This is so very true. I’m fairly fluent in Finnish but it took years to become conversationally competent. However even being willing to learn the basics of ‘hello’ ‘thanks’, and ‘’bye’ earns a very positive response.
I have a Russian friend who is a professional tour guide who speaks several languages fluently. When he leads Finnish groups he does the tours in English on the grounds no one can speak Finnish
Finnish is no linguistic piece of cake either. It is said that, if you ask a Finn to teach you his language, you will have a friend for life - because that’s how long it will take you to learn it.
Hilarious and painful. Genuinely funny, but also absolutely true about the English Language. I always tell anyone who complains about another language, "The majority of other languages are a bunch of established rules with a few circumstantial exceptions. English is a majority of incoherent exceptions that might associate with an odd guideline."
In the English language, one does not need to know whether a piece of wood is he or she. So it's easier than many other languages. Not in Finnish either, thank goodness. On the contrary, the difference between he and she doesn't exist, sometimes a person is even referred to as "it".
Try a language where the words change based on preceding and proceeding words. And French. I mean, I love French, but the language doesn’t follow its rules at all!
Tuve la oportunidad de enseñar español a unas personas de Bélgica y me impresionó que hablaran inglés, francés, italiano y flamenco (flemish) y me decían que mucha gente en Europa habla entre tres y cuatro idiomas. Le deseo mucho éxito Ismo.
Amazing, and pure joy to watch. Even the 'hesitations' are timed to perfection. ISMO is a breath of fresh air with intelligent, well-observed, superbly delivered humour.
It's amusing how easily you can distinguish between Finns, Swedes and Norwegians speaking English. The accent just doesn't want to go away, of course depending on when you first started learning and how much effort you put into it.
True! Whenever I hear a Swede speak English it's an instant recognition! Though Ismo has also said in his book that he prefers to even emphasize the accent a little bit. Makes him more memorable.
@@juhokilttipoika I'm quite sure that Ismo speaks now fluent American English. It's the character that does that accent, although I think it's a nice for natives to understand anyway.
my favourite criticism of english grammar comes from some other comedian that pointed out in his stand up "i dance, you dance, we dance, you dance, they dance, but he dances?! why?! is he dancing more than me? 645 people dance, but he dances? how much is this motherf*cker dancing?!"
My favorites have always been, "one house, two houses, one mouse, two mice ...". Or one ship, two ships, one sheep, two sheep. Plus one goose, two geese, one mongoose, two mongooses. The English language is messed up 🤣😂😅
Well, he won the "Funniest person in the world" competition in the US in 2014, went on Conan in 2018 so his career is pretty well on its way already. He uses his stage fright to perfect his unique performance rather than work it off. Brilliant!
When there was a Radio Shack on the Boardwalk, and your radio runs out of batteries, you'd need to know that "She sells c-cells by the sea shore." - Happens all the time.
"She sells sea shells by the sea shore" is actually based on a woman named Mary Anning, who discovered the first icthyosaur skeleton in England in the 1800s
I went to this small town in western Denmark. There was a house with local sea shells covering the house. Inside the house was a shop where they were selling sea shells and other souvenirs. The seller was a woman. She was selling sea shells by the sea shore.
ISMO might need to point her out if ever he encounters a computer saleswoman by the sea: A UNIX saleslady named Lenore Liked her work, but loved the beach more She found a good way To combine work and play She now sells C shells by the seashore (sorry, nerd humor)
How I understood it, his problem are not necessarily tongue twisters but the difference between the s-sound and the sh-sound, because Finnish doesn't have a sh-sound, as far as I know.
@@kayEnt3rtainm3ntThere's many men like Ismo in Finland. Same hairstyle, clothings and sense of humour. Ismo is perfect for representing finnish humour.
@@TheSanezu yes, tell them! I am here.. pick me! pick me ! I am single :-) ... in southern finland, and if i didt have my humour i would end myself using the finnish standard suicide instrument: a rowing boat - the manual says "at midsummernight, row out on the lake (it will be bright skies in finland) get drunk, then stand up and try to pee over the reiling. Drop over and drown.... fortunately, i am not there yet :)
"hattatatatatat..." is actually of Germanic origin, meaning "I see what you are going to do there - ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! don't you DARE!"; the overall British friendliness has softened its meaning over the centuries to the mentioned "that's enough tea in my cup now" with a slight "you moron" undertone.
