“It’s pretty funny how we have so many ways of greeting each other and saying goodbye EVEN THOUGH WE DONT WANT TO TALK TO STRANGERS.” Sounds like the perfect place for me. Polite but don’t really care.
I found myself laughing at how straightforward and unapologetic Finnish language/culture appears to be. A breath of fresh air! (I’m from Russia, living in America for 7 years with small talks/fake smiles being almost an everyday thing here)
I was soooo happy when I first heard how Turkish is quite similar to Finnish, my dream country to live. I decided to give it a try today, love from Turkey :).
I find Finnish a lot easier to understand than French. I think there's this myth that it's so damn hard, and it keeps people from trying! It's not. It's just different than the Romance family of languages. What makes Finnish easy for me is because the sound of the language is so staccato and consistent in pronunciation, that you can actually hear each word being spoken at you CLEARLY. French on the other hand just gets mushed together and I just can NOT hear what people are saying, even though I can read it. And I have no idea how to change that without being able to live there. SO frustrating.
@@K-TheLetter yes, as a Finn from Satakunta I feel all other speaking strange Finnish if not using almost official Finnish. Especially Savolax dialect (savon murre) Is difficult to understand.
A language with no "please" and no small talk and no one saying "sorry" - love it! Sounds like Finns would be difficult to offend! Also you are so cool in this video , love the subtle humor.
About Finnish - Hard: the agglutination, ending up with very long words. Easy: you say what’s written, the rules are clear, and it’s pronounced in staccato, the syllables are easy to discern. I’d love to learn a non-romance language (I speak Spanish, English, some Italian, and a little French), but there aren’t many Soumese people in my neck of the woods...
American here fluent in US English and Mexican Spanish. I learned from several Finns that many American English speakers struggle with pronunciation. However, I discovered that if I speak with the accent I use to pronounce Spanish, they come out close to fluent because of the rolling R and emphasized vowels. Not certain if this trick applies to other accents like Italian though. For complicated words, stick to pronouncing them exactly how they're written. If there are double letters just say that letter for a bit longer. For example, "Ravintola" (Restaurant) is kinda said RA-veen-tohl-ah and "Ravintolaan" (To the restaurant) sounds like RA-veen-tohl-aaahn. You can do the same for non-vowel letters like "kk" when she says "Moikka". Also, "Yks kalja" is a good example of pronouncing tricky letters that sound different in English to me like Y = U and J = Y
I'm a Finnish-American who grew up in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Most of my town is Finnish. My dad and my uncles would speak Finnish with grandpa when they didn't want us kids to understand. Which was most of the time. Even though I've never been to Finland, I also have many of the cultural characteristics of Finns, which I learned from my family and neighbors. It's subtle. Throughout the video I kept saying "Oh yah, me too."
Finnish written looks like they were obsessed with vowels and accents over them aännd thëy deccidëd thaat it wäs goiing too be theeiiir wääy of communicäationn.
I'm Finnish on my dad's side of the family (my great grandparents were from Finland then moved to Canada), but I don't know the language very well - just a few phrases that you might pick up in a tourist phrasebook. That said, I have a distant Finnish cousin who I'm in contact with and I have a standing invitation to come visit, which I hope to do some day. So I'm beginning to make an attempt to be able to at least struggle through a full conversation in Finnish.
As a German it's really cool to learn about that, since our language is, for whatever nonsense reason, widely considered as harsh sounding, but we have like tons of ways to say please, sorry, etc. Also we do not quickly open ourselves uo to strangers but then again, we're very warmhearted and talkative, as we go. Finnland (German way of writing it) is not quite our neighbour but is also not too far away from us....yet completely different when it comes to the people, as it seems. My Hyundai was a reimported car from Finnland and the whole manual book was in Suomi. I tried to read a single sentence and thought.....PEEEEEERKELE!
Excellent, thank you! You Suomi are among my very favourite people in this world. There is so much about the people, the culture, and the language that is truly fascinating. I've travelled a lot and lived in many places (mostly in Europe), and I can't think of a single culture I've encountered whose people are more practical and straightforward than the Suomi. Now, see what you've done? You've made me miss Finnland very much. Note to self: Book that trip to Kontiolahti soon. Cheers!
For me finnish is such an beautiful and mysterious language at the same time I like hearing it! I wish I could learn it, but only learning from the internet is quite complicated for me! I love Finland.
