowledge of Korean/Japanese will help me a little bit in terms of grammar :) And I was very curious about Finnish - one of the most difficult languages in the world! 😊
@KatChatsFinnish Жыл бұрын
@@mirae9163 Yess the grammar can be a bit tricky, but if you have studied 16 languages already maybe the background can be helpful for you (or I hope so at least!!)
@paulfriedrich83268 жыл бұрын
So I'm not sure if it's like the German exactly or not, but when I teach "ö" to English speakers trying to learn German, I say it's like going "uuuuhhhh" but with rounded lips.
@Herbert-tp7hs7 ай бұрын
Your pronunciation is very clear to my ears, perhaps it is due to my Spanish speaking background.
@Meevious4 жыл бұрын
The letter Ö makes the sound "eugh", as in "eugh, yuck!". It also makes the "ir" in "bird", the "er" in "her", the "ear" in "earn" or the "ur" in "burn" in the Queen's English (also called "received pronunciation"), which is non-rhotic. "British English" isn't a dialect. Britain includes England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, each of which contain many dialects, some of which have a rhotic "r" sound and some of which don't.
@Bit-while_going4 жыл бұрын
"Get the words out" yep I remember that. Simply brutal. But I only recollect. The recall is beyond budget limits.
@EverydayMusician8 жыл бұрын
Kiitos paljon, Katya. I appreciate these videos very much.
@le-yaadventures54712 жыл бұрын
Moi! Kat do you have alphabet video in finnish language.. You are a big help for me..
@KatChatsFinnish2 жыл бұрын
Yes I do! kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z4fSdWeVZayrsMU
@chukchee3 жыл бұрын
How do you say kengat with the two dots on the a? Cant figure out how to say it.
@ibeyan6 жыл бұрын
So is å actually same as /o/ and ä is like /æ/? but I kinda hear ä like /a/ too or could that be my ears tricking me
@KatChatsFinnish6 жыл бұрын
Yes you're right, sometime when speaking the ä becomes a but lazy so may sound like /a/ but it's supposed to be more /æ/ :)
@RoadRunnerMeep3 жыл бұрын
I started cracking up with the parrot noises at 2:21, it's the Finnish O that I find a bit awkward, as some as usually you find it after the letter Y, and it sounds like bleurgh
@KatChatsFinnish3 жыл бұрын
Parrot noises hahahah xD It does kinda sound like bleurgh haha :p
@RoadRunnerMeep3 жыл бұрын
@@KatChatsFinnish I think one of the words I came across was Myor. I'm listening and learning and it sounded like a low noise rather than an upper noise
@farouq71074 жыл бұрын
My journey with this new and fun language starts today. Wish me luck!!
@KatChatsFinnish4 жыл бұрын
Best of luck! You can do it! :)
@eitmrnbiwbo5 жыл бұрын
i don't know but like your pronunciation of å and ö sounds like it's the same as in norwegian, but we use the letter ø instead of ö
@Error403HRD5 жыл бұрын
Ö is like when you mix ew and eh in English....at least that's what it sounded like to me. This was a great help, thanks!
@eliz_scubavn4 жыл бұрын
Luckily for me I learnt some Swedish before trying to learn Finnish so these sounds are easy!
@loril43916 жыл бұрын
Kiitos!❤️🔥 It helps me so much for learning Finnish! Greetings from Hongkong!
@KatChatsFinnish6 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much, I'm glad you've found it helpful ^-^
@lakeofwindows96537 жыл бұрын
I remember my mum trying to teach me how to pronounce ö, except it was something my dad taught her and she thought that she could teacher her 5 year old daughter before moving to Finland, except she had a very distinct and strong Australian accent, so she made a very STRONG gagging sound and described it as vomiting almost like how you said it. So for my first few months in Finland, I'd end up embarrassing my dad by sounding like I was vomiting in public while trying to speak Finnish. He had to tell whoever I spoke to that I was born in Australia and just recently came to Finland... I still struggle with prouncing it XD
@KatChatsFinnish7 жыл бұрын
Hahah wow that's actually hilarious xD
@hannakisshannakiss5 жыл бұрын
Is the a with the double dots more like the beginning of _eyes_ or the e in _well_ ?