I sailed the world for 40 + years in the merchant navy and have been in Finland countless times...after Sweden. Norway, Denmark...Finland the language is a huge shock...i always said you first need a throat operation to speak it..but i liked Finland..just dont be a drinker or smoker... no one can afford it
Finnish, unlike Swedish, Danish and Norwegian (which are all Germanic languages - from the same big category as English), is a Finno-Ugric language and that's why it is so different from the other Scandinavian spoken "tongues"). It's from the same linguistic family as Hungarian 🙂
English has so much potential for efficiency. So many silent letters... Some british accents does away with even more letters! A Brit friend of mine says "Wa'ah bo'uh" which is Water bottle. Amazing efficiency. Landing in Ireland, just outside airport we passed a road sign indicating the road to town of "Sword", but sign said "Sord" and I immediately said "Well, that makes sense!".
Learning languages is fun. In my language, when someone is saying a bad word, instead of yelling "language!", most of the times we say "mouth!". When someone saying stupid things, we can say "idiot!" OR "your brain!"
My mother was born in Finland... I remember sometimes she would speak to us kids in a heated raised voice saying "Orvy bocky chotta orva notchy.....!" Years later...I asked her just what it was that she was saying...she said "I was cussing you kids out in Finnish!" She spoke 5 languages... Russian..Finnish...French...German...and English. 😊👍
About selling sea shells at the sea shore. It's not a bad idea at all. They are selling pretty well to tourists if the sea shells are beautifully polished and laquered.
Of course, I'm sure that someone has taken the time to explain to ISMO that the admonition "LANGUAGE!" is just a shortend form of the phrase "Mind your language", which means "be careful what you say, because someone might be listening"... Yes, English is so messed up. Maybe we will switch to Suomi, because that language is very simple 🤣
English-speaking people can't fathom doubling any vowels beside "e" and "o"... We can't abide such things as "aa" or "ii" or "uu"; add-in the dots and we're lost; we can't say "ää" or "öö"... If we can even identify Suomi , we know it because of the repetitive vowels, the excessive "k"s, and the use of "-nen" at the end.... An average English speaking person would not even be able to recognize this next line as "fake Finnish": Sä paa lekkanönaakkarannen üppa päakeeroniknen ko kükülassonapö "Hockey" küütliinenenen. (We can't speak Hungarian or Turkish either.)
I was in Carmel California last year and i was with my cousin and sister. We were at the beach i really wanted to know if Sally could sell sea shells by the sea im going to give it a try . So i was camcording and looking for high priced shells . There were hardly any shells there. So i searched and searched clams and shells. I found one but it wasnt as good as Sally's. I cleaned it up in the ocean and walked to my cousins. I asked he how much would you take this off my hands. The look she gave me . I camcorded i still laugh to this day. Im not that good of a sales man. They wouldn't take me seriously. She wouldn't even give me $1 just to leave. I laughed so hard.
A girl named Sally did sell fossilized sea shells by the sea shore as a means to support her family. She actually pioneered the fossil study of them. I know where the joke is. But hope some of you look this fun fact and tongue twister up. It's really interesting. And Is no is very clever Thank you.
Just amazing... when to pause ..when to raise the voice... everything he has is pure entertainment
Yes, all of it, what a comic talent he is.
This is so very true. I’m fairly fluent in Finnish but it took years to become conversationally competent. However even being willing to learn the basics of ‘hello’ ‘thanks’, and ‘’bye’ earns a very positive response.
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I have a Russian friend who is a professional tour guide who speaks several languages fluently. When he leads Finnish groups he does the tours in English on the grounds no one can speak Finnish
Any language is good in that scenario, they're all drunk anyway 😂
That's funny 🤣
Where ever Ismo is, there's laughter 😍
You have to be so talented and brave to succeed in stand-up. Imagine being this funny doing it in a second language in front of natives. Kudos to him.
Finnish is no linguistic piece of cake either. It is said that, if you ask a Finn to teach you his language, you will have a friend for life - because that’s how long it will take you to learn it.
It's not so difficult at all. Even small children can speak Finnish.
Lol small kids learn how to speak and write Chinese too, one of the most difficult languages to learn. That's not a very good analogy
I learned Finnish in a year. And at the same time I learned how to walk.
@@oh2mp So did I. Minä myös.
Does that mean y'all dumb to learn new languages ? 😂
It turned out that Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody from Hogwarts was so funny in his early ages.
Oh yeah, I wondered who he reminded me of! Moody looked Irish while Ismo looks Finnish, but yeah, there's a similarity ☺️
Yes!!! Omg I was wondering why this guy reminded me of someone. 😂😂
Hilarious and painful. Genuinely funny, but also absolutely true about the English Language. I always tell anyone who complains about another language, "The majority of other languages are a bunch of established rules with a few circumstantial exceptions. English is a majority of incoherent exceptions that might associate with an odd guideline."