I've loved Finland since I was 12! My favorite band is from Helsinki, so I started learning the language. My favorite part of the language is how you pronounce double consonants with a slight pause (I don't know a better word for it), like matematicca, it's a glottal stop at the CC. I've visited 3 times and I will be coming again soon!
I don't know the Finnish language, but whenever I hear someone speaking Finnish it makes me think that it is the music of fairies. It's so beautiful sounding.
Actually as a man I love this aspect and feel sorry for not knowing that before I got married. What needs to be scratched gets scratched and we do not have to make our lives too complicated. At least for some period of life this seems like a perfect approach to life. You can keep "i love yous" for the one you settle down with.
I heard that Finns practice naturally 'social distancing', part of culture. Someone said also that they have the word for 'wondrous' - ihmeellinen - and if you drop some letters, you get the word for a 'human being' -'ihminen'. Sounds like something useful, how to perceive each other. Peace.
you are not correct, it is the other way round, Japanese sounds like Finnish in reverse ... for sure ... The Japanese have even chosen to have the color of their hair in reverse to the Suomesians ... It is Japanese that twist everything, me think ...
I spent 3 months on student exchange on Oulu many many years back - spent *all* my spare time at the laskuverjokerho at the edge of the airport. Many adventures. Also jumped at Rovaniemi and Helsinki. I remember buying makara perunat - close to British food. Hyvaa Paiva ! Huomenta Huomenta ! Kiitos paljon. Finnish - Suomilaienn is a great mental workout - after that other languages are less intimidating. Wish I could have stayed....
Actually we do have a ‘please’ in finnish, and it’s the same word as ‘thank you’. So you can say ‘kiitos’ when ordering or receiving something, which most people do in Finland.
There's no she or he either and that has never been a problem. ;) "Please" depending on the context could be replaced "olisitko ystävällinen" (would you be kind) or "kiitos" (thank you) is often used when you have example finished saying your order.
@@tissot233 I know. It's amazing how different languages are. My first language is Spanish and for me the word please is essential, but of course I understand that in other languages things are different :)
Hungarian and Finnish definitely have a similar sound to them, despite being so distantly related, as opposed to many Uralic languages spoken in Russia which you could easily mistake for being Slavic based on the way they sound.
How are you supposed to meet new people or make friends in Finland when it's considered impolite to talk to strangers? Not just as a foreigner, but how does that even work when you're a native?
I never felt in place at school. Now that I’m learning the language it’s just like me. My great great grandfather fled from Finland from Russia and married his wife who grew up eight miles from him. Their last name was Asphores but changed it to Alexander because America. I am learning the language and think it is easy to learn for me. Duolingo has a lot of compliments and I didn’t think they were necessary. For example: Terve ja tervetuola.
Kiitos, olen muutin Suomen yksi vuosi sitten, ja vielä oppi Suomi kieli, se ei ole oikeasti helppo kieli. Mutta voi sano Suomi kieli on tossi logiikka!!
Will be going to Finland in a couple of months to attend a wedding so Im trying to pick up some phrases that could be good conversation starters at the reception. :p
Spelling in Finnish isn't that hard. Almost every single word is spelled just like they're pronounced (few exceptions of course). It just that the grammar is from an another dimension and really hard to learn.
speed ×2 and you can learn finnish in 2 minutes
x4 = 1minute
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😂😂💀
yeah that's how it works
x1000 = a quarter second
What I learned is you can learn Finnish in 4 minutes because people don't want to talk to each other that much
Lol I heard that is really hard to make friends in Scandinavian countries,just hi and bye 🤣🤣🤣🤣
No smalltalk?
Sounds like heaven.
You'll want to watch the whole video from start to Finnish
😂😂
I've watched it over and over for some reason 😭 I'm not related to this language at all lol
0:49 "Learn Finnish...so you can talk to yourself"
Lol
"We're bad at small talk."
Maybe I'll move there.
"If you just order a beer, you get a beer."
Okay, I'm moving there.
As a german, this really made me want to visit Finland😂
I'm supossed to do my homework how did I end up to learn a language I'm not even related to
I relate to this strongly.
“It’s pretty funny how we have so many ways of greeting each other and saying goodbye EVEN THOUGH WE DONT WANT TO TALK TO STRANGERS.” Sounds like the perfect place for me. Polite but don’t really care.