@waltermahovlich19624 жыл бұрын
The easiest way to explain ö to English speakers is to tell them to make the sound "e" as in "bet" (sometimes called "short e") and to round their lips while they say it.
@ermathdk2 жыл бұрын
Tongue like a "short e", lips like an "oh".
@danielerbon92098 жыл бұрын
Second channel, I'm here hahaha. So nice to hear more about finnish language. Thank you. I'd like to ask you, if possible, to make a video about a few commom sentences at hotels. It would help me a lot. Kiitos :)
@Jamalshah99222 жыл бұрын
hi dear ,praying for your health,you are doing superb job,please kindly keep it up for such assisstant.thankyou
@LipstickRed138 жыл бұрын
I loved the video! I'm from Brazil and I LOVE Finland, I have many friends there and I study finnish since 2014 but it's too hard!!! Thanks for the video oot ihana 💙
@iivetabalogova96244 жыл бұрын
No funkční
@LipstickRed133 жыл бұрын
@Henry of Monmouth kkkkkkkkkkkkk meu deus sim!!!
@LipstickRed133 жыл бұрын
@Henry of Monmouth eu ainda estudo e realmente é muito difícil, meu sonho é alcançar a fluência, mas a forma mais facil é indo pra lá e eu ainda nao tive essa oportunidade
@Istarikit2 жыл бұрын
I think the best way I have figured out the ö sound is like the word nation (the ”io” sound).
@0_yprh5 жыл бұрын
Could you please recommend me a book or a system to follow to learn Finnish? I love your videos, but, I think If I follow a method it would help me. I read online good things about Suomea Suomeksi and other I can't remember now. Do you know a good one? Tks!
@KatChatsFinnish5 жыл бұрын
Hmmm I haven't actually read any of the Finnish books, maybe you can join my Finnish facebook group and ask the others there which ones they use? :)
@Rockyourassed6 жыл бұрын
Merci beaucoup, tu es magnifique au passage.
@joojoojeejee60588 жыл бұрын
Places, street names etc. don't always have to be written in both Finnish and Swedish, only in cities and municipalities that have two official languages. If you go inland, everything is usually just in Finnish. Of course in practice, even the places that have two "official" languages, usually are bi-lingual only on paper, not in reality so much. On some of these cities Swedish is not even among the TOP3 spoken languages! Yet it is treated like it was widely spoken. This is due to corruption related to "Swedish speaking money".
@KatChatsFinnish8 жыл бұрын
Yeah that's true!
@paulm65295 жыл бұрын
I hear absolutely no difference between "a" and "ä" :(
@YeoweChiffewar4 жыл бұрын
'A' is pronounced in the back of the mouth, 'ä' in the front of it. The same applies to the pairs 'o'-'ö', 'u'-'y'.
@MrSkribanto4 жыл бұрын
Neither do I.
@paulm65294 жыл бұрын
@@YeoweChiffewar now I feel the difference in the way I pronounce o and ö, u and y. But every time I try to say ä in the same way, it sounds differently from the previous one.
@raviolical99724 жыл бұрын
i saw someone say it's like the difference between saying "far" and "fat". Far being a and Fat being ä.
@pyromorph65404 жыл бұрын
You can hear the diffrence in the A in: Back (Ä) And: Dark (A)
@thirandisenaratne53043 жыл бұрын
if i go finland.we want to learn surely swedish language?
@esch70557 жыл бұрын
Is there differences in the pronounciation of Ä depending on the region? I mean, some times Ä sounds like E in the word rest or in männer in german.
@gunjfur86337 жыл бұрын
Éctor Schneider In finnish the sound of a letter never changes
@dorothydingle39167 жыл бұрын
ö , at least in the kind of English spoken here in the south of England, is pronounced exactly as the vowel in "her" because we don't pronounce the final r at all.