Plus Czech is a million established rules with a million exceptions that make no sense.
Susan Dent has a video on the f-word, "Susan Dent F-word", she's just as hilarious as in the Cats (count)Down.
In the English language, one does not need to know whether a piece of wood is he or she. So it's easier than many other languages. Not in Finnish either, thank goodness. On the contrary, the difference between he and she doesn't exist, sometimes a person is even referred to as "it".
French is literally the definition of : few rules, thousands of exceptions
Try a language where the words change based on preceding and proceeding words.
And French. I mean, I love French, but the language doesn’t follow its rules at all!
🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂😆 since laughter is the best remedy, Ismo has me cured. Hilarious
His almost Mr Bean like laugh inbetween sentences adds to his character and story-telling. Great guy!
Finnish humor... very underrated but one of the best out there.
Mmmmh. No.
Yes it is!!
Hmm no, definitely rated the way it deserves. This was such a boring act lol
Really ? I am not so sure! Half baked surely 😮
@@blackmamba9950 when its not dirty humour u have to have smart humour, which i guess isnt ur cup of tea
Tuve la oportunidad de enseñar español a unas personas de Bélgica y me impresionó que hablaran inglés, francés, italiano y flamenco (flemish) y me decían que mucha gente en Europa habla entre tres y cuatro idiomas. Le deseo mucho éxito Ismo.
This guy is awesome...has quite a good understanding of the english language
Amazing, and pure joy to watch. Even the 'hesitations' are timed to perfection. ISMO is a breath of fresh air with intelligent, well-observed, superbly delivered humour.
Coming from an island-rich country, I can confirm that tourists buy sea shells from sellers selling seashells by the seashore all year round.
😂
They sell more expensive sea shell those must be better than free ones on the beach...
Seashells from the seashore are not like seashells from the seashell seller shelf. 😜
Yes but who picks the peppers?
The missus in the story didn't sell, uh shells but something like coprolites or fossils. They've talked about it on QI.
Wow.. Cracking jokes in a language that isn't your first.. You're just good
Watched this skit so many times, never fails to crack me up!
I think once was prolly enough, but ok
Excellent and very intelligent twist on humour.
Ismo is a genius!
Ismo has a legendary status as a comedian. 4ever 4sure 4real. Piste. Koko Suomi rakastaa Ismoa
It's amusing how easily you can distinguish between Finns, Swedes and Norwegians speaking English. The accent just doesn't want to go away, of course depending on when you first started learning and how much effort you put into it.
True! Whenever I hear a Swede speak English it's an instant recognition! Though Ismo has also said in his book that he prefers to even emphasize the accent a little bit. Makes him more memorable.
@@juhokilttipoika I'm quite sure that Ismo speaks now fluent American English. It's the character that does that accent, although I think it's a nice for natives to understand anyway.
Why tf would you want it to go away though.
3:47 I love how he says "Shituation" considering the context.
Shitchiuation! 😂
It´s like you trying to say the Finnish name Kyösti Kuosmanen....
my favourite criticism of english grammar comes from some other comedian that pointed out in his stand up
"i dance, you dance, we dance, you dance, they dance, but he dances?! why?! is he dancing more than me? 645 people dance, but he dances? how much is this motherf*cker dancing?!"
that joke is by Rafi Bastos
My favorites have always been, "one house, two houses, one mouse, two mice ...". Or one ship, two ships, one sheep, two sheep. Plus one goose, two geese, one mongoose, two mongooses. The English language is messed up 🤣😂😅
Try explaining how 'Kansas' and 'Arkansas' are pronounced to a foregner. 🤯 It only gets worse when they ask you 'why the difference?' 🤷🤦
😂😂😂
I love him too. He is good
After Sisu, it's refreshing to hear from a Finn with a sense of humour.
Didn't you find Sisu fun?
@@MikkoRantalainen Sure, but I'm weird. It was a grim tale, esp when they tried to hang him.
Lol...loved this guy. Will be watching his career. Hope he's successful!
Well, he won the "Funniest person in the world" competition in the US in 2014, went on Conan in 2018 so his career is pretty well on its way already. He uses his stage fright to perfect his unique performance rather than work it off. Brilliant!
When there was a Radio Shack on the Boardwalk, and your radio runs out of batteries, you'd need to know that "She sells c-cells by the sea shore." - Happens all the time.
"She sells sea shells by the sea shore" is actually based on a woman named Mary Anning, who discovered the first icthyosaur skeleton in England in the 1800s
Making people laugh without yelling, bad words, insulting or demeaning anyone. How many comedians can do this?