I found myself laughing at how straightforward and unapologetic Finnish language/culture appears to be. A breath of fresh air! (I’m from Russia, living in America for 7 years with small talks/fake smiles being almost an everyday thing here)
Тогда почему ты там все-еще живешь?
I was soooo happy when I first heard how Turkish is quite similar to Finnish, my dream country to live. I decided to give it a try today, love from Turkey :).
@iikisu Wish I can say the same about here one day.
Thank you so much we are going to Finland in Januray and I can't wait to show everyone how I learnt Finnish in 4 minutes!!!! Hyva!
I find Finnish a lot easier to understand than French. I think there's this myth that it's so damn hard, and it keeps people from trying! It's not. It's just different than the Romance family of languages. What makes Finnish easy for me is because the sound of the language is so staccato and consistent in pronunciation, that you can actually hear each word being spoken at you CLEARLY. French on the other hand just gets mushed together and I just can NOT hear what people are saying, even though I can read it. And I have no idea how to change that without being able to live there. SO frustrating.
wait until you realize there are dialects
@@K-TheLetter yes, as a Finn from Satakunta I feel all other speaking strange Finnish if not using almost official Finnish. Especially Savolax dialect (savon murre) Is difficult to understand.
I'm from Finland! 🇫🇮
Who else?
👇🏻
Mä on suomesta
I'm from Algeria
@@iloveluru5971 sama
kosigin
suami and somalia ?
A language with no "please" and no small talk and no one saying "sorry" - love it! Sounds like Finns would be difficult to offend! Also you are so cool in this video , love the subtle humor.
There are other ways to indicate politeness such as the use of conditional and -han/hän suffix.
Although when you're ordering something there's no need to use either of them.
"If you order a beer, you will get a beer." Ah, good to know.
Hi
When u realize the "learn Finnish in 4 minutes" video was only part 1 of 4 683 000
LukesteR 🤣🤣🤣
Good one🤣
Eihän täällä ole muita kun suomalaisia!
"You don't say these things in Finnish."
Ah, Finnish is now my favorite language.
Damn! She's got a great sense of humor
@卄ㄚㄒ丂ㄚ Not all finns people, but most of them have a very good hearts❤ And they are very respectful people. i like that
About Finnish - Hard: the agglutination, ending up with very long words. Easy: you say what’s written, the rules are clear, and it’s pronounced in staccato, the syllables are easy to discern. I’d love to learn a non-romance language (I speak Spanish, English, some Italian, and a little French), but there aren’t many Soumese people in my neck of the woods...
English, a romance language?! Sorry, but no. It is a germanic language with a lot of latin vocabulary, which mostly came via French.
American here fluent in US English and Mexican Spanish.
I learned from several Finns that many American English speakers struggle with pronunciation. However, I discovered that if I speak with the accent I use to pronounce Spanish, they come out close to fluent because of the rolling R and emphasized vowels. Not certain if this trick applies to other accents like Italian though.
For complicated words, stick to pronouncing them exactly how they're written. If there are double letters just say that letter for a bit longer. For example, "Ravintola" (Restaurant) is kinda said RA-veen-tohl-ah and "Ravintolaan" (To the restaurant) sounds like RA-veen-tohl-aaahn. You can do the same for non-vowel letters like "kk" when she says "Moikka".
Also, "Yks kalja" is a good example of pronouncing tricky letters that sound different in English to me like Y = U and J = Y
I'm a Finnish-American who grew up in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Most of my town is Finnish. My dad and my uncles would speak Finnish with grandpa when they didn't want us kids to understand. Which was most of the time. Even though I've never been to Finland, I also have many of the cultural characteristics of Finns, which I learned from my family and neighbors. It's subtle. Throughout the video I kept saying "Oh yah, me too."
My Dad grew up in Toivola, Mi. I wish I had learned to speak Finnish.
You're still responding to your 3yr old video. That's so sweet 😊
Her English has a charming Irish twang to it
Bit of Scottish as well
@@samnrob1 yeah, these Polish notes always sound nice.
You mean the "aarrr", ya?