@ToLearnalanguage2 күн бұрын
Paljon onnea! Very helpful video! 😊
@Ryansoutdoorsandmusic7 жыл бұрын
Hyvää huomenta! Terve!
@Distracted8 жыл бұрын
Is it a rule in Finnish grammar that the letter 'd,' perhaps other consonants as well, is silent when preceded by the letter ö?
@KatChatsFinnish8 жыл бұрын
+William Distracted I don't think so
@Distracted8 жыл бұрын
KatChats OK. Of course I ask based on your pronunciation of a couple of words in this video vs those of another video, with the letter 'd' in both.
@agtronic7 жыл бұрын
This made me laugh. I like how you were showing pronunciation and just couldn't hold in the laughter. I'm half Finnish and live in Canada, and sadly I lost mostly all of my Finnish. I remember some words. Hmmmmm, pulla... My little brother's nick name when we were small was yunta pulla. Not sure how to spell the first word. Cheers from Canada.
@KatChatsFinnish7 жыл бұрын
Hahah I'm glad you enjoyed xD
@mrj.kottari84533 жыл бұрын
Junttapulla xD Could be translated to Stubborn Scone 💚 😄
@souhabenabdessalem34478 жыл бұрын
how introducing my self in Finnish???
@0o00oo08 жыл бұрын
"Minä olen souha bnds"
@souhabenabdessalem34478 жыл бұрын
what ?
@souhabenabdessalem34478 жыл бұрын
aah yeahh.. I understood 😅 thank you 😊
@nitro52477 жыл бұрын
Souha Bnds nimeni on ____ (My name is)
@alv27247 жыл бұрын
Sibuli really no vocal letter?
@janicegarrido92312 жыл бұрын
Hi can you please do a vedio about entroducing you're self for a job thanks
@Hilja1suus6 жыл бұрын
As a native Dutch speaker, ö is easy to pronounce, but I'm having trouble pronouncing ä because it's not quite the 'e' you would have in, say 'ethnic', but in my head it's close enough, which means I can barely tell ä en e apart.
@valavaaramusic8 жыл бұрын
this is great! I'm half Finnish and I want to learn more about my culture/ Language as I am very proud to be Finnish :)
@KatChatsFinnish8 жыл бұрын
I'm glad!
@Sylenx14 жыл бұрын
It is my idea or when combining: ö d ä the d does not sound? I mean mutes the d?
@lahru74936 жыл бұрын
I like the video, it was helpful to me as an English speaker to hear the sounds and be able to see what your mouth was doing. It could be helpful in future videos to perhaps explain what your mouth is doing. For example, with Ö : I found that if I say an English A like in hat then keep my tongue the same while making an o with my lips, I was able to get the sound of an Ö. So just trying to suggest that as a teacher, explanations like that and being able to see what your mouth is doing, could be even more helpful to your students. Keep up the good work! I.M.H.O. it's the vowels of a language that are the trickiest, but most important.
@JessicaSantos-tm7qr3 жыл бұрын
I can pronounce these vowels but I really have difficulty with the Y song,i don't know to pronounce
@Bonekraka5 жыл бұрын
A with dots on top sound like top Hat ,At sounds with hat on top sorry if im confusing but I love the sound. well thats how I try to remember it. OO pressing down on the sound
@MasonTheOneLooneyDude4 жыл бұрын
The letters Å, Ä, and Ö also to Sweden but I think they have different pronunciations than Finland's pronunciations.Most of all....... *FINLAAAND!!!*
@TotalRookie_LV6 жыл бұрын
Going to Böle bro in Helsinki, in Töölö parish for a short business trip tomorrow, so I was just curious. Besides, my native language have some 11 letters a bit different from English: ā, č, ē, ģ, ī, ķ, ļ, ņ, š, ū, ž, so... XD
@gretaselge43827 жыл бұрын
in estonia there is also Ö and Ä, we olso have Ü and Õ.
