There's a saying in Finland when it comes to ice hockey ''doesn't matter who wins as long as Sweden loses''
@mairakkadead2 жыл бұрын
suomi perkele
@mantelikukkapenkki23682 жыл бұрын
A little advice: As a Swede, never say to a Finn "we used to own you", it's a sure way to get rid of your front teeth. Just saying..
@jammujee32 жыл бұрын
yeah if i ever see this guy he will need a surgery.
@yesterdaysrose54462 жыл бұрын
I'm like, yeah, Sweden used to own Finland... but after a couple of short centuries it wasn't that bad, really. Especially compared to Russian reign. Phew, now *that* was some shit.
@Mr.Truxton2 жыл бұрын
@@yesterdaysrose5446 No, the russian years were the golden years. That's when all the best finnish writers, musicians, artists etc existed. Only like the last 20 years of russian rule sucked, when they tried lessening our autonomy.
@yesterdaysrose54462 жыл бұрын
@@Mr.Truxton Then again, the Grand Dutchy lasted for ~100 years. If 20 of those years sucked, and led to literally an assassination of a governor, I'd consider that particular period shaky at best. The fact that several prominent Finnish luminaries were present at the time, bolstering Finnish national identity in their own ways, was just a proof of the fact that the nationalist movement existed at the time and had up to that moment just been biding its time... and this was obviously not a proof that the Russians were particularly happy about that at the tiume. You know, because we know how that whole period ended. By contrast, considering Sweden decided to rule Finland since, around, like, 1200s, and had several governors who are still liked to this day ("at the time of the Count", anyone?) maybe that is still a significant point. How WOULD the Finnish history branched off if, before at some point in the 1700s-1800s, Finns would have told Swedes to kthxbye?
@FINNSTIGAT0R2 жыл бұрын
I, as a Finn, am actually quite pleased that we used to be a part of Sweden, as it in the end gave us a much more healthier model of government and of civil society than what we ever got from the goddamn Russians 🤮 Yeah, but please don't say "we owned you", since that would get even my blood boiling. 😀
@aliisalyly2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, Swedish is still mandatory. Most of us still don't speak it though, either due to poor teaching, lack of interest or a mix of both. A commonly overlooked fact is that the Swedish-speaking finns have to learn Finnish in turn.
@akaittou2 жыл бұрын
Not all of them do, which is the weird thing. In Åland (and I believe some of the primarily Swedish-speaking municipalities along the coast but don't quote me on that) Finnish has to be available as an elective from grade 5 onward, but isn't mandatory. A quirk of legislation that means learning Swedish is required of a larger percentage of Finns than learning Finnish.
@Cronin_2 жыл бұрын
@@akaittou Me living in Österbotten/Pohjanmaa had to start learning Finnish from 1st grade. I hated it.
@Cronin_2 жыл бұрын
@@akaittou Also I have never heard of any majority Swedish speaking municipality where the Fenno-Swedes don't HAVE TO learn Finnish. It definitely is mandatory (except ofc on Åland)
@fredriknybacka6762 жыл бұрын
@@akaittou no we cannot choose if we want to study finnish. However I am sick and tired of this debate that we should make it optional (for both languages) we only get benefits from knowing another language.
@joelsirola54402 жыл бұрын
No, they can go to a swedish speaking school. And in case they do, good. As finnish citisens they should as it's the 1st and by far the most widely smoken language here.
@snatu6662 жыл бұрын
First he dares to insult our English skills and then he misspells sauna...
@jussi35392 жыл бұрын
I don't agree with you on the English skills. Older generations can't speak English for sure, but most people can and they even have great pronunciation.
@francoisdaureville3232 жыл бұрын
I think your group of friends doesnt represent a whole country where is thr proof of that?? Do you know most finnish people?? I doubt it
@DaronMGL2 жыл бұрын
In my experience Finns (younger generations especially) can read and usually even write English really well. Finns often have a very strong accent when speaking though, that makes them pretty hard to understand for native English speakers, even if their grammar and vocabulary is usually quite good.
@LimbaZero2 жыл бұрын
Some just have this strong accent. Few had said that I sound like Hydraulic Press Channel guy :)
@jussi35392 жыл бұрын
@@francoisdaureville323 He just generalized the whole country based on couple of Finnish-Swedish friends he has, which was very inaccurate and also quite insulting. I base my opinion on living in Finland all my life and actually talking with people here in English as well.