It actually sounds pretty Canadian
How many finnish people actually watched this lmao--
Mä
@@kissatytto0107 Mä = English: baa
For a native spanish speaker finnish pronunciation is very easy
Finnish written looks like they were obsessed with vowels and accents over them aännd thëy deccidëd thaat it wäs goiing too be theeiiir wääy of communicäationn.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
It's funny because it's soöoooö truuueee 😂
LoL 😂😂
😂😂😂😂
I'm Finnish on my dad's side of the family (my great grandparents were from Finland then moved to Canada), but I don't know the language very well - just a few phrases that you might pick up in a tourist phrasebook.
That said, I have a distant Finnish cousin who I'm in contact with and I have a standing invitation to come visit, which I hope to do some day. So I'm beginning to make an attempt to be able to at least struggle through a full conversation in Finnish.
that’s cool
Onko täällä suomalaisii!
Kielo on
You can also use very well known finnish phrase ”Kahvi mustana ja Suomi valkoisena” which means one black coffee thanks.
STRANGE THEY SAY ( KAHVI ) FOR COFFEE..
IN TURKISH 🇹🇷 IT IS (KAHVE...)
IN ARABIC IT IS (KAHWA قهوة)
As a German it's really cool to learn about that, since our language is, for whatever nonsense reason, widely considered as harsh sounding, but we have like tons of ways to say please, sorry, etc.
Also we do not quickly open ourselves uo to strangers but then again, we're very warmhearted and talkative, as we go.
Finnland (German way of writing it) is not quite our neighbour but is also not too far away from us....yet completely different when it comes to the people, as it seems.
My Hyundai was a reimported car from Finnland and the whole manual book was in Suomi. I tried to read a single sentence and thought.....PEEEEEERKELE!
Excellent, thank you! You Suomi are among my very favourite people in this world. There is so much about the people, the culture, and the language that is truly fascinating. I've travelled a lot and lived in many places (mostly in Europe), and I can't think of a single culture I've encountered whose people are more practical and straightforward than the Suomi. Now, see what you've done? You've made me miss Finnland very much. Note to self: Book that trip to Kontiolahti soon. Cheers!
*When you see the Russian tanks over the horizon*
*PERKELE*
Tai EI VITTUJEN KEVÄT
Laitakaa paljon likejä niin eri maalaiset luulee mun sanoneen jotain hauskaa.
1000iq
− ∞ iq
As an English speaker some annunciations of Finnish words sound Japanese.
please HEEEEEEEEELP i need to turn into a hyper polyglot gigachad and i need to learn this language
Chad to gigachad transformation
Literally the reason I’m here
For me finnish is such an beautiful and mysterious language at the same time
I like hearing it! I wish I could learn it, but only learning from the internet is quite complicated for me!
I love Finland.
I love Finland too
I got excited when I learned there was no grammatical gender in Finnish. But when I learned about the case endings, I died
Finland is easy af! Olen suomalainen, joten tää on helppo homma :)) Btw, finnish guys are into free buckets xD
@@nellaemilia_ sorry but what do you mean with a „free bucket“?
@@darkfrozenwinterstar3639 just google ”Free buckets” u see then XD
@@darkfrozenwinterstar3639 Thousands of people queue for hours for… free buckets
Great lesson. Your accent is nice and clear, sounds as if you learned English in Ireland.
Osaan Suomea tosi hyvin ja läpäsin koko Suomi duolingon kiitos kun teit tän videon arvostan työtäs.
I'm from Brazil, have no idea how I ended up here but now I wanna learn Finnish
Hahah glad to hear it!
😂
I am here because of Sana Marin
Finnish sounds like japanese. I'm shocked. It's beautiful to hear.
Finnish sounds like Korean also 🤣🤣, but they are same family language with Hungarian, because they are both Finno Ugric
I've loved Finland since I was 12! My favorite band is from Helsinki, so I started learning the language. My favorite part of the language is how you pronounce double consonants with a slight pause (I don't know a better word for it), like matematicca, it's a glottal stop at the CC.
I've visited 3 times and I will be coming again soon!
COBHC!
What band
Your sense of humour is adorable. I’m an old man, so I can say that. LoL Thanks, I started learning Finnish today with this video. Kiitos!
Want to learn finnish in 2 seconds?
Perkele
That's the whole language.
What does it mean ?/
Oh c'mon it gets more filthy than that! ( meant with love)
I don't know the Finnish language, but whenever I hear someone speaking Finnish it makes me think that it is the music of fairies. It's so beautiful sounding.