@davidm96185 жыл бұрын
Finnish-American here and you are gorgeous.
@KatChatsFinnish5 жыл бұрын
Aww thanks
@0oseasuno08 жыл бұрын
Great video! Could you please also teach us what is the pronunciation difference between D and T, as well as L and R. Thank you! :)
@KatChatsFinnish8 жыл бұрын
Thanks! Will add that to my list! :)
@sarmadeeso21878 жыл бұрын
awesome thank u Finnish language is very difficult in the beginning and these videos help a lot so kiitos paljon
@KatChatsFinnish8 жыл бұрын
I'm glad you've found this helpful! :)
@sarmadeeso21878 жыл бұрын
Thanks a wonderful job I hope if you have time to make a video about house ..Living room &Kitchen & Bedroom furniture ....
@KatChatsFinnish8 жыл бұрын
Noted!
@dariocr20237 жыл бұрын
Hi Minaå, how are you? Really nice video, I would like to ask you if you can advise me some way to learn the Finnish language, where can i start? Thanks you :)
@menamesmo98926 жыл бұрын
*I have learnt something new, I did not know ä had a different sound in Finnish because mostly in Germanic languages ä is known to sound like German Ä or English É* *The Finnish ä sounds pretty much like an á*
@ManicEightBall8 жыл бұрын
English doesn't have the Finnish "y" either. You might want to talk about that. Also, "j" isn't pronounced the same way in English as it is in Finnish, even though the sound exists in both languages.
@KatChatsFinnish8 жыл бұрын
Great points!!
@TheSwedishTraveler8 жыл бұрын
I guess both y and j sounds similar in both Finnish and swedish!
@Morhgoz8 жыл бұрын
Where is savo dialect video? Hope you will make one? :D
@KatChatsFinnish8 жыл бұрын
Haha I doubt I could speak with that murre :P
@chensuqing79943 жыл бұрын
Great language teacher, it is great way for me as a beginner.
@yowanehaku23237 жыл бұрын
Soo... I'm swedish and I'm learrning finnish! So... :D
@craftah6 жыл бұрын
@- Tri108 - he is gay
@craftah6 жыл бұрын
@- Tri108 - потому что японцы д геи
@craftah6 жыл бұрын
@- Tri108 - переводчик... это есть !
@adaline24794 жыл бұрын
I am too lazy to change my name Are they Japanese language? Lol, you know the kanji for Japanese person is different right?
@jonnyspeed89742 жыл бұрын
The last ö is how people from Yorkshire say o... especially places like Hull and York. This was the easiest for me, as I already have that inflection.
@KatChatsFinnish2 жыл бұрын
That makes things easier for sure! :D
@jazzbeau5074 жыл бұрын
How is a pronounced compared to "A" with two dots above it. So "A" with two dots is like hat,,,,and "A" without two dots would be?
@KatChatsFinnish4 жыл бұрын
I have a Finnish alphabet video where I go over it! Easier to see there than me explaining in text :)
@UltraCasualPenguin2 жыл бұрын
A is pronounced like A in Audi. Nooo! Not Oodi.
@cintulator28 жыл бұрын
Åbo, OO-bu.
@salomemedina79952 жыл бұрын
I really enjoy learning languages, I speak English as my second language but I hate that most languages are underrated, Dude I've heard that Finnish is way different to the languages I know, English and Spanish, I'm going for a new challenge
@KatChatsFinnish2 жыл бұрын
Yes it comes from a whole different language family! Welcome to the new challenge! :D
@debbieprince76225 жыл бұрын
The way I'm hearing it, the ö is pronounced kind of like the "ou" in "could." Does that sound about right? Or am I way off here?
@saamanda5 жыл бұрын
Nah you're way off. It's not the same sound
@laurivirtanen86365 жыл бұрын
If you lengthen the æ the word hat you get haat or häät witch is the Finnish word for wedding