@cooljoelguy2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, many young (-30) Finnish people speak english with almost an American accent, probably due to the early age they start learning, english media, and the prevalence of international schools. Source: American who has lived in Joensuu, currently living in Helsinki
@eriknoorvali2 жыл бұрын
In Estonia we tell our children that Santa lives in Finland/Lapland
@Banondax2 жыл бұрын
based
@mantelikukkapenkki23682 жыл бұрын
He does
@vanyadolly2 жыл бұрын
You would even if no one else believes it! Estonia is our biggest cheerleader 😘
@Juhani962 жыл бұрын
well, thats how the story goes. good job eesti
@gugagaagaa8394 Жыл бұрын
love yall
@iLoveTheseRemoras2 жыл бұрын
I'm a Finn living in Stockholm and I've met multiple Swedes who like you think that Finland being bilingual is a thing of the past. I have no idea how that has happened, Finland hasn't ever even been close to abandoning the official status of Swedish as the country's second language 🤷♂ ...then again, I've also met a lot of Swedes who don't know Finland isn't (yet) in NATO, uses Euro as the currency (been used since 1999), one didn't even know Finland is in the EU. I think in general many Swedes just don't know or care much about Finland - also I'm a little bit worried about the school system here 😅
@petrusinvictus36032 жыл бұрын
Vi måste tala, prata, mera på svenska.
@brandoninhofer65922 жыл бұрын
Most Finns have a hard time speaking Swedish even though everyone must learn it at school. This is mostly due to a lack of interest in the subject. Most Finns are much better at English even though they are nervous/apprehensive about using it.
@Nitpickerman3 ай бұрын
Finland is the only country which have swedish as an official language (being mentioned in constitution as such)
@DjKorppi2 жыл бұрын
Yeah swedish is mandatory. And because of it, I can understand when a swedish-speaking finn speaks to me, but not swedes, danish, norwegians etc
@DR_REDACTED2 жыл бұрын
I never leared swedish at all
@Cyril862 жыл бұрын
Yeah, mandatory classes. Doesn't mean you have to learn it, of course. :V Always kinda thought when I was at school, that if someone in Finland wants to speak to me, and they don't understand either Finnish or English, they're probably not even worth communicating with. In retrospect, it would have probably been a good idea to try to learn it anyway, even if I didn't use it. Oh well, too late now.
@DR_REDACTED2 жыл бұрын
I tried to learn. But just could not. And thats funny because now days i understand Japanese better than Swedish😅😂
@MlCROPIZZA2 жыл бұрын
I learnd swedish between years 7-9 in primary school and all i can say is numbers. From my small group of friends i was best at swedish and worst at english😆.
@Mythrell2 жыл бұрын
Funnily enough after years of work at supposed Finnish only companies, I've ran numerous instances where I wish I did indeed learn some Swedish. Luckily a lot of swedes and Norwegians talk English too I suppose.
@2scrimble92 жыл бұрын
Finnish people are good at english, I understand everything 100% and I've seen english and american people with worse grammar, the thing is we can't just pronounce it correctly.
@nerdicperson6235 Жыл бұрын
If you speak rally-english, that is correct. But if youve learnt english well enough, english pronounciations arent an issue.
@0Quiwi02 жыл бұрын
You might have a bit outdated or scewed idea of the speaking English thing. Almost all people I know (from age 40 and younger) speak at least decent English. Swedish on the other hand is pretty rare outside most Southern and Western Finland as we don't really have to use it at all in the East and North. Or even in the middle parts. We actually study more English than we do Swedish. English starts at third grade and Swedish starts in seventh grade. Some people have awful accents for sure (Rally English), and they might be a bit shy to speak English, but it's perfectly understandable for a native English speaker. At least that's what people from US and UK have told me. Can't remember if anyone from Australia has spoken to me about that
@gashix2 жыл бұрын
"We used to own you then something happened i don't remember" and you call yourself a teacher lmao
@mixlllllll2 жыл бұрын
he's not an history teacher
@timoterava71082 жыл бұрын
@@mixlllllll Obviously...
@theenastream34082 жыл бұрын
Your opinion about Finns' English language skills is just that: your opinion. I have my opinion about Swedes' skills. I was a Finn working in UK in an American international company. In one meeting there was some visitors from Göteborg (Gothenburg). I was amazed how bad their English was! I always thought Swedish can speak good English. And then, when there was a break, they started speaking Swedish and had a lot of negative opinions about their hosts. They didn't even realize that I understood everything they said! So our opinions are always reflecting our experiences and are not necessarily facts. Just sayin' :)
@viirus13622 жыл бұрын
Currently the Finnish passport is ranked 3rd tied with Italy Luxembourg and Spain with 189 visa free countries Swedish passport is on rank number 4 with Denmark having 188 vise free countries. The best passport currently is the Japanese passport witch has 192 visa free countries. Though the Finnish passport had 193 at the time Geography now made his video.
