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(Trying to) Learn Finnish with Sulkasiipi, Part 2

Topic Categories: Helsinki, Finland • Streaming videos
Posted on: November 17, 2008 10:59 AM, by "GrrlScientist"

tags: Suomi, Helsinki, Finland, travel, language, streaming video

This charming little video attempts to teach me a few simple phrases in Finnish, so I thought you'd also enjoy it [1:27].

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Argh. They are blithely ignoring a crucial point of grammar in the phrase "I live in ..."; in the Finnish language the role of the preposition "in" is taken by a suffix "-ssa"/"-ssä". Thus: "I live in Syracusa" -- "Minä asun Syracusassa"

Every time there is a preposition in an English phrase (and quite often when there isn't), there will be a suffix in the Finnish equivalent.

Posted by: Jusu | November 17, 2008 12:16 PM

Your notorious Scibling PZ Myers has already provided a Finnish video covering 90% of routine conversational matter.

Posted by: Pierce R. Butler | November 17, 2008 12:36 PM

weird! why would he do that? is PZ traveling to finland, too?

Posted by: "GrrlScientist" | November 17, 2008 12:57 PM

is PZ traveling to finland, too?

Nah, the winters are too warm for his taste.

Besides, that disrespectful headline would make it even hotter for him there...

Posted by: Pierce R. Butler | November 17, 2008 11:20 PM

Not really, Pierce. They'd just stare at him, look miserable, and sing about it later.

Posted by: Bob O'H | November 18, 2008 12:25 AM