Teacher Reacts To "Geography Now - Finland" [DRUNK PEOPLE]

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  • @Mia-bl9nk
    @Mia-bl9nk 2 года назад +193

    There's a saying in Finland when it comes to ice hockey ''doesn't matter who wins as long as Sweden loses''

  • @mantelikukkapenkki2368
    @mantelikukkapenkki2368 2 года назад +293

    A little advice: As a Swede, never say to a Finn "we used to own you", it's a sure way to get rid of your front teeth. Just saying..

    • @jammujee3
      @jammujee3 2 года назад +32

      yeah if i ever see this guy he will need a surgery.

    • @yesterdaysrose5446
      @yesterdaysrose5446 2 года назад +10

      I'm like, yeah, Sweden used to own Finland... but after a couple of short centuries it wasn't that bad, really. Especially compared to Russian reign. Phew, now *that* was some shit.

    • @Mr.Truxton
      @Mr.Truxton 2 года назад +48

      @@yesterdaysrose5446 No, the russian years were the golden years. That's when all the best finnish writers, musicians, artists etc existed. Only like the last 20 years of russian rule sucked, when they tried lessening our autonomy.

    • @yesterdaysrose5446
      @yesterdaysrose5446 2 года назад +6

      @@Mr.Truxton Then again, the Grand Dutchy lasted for ~100 years. If 20 of those years sucked, and led to literally an assassination of a governor, I'd consider that particular period shaky at best.
      The fact that several prominent Finnish luminaries were present at the time, bolstering Finnish national identity in their own ways, was just a proof of the fact that the nationalist movement existed at the time and had up to that moment just been biding its time... and this was obviously not a proof that the Russians were particularly happy about that at the tiume. You know, because we know how that whole period ended.
      By contrast, considering Sweden decided to rule Finland since, around, like, 1200s, and had several governors who are still liked to this day ("at the time of the Count", anyone?) maybe that is still a significant point.
      How WOULD the Finnish history branched off if, before at some point in the 1700s-1800s, Finns would have told Swedes to kthxbye?

    • @FINNSTIGAT0R
      @FINNSTIGAT0R 2 года назад +22

      I, as a Finn, am actually quite pleased that we used to be a part of Sweden, as it in the end gave us a much more healthier model of government and of civil society than what we ever got from the goddamn Russians 🤮
      Yeah, but please don't say "we owned you", since that would get even my blood boiling. 😀

  • @aliisalyly
    @aliisalyly 2 года назад +179

    Yeah, Swedish is still mandatory. Most of us still don't speak it though, either due to poor teaching, lack of interest or a mix of both.
    A commonly overlooked fact is that the Swedish-speaking finns have to learn Finnish in turn.

    • @akaittou
      @akaittou 2 года назад +11

      Not all of them do, which is the weird thing. In Åland (and I believe some of the primarily Swedish-speaking municipalities along the coast but don't quote me on that) Finnish has to be available as an elective from grade 5 onward, but isn't mandatory. A quirk of legislation that means learning Swedish is required of a larger percentage of Finns than learning Finnish.

    • @Cronin_
      @Cronin_ 2 года назад +6

      @@akaittou Me living in Österbotten/Pohjanmaa had to start learning Finnish from 1st grade. I hated it.

    • @Cronin_
      @Cronin_ 2 года назад +13

      @@akaittou Also I have never heard of any majority Swedish speaking municipality where the Fenno-Swedes don't HAVE TO learn Finnish. It definitely is mandatory (except ofc on Åland)

    • @fredriknybacka676
      @fredriknybacka676 2 года назад +14

      @@akaittou no we cannot choose if we want to study finnish. However I am sick and tired of this debate that we should make it optional (for both languages) we only get benefits from knowing another language.

    • @joelsirola5440
      @joelsirola5440 2 года назад +4

      No, they can go to a swedish speaking school. And in case they do, good. As finnish citisens they should as it's the 1st and by far the most widely smoken language here.

  • @snatu666
    @snatu666 2 года назад +119

    First he dares to insult our English skills and then he misspells sauna...

  • @jussi3539
    @jussi3539 2 года назад +129

    I don't agree with you on the English skills. Older generations can't speak English for sure, but most people can and they even have great pronunciation.

    • @francoisdaureville323
      @francoisdaureville323 2 года назад +4

      I think your group of friends doesnt represent a whole country where is thr proof of that?? Do you know most finnish people?? I doubt it

    • @DaronMGL
      @DaronMGL 2 года назад +26

      In my experience Finns (younger generations especially) can read and usually even write English really well. Finns often have a very strong accent when speaking though, that makes them pretty hard to understand for native English speakers, even if their grammar and vocabulary is usually quite good.

    • @LimbaZero
      @LimbaZero 2 года назад +11

      Some just have this strong accent. Few had said that I sound like Hydraulic Press Channel guy :)

    • @jussi3539
      @jussi3539 2 года назад +21

      @@francoisdaureville323 He just generalized the whole country based on couple of Finnish-Swedish friends he has, which was very inaccurate and also quite insulting. I base my opinion on living in Finland all my life and actually talking with people here in English as well.