@eenmens87602 жыл бұрын
Just wanted to say that he showed 2 pictures of the same castle: olavinlinna and savonlinna. The official name of that castle is Olavinlinna and the city around it is called Savonlinna.
@eenmens87602 жыл бұрын
It’s a cool castle btw
@puskamuha90002 жыл бұрын
NO, i'd say the opposite, finnish people under 30 are mostly fluent in english, but most cant even think of a sentence in swedish
@ristusnotta16532 жыл бұрын
oh come on we understand English well but the problem comes from the pronunciation since English has so many sounds that Finnish doesn't have, we don't know how to move our mouth and tongue to make the sounds :D Btw the ones who speak good Swedish are called Finnishswedes or something like that in English, basically Finns but their mother tongue is Swedish and half of them don't know how to speak good Finnish, they live on the coast of Finland. The true like Finnish Finnish people don't understand Swedish at all because there is not much use for it in pretty much rest of the country even tho its still mandatory language in school.
@coyotelong43492 жыл бұрын
Yeah it doesn’t help that English and Finnish are such different languages That said, so many Finns knowing Swedish should help with learning English
@ristusnotta16532 жыл бұрын
@@coyotelong4349 i wouldnt also say that many Finns know Swedish 😂 way more speak better English
@ryyb_himself2 жыл бұрын
@@coyotelong4349 Finns start learning English before Swedish, and only a tiny minority of the people who have to learn Swedish reach a level where it's anywhere close to being useful.
@Mr.Truxton2 жыл бұрын
@@Cronin_ Well, kinda makes sense, since you live in Finland.... I really don't understand your point. Swedish is a second language here, finnish the first. Fenno-Swedes should have no issue with learning finnish, if you don't like it, move over to Sweden proper.
@jonnykarlsson5822 жыл бұрын
im a swedish speaking fin. and still i speak rallyenglish
@Jambu962 жыл бұрын
During the Ahvenanmaa part his Swedish Ego was haemorrhaging. edit: It was all the time. Why the subtle inferiority complex? From the Vikings to the Empire into a paradise of integration and post-modernity.
@calebthecrazyking2 жыл бұрын
Oh dude, you teaching us something just seconds before the person in the vid mentions it is what I'm here for! Awesome channel
@RockerFinland2 жыл бұрын
English Proficiency Index: 5. Sweden, 6. Finland (+almost even scores). Proficiency Band: "Very High Proficiency". I'm surprised a teacher didn't know it.
@lauribleu75582 жыл бұрын
I had a Finnish professor in Ohio (graduate level for art education). I adored her, and her English was every bit as good as yours. She said she was surprised to meet me and find out I was a woman. Apparently, "Lauri" is a male name in Finland.
@Gaehhn2 жыл бұрын
The creator of the Hydraulic Press Channel here on KZbin is called Lauri.
@squidcaps43082 жыл бұрын
Lauri is male, Laura is female.....
@lauribleu75582 жыл бұрын
@@squidcaps4308 I am well aware, especially since my mother and grandmother were named Laura. However, here in the US we also have "Laurie" which is female. I have since found out that "Laurie" is a nickname for "Lawrence" in England, so the US is a little off. I have never in met life met a male "Laurie," but it is a common variant of "Laurel," also female. "Lauri" is extremely uncommon here.
@Aurinkohelmi2 жыл бұрын
Actually Swedish is mandatory. Only difference is that it's not mandatory test at the end of high school. And it's more to do with Swedish being second official language than Sweden forcing us to study it. At least not after separation in 1809.
@Khaotika2 жыл бұрын
Finnic/(sh) tribes ruled most of sweden before Sweden was a thing, too. So we owned you first.
@aaronholmstrom29262 жыл бұрын
This dude sounds so condescending as if Sweden is superior lol
@frankreynolds18122 жыл бұрын
Most Finns can speak really good english, just the pronunciation is very literal to our language.
@juuhan2 жыл бұрын
I have to remind that when Barby talked about castles in Finland, Savonlinna is not castle itself, its city but castle at Savonlinna is called "Olavinlinna"
@0Quiwi02 жыл бұрын
Swedish is still mandatory as it's our second official language
@timoterava71082 жыл бұрын
Swedish being mandatory for everybody in Finland is a relatively modern thing (and a huge waste of time and resources, which could be used more usefully for studying more important languages). It only came with the new "peruskoulu" ("grundskola") during the 1970's. Before that most Finns never studied Swedish.
@TheManOfManyBroccolis2 жыл бұрын
5:21 And they still do, im in 7th grade and they have teached us Swedish since 6th grade so yeah, not totally historic...