« Your place or mine? » is accepted while « I love you » and « you’re pretty » is too intimate wow I definitely don’t understand this culture
Actually as a man I love this aspect and feel sorry for not knowing that before I got married.
What needs to be scratched gets scratched and we do not have to make our lives too complicated. At least for some period of life this seems like a perfect approach to life. You can keep "i love yous" for the one you settle down with.
YES, IT IS REALLY STRANGE !!!!
I'm Finnish and Mexican. I'm finding from watching this video. I can say Finnish words so comfortably. Spanish words are hard for me
To add I grew up in the USA and only speak english
I also am not good at small talk😂
Suomi on paras maa elää
Kaikki tykkää tästä ketä on suomesta 🇫🇮🇫🇮
👇
Suomi perkele
PERKELE SAUNAAN SIITÄ
Mä
Jepp !!!
Minä
I need more of these! Great channel! Toivottavasti sinulla on hyvä päivä tänään
🤗
I heard that Finns practice naturally 'social distancing', part of culture. Someone said also that they have the word for 'wondrous' - ihmeellinen - and if you drop some letters, you get the word for a 'human being' -'ihminen'. Sounds like something useful, how to perceive each other. Peace.
Finnish sounds like reverse Japanese lol
Hahaaa I'm glad someone else thinks this way! (I really love Japanese but find Finnish still more beautiful to the ear!)
you are not correct, it is the other way round, Japanese sounds like Finnish in reverse ... for sure ... The Japanese have even chosen to have the color of their hair in reverse to the Suomesians ... It is Japanese that twist everything, me think ...
Unless you speak Hungarian, Finnish is probably one of the hardest languages to learn
Btw, Im finnish and I dont think its so hard to learn.
Heippa kaverit.
Goodbye friends.
@@BenDover-kv1oi of course it isn't hard for finns. Finnish is one of the hardest languages in the world. This is offical.
This is perfect..I have a cousin from Finland and whenever they are having vacation here in the Philippines I always heard the word kiitos to them
I spent 3 months on student exchange on Oulu many many years back - spent *all* my spare time at the laskuverjokerho at the edge of the airport. Many adventures. Also jumped at Rovaniemi and Helsinki. I remember buying makara perunat - close to British food. Hyvaa Paiva ! Huomenta Huomenta ! Kiitos paljon. Finnish - Suomilaienn is a great mental workout - after that other languages are less intimidating. Wish I could have stayed....
Actually we do have a ‘please’ in finnish, and it’s the same word as ‘thank you’. So you can say ‘kiitos’ when ordering or receiving something, which most people do in Finland.
A beer thank you
You don't have "please"!? OMG, I don't know if I can live without it :o
There's no she or he either and that has never been a problem. ;) "Please" depending on the context could be replaced "olisitko ystävällinen" (would you be kind) or "kiitos" (thank you) is often used when you have example finished saying your order.
@@tissot233 I know. It's amazing how different languages are. My first language is Spanish and for me the word please is essential, but of course I understand that in other languages things are different :)
i cant live with it lol
"We're really bad at small talk." Introvert heaven, I'm moving now!
as someone with commitment issues i feel like Finland is a wonderful country to live in
Ihana...my daughter gets that a lot ..ihana..😊
We are Kenyans living in Finland.
Miks mä katon tätä.
😂
As a hungarian speaking person I find these words reltively easy to pronounce
Hungarian and Finnish definitely have a similar sound to them, despite being so distantly related, as opposed to many Uralic languages spoken in Russia which you could easily mistake for being Slavic based on the way they sound.
Me- "Hei! Meille vai teille?"
Finnish girl- "Fuck Off!!!!!"
I have no use for it, and I will probably never use it. But Finnish sounds funny as a Spanish speaker and I kinda want to learn the language now 😂
Ketä suomalaisii tääl? I'm from finland
Maisa Stenberg mää oon
Mää tietty XD
Minääääääää. Mee to
Maisa Stenberg mä
Mie!:3
1:58
Canadians: *heavy breathing*
Lmao yes
thank you for the lesson i appreciate ❤️
That's a pretty strong Irish accent..
How are you supposed to meet new people or make friends in Finland when it's considered impolite to talk to strangers? Not just as a foreigner, but how does that even work when you're a native?
It doesn't work.
alcohol.