    • @cooljoelguy
      @cooljoelguy 2 года назад +9

      Yeah, many young (-30) Finnish people speak english with almost an American accent, probably due to the early age they start learning, english media, and the prevalence of international schools. Source: American who has lived in Joensuu, currently living in Helsinki

  • @eriknoorvali
    @eriknoorvali 2 года назад +56

    In Estonia we tell our children that Santa lives in Finland/Lapland

    • @Banondax
      @Banondax 2 года назад +7

      based

    • @mantelikukkapenkki2368
      @mantelikukkapenkki2368 2 года назад +4

      He does

    • @vanyadolly
      @vanyadolly 2 года назад +2

      You would even if no one else believes it! Estonia is our biggest cheerleader 😘

    • @Juhani96
      @Juhani96 2 года назад +1

      well, thats how the story goes. good job eesti

    • @gugagaagaa8394
      @gugagaagaa8394 2 года назад +1

      love yall

  • @iLoveTheseRemoras
    @iLoveTheseRemoras 2 года назад +51

    I'm a Finn living in Stockholm and I've met multiple Swedes who like you think that Finland being bilingual is a thing of the past.
    I have no idea how that has happened, Finland hasn't ever even been close to abandoning the official status of Swedish as the country's second language 🤷‍♂
    ...then again, I've also met a lot of Swedes who don't know Finland isn't (yet) in NATO, uses Euro as the currency (been used since 1999), one didn't even know Finland is in the EU. I think in general many Swedes just don't know or care much about Finland - also I'm a little bit worried about the school system here 😅

    • @petrusinvictus3603
      @petrusinvictus3603 2 года назад

      Vi måste tala, prata, mera på svenska.

    • @brandoninhofer6592
      @brandoninhofer6592 2 года назад

      Most Finns have a hard time speaking Swedish even though everyone must learn it at school. This is mostly due to a lack of interest in the subject. Most Finns are much better at English even though they are nervous/apprehensive about using it.

    • @Nitpickerman
      @Nitpickerman 5 месяцев назад

      Finland is the only country which have swedish as an official language (being mentioned in constitution as such)

  • @DjKorppi
    @DjKorppi 2 года назад +61

    Yeah swedish is mandatory. And because of it, I can understand when a swedish-speaking finn speaks to me, but not swedes, danish, norwegians etc

    • @DR_REDACTED
      @DR_REDACTED 2 года назад +7

      I never leared swedish at all

    • @Cyril86
      @Cyril86 2 года назад +4

      Yeah, mandatory classes.
      Doesn't mean you have to learn it, of course. :V
      Always kinda thought when I was at school, that if someone in Finland wants to speak to me, and they don't understand either Finnish or English, they're probably not even worth communicating with.
      In retrospect, it would have probably been a good idea to try to learn it anyway, even if I didn't use it. Oh well, too late now.

    • @DR_REDACTED
      @DR_REDACTED 2 года назад +5

      I tried to learn. But just could not. And thats funny because now days i understand Japanese better than Swedish😅😂

    • @MlCROPIZZA
      @MlCROPIZZA 2 года назад

      I learnd swedish between years 7-9 in primary school and all i can say is numbers. From my small group of friends i was best at swedish and worst at english😆.

    • @Mythrell
      @Mythrell 2 года назад +1

      Funnily enough after years of work at supposed Finnish only companies, I've ran numerous instances where I wish I did indeed learn some Swedish. Luckily a lot of swedes and Norwegians talk English too I suppose.

  • @2scrimble9
    @2scrimble9 2 года назад +60

    Finnish people are good at english, I understand everything 100% and I've seen english and american people with worse grammar, the thing is we can't just pronounce it correctly.

    • @nerdicperson6235
      @nerdicperson6235 2 года назад +1

      If you speak rally-english, that is correct.
      But if youve learnt english well enough, english pronounciations arent an issue.

  • @0Quiwi0
    @0Quiwi0 2 года назад +32

    You might have a bit outdated or scewed idea of the speaking English thing. Almost all people I know (from age 40 and younger) speak at least decent English. Swedish on the other hand is pretty rare outside most Southern and Western Finland as we don't really have to use it at all in the East and North. Or even in the middle parts. We actually study more English than we do Swedish. English starts at third grade and Swedish starts in seventh grade. Some people have awful accents for sure (Rally English), and they might be a bit shy to speak English, but it's perfectly understandable for a native English speaker. At least that's what people from US and UK have told me. Can't remember if anyone from Australia has spoken to me about that

  • @theenastream3408
    @theenastream3408 2 года назад +15

    Your opinion about Finns' English language skills is just that: your opinion. I have my opinion about Swedes' skills. I was a Finn working in UK in an American international company. In one meeting there was some visitors from Göteborg (Gothenburg). I was amazed how bad their English was! I always thought Swedish can speak good English. And then, when there was a break, they started speaking Swedish and had a lot of negative opinions about their hosts. They didn't even realize that I understood everything they said! So our opinions are always reflecting our experiences and are not necessarily facts. Just sayin' :)

  • @gashix
    @gashix 2 года назад +11

    "We used to own you then something happened i don't remember" and you call yourself a teacher lmao

  • @Khaotika
    @Khaotika 2 года назад +5

    Finnic/(sh) tribes ruled most of sweden before Sweden was a thing, too. So we owned you first.

  • @Jambu96
    @Jambu96 2 года назад +8

    During the Ahvenanmaa part his Swedish Ego was haemorrhaging. edit: It was all the time. Why the subtle inferiority complex? From the Vikings to the Empire into a paradise of integration and post-modernity.

  • @neymarjr3712
    @neymarjr3712 Год назад +2

    Bro is the reason we joke about Swedes

  • @RockerFinland
    @RockerFinland 2 года назад +4

    English Proficiency Index: 5. Sweden, 6. Finland (+almost even scores). Proficiency Band: "Very High Proficiency".
    I'm surprised a teacher didn't know it.