@neymarjr3712 Жыл бұрын
Bro is the reason we joke about Swedes
@Deattt2 жыл бұрын
Norway didn't give us the peak due to their constitution to make such a move. Nice thought nevertheless.
@Lemooooooooon2 жыл бұрын
A new upload :D I’m exited
@Traski2 жыл бұрын
The thing about finnish and english languages is that lot of (at least younger generation) people actually understand english perfectly well - but because the pronunciation of words between the two languages are so different, you can definitely recognize an english speaking Finn almost immediately. For someone who is a native Finn, I speak more english during the course of a week due to having friends all across the world - the finnish accent still seeps in and is very hard to get rid off. So yes, I agree - we're horrible at that.
@akaittou2 жыл бұрын
I feel this far too much. I've been fluent in English by Finnish standards since grade 4 and have been working on my pronunciation actively ever since (some two decades) and I still sound off. I've avoided having a tankero-accent, but instead my English sounds like I'm drunk all the time.
@tuijakarttunen77012 жыл бұрын
I speak English fluently, but with accent. I don`t even want to get rid of it. As long as it`s not "rally-English", I`m okay.
@puhistagram2 жыл бұрын
The younger people are the better is the accent. It's because huge immmersion influence of youtube.
@akaittou2 жыл бұрын
Currently the main differences between the visa requirements of Finnish and Swedish passports are Mongolia and Russia, with Finnish passport holders having a much easier time (they can obtain a visa on arrival to Mongolia and just fill an online form as a matter of course for Russia) while Swedish passport holders have to go through the entire bureaucratic process before even booking their tickets. That said, there have been times when a Finnish passport mean you didn't need any kind of visa to enter Russia, though I'm pretty sure that was a good while before the video here was made. It definitely was before Putin went noticeably mad with power, lol. Am I bitter that it's harder and harder to visit my grandmother's childhood home on the Karelian Isthmus because of one madman with too much power? YES. Absolutely.
@tonituomanen31132 жыл бұрын
It's funny that the "wife-carrying competition" is often mentioned in KZbin videos about Finland. I have lived in Finland for more than 50 years, and I have never seen that competition live. It's a curiosity, like swamp soccer and a cell phone throwing competition. Actually, the most popular sports in Finland are ice hockey and formula 1. In addition, we have a national game called pesäpallo, which is little bit similar to American baseball.
@eddy45762 жыл бұрын
Learning Swedish is still mandatory in school here😄
@paanikki2 жыл бұрын
The funny thing is, that the Most UNILINGUAL towns/municipalities in Finland are SWEDISH language municipalities. Sottunga (in Åland islands) is the MOST unilingual. The most unilingual in the mainland is Larsmo (Österbotten/Ostrobothnia). Of course there are several municipalities in eastern Finland that have no native Swedish speaker residents. But all of those mucipalities have native speakers of OTHER, foreign languages, this makes them less unilingual.
@urosleijona2 жыл бұрын
Finnish speaks usually a good English.. But we just don't like talk with Swedish.. 😜😂
@ih52982 жыл бұрын
Norway did not give the mountain to finland due to 2 reasons 1. Legal reasons 2. Russia
@appletree132 жыл бұрын
Great video! And honestly your English is pretty good! If you want, there's another channel like this called Geofocus. It's not as in-depth as Geography Now, but it's still pretty interesting, and some videos are more up to date. I think watching them in combination with Geography Now would give a lot more info. But hey, you do you!
@FinDi902 жыл бұрын
13:45 Is that so? Now you made me curios. From one teacher to another, What exactly is so different with our school systems? (to clarify, I am a teacher, I just specialized in early education.)
@FinDi902 жыл бұрын
You are one lucky Swede... Because I was occupied during the video and couldn't angrily respond to your comments on our English skills. You saved yourself at the end by pointing out you weren't completely serious about it.
@FinDi902 жыл бұрын
Mandatory Swedish teaching: It's a relic from the centuries, when Finland was a part of Sweden. Back then Swedish was, obviously, a language of the state, and it remains so to this day.
@0Quiwi02 жыл бұрын
Sadly we never got the peak because it would have been against Norwegian constitution to give away sovereign land or something like that. We still appreciate the thought
@ac14552 жыл бұрын
Not sure how interested you are in linguistics, but LangFocus just uploaded a video on Icelandic
@vpuik2 жыл бұрын
Nordic countries all like each other except when it comes to sports!
@pyromite382 жыл бұрын
Finn here. I have heard that foreigners have a hard time learning Finnish as Finns will switch to English so easily once they learn that the other person isn't that good at Finnish. There are ~6 million Finnish speaking people worldwide, so our language is rather rare. Because of this, mostly all dubbed shows/movies are the ones made for kids. We are surrounded by English from young age on. Even Clash of Clans, a Finnish mobile game, didn't have Finnish language as an option for years.