@@azulazi4316 So everyone in Finland is just stuck up and need to get drunk to pull the sticks out of their asses?
@@taitjones6310 ahahahaha i agree too, that's mess up but it's their culture, if I would go to Finland I would talk to strangers no matter what
It's not impolite, it's just not a commln habit to do, we like our personal space. It's still okay to come talk to us haha
Terve! Wow I like this. Was my first time to watch your video, particularly this one. I liked it! Kiitoksia
I never felt in place at school. Now that I’m learning the language it’s just like me. My great great grandfather fled from Finland from Russia and married his wife who grew up eight miles from him. Their last name was Asphores but changed it to Alexander because America. I am learning the language and think it is easy to learn for me. Duolingo has a lot of compliments and I didn’t think they were necessary. For example: Terve ja tervetuola.
Ketä suomalaisii tääl on ??
Kuka tuli ettii suomalaisii kommenttei😂😂
Minä
Sama
Minää
Mää ja joo oon myöhäs mut🤷🏻♀️
step 1. be finnish
I am finnish 🤣
@@Oktytto perkele ku ei voi mennä torille
Hei!
Your accent sounds very similar to some Irish pronuncations of English words. It's really cool!
Kuka muu tuli tänne koska osaat suomea? 😎
Edit: Omg kiitos laikkeist!!! (Likes)
Mää
En ainakaan mä....😂
MinÄ
Mä
Miks muuten tulisin😁
I from Finland
On the other hand, if the Finnish words are difficult to pronounce, you can always speak English to us. Not a big deal.
My native is Turkish and the pronunciations are so easy to me =] very similar to Turkish pronunciation,
This is great. I watched it for four minutes, and i speak Finnish fluently now.
Umm... No you don't
I speak finnish fluently cuz I live in finland
@@shilohmorap3548 Prove that you live in Finland...i'm guessing you live in Brooklyn, NY.
Put this video on 2x speed so u learn it in 2 mins
What a pretty logic!
Oh yeah this is big brain time
Finland 👌🏻🇫🇮
Thank you for helping me with my Finnish presentation
thanx i finished watching the video, now i can speak finnish
Ole hyvä
@@finntasticbeast sina olet hauska
@@finntasticbeast Hi
One cannot be a master of the Finnish language without knowing the proper use of "Perkele".
DEVIL ??
Yo i just learned Finnish in 5 minutes.
Now I feel like i have the energy to learn all world's languages today 😃
Kiitos, olen muutin Suomen yksi vuosi sitten, ja vielä oppi Suomi kieli, se ei ole oikeasti helppo kieli. Mutta voi sano Suomi kieli on tossi logiikka!!
02:36 "What did I just say?"
Even she struggles as a native so I consider myself very successful.
"Kaputsiino" "Lattttte".. I am italian and this blew my head up 🤣
Hahahaha sorryyy 😂😂😂
@@finntasticbeast no sorry!! It's so funny and you finns are very nice people 😊
WRONG IT IS LATTTTTTE WITH 6 Ts NOT 5 😇😂
PERKELE
What that mean?
Will be going to Finland in a couple of months to attend a wedding so Im trying to pick up some phrases that could be good conversation starters at the reception. :p
We were in Pori 26 cousins met us. i heard Ihana a lot.. You explained the mystery. Kiitos!
0:08
Finnish peoples: We got hard language
Poles: hold my Konstantynopolitańczykowianeczka
Spelling in Finnish isn't that hard. Almost every single word is spelled just like they're pronounced (few exceptions of course). It just that the grammar is from an another dimension and really hard to learn.
you only need to say PERKELE
Miks
Jerppaplays and "nonii"
So I'm trying to learn a language spoken by people that don't want to talk to me?
Yes but it’s useful for your inner monologue
@@finntasticbeast That's awesome. :D
Alussa voikin tuntua , että Suomen kieli on yksi helpoimmista , mutta sitte kun alkaa opettelemaan lauseita niin sitten voi olla vaikeeta.
I need to learn Finnish and I really hope to bisit your lovely Finland 🇫🇮 it's my dream
Same here
Finland is in my top 5 favourite countries
Sounds like a country I would like to visit perfect for an introvert lol
Have you lived or gone to university in Ireland? Your accent in English sounds of it, it's really lovely.
My dad used to speak finish but he forgot. I always wished he could remember when I was a kid I wanted to learn.