His most popular acts are based around the words SHIT and ASS, where he says then 100 times. 🤷
@@84stoney Hahah valid, but it's about discussing the word and it's definitions vs using the word negatively.
bill cosby never used bad words in his comedy, and look what we found out about him
He is very clever!! I love this guy!!
That's the funniest sea shells but I've ever heard! I'm in tears😂😂
Omg! I haven’t had so much laugh in a very long time….😂😂😂😂
You made me laugh. Thank you 🙏
I went to this small town in western Denmark. There was a house with local sea shells covering the house. Inside the house was a shop where they were selling sea shells and other souvenirs. The seller was a woman. She was selling sea shells by the sea shore.
ISMO might need to point her out if ever he encounters a computer saleswoman by the sea:
A UNIX saleslady named Lenore
Liked her work, but loved the beach more
She found a good way
To combine work and play
She now sells C shells by the seashore
(sorry, nerd humor)
This guy gives hilarious a new level.😂😂😂😂😂😂
ISMO ALWAYS makes me laugh out loud!
I saw it coming and still laughed. Transportation!😂
Sheer mastery! Fantastic skill.
Wait until Ismo gets,"I'm not a pheasant plucker, i'm the pheasant plucker's son...."😅
How I understood it, his problem are not necessarily tongue twisters but the difference between the s-sound and the sh-sound, because Finnish doesn't have a sh-sound, as far as I know.
@@bananenmusli2769 Technically there are a few words that do have the sh sound, though those are mainly loan words and not Finnish origin oones
Lol before he said transportation I was thinking he's going to say transportation lol
Ismo is very talented! 👏
When you've mastered 'Irish wristwatch', you've got it. Kiitos Ismo!
'Mixed biscuits' is another beauty.
And if we are in Britain: Red lorry, yellow lorry, red lorry, yellow lorry...
Ismo is my dream man and I’m not kidding.
I know what you mean. Smart, funny, and a lovely mane you just wanna run your fingers through 😅
@@kayEnt3rtainm3ntThere's many men like Ismo in Finland. Same hairstyle, clothings and sense of humour. Ismo is perfect for representing finnish humour.
@@TheSanezu yes, tell them! I am here.. pick me! pick me ! I am single :-)
... in southern finland, and if i didt have my humour i would end myself using the finnish standard suicide instrument: a rowing boat
- the manual says "at midsummernight, row out on the lake (it will be bright skies in finland) get drunk, then stand up and try to pee over the reiling.
Drop over and drown....
fortunately, i am not there yet :)
I just love him and his comedies 😂
This guy is pure genius.
Very very funny. I enjoyed it. Thank you ❤️
To make a career while learning a language is a skill 👍
Hahahaa! "Transportation", hahahaa! Can´t stop laughing! Ismo is great!
Comment!
Just saw him last weekend at the Improv in Irvine. Great show! He's so funny!
This guy is truly amazing made me laugh hard. 😂🎉🎉
high level intellect, absolutely amazing. should meet Chomsky.
Brilliant, this guy understand English better than natives.
Americans don't speak English
Understands* 😂😂
@@snelgrave101oh shut up 😂
@@GG-mr9iz eh, no.
I watched a five minute gag he did jn New Zealand... Funny as heck!
"hattatatatatat..." is actually of Germanic origin, meaning "I see what you are going to do there - ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! don't you DARE!"; the overall British friendliness has softened its meaning over the centuries to the mentioned "that's enough tea in my cup now" with a slight "you moron" undertone.
Very funny! Had a good laugh :)
I love how he says sheshels in the sheshore...😂😅
Saw him live last night at the O2...I was crying 😂😂
I sailed the world for 40 + years in the merchant navy and have been in Finland countless times...after Sweden. Norway, Denmark...Finland the language is a huge shock...i always said you first need a throat operation to speak it..but i liked Finland..just dont be a drinker or smoker... no one can afford it
Finnish, unlike Swedish, Danish and Norwegian (which are all Germanic languages - from the same big category as English), is a Finno-Ugric language and that's why it is so different from the other Scandinavian spoken "tongues"). It's from the same linguistic family as Hungarian 🙂
His laugh though!😂😂😂😂
“Language” is all that’s left of “Watch your language!” 😂😅 the way we drop the sentence but for the last word 😂😅 funny really
Or "Mind your language"
English has so much potential for efficiency. So many silent letters... Some british accents does away with even more letters! A Brit friend of mine says "Wa'ah bo'uh" which is Water bottle. Amazing efficiency. Landing in Ireland, just outside airport we passed a road sign indicating the road to town of "Sword", but sign said "Sord" and I immediately said "Well, that makes sense!".