  • @aaronholmstrom2926
    @aaronholmstrom2926 2 года назад +15

    This dude sounds so condescending as if Sweden is superior lol

  • @puskamuha9000
    @puskamuha9000 2 года назад +6

    NO, i'd say the opposite, finnish people under 30 are mostly fluent in english, but most cant even think of a sentence in swedish

  • @ristusnotta1653
    @ristusnotta1653 2 года назад +35

    oh come on we understand English well but the problem comes from the pronunciation since English has so many sounds that Finnish doesn't have, we don't know how to move our mouth and tongue to make the sounds :D
    Btw the ones who speak good Swedish are called Finnishswedes or something like that in English, basically Finns but their mother tongue is Swedish and half of them don't know how to speak good Finnish, they live on the coast of Finland. The true like Finnish Finnish people don't understand Swedish at all because there is not much use for it in pretty much rest of the country even tho its still mandatory language in school.

    • @coyotelong4349
      @coyotelong4349 2 года назад +1

      Yeah it doesn’t help that English and Finnish are such different languages
      That said, so many Finns knowing Swedish should help with learning English

    • @ristusnotta1653
      @ristusnotta1653 2 года назад +13

      @@coyotelong4349 i wouldnt also say that many Finns know Swedish 😂 way more speak better English

    • @ryyb_himself
      @ryyb_himself 2 года назад +9

      @@coyotelong4349 Finns start learning English before Swedish, and only a tiny minority of the people who have to learn Swedish reach a level where it's anywhere close to being useful.

    • @Mr.Truxton
      @Mr.Truxton 2 года назад +2

      @@Cronin_ Well, kinda makes sense, since you live in Finland.... I really don't understand your point. Swedish is a second language here, finnish the first. Fenno-Swedes should have no issue with learning finnish, if you don't like it, move over to Sweden proper.

    • @jonnykarlsson582
      @jonnykarlsson582 2 года назад

      im a swedish speaking fin. and still i speak rallyenglish

  • @Aurinkohelmi
    @Aurinkohelmi 2 года назад +4

    Actually Swedish is mandatory. Only difference is that it's not mandatory test at the end of high school. And it's more to do with Swedish being second official language than Sweden forcing us to study it. At least not after separation in 1809.

  • @lauribleu7558
    @lauribleu7558 2 года назад +24

    I had a Finnish professor in Ohio (graduate level for art education). I adored her, and her English was every bit as good as yours. She said she was surprised to meet me and find out I was a woman. Apparently, "Lauri" is a male name in Finland.

    • @Gaehhn
      @Gaehhn 2 года назад +8

      The creator of the Hydraulic Press Channel here on RUclips is called Lauri.

    • @squidcaps4308
      @squidcaps4308 2 года назад +17

      Lauri is male, Laura is female.....

    • @lauribleu7558
      @lauribleu7558 2 года назад +10

      @@squidcaps4308 I am well aware, especially since my mother and grandmother were named Laura. However, here in the US we also have "Laurie" which is female. I have since found out that "Laurie" is a nickname for "Lawrence" in England, so the US is a little off. I have never in met life met a male "Laurie," but it is a common variant of "Laurel," also female. "Lauri" is extremely uncommon here.

  • @frankreynolds1812
    @frankreynolds1812 2 года назад +4

    Most Finns can speak really good english, just the pronunciation is very literal to our language.

  • @eenmens8760
    @eenmens8760 2 года назад +10

    Just wanted to say that he showed 2 pictures of the same castle: olavinlinna and savonlinna. The official name of that castle is Olavinlinna and the city around it is called Savonlinna.

    • @eenmens8760
      @eenmens8760 2 года назад +3

      It’s a cool castle btw

  • @viirus1362
    @viirus1362 2 года назад +14

    Currently the Finnish passport is ranked 3rd tied with Italy Luxembourg and Spain with 189 visa free countries Swedish passport is on rank number 4 with Denmark having 188 vise free countries. The best passport currently is the Japanese passport witch has 192 visa free countries. Though the Finnish passport had 193 at the time Geography now made his video.

  • @TheManOfManyBroccolis
    @TheManOfManyBroccolis 2 года назад +1

    5:21 And they still do, im in 7th grade and they have teached us Swedish since 6th grade so yeah, not totally historic...

  • @0Quiwi0
    @0Quiwi0 2 года назад +10

    Swedish is still mandatory as it's our second official language

    • @timoterava7108
      @timoterava7108 2 года назад +3

      Swedish being mandatory for everybody in Finland is a relatively modern thing (and a huge waste of time and resources, which could be used more usefully for studying more important languages). It only came with the new "peruskoulu" ("grundskola") during the 1970's. Before that most Finns never studied Swedish.

  • @Deattt
    @Deattt 2 года назад +20

    Norway didn't give us the peak due to their constitution to make such a move. Nice thought nevertheless.

  • @Traski
    @Traski 2 года назад +34

    The thing about finnish and english languages is that lot of (at least younger generation) people actually understand english perfectly well - but because the pronunciation of words between the two languages are so different, you can definitely recognize an english speaking Finn almost immediately.
    For someone who is a native Finn, I speak more english during the course of a week due to having friends all across the world - the finnish accent still seeps in and is very hard to get rid off.
    So yes, I agree - we're horrible at that.

    • @akaittou
      @akaittou 2 года назад +3

      I feel this far too much. I've been fluent in English by Finnish standards since grade 4 and have been working on my pronunciation actively ever since (some two decades) and I still sound off. I've avoided having a tankero-accent, but instead my English sounds like I'm drunk all the time.

    • @tuijakarttunen7701
      @tuijakarttunen7701 2 года назад +5

      I speak English fluently, but with accent. I don`t even want to get rid of it. As long as it`s not "rally-English", I`m okay.

    • @puhistagram
      @puhistagram 2 года назад

      The younger people are the better is the accent.
      It's because huge immmersion influence of youtube.

