DEPTH OF FINNISH LAKES?? | Taking Some Finnish Quizzes!

[@AlmightyNorppa]

I got most of them right but there were some really tough ones that even gave me the "wait what" face :D I noticed a common problem english speakers have with finnish. On that "Aja hiljaa sillalla" I heard quite a few J sounds. I think it's the double H and double L that pulls that J sound out of an english speaker. Need to remember that in finnish the letter doesn't change when there's two it just makes the letter longer. This was a fun little video. Quite enoyed it.

[@LashofSnow]

Aww thanks dude! Double H? Isn't there only 1 H?

[@AlmightyNorppa]

There is but the double H is another pair that gets the J out of people :) I guess I COULD have written that comment more coherently lol. The LL and HH both bring out the J in foreign speakers. I blame spanish pronunciation :D

[@LashofSnow]

Damn pronunciation lol I'll grasp it soon :P

[@johannesmikael6373]

@@LashofSnow Some Finnish words cause the first consonant of the following word to become long. 'aja' is one of these words. Any word that follows 'aja' will have a long consonant. So 'aja hiljaa' is pronounced 'aja hhiljaa', 'aja nopeasti' is pronounced 'aja nnopeasti', 'aja tuonne' is pronounced 'aja ttuonne' etc. If the following word begins with a vowel, a long glottal stop is inserted in between the words. In English a glottal stop occurs in the middle of the expression 'uh-oh'. 'terve' is also one of these words, which means that 'tervetuloa' is actually pronounced 'tervettuloa' with a long t in the middle. Since it isn't indicated in the spelling it may be hard to figure out which words cause the lengthening. But there is one rule with no exceptions: only words that end in a vowel may cause lengthening.

[@LashofSnow]

@@johannesmikael6373 this is a great little tip to try and remember thank you for this!

[@mikanokia7550]

Akseli Gallen-Kallela was a Finnish painter, so its a name also like Kekkonen. He painted many Kalevala related pictures.