He's genuinely funny!
Excellent!!
Learning languages is fun.
In my language, when someone is saying a bad word, instead of yelling "language!", most of the times we say "mouth!".
When someone saying stupid things, we can say "idiot!" OR "your brain!"
My mother was born in Finland...
I remember sometimes she would speak to us kids in a heated raised voice saying "Orvy bocky chotta orva notchy.....!"
Years later...I asked her just what it was that she was saying...she said "I was cussing you kids out in Finnish!"
She spoke 5 languages...
Russian..Finnish...French...German...and English.
😊👍
There are plenty of vendors who sell seashells by the seashore in countries like Philippines, and they come in different variety and forms.
2:40 😂
TRANSPORTATION ‼️
This guy is a cross between Chris Farley and Benny Hill. Someone needs to put him in movies.
I've been saying something similar to friends for the past 5+ years. I do think Hollywood would love him.
About selling sea shells at the sea shore. It's not a bad idea at all. They are selling pretty well to tourists if the sea shells are beautifully polished and laquered.
Clever intelligent original humor.
It's better to let someone walk away from you than to let them walk all over you.😊
Or if they won't piss off, run!! 😄
He’s brilliant!
2:40 - Language is language and a bus is a bus, no? 🤨🤣😜
He makes me difficult to pronounce that sentence now 😂
He is great!!!!!
Of course, I'm sure that someone has taken the time to explain to ISMO that the admonition "LANGUAGE!" is just a shortend form of the phrase "Mind your language", which means "be careful what you say, because someone might be listening"... Yes, English is so messed up. Maybe we will switch to Suomi, because that language is very simple 🤣
English-speaking people can't fathom doubling any vowels beside "e" and "o"... We can't abide such things as "aa" or "ii" or "uu"; add-in the dots and we're lost; we can't say "ää" or "öö"...
If we can even identify Suomi , we know it because of the repetitive vowels, the excessive "k"s, and the use of "-nen" at the end....
An average English speaking person would not even be able to recognize this next line as "fake Finnish":
Sä paa lekkanönaakkarannen üppa päakeeroniknen ko kükülassonapö "Hockey" küütliinenenen.
(We can't speak Hungarian or Turkish either.)
@@giuseppelogiurato5718 My Finnish friend said once that Finnish language sounds like a guy with bunch of stuff falling down the stairs :D
Just love Ismo!
Love this guy lol 😂😂😂😂
Funnier than the audience gave him credit for, imho.
My car does the same thing in the morning. 😂😂
OMG! He is so funny! And Cute!
I have loved Ismo ever since he debut on Conan!
Finnish humour is something else...
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, how many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?
He slips up once and pronounce "sea shore" perfectly.
So what is that word for putting enough coffee into the cup pls?
I love this guy. He reminds me of Victor Borge, my all-time favorite.
My favorite English word is BULLSH!T....😂ismo is also fascinated by the English word "Ass." Do watch his video on that word! Hilarious!
Mine is from the UK. It means For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge. Legal term!! True….. look it up ⬆️👍🏻🤣❤️😉😅
theo von really stepped up his game. 😄nicely done.
I was in Carmel California last year and i was with my cousin and sister. We were at the beach i really wanted to know if Sally could sell sea shells by the sea im going to give it a try . So i was camcording and looking for high priced shells . There were hardly any shells there. So i searched and searched clams and shells. I found one but it wasnt as good as Sally's. I cleaned it up in the ocean and walked to my cousins. I asked he how much would you take this off my hands. The look she gave me . I camcorded i still laugh to this day. Im not that good of a sales man. They wouldn't take me seriously. She wouldn't even give me $1 just to leave. I laughed so hard.
Sea shell and eyeglasses! Yes, shells are from the sea and glasses are for the eyes!😂
A girl named Sally did sell fossilized sea shells by the sea shore as a means to support her family. She actually pioneered the fossil study of them. I know where the joke is. But hope some of you look this fun fact and tongue twister up. It's really interesting. And Is no is very clever
Thank you.
Mary Anning actually... The mother of paleontology and the origin of tongue twister.
The best part is that between his words he sounds like a Mumintroll.
You rock ismo
I would add to the wifi password bit "all lower case"
Very kind humor
Oooh more of my favorite Finnish comedian!
Troppo simpatico!!! 🤣
Loved it - made me LOL loads of times !
😂😂😂😂 every time!
Very funny funny man. Thanks youtube algorithm