@Maysti872 жыл бұрын
no one in europe tells their children santa is from north pole thats an american thing. europeans know hes from finland.
@vanyadolly2 жыл бұрын
When did we even decide this? Because historically our "santa" is some kind of goat person. The guy in red/St Nikolaus is a southern tradition.
@House_of_Caine2 жыл бұрын
As for actual friends, they forgot Japan from the video.
@TheNismo7772 жыл бұрын
Dont ya worry neighbour, Russia doesn't wanna mess with more countries. Sure they can threat all the want, but thats everyday stuff. :D
@puhistagram2 жыл бұрын
Thanks Michael for nice video. Swedish was mandatory and is taught in "grundskola" 7-9 grades in my time, but nowadays it is from grade 6 to 9, so there is more swedish now than in 90's. Swedish is our second official language. Sweden influences more to Finland than Finland to Sweden. Your Kings and Queens are a bit ours aswell, we look up to swedish in social skills, marketing, customer relations and pop culture. We are eastern brothers of Nordics and only other we see is Sweden, rest are quite far away. Of course we joke and fight with each others like brothers do, but at the end of the day, we are good together.
@UltraCasualPenguin3 ай бұрын
Oh, you love Saana (fell in Enontekiö)? Do you go there often?
@anget44312 жыл бұрын
The Sweden Finland relationship sounds a lot like the New Zealand Australia relationship 🤣🤣 (I'm a New Zealander)
@oliiisaw2 жыл бұрын
We don't teach swedish because of Sweden. Its a part of the history yes, but it has nothing to do with the Scandinavian countries and communication. (The Finnish land was swedish before becoming Russian, that's why swedish is a part of us) So a long time ago a pig part of Finnish elite, spoke Swedish. I'm a Swedish speaking Finn. (Or I'm bilingual by birth) my mother could only speak swedish when she was young. (Born and raised in Finland) We have two official languages. Finnish and Swedish.
@oliiisaw2 жыл бұрын
@@kalma999 What does being a swedish teacher have to do with Finlands history? No, I'm not a teacher of any kind
@oliiisaw2 жыл бұрын
@@kalma999 what?
@mixxeydixxey4461 Жыл бұрын
As a Finnish teen I can say that the older generation doesn't know much English but the younger does and we still have to learn Swedish
@pallethecop2 жыл бұрын
It still is mandatory. There is even few citys in Finland where the majority of people has swedish as mother tongue. In the city where I live there are more swedish schools than finnish schools for example. There are people that never even learn finnish and live their whole life only speaking swedish in finland.
@Cronin_2 жыл бұрын
As for the last part that's basically me😅 I have tried to learn Finnish but I just can't
@timoterava71082 жыл бұрын
There are no "cities" in Finland with the Swedish-speaking majority - at least not by the official EU or historical/modern British criteria. They are mere towns.
@pallethecop2 жыл бұрын
@@timoterava7108 Parainen is classified as City, even tho it's more like a town. So atleast one "City" that has a majority Swedish speaking.
@timoterava71082 жыл бұрын
@@pallethecop Parainen is not a city but a town - unless you are an American.
@pallethecop2 жыл бұрын
@@timoterava7108 yeah, you are right. City and Town just is called the same in Finland so hence the confusion. Town is the right definision I was after in orginal post. 👍🏻
@annina1342 жыл бұрын
Yes, we have mandatory swedish in finnish schools. I didn't need it because I'm swedish, even if I'm born and raised in Finland. My dad was swedish.
@rez-.-2 жыл бұрын
It is actually mandatory to learn Swedish in Finland.
@SlendisFi_Universe3 ай бұрын
4:30 We still are forced to learn Swedish since it is legally our second official language. Guess how many times I have been needing Swedish here in central Finland? Also. You spoken with old Finns? Or Fenno-swedes? Because I know MANY who speak fluent English. Of course we have the accent. But trust me. Many of us speak English even more fluently than many native English speakers.
@FinDi902 жыл бұрын
Also, Paul got it a little wrong with the war. Thousands of Swedes came to fight with us and we got military equipment from Sweden. You guys were obviously on our side.
@cinderellaandstepsisters2 жыл бұрын
Finns are not drunk ppl Watch the statistics in The video " Country alcohol consumption comparison." In Europe the highest alcohol consumption countries are: The 1st Moldova, the 2 nd Lithuania, the 3rd Chechia and the 4th Germany. Finland is in the middle even under. Forinstance Russia, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, France, Ireland, UK, Estonia, Latvia, Hungary, Luxemburg, Poland, Portugal, Belarus, Cypros, Serbia etc. are ahead of Finland. Finland's alcohol consumption has dropped drasticly down in 10 years.