  • @juuhan
    @juuhan 2 года назад +3

    I have to remind that when Barby talked about castles in Finland, Savonlinna is not castle itself, its city but castle at Savonlinna is called "Olavinlinna"

  • @ih5298
    @ih5298 2 года назад +3

    Norway did not give the mountain to finland due to 2 reasons
    1. Legal reasons
    2. Russia

  • @0Quiwi0
    @0Quiwi0 2 года назад +9

    Sadly we never got the peak because it would have been against Norwegian constitution to give away sovereign land or something like that. We still appreciate the thought

  • @calebthecrazyking
    @calebthecrazyking 2 года назад +6

    Oh dude, you teaching us something just seconds before the person in the vid mentions it is what I'm here for! Awesome channel

  • @akaittou
    @akaittou 2 года назад +8

    Currently the main differences between the visa requirements of Finnish and Swedish passports are Mongolia and Russia, with Finnish passport holders having a much easier time (they can obtain a visa on arrival to Mongolia and just fill an online form as a matter of course for Russia) while Swedish passport holders have to go through the entire bureaucratic process before even booking their tickets. That said, there have been times when a Finnish passport mean you didn't need any kind of visa to enter Russia, though I'm pretty sure that was a good while before the video here was made. It definitely was before Putin went noticeably mad with power, lol.
    Am I bitter that it's harder and harder to visit my grandmother's childhood home on the Karelian Isthmus because of one madman with too much power? YES. Absolutely.

  • @urosleijona
    @urosleijona 2 года назад +3

    Finnish speaks usually a good English.. But we just don't like talk with Swedish.. 😜😂

  • @TheNismo777
    @TheNismo777 2 года назад +3

    Dont ya worry neighbour, Russia doesn't wanna mess with more countries. Sure they can threat all the want, but thats everyday stuff. :D

  • @cinderellaandstepsisters
    @cinderellaandstepsisters 2 года назад

    Finns are not drunk ppl
    Watch the statistics in The video " Country alcohol consumption comparison."
    In Europe the highest alcohol consumption countries are:
    The 1st Moldova, the 2 nd Lithuania, the 3rd Chechia and the 4th Germany.
    Finland is in the middle even under.
    Forinstance Russia, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, France, Ireland, UK, Estonia, Latvia, Hungary, Luxemburg, Poland, Portugal, Belarus, Cypros, Serbia etc. are ahead of Finland.
    Finland's alcohol consumption has dropped drasticly down in 10 years.

  • @FinDi90
    @FinDi90 2 года назад +1

    Mandatory Swedish teaching: It's a relic from the centuries, when Finland was a part of Sweden. Back then Swedish was, obviously, a language of the state, and it remains so to this day.

  • @paanikki
    @paanikki 2 года назад +4

    The funny thing is, that the Most UNILINGUAL towns/municipalities in Finland are SWEDISH language municipalities. Sottunga (in Åland islands) is the MOST unilingual. The most unilingual in the mainland is Larsmo (Österbotten/Ostrobothnia).
    Of course there are several municipalities in eastern Finland that have no native Swedish speaker residents. But all of those mucipalities have native speakers of OTHER, foreign languages, this makes them less unilingual.

  • @Maysti87
    @Maysti87 2 года назад +8

    no one in europe tells their children santa is from north pole thats an american thing. europeans know hes from finland.

    • @vanyadolly
      @vanyadolly 2 года назад

      When did we even decide this? Because historically our "santa" is some kind of goat person. The guy in red/St Nikolaus is a southern tradition.

  • @vpuik
    @vpuik 2 года назад +3

    Nordic countries all like each other except when it comes to sports!

  • @oliiisaw
    @oliiisaw 2 года назад +1

    We don't teach swedish because of Sweden. Its a part of the history yes, but it has nothing to do with the Scandinavian countries and communication. (The Finnish land was swedish before becoming Russian, that's why swedish is a part of us)
    So a long time ago a pig part of Finnish elite, spoke Swedish.
    I'm a Swedish speaking Finn. (Or I'm bilingual by birth) my mother could only speak swedish when she was young. (Born and raised in Finland)
    We have two official languages. Finnish and Swedish.

    • @oliiisaw
      @oliiisaw 2 года назад

      @@kalma999 What does being a swedish teacher have to do with Finlands history?
      No, I'm not a teacher of any kind

    • @oliiisaw
      @oliiisaw 2 года назад

      @@kalma999 what?

  • @anget4431
    @anget4431 2 года назад +11

    The Sweden Finland relationship sounds a lot like the New Zealand Australia relationship 🤣🤣 (I'm a New Zealander)

  • @Lemooooooooon
    @Lemooooooooon 2 года назад +3

    A new upload :D I’m exited

  • @eddy4576
    @eddy4576 2 года назад +2

    Learning Swedish is still mandatory in school here😄

  • @mixxeydixxey4461
    @mixxeydixxey4461 2 года назад

    As a Finnish teen I can say that the older generation doesn't know much English but the younger does and we still have to learn Swedish

  • @tonituomanen3113
    @tonituomanen3113 2 года назад +2

    It's funny that the "wife-carrying competition" is often mentioned in RUclips videos about Finland. I have lived in Finland for more than 50 years, and I have never seen that competition live. It's a curiosity, like swamp soccer and a cell phone throwing competition. Actually, the most popular sports in Finland are ice hockey and formula 1. In addition, we have a national game called pesäpallo, which is little bit similar to American baseball.

  • @ExUSSailor
    @ExUSSailor 2 года назад +3

    Well, Finland is about to be the newest member of NATO, so, if Russia is smart, nothing will happen.

