Learn Finnish vol. 5 - COUNTRIES (part 1)

[cuckomani]

tervehdys tanskasta!

[blitzmask]

i now 3 days study finnish language i like it need more lesson please

[blitzmask]

how about malaysia?

[inFinnish]

@blitzmask it's Malesia in Finnish

[Ipodmoeilijk]

I'm from Alankomaat.

When you've got a sentence in Finnish, are cities and lands with a capital letter?

[inFinnish]

@Ipodmoeilijk Yes, only proper nouns are, but for example months and weekdays are not, not even holidays like Christmas or nationalities or languages, all start with small letters in middle of the sentence.

[2009veil]

Slovakia sounds the same like in English-no surprise:-)How do u say?:I've been in Slovakia.Kiitos.

[Hyyra]

@2009veil

Olen ollut Slovakiassa

[inFinnish]

@2009veil You say it: "Olen ollut Slovakiassa"

[pan0s95]

hey I'm from Kreikka!! have you ever been in Greece? If not I highly recommend you to visit our country. It's really wonderful. Anyway could you recommend any universities for post-graduate studies?

Kiitos :)

[SrbVampireGirl]

What about Serbia? :D

[eeevex]

@SrbVampireGirl it's just serbia :)

[StolenReflectionf5]

Thanks so much for your videos, thy're pretty helpful. Greetings from Bulgaria btw lol

[satinemariana]

viewer from Croatia :)

[cesarghan]

greetings from Costa Rica!

[jambi880]

I actually live in Wales, which is in Great Britain. Is there a word for Wales in Finnish?

[greeenrain]

@jambi880 I'm afraid there is no.. Also we finns say "Wales" in the same way that you guys or then in finnish way but it's hard to explain how it is.. Well for us english way to pronounce Wales is like "Weills" so we use that or some people might also read it in finnish pronouncing way which is kinda like "Va-les" Lol sry best i can do xD

[lickingknives]

Why does the United States of America have to be so hard! Damn us Americans....Anyways, thanks soooo much for posting all of these videos! I absolutely adore the Finnish language...And your voice is so pretty! :D

[TheMcilwee]

España and espanja sound exactly the same :o

[imosquitoez]

Thaimaa

[SorrowenaBlutenstein]

-Thaimaa!!!!

[WWEsuporterZ]

Wahooo I live in Alankomaat :]

[Hannaxolsen1337]

Thank you so much :D I have in long time wanted to learn Finnish ^^ How do you say Faroe Islands on Finnish ?

[drinndrann]

@Hannaxolsen1337 Färsaaret

[nayellita1]

and... México???

[Reptart27]

;o;

you're so cute when you talk!

*hugs you like a creeper*

hehe C:

[lgblgblgblgb]

No Unkari?!?! :)

[inFinnish]

@lgblgblgblgb You can find Unkari in the second part at 0:39. Thanks for your messages and comments, i'll get back to them later. I've been in Budapest, i liked it there a lot, such a beautiful city! I also went to the Formula 1 place. Mika Häkkinen was driving back then and he finished 6th that time, i still remember. ;-)

[ChantelloTheWolfFan]

I don't get it =S

[inFinnish]

@ChantelloTheWolfFan You don't get what...?

[ChantelloTheWolfFan]

Why would you want to change the way you say countries and change the spellings ??

[inFinnish]

@ChantelloTheWolfFan Hmm, do you mean Suomi -> Suomessa? And Venäjä -> Venäjällä... Or what?

[ChantelloTheWolfFan]

Everything, you just talking into a different language or something , or making things up ?

[ChantelloTheWolfFan]

I don't get it =S

[liteal]

also I very like yours "R" sound in finnish :)

[liteal]

@liteal *your

[liteal]

"Alanko" is mean "lowland" and "maa" is "country" :) Is so interesting..."Alankomaat"

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Minä asun Venäjälla.

Sinä asut Suomella.

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hi-hi. I wrote this without a dictionary. Thank you maestro :)

[inFinnish]

@liteal Correction:

Minä asun Venäjällä.

Sinä asut Suomessa.

Yeah it's true, Finnish R is verrrry strrrrong... :)

[liteal]

@inFinnish

Yes, 10x )

Venäjälla it was misprint. (I am not accustomed to use "ä" "ö" :))

and Suomella was error, yes :)

thanks alot :)

..I'm going to read a textbook.

[lgblgblgblgb]

@inFinnish Hmm, as far as I know "Venäjällä" is the only case when talking about a country to (for example) live "in" and using the -lla/-llä case (literally: "on"), all of the other countries need -ssa/-ssä (accordint the vowel harmony, literally: "in"). Is this correct? Or any other country? However about cities/villages the situation is much harder, and someone must learn these one by one. Interesting: Hungarian has the very same issue with the very same noun cases :D

[inFinnish]

@lgblgblgblgb Well, there are few others like Norsunluurannikko -> Norsunluurannikolla, Kypros -> Kyproksella, Malediivit -> Malediiveilla, Filippiinit -> Filippiineillä etc., but not many, all the others end with ssa/ssä.

[brunnaplacido]

"Yhdys/Yhdis" means united? Because this word is present in United States of America and United Kingdom. Better: what literally means "Yhdysvallat" and "Yhdistynut Kuningaskunta"?

And in venäjä, why the first ä is sounding more like "e" than "ae" (as in äiti)? ä will only sound as "ae" at the begining and at the end of a word?

So sad, my country wasn't there... I'm from Brazil, "Brasilia", which is funny because Brasilia is the capital of Brazil. :D

[inFinnish]

@brunnaplacido Thanks a lot for all your comments and questions!

"Yhdys" and "Yhdistynyt" literally means United, you are right on that. Both Ä's in the word "Venäjä" should sound the same. Finnish is a very solid language and the pronunciation never really changes, so if it's Ä or Ö or whichever letter it should always sound the same. :)

This was part 1, so im sure Brazil will be in the next one. ;-)