@Nekoksu2 жыл бұрын
He didn't say anything about the english being good in finland or anything. He just stated that finns can speak english and keep up te conversation. Your random outburst is true, but it didn't have a single point. What were you trying to counter argument?
@squidcaps43082 жыл бұрын
There are other areas that are Finnish-Swedish... Half of my friends speak Swedish and most know enough to not get in trouble. But.. all of my friends are quite fluent in English, but to be fair my friends maybe are not average in that sense. The west coast has Swedish speakers from Turku to Kokkola (Ostrobothnia, in the other side of the ditch is Swedens Västerbotten).
@Mirska_2 жыл бұрын
We still study swedish starting from the 6th grade imo it shouldnt be forced but optional. Most of the young ppl can speak english also Santa originally from tureky, anatolia. But lives in korvatunturi
@artofstormdancing33192 жыл бұрын
Finnish Joulupukki (santa) is not the same as saint nicholas though...
@Mirska_2 жыл бұрын
@@artofstormdancing3319 yes but the consept is the same. I saif it like that to make it mire simple
@anonymous921262 жыл бұрын
I don't know many people that speak Swedish fluently here in Lapland but most people speak pretty good English tbf. Don't know how it is in southern Finland. We rely so much on tourism that if you don't speak good English, it's hard to find work here. Swedish doesn't matter nearly as much, even Russian is considered more useful.
@closetmonster50572 жыл бұрын
Drunk people? Really? And you're a teacher..? Stay classy Sweden
@gashix2 жыл бұрын
+1
@FINNSTIGAT0R2 жыл бұрын
That's kinda a low blow in my opinion too. But gotta get them views somehow I guess 🙄 (I'm saying this as I use the Finnish Countryball with a bottle of booze and a knife as my Avatar) 🤣 But to be serious, this IS kinda the reason why many Finns have the opinion of Swedes being arrogant. An opinion that from what I've learned over the internet is not that uncommon among the Nordics 🤷
@butterflies65511 ай бұрын
Finland's alcohol consumption has gone drastically down in 20 years. Watch the statistics in the video " Country alcohol consumption comparison." In Europe Finland's alcohol consumption is in the middle. In Europe the highest alcohol consumption countries are: The 1st Moldova. The 2nd Lithuania. The 3rd Chechia and the 4th Germany. For instance Russia, Latvia, Estonia, Hungary, Romania, UK, Ireland, Belgium, France, Switzerland Austria, Slovakia, Slovenia, Andorra, Serbia, Poland, Belarus etc. are ahead of Finland.
@gitakumari10982 жыл бұрын
Technically the Scandinavian peninsula only compromises Sweden and Norway. At least geographically.
@butterflies65511 ай бұрын
Partly Finland is located on the Scandinavian peninsula.
@FeltsuOnYT2 жыл бұрын
At the age of 22, what ive seen and heard through my life i would say that we finns speak english better than we do speak swedish. Yes this is only based on the thousands of finnish people ive yet met either irl or online, but i think that the few finns that learned good enough swedish in school to hold conversations were either pressured by their parents to learn it or they had an interest to actually learn the language themselves, which i can say doesnt happen too much. P.S, its the middle aged finns or older that cant speak english that well. Talk to anyone between their 20s-30s and you can have a solid conversation in english 95% of the time. my english is not perfect pls dont hate me for it lol
@markusmalinen2472 жыл бұрын
i had swedish at school and i could talk somehow. now I have already forgotten that here in central Finland it is not necessary to use it. the only thing i remember in swedish is som nästa buss går till Slussen
@jannesuono1452 Жыл бұрын
Mostly Wellcome to Helsinki. I have been working in Stockholm, but hated it, cause I couln`t speak fluent swedish! Götenborg was so different. More friendly. Been travelling a lot. I always call it as capital syndrome! I love people from different backrounds...