  • @pyromite38
    @pyromite38 2 года назад +1

    Finn here. I have heard that foreigners have a hard time learning Finnish as Finns will switch to English so easily once they learn that the other person isn't that good at Finnish.
    There are ~6 million Finnish speaking people worldwide, so our language is rather rare. Because of this, mostly all dubbed shows/movies are the ones made for kids. We are surrounded by English from young age on.
    Even Clash of Clans, a Finnish mobile game, didn't have Finnish language as an option for years.

  • @FinDi90
    @FinDi90 2 года назад +1

    You are one lucky Swede... Because I was occupied during the video and couldn't angrily respond to your comments on our English skills. You saved yourself at the end by pointing out you weren't completely serious about it.

  • @annina134
    @annina134 2 года назад +1

    Yes, we have mandatory swedish in finnish schools. I didn't need it because I'm swedish, even if I'm born and raised in Finland. My dad was swedish.

  • @butterflies655
    @butterflies655 Год назад

    Finland's alcohol consumption has gone drastically down in 20 years. Watch the statistics in the video " Country alcohol consumption comparison."
    In Europe Finland's alcohol consumption is in the middle. In Europe the highest alcohol consumption countries are: The 1st Moldova. The 2nd Lithuania. The 3rd Chechia and the 4th Germany.
    For instance Russia, Latvia, Estonia, Hungary, Romania, UK, Ireland, Belgium, France, Switzerland Austria, Slovakia, Slovenia, Andorra, Serbia, Poland, Belarus etc. are ahead of Finland.

  • @Raakarapu
    @Raakarapu 2 года назад +1

    So uh.. What exactly do you teach? I mean history seems like a mystery to you "then something happened". I'm willing to bet that my english is better than yours, and I'm the definition of a drunk finn...
    Edit: The Swedish empire vs the Russian empire *bang bang stab stab* So swedes lose and abandon us. "Used to own" mf you would be speaking russian without Finland. And since we're "nice people" I do apologize for my drunken behavior.

  • @closetmonster5057
    @closetmonster5057 2 года назад +30

    Drunk people? Really? And you're a teacher..? Stay classy Sweden

    • @gashix
      @gashix 2 года назад +2

      +1

    • @FINNSTIGAT0R
      @FINNSTIGAT0R 2 года назад +10

      That's kinda a low blow in my opinion too. But gotta get them views somehow I guess 🙄
      (I'm saying this as I use the Finnish Countryball with a bottle of booze and a knife as my Avatar) 🤣
      But to be serious, this IS kinda the reason why many Finns have the opinion of Swedes being arrogant. An opinion that from what I've learned over the internet is not that uncommon among the Nordics 🤷

  • @FeltsuOnYT
    @FeltsuOnYT 2 года назад

    At the age of 22, what ive seen and heard through my life i would say that we finns speak english better than we do speak swedish. Yes this is only based on the thousands of finnish people ive yet met either irl or online, but i think that the few finns that learned good enough swedish in school to hold conversations were either pressured by their parents to learn it or they had an interest to actually learn the language themselves, which i can say doesnt happen too much.
    P.S, its the middle aged finns or older that cant speak english that well. Talk to anyone between their 20s-30s and you can have a solid conversation in english 95% of the time.
    my english is not perfect pls dont hate me for it lol

  • @timoterava7108
    @timoterava7108 2 года назад +4

    "Finland" (Österland) was an original and integral part of Sweden, right from the beginning. Turku (Åbo) was the 2. largest/important city in Sweden. Without Finland and the Finns there wouldn't have been any Sweden - and definitely not any Swedish "Empire".
    Many prominent "Swedes" were actually either ethnic Finns or born and raised in Finland.
    Many ignorant Swedes still make the mistake of believing, that the modern little Sweden is the same as the pre-1809 big Sweden ("Sweden" + "Finland") - and that the history and legacy of that big Sweden belong only for the modern little Swedes.

  • @FinDi90
    @FinDi90 2 года назад +5

    Also, Paul got it a little wrong with the war. Thousands of Swedes came to fight with us and we got military equipment from Sweden. You guys were obviously on our side.

  • @heirapparent4877
    @heirapparent4877 2 года назад

    I totally agree on the finglish. Everybody says: "Oh yeah, us Finns speak better english than most Americans". OH REALLY? Then why won't you watch this 2 minute video that has no subtitles in it...

  • @Lvestfold4143
    @Lvestfold4143 2 года назад

    The whole Nordic vs Scandinavian debate perplexes me. I totally get why Finland would be excluded, but other exclusionary arguments make no sense. I see it through three possible definitions for "Scandinavian":
    1. Geography - the Scandinavian Peninsula, a peninsula on a peninsula that includes two countries Norway and Sweden.
    2. Language & Culture - the Scandinavian cultures united in a shared history and linguistic origin that includes Norway, Sweden, Denmark as well as their former and current colonies Iceland and the Faroe Islands with Greenland having a loose connection.
    3. Heritage - Those of Norse/Scandinavian heritage which includes Norwegians, Swedes, Danes, Icelanders, Faroe Islanders, as well as those living in England (Danish heritage from previous occupation), and in the Normandy region of France (Norwegian heritage from previous occupation).
    It's weird to me how Iceland is not included despite their language being directly from the original common language of Scandinavia Old Norse with most indigenous Icelanders being of direct Norwegian heritage. If you do a DNA test there is no distinction between Iceland and Norway. It's all Norwegian. Same with Faroe Islanders who are still under Danish occupation. Culturally speaking Scandinavian should be a term applied to ethnic Norwegians, Danes, Swedes, Icelanders, and Faroe Islanders. Finns are of a separate culture closer to Baltic cultures than to Scandinavians or Russians which would also include the Saami people of Northern Norway. They too are closer to Finns than they are to Scandinavians despite living in a Scandinavian region.

