I live in Finland 6 months now and im in love with the language , the nature and people even if they are abit distant, they are always polite. Once you make a Finnish friend, they are truly the best , same goes for romantic relationships :) I am trying to learn Finnish alone without any classes so your videos are very helpful. Greetings and love from Greece
Excellent. I have subscribed to your channel. Learners need to be able to learn the case system. Sooner or later, some Finn out there has to start uploading more videos about these mysterious 15 cases. Either that or A1/A2/B1/B2 level courses. That alone would encourage more people to start learning Finnish. (I am currently studying Russian. Yes the cases are difficult to learn, but it's not impossible). Have you thought about using patreon to get more funds to be able to upload new videos? I have not looked very deeply, but it seems to me that there is not enough Finnish resources specific to language learning available online. Learning a language requires 500 to 2000 hours of listening practise... more podcasts are needed for example... much more is needed for beginner and intermediate students...
I purchased books to learn the language. Although I'm doing my best, a book can't answer questions! Like, why is the inessief sometimes -ssa and sometimes -lla . Most words are -ssa but how can I know when to use -lla . Let's have a look at your videos, maybe you have an answer :-)
This is well produced, clearly narrated and has a lot of effort put behind it. However, this video is full of linguistic and even logical errors. A language family is the same thing as a language group and the Finnish language does not belong in either. "Scandinavia" comes without a "the" prefix and is written with a capital letter. The languages most similar to Finnish (in the sense that you use it, grammatically and phonetically) are Karelian and Estonian. Japanese is far, far away from Finnish, both in grammatical construction and "sound". Also, the "if you speak any of the larger languages in the world, Finnish will seem very different to you because of prefixes" idea is patently false. Two of the most widely spoken languages in the world, Mandarin and Arabic, are both agglutinative (i.e. form meanings with suffixes), Arabic being famously even more complicated then Finnish. I would suggest sticking to things that you know or have expertise about (i.e. the actual teaching of grammar and vocabulary) and leaving claims about linguistics to people who have read more into it.
+timmyko Thanks for the comment and corrections! Yes, maybe I should have been more precise with my info and checked the facts a bit more. I did not mention Karelian, bececause it does not have a country of its own (nor does Ingerian, Veps, Mari etc.) so it is not as widely known. Yes, the link between Japanese and Finnish is officially non-existent, this is just a opinion I have picked up from a couple of single individual people from the internet, who have said, that they have noticed that from their perspective, the two languages have many little things in common. Cheers o/
@@aurasfinnishlessons7626 hey! I know this thread is very old, but as a linguistic student, there are certain aspects that I'd like to add on. Firstly, Mandarin is a famous analytic isolating language. Though I must confess that the classification of agglutinative versus analytic is somehow outdated, because linguists have found some counterexamples. That being said, it wasn't very strong to use Mandarin as an argument Secondly, regarding the similarity between Japanese and Finnish, as a language enthusiast, I have realised some subtle similarities between them as well (also between Finnish and Mongolian, if you are interested) Though I admit that the consensus among linguists is that Japanese is an isolate language, with no affiliation to any known language families, the point is that the whole language family is a hypothesis and linguists have been and are arguing about it over and over. Therefore, I don't think it is valid to use it educate others on their findings. Last but not least, I am not familiar with Arabic, so I would not comment much on it. However, it is rather presumptuous to say that Arabic is more difficult. It is well known that the language difficulty is not a fixed value, rather is associated with which mother tongue the learner speaks. The Semitic language family, which Arabic belongs to, has a user base of 330 million people (c.r. Wikipedia), so statistically speaking, more people would find Arabic easier. In general, I found Aura's videos very interesting and helpful to my Finnish study. And I sincerely wish you won't feel disheartened by some comments to tell you "stay out of the field where you have no expertise". Linguistics is for everyone, and I think you really