@Lvestfold41432 жыл бұрын
The whole Nordic vs Scandinavian debate perplexes me. I totally get why Finland would be excluded, but other exclusionary arguments make no sense. I see it through three possible definitions for "Scandinavian": 1. Geography - the Scandinavian Peninsula, a peninsula on a peninsula that includes two countries Norway and Sweden. 2. Language & Culture - the Scandinavian cultures united in a shared history and linguistic origin that includes Norway, Sweden, Denmark as well as their former and current colonies Iceland and the Faroe Islands with Greenland having a loose connection. 3. Heritage - Those of Norse/Scandinavian heritage which includes Norwegians, Swedes, Danes, Icelanders, Faroe Islanders, as well as those living in England (Danish heritage from previous occupation), and in the Normandy region of France (Norwegian heritage from previous occupation). It's weird to me how Iceland is not included despite their language being directly from the original common language of Scandinavia Old Norse with most indigenous Icelanders being of direct Norwegian heritage. If you do a DNA test there is no distinction between Iceland and Norway. It's all Norwegian. Same with Faroe Islanders who are still under Danish occupation. Culturally speaking Scandinavian should be a term applied to ethnic Norwegians, Danes, Swedes, Icelanders, and Faroe Islanders. Finns are of a separate culture closer to Baltic cultures than to Scandinavians or Russians which would also include the Saami people of Northern Norway. They too are closer to Finns than they are to Scandinavians despite living in a Scandinavian region.
@sugibudder2 жыл бұрын
My experience is that Finns have good english, especially the younger ones. The one exception was a swedish speaking Finn i met in school, he really had trouble with english while his swedish was as good as his finnish, could it maybe be that learning 3 is quite a bit more difficult than learning 2.
@vanyadolly2 жыл бұрын
Usually swedish speakers have an easier time learning english since the languages are closer, but I've run into a few cases like this too.
@sjc912127 күн бұрын
Joulupukki is originally from Korvatunturi, near by Russian border in Savukoski
@Zinetha7 ай бұрын
...we're still forced to study Swedish. Your KZbin username suits you.
@moonliteX2 жыл бұрын
i'd like your take on "finnish nightmares"!
@rustyspace900 Жыл бұрын
Good to hear opinions from the western half of the Finnish Empire :)
@mikakyronlahti7712 жыл бұрын
Santa Claus (Joulupukki) lives in Finland yes. We still say he lives in Korvatunturi (tunturi is a small mountain or something. Not sure how to say it in english) but it is not a good place for tourists to travel, so Santa works in Rovaniemi these days. :)
@timoterava71082 жыл бұрын
Korvatunturi = Ear Fell/Arctic Hill
@nirutivan98112 жыл бұрын
The real Santa Clause (Saint Nicholas of Myrna) is from modern day Turkey. But in Finland there is one place where it is often told that Santa Claus lives. To my knowledge Swedish is still taught in Finnish School (though I‘m not from finland, so I‘m not 100% sure). And I would love to see a reaction to Geography Now Switzerland some day.
@finnxd32702 жыл бұрын
Actually santa Claus and the „Nikolaus“ as we Call it in germany are Different people (I’m not 100% sure but it would make sense since we have different festivities for them)
@nirutivan98112 жыл бұрын
@@finnxd3270 Nowadays they have differences, but Santa Claus, Nikolaus, Samichlaus, Sinterklaas etc. are all based on Saint Nicholas of Myrna. Originally they are all the same, just for some reason the originally american Santa Claus became a part of christmas instead of having his own day on december 6th. I mean it would also be a pretty big and weird coincidence if they had nothing to do with one another. They have almost the same name (all the names translate to something like Saint Nicholas or Saint Claus), are dressed pretty similar, they bring gifts and their celebrations take place in the same month.
@robertbretschneider7652 жыл бұрын
@@nirutivan9811 True that! But was it really Myrna? I remember somethings the lines of Smyrna, but that might be another letter lost in translation.
@nirutivan98112 жыл бұрын
@@robertbretschneider765 I checked again. I couldn‘t find something about Nicholas of Smyrna, but I noticed I made a little mistake: It‘s Nicholas of Myra, not Myrna.
@robertbretschneider7652 жыл бұрын
@@nirutivan9811 Thanks!
@timoterava71082 жыл бұрын
"Finland" (Österland) was an original and integral part of Sweden, right from the beginning. Turku (Åbo) was the 2. largest/important city in Sweden. Without Finland and the Finns there wouldn't have been any Sweden - and definitely not any Swedish "Empire". Many prominent "Swedes" were actually either ethnic Finns or born and raised in Finland. Many ignorant Swedes still make the mistake of believing, that the modern little Sweden is the same as the pre-1809 big Sweden ("Sweden" + "Finland") - and that the history and legacy of that big Sweden belong only for the modern little Swedes.
@markkuhaavisto45382 жыл бұрын
11:24 Its muikku, not miukku!
@ExUSSailor2 жыл бұрын
Well, Finland is about to be the newest member of NATO, so, if Russia is smart, nothing will happen.
@heirapparent48772 жыл бұрын
I totally agree on the finglish. Everybody says: "Oh yeah, us Finns speak better english than most Americans". OH REALLY? Then why won't you watch this 2 minute video that has no subtitles in it...
@romukauppias2 жыл бұрын
Yes Santa Claus is or should I say, was from Finland. Santa lives in the place called Korvatunturi but unfortunately the Soviets took that part of our land in WW2.