  • @gitakumari1098
    @gitakumari1098 2 года назад +1

    Technically the Scandinavian peninsula only compromises Sweden and Norway. At least geographically.

    • @butterflies655
      @butterflies655 Год назад

      Partly Finland is located on the Scandinavian peninsula.

  • @pallethecop
    @pallethecop 2 года назад +9

    It still is mandatory. There is even few citys in Finland where the majority of people has swedish as mother tongue. In the city where I live there are more swedish schools than finnish schools for example. There are people that never even learn finnish and live their whole life only speaking swedish in finland.

    • @Cronin_
      @Cronin_ 2 года назад +3

      As for the last part that's basically me😅 I have tried to learn Finnish but I just can't

    • @timoterava7108
      @timoterava7108 2 года назад +1

      There are no "cities" in Finland with the Swedish-speaking majority - at least not by the official EU or historical/modern British criteria. They are mere towns.

    • @pallethecop
      @pallethecop 2 года назад

      @@timoterava7108 Parainen is classified as City, even tho it's more like a town. So atleast one "City" that has a majority Swedish speaking.

    • @timoterava7108
      @timoterava7108 2 года назад +1

      @@pallethecop Parainen is not a city but a town - unless you are an American.

    • @pallethecop
      @pallethecop 2 года назад +1

      @@timoterava7108 yeah, you are right. City and Town just is called the same in Finland so hence the confusion. Town is the right definision I was after in orginal post. 👍🏻

  • @romukauppias
    @romukauppias 2 года назад

    Yes Santa Claus is or should I say, was from Finland. Santa lives in the place called Korvatunturi but unfortunately the Soviets took that part of our land in WW2.

    • @romukauppias
      @romukauppias 2 года назад

      So basically Santa is now Russian xD

  • @Nekoksu
    @Nekoksu 2 года назад +2

    He didn't say anything about the english being good in finland or anything. He just stated that finns can speak english and keep up te conversation. Your random outburst is true, but it didn't have a single point. What were you trying to counter argument?

  • @House_of_Caine
    @House_of_Caine 2 года назад +2

    As for actual friends, they forgot Japan from the video.

  • @ac1455
    @ac1455 2 года назад +2

    Not sure how interested you are in linguistics, but LangFocus just uploaded a video on Icelandic

  • @moonliteX
    @moonliteX 2 года назад +6

    you used to own finland. what happened? well russia attacked and you lost to them and had to give up half of your land to russia. then we fought them and won and that's how we became independent ..

    • @mixlllllll
      @mixlllllll 2 года назад

      Finland didn't fight Russia for independence...that's was almost twenty years later.

    • @timoterava7108
      @timoterava7108 2 года назад

      @@mixlllllll Yes, we did. That war lasted 1918-20. The peace treaty between Finland and soviet russia was signed in Tartu on 14th October 1920 - after 5 months of negotiations.

  • @oenhit7548
    @oenhit7548 2 года назад +4

    I don't like how he is acting like "omniscient". We still have a mandatory Swedish. Also Norway couldn't give us a Halti's peak. If you don't know anything about the subject, please refer it as such. That is how Putin started a war... Don't be a "simple".

  • @appletree13
    @appletree13 2 года назад +1

    Great video! And honestly your English is pretty good!
    If you want, there's another channel like this called Geofocus. It's not as in-depth as Geography Now, but it's still pretty interesting, and some videos are more up to date. I think watching them in combination with Geography Now would give a lot more info. But hey, you do you!

  • @rez-.-
    @rez-.- 2 года назад +2

    It is actually mandatory to learn Swedish in Finland.

  • @FinDi90
    @FinDi90 2 года назад +1

    13:45 Is that so? Now you made me curios. From one teacher to another, What exactly is so different with our school systems? (to clarify, I am a teacher, I just specialized in early education.)

  • @fidelisjk
    @fidelisjk 2 года назад +7

    The northern part never spoke swedish. Get your facts straight. And we speak really fluent English compared to many European countries. Your reaction just seems like a another danish who thinks he knows things but really hasn't traveled much

  • @MrBanaanipommi
    @MrBanaanipommi 2 года назад +4

    as im finnish, we were taught swedish because its our second language.. however i always refused to learn it because it sounds so stupid and annoying :DDD (peace to swedish people:D) and nowadays most i can say in "swedish is hej, jag heter homo peter" XD

  • @MVaarjes
    @MVaarjes 2 года назад +17

    Great video! I partially agree on the english skills of Finnish people. I recently moved to Finland and most people are rather hesitant to speak English. They do know how to speak, but I think the Finns are affraid to mispronounce the English words, so they rather not speak English.

    • @juhoholopainen1224
      @juhoholopainen1224 2 года назад +7

      Yep. I would say like half of us has some kind of trauma from english classes. When i was in school nothing and i mean nothing was more important than british pronounciation. You would get constantly interrupted and corrected between sentences. Some got over it by not trying to pronounce anything anymore only learning vocab and grammar.

  • @meomarte
    @meomarte 2 года назад +1

    Swedish language in Finland was not introduced or upheld by force. We´ve had immigrants from Sweden since the 1200s, resulting in many western and southern coastal populations being partly or entirely swedish speaking. This can be seen even today. Going back further, there has been some mixing of populations here since the ice-age ended, between germanic and baltic-finnish tribes. Throughout there has been trade between Finland, Sweden and Estonia (none of which existed as nations during the neolithic, but you get the point). Absolutely no surprise there are germanic/fennic bilingual people in Finland. Though from time to time there has been politics involved as well, but it has not made a huge difference in how many people speak what languages. It´s quite organic.

