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Title: What do You mean, Finnish is difficult??
Post by: Oma Aika on November 17, 2013, 08:24:22 AM

Some people say that Finnish is difficult to learn. No, it can't be because even 2 years old children can speak Finnish fluently... but translators like Google or Bing can't - any Google/Bing -translated text to Finnish is very hard to understand... I wonder why?  :D

http://www.vanhamoto.net/2013/11/off-topic-what-do-you-mean-finnish-is.html (http://www.vanhamoto.net/2013/11/off-topic-what-do-you-mean-finnish-is.html)  <-- do not try to translate this blog post...

Title: Re: What do You mean, Finnish is difficult??
Post by: johnny on November 17, 2013, 08:32:45 AM

 :yow

yawl...

 :yow

j o

Title: Re: What do You mean, Finnish is difficult??
Post by: Grim on November 17, 2013, 09:36:19 AM

I learned all my Swedish from the Swedish Chef.

the muppet show - the best of swedish chef (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OfsABOGw3c#)

Title: Re: What do You mean, Finnish is difficult??
Post by: bocutter Ed on November 17, 2013, 11:58:57 AM

I would hope there's not a Finnish Yoda ...

Title: Re: What do You mean, Finnish is difficult??
Post by: Mongrel on November 20, 2013, 06:55:23 PM

Jeez, are you guys Finnished yet?

Title: Re: What do You mean, Finnish is difficult??
Post by: Oma Aika on November 21, 2013, 12:20:08 AM

Well, not yet - all the plural forms were still missing... so there would be twice that many words! :D

Title: Re: What do You mean, Finnish is difficult??
Post by: Oma Aika on November 29, 2013, 12:38:51 PM

I added on that page a new pic showing the easiness of Finnish. As we don't have prepositions like English, we have postpositions at the end of the words, so the result could be eaysy like this:

And here is another - tässäpä toinen vielä:

The spruce is on fire = Kuusi palaa.
The spruce returns = Kuusi palaa.
The number six is on fire = Kuusi palaa
The number six returns = Kuusi palaa
Six of them are on fire = Kuusi palaa.
Six of them return = Kuusi palaa.
Your moon is on fire = Kuusi palaa.
Your moon returns. = Kuusi palaa.
Six pieces = Kuusi palaa.

http://www.vanhamoto.net/2013/11/off-topic-what-do-you-mean-finnish-is.html (http://www.vanhamoto.net/2013/11/off-topic-what-do-you-mean-finnish-is.html)

Title: Re: What do You mean, Finnish is difficult??
Post by: robleyd on November 29, 2013, 10:26:26 PM

So, Finnish is really just two words that convey the meaning and a lot of other words just to fill the page  :giggles

Title: Re: What do You mean, Finnish is difficult??
Post by: Oma Aika on December 01, 2013, 10:56:16 AM

Well, maybe two isn't enough... here are some other words:

Funny sentences in Finnish
Kärpänen toiselle: “Tuu kattoon kattoon, kun kaveri tapettiin tapettiin.”
(a fly to another: “Come to the seiling and see, our frend has been killed on the wallpaper”)

"Kas vain!", sanoi kasvain ja kasvoi vain sillä vain kasvain voi kasvaa noin vain.
(“Oh my!”, said a tumor and grew because only a tumor can grow just like that.)

"Älä rääkkää kääkkää!" "En rääkkääkkään!"
(“Don’t torture the old man!” “I’m not torturing him!”)

 Kokko! Kokoa koko kokko!
- Koko kokkoko?
- Koko kokko
(Kokko! Pile up the whole bonfire!
- The whole bonfire?
- Whole bonfire.)

Hae lakkaa satamasta, kun lakkaa satamasta.
(Get varnish from the harbor when it stops raining)

Kai kissa kaikissa joissa, joissa se koittaa onkia, se koittaa sekoittaa onkia.
(Probably the cat tries to mix up fish poles in every river it tries to fish in)

Mun mummoni muni mun mammani, mun mammani muni mun.
(My grandma laid an egg - my mum. My mum laid an egg - me.)

Keksijä keksi keksin, keksin keksittyään keksijä keksi keksin keksityksi keksinnöksi.
(Inventor invented a cookie. When he had invented a cookie inventor invented a cookie to be invented)

Vihdoin vihdoin vihdoin.
(I finally whipped myself with vihtas - boughs of silver birch)

Etsivät etsivät etsivät etsivät etsivät.
(Searching detectives searched searching detectives)