@romukauppias2 жыл бұрын
So basically Santa is now Russian xD
@MVaarjes2 жыл бұрын
Great video! I partially agree on the english skills of Finnish people. I recently moved to Finland and most people are rather hesitant to speak English. They do know how to speak, but I think the Finns are affraid to mispronounce the English words, so they rather not speak English.
@juhoholopainen12242 жыл бұрын
Yep. I would say like half of us has some kind of trauma from english classes. When i was in school nothing and i mean nothing was more important than british pronounciation. You would get constantly interrupted and corrected between sentences. Some got over it by not trying to pronounce anything anymore only learning vocab and grammar.
@mursuhillo2422 жыл бұрын
Nu uh, original "Santa" as in "Saint Nicholas" originiates from modern day Turkey.
@DR_REDACTED2 жыл бұрын
14:22 Ey yo i speak fluent english but not a word of Swedish
@heliheikkinen63262 жыл бұрын
There's about a 5% minority of Swedish-speaking Finns. They speak Swedish as their mother tongue. In the Helsinki area you may also bump into people who talk adequate 'school Swedish', but if you travel about 50 km north, you'll be lucky to find any. Despite the fact that we do still have the mandatory (or compulsory, as many Finns like to say) Swedish in our schedule. However, if you happen to meet me when you come to Finland, I'll be really happy to practice my school Swedish with you! :D Although I'm pretty sure, that after 3 minutes you'd rather change into English.
@oenhit75482 жыл бұрын
I don't like how he is acting like "omniscient". We still have a mandatory Swedish. Also Norway couldn't give us a Halti's peak. If you don't know anything about the subject, please refer it as such. That is how Putin started a war... Don't be a "simple".
@jonnakatriina2 жыл бұрын
oh my I love you 🥺 t. Finnish mate how have I not found you before! Hej hur är det?
@jonnakatriina2 жыл бұрын
i really like you! it's strange that something happens in hockey. and brave that Finland won the Olympics and the World Championships👀
@tomofasia2 жыл бұрын
Haha, when it comes to english skills, you’ve just met the wrong people. But our accent is kinda hard to get rid off as finnish is finnougrig language family and totally different from english. Aaaanyways, I would say that most finns speak okayish english but as any language, you will only master it if you actually use it more often.
@Akimakida2 жыл бұрын
in finland we have so much forest that my school has two diferent forests
@markusn.25392 жыл бұрын
Seriously if we think about Åland, it is actually a bit complicated thing. It is well known that people there would rather be part of Sweden than Finland. Finnish people doesn't hate Åland and it is a nice place to visit, but there has been some news or mostly rumours that people in Åland doesn't really care about Finland (or Finnish people). As far as I know you can't even order Finnish news paper in Åland. Sweden and Finland obviously wouldn't go to war against each other but if they did, it is clear which side Åland would support and that's not Finland.
@timoterava71082 жыл бұрын
Would they really? Would they prefer being just an other Swedish province instead of being autonomous? I find that hard to believe. Åland islands have always been part of Finland. The "original" inhabitants of Åland were the Finns, until the Swedish invaders arrived c. 1000 years ago. There are still many place names of Finnish origin.
@Leksuttaja1492 жыл бұрын
@@timoterava7108 its actuallyeven more later. åland started to become swedinzied in the 1200-1300 centuries. During the viking ages it was an important port for the vikings but was actually controlled by finns
@butterflies65511 ай бұрын
Almost everybody can speak english in Finland. They learn it at achool.
@SnowOwl_1232 жыл бұрын
Savonlinnan is a city and Olavinlinna is located in Savonlinna
@y4n7e12 жыл бұрын
I can confirm our english is very bad mostly but theres lot of people that has good english my english is very bad or its good but my finnish accent is kicking in
@flopjul45812 жыл бұрын
11:30 you should come to the Netherlands we have a lot of liquirice too
@MsElias642 жыл бұрын
Kiitos.👍
@sisu-veikkaviljamiviitikko703211 күн бұрын
Swedish is still mandatory subject in schools. It's true used to own us for thousant of years, but be careful as I say we will some day take over Sweden.
@brandoninhofer65922 жыл бұрын
He never mentioned salmiakki alcohol....
@susijosyntyessaan Жыл бұрын
There is a claim that Finnish accent in English is easy to understand world wide. I wish I could give a source but I just can't remember. Although Finnish people ourselves make jokes of our rally Finnish accent.
@JonatanSodergard2 жыл бұрын
Riktigt intressant video, Michael! Tips: Kör en video om Finlandssvenskarna! #MuminSvenska !