  • @nirutivan9811
    @nirutivan9811 2 года назад +12

    The real Santa Clause (Saint Nicholas of Myrna) is from modern day Turkey. But in Finland there is one place where it is often told that Santa Claus lives.
    To my knowledge Swedish is still taught in Finnish School (though I‘m not from finland, so I‘m not 100% sure).
    And I would love to see a reaction to Geography Now Switzerland some day.

    • @finnxd3270
      @finnxd3270 2 года назад

      Actually santa Claus and the „Nikolaus“ as we Call it in germany are Different people
      (I’m not 100% sure but it would make sense since we have different festivities for them)

    • @nirutivan9811
      @nirutivan9811 2 года назад +1

      @@finnxd3270 Nowadays they have differences, but Santa Claus, Nikolaus, Samichlaus, Sinterklaas etc. are all based on Saint Nicholas of Myrna. Originally they are all the same, just for some reason the originally american Santa Claus became a part of christmas instead of having his own day on december 6th.
      I mean it would also be a pretty big and weird coincidence if they had nothing to do with one another. They have almost the same name (all the names translate to something like Saint Nicholas or Saint Claus), are dressed pretty similar, they bring gifts and their celebrations take place in the same month.

    • @robertbretschneider765
      @robertbretschneider765 2 года назад

      @@nirutivan9811 True that! But was it really Myrna? I remember somethings the lines of Smyrna, but that might be another letter lost in translation.

    • @nirutivan9811
      @nirutivan9811 2 года назад +1

      @@robertbretschneider765 I checked again. I couldn‘t find something about Nicholas of Smyrna, but I noticed I made a little mistake: It‘s Nicholas of Myra, not Myrna.

    • @robertbretschneider765
      @robertbretschneider765 2 года назад

      @@nirutivan9811 Thanks!

  • @susijosyntyessaan
    @susijosyntyessaan Год назад

    There is a claim that Finnish accent in English is easy to understand world wide. I wish I could give a source but I just can't remember. Although Finnish people ourselves make jokes of our rally Finnish accent.

  • @SlendisFi_Universe
    @SlendisFi_Universe 5 месяцев назад

    4:30
    We still are forced to learn Swedish since it is legally our second official language. Guess how many times I have been needing Swedish here in central Finland?
    Also. You spoken with old Finns? Or Fenno-swedes? Because I know MANY who speak fluent English. Of course we have the accent. But trust me. Many of us speak English even more fluently than many native English speakers.

  • @UltraCasualPenguin
    @UltraCasualPenguin 4 месяца назад

    Oh, you love Saana (fell in Enontekiö)? Do you go there often?

  • @Zinetha
    @Zinetha 9 месяцев назад

    ...we're still forced to study Swedish.
    Your RUclips username suits you.

  • @UltraCasualPenguin
    @UltraCasualPenguin 2 года назад +3

    Tbh, swedes and norwegians have annoyingly thick accent when they speak English. It's only comparable to french, japanese and some middle east accents. Not even german or austrian accent is that annoying. Russian, eastern european accents get close though.

  • @puhistagram
    @puhistagram 2 года назад

    Thanks Michael for nice video.
    Swedish was mandatory and is taught in "grundskola" 7-9 grades in my time, but nowadays it is from grade 6 to 9, so there is more swedish now than in 90's. Swedish is our second official language.
    Sweden influences more to Finland than Finland to Sweden. Your Kings and Queens are a bit ours aswell, we look up to swedish in social skills, marketing, customer relations and pop culture. We are eastern brothers of Nordics and only other we see is Sweden, rest are quite far away.
    Of course we joke and fight with each others like brothers do, but at the end of the day, we are good together.

  • @Spugedelia77
    @Spugedelia77 2 года назад +1

    The fact that your Finnish friends can't speak english doesn't mean that we're bad english speakers. It is just your friends that can't. You can speak english very well and I can too, so, please stop with your nonsense. Greetings from Helsinki.

  • @anonymous92126
    @anonymous92126 2 года назад

    I don't know many people that speak Swedish fluently here in Lapland but most people speak pretty good English tbf. Don't know how it is in southern Finland. We rely so much on tourism that if you don't speak good English, it's hard to find work here. Swedish doesn't matter nearly as much, even Russian is considered more useful.

  • @markusmalinen247
    @markusmalinen247 2 года назад

    i had swedish at school and i could talk somehow. now I have already forgotten that here in central Finland it is not necessary to use it. the only thing i remember in swedish is som nästa buss går till Slussen

  • @Harmitaako
    @Harmitaako Год назад

    "nordic Crimea". Swedish as our 2nd language, that's just a waste. I have not heard anyone saying that it's a good thing or that they have really even needed it, most of the people just hate that they have to lean it forced by the fucking law.

  • @Pataassa
    @Pataassa 7 месяцев назад

    We dont speak sweden because of sweden or that they woud made us learn it. We learn that because of finns who has sweden as their mother lanquage. That is also the reason why we still are country with 2 official lanquage. Very different reason. But that part is true: Swedes has always hate that we speak finnish. And that is stupid.

  • @Patrik-pi3dl
    @Patrik-pi3dl 4 месяца назад

    We used to call Sweden our big brother. But now you are still our big brother but you never went to the gym and you started to rot from the inside. 😢

  • @markkuhaavisto4538
    @markkuhaavisto4538 2 года назад +2

    11:24
    Its muikku, not miukku!

  • @SnowOwl_123
    @SnowOwl_123 2 года назад

    Savonlinnan is a city and Olavinlinna is located in Savonlinna

  • @sjc9121
    @sjc9121 2 месяца назад

    Joulupukki is originally from Korvatunturi, near by Russian border in Savukoski

  • @jonnakatriina
    @jonnakatriina 2 года назад

    oh my I love you 🥺 t. Finnish mate
    how have I not found you before!
    Hej hur är det?

    • @jonnakatriina
      @jonnakatriina 2 года назад

      i really like you! it's strange that something happens in hockey. and brave that Finland won the Olympics and the World Championships👀

  • @squidcaps4308
    @squidcaps4308 2 года назад +1

    There are other areas that are Finnish-Swedish... Half of my friends speak Swedish and most know enough to not get in trouble. But.. all of my friends are quite fluent in English, but to be fair my friends maybe are not average in that sense. The west coast has Swedish speakers from Turku to Kokkola (Ostrobothnia, in the other side of the ditch is Swedens Västerbotten).

  • @Mia-bl9nk
    @Mia-bl9nk 2 года назад +5

    It's still mandatory to tach Swedish, it's Finland's second official language and there's a minority of around 5% that speak Swedish as their mother tongue. Every government official papers need to be available in Swedish, and we have the right to be served in Swedish in government-backed and funded places like hospitals and schools etc. I for example did my whole primary school (grund skolan) in Swedish and my sister is doing university in Swedish as well. Swedish in Finland is a remnant of the 600 years Finland was a part of Sweden.

  • @cinderellaandstepsisters
    @cinderellaandstepsisters Год назад

    Finland's education system has been considered one of the best in the world. Better than Sweden's. Also finns learn english in schools. Other languages as well.
    Swedish is compulsory. It is the second official language in Finland.

  • @heliheikkinen6326
    @heliheikkinen6326 2 года назад +3

    There's about a 5% minority of Swedish-speaking Finns. They speak Swedish as their mother tongue. In the Helsinki area you may also bump into people who talk adequate 'school Swedish', but if you travel about 50 km north, you'll be lucky to find any. Despite the fact that we do still have the mandatory (or compulsory, as many Finns like to say) Swedish in our schedule.
    However, if you happen to meet me when you come to Finland, I'll be really happy to practice my school Swedish with you! :D Although I'm pretty sure, that after 3 minutes you'd rather change into English.

  • @TheObscureRambler
    @TheObscureRambler Год назад

    FYI, as a Finn? Don't say 'we used to own you'. There's history involved where you conscripted troops to fight _your_ wars out of _my_ country, and that wasn't really at all cool. Not bitter about it now, things are what they are - but you don't own us. Period.

  • @Aoiichi
    @Aoiichi 2 года назад

    IDK , if someone mentioned this already ,but apparently the Real Santa Claus came from Turkey.... You should react to the Turkey episode !

  • @ArchieArpeggio
    @ArchieArpeggio 2 года назад

    Well in Finland Santa is Joulupukki just like in Sweden you say Julgubbe. But pukki is actualy male goat and our ancient Joulupukki wasn´t so nice as these days. He had two sacks with him and good kids got presents and bad ones got just dry twigs and got them asses whipped 😂. That´s why parents told stories that elfs are watching how children behave so they can tell to Joulupukki has that child been good or bad.
    For our excuse like you said your self, our language is totally different so that´s why our pronouncing in english sucks. We call it rally-english as mostly rally and formula 1 drivers got ever interviewed in television and they always struggled with english like most of the people here. Swedish is so much closer to english so the pronouncing is much more easy for you in general. We have much stronger S and R letters and you can hear it in our accent. Also in finnish language we don´t drop letters out as we speak. Non of the letters are silent or the pronounse doesn´t change the the way it is written. Everything is stable so it´s hard for many to say right words like sword, knife, knee or one, two, eight. You wouldn´t say those right if those would be writen sord, naif, nii and van, tuu, eit...
    So becouse most of finnish never has to use english as in written mode the pronouce sucks big time but yes same thing with most of the russians and germans as thay speak in english. You can hear persons origins by that how they speak english most of the time. I have to use my english skills irl more often (i drive taxi) and speak it so my english is way better than most have in here and i´ve got positive feedback from that from english customers. One britt even gave me good tip for that and said you´ve got the best english skills he have heard from taxidriver in five years that he has lived here.
    I can also communicate in swedish but it ain´t easy. I don´t remember most of the words so it´s impossible for me to start conversation in swedish. As i was younger and i toured around Stockholm 1-3 week periods and learned alot how to use that we were forcely edjugated in school (nobody didn´t wanted even learn swedish). I usualy could manage by the end of my trips in there, but the start is always very hard.
    And what comes to sauna in good circle of friends we go all naked in mixxed sauna too. Sauna is kind of sacred place for most of us and it´s just insulting against other people in sauna to keep some clothes or towel on you. Also you loose benefits of sauna if you cover your skin so that is also stuped.

  • @Mirppu10
    @Mirppu10 2 года назад

    Santa Claus= Joulupukki 🎅 lives in Korvatunturi

  • @Mirska_
    @Mirska_ 2 года назад

    We still study swedish starting from the 6th grade imo it shouldnt be forced but optional. Most of the young ppl can speak english also Santa originally from tureky, anatolia. But lives in korvatunturi

    • @artofstormdancing3319
      @artofstormdancing3319 2 года назад

      Finnish Joulupukki (santa) is not the same as saint nicholas though...

    • @Mirska_
      @Mirska_ 2 года назад

      @@artofstormdancing3319 yes but the consept is the same. I saif it like that to make it mire simple

  • @sisu-veikkaviljamiviitikko7032
    @sisu-veikkaviljamiviitikko7032 2 месяца назад

    Swedish is still mandatory subject in schools. It's true used to own us for thousant of years, but be careful as I say we will some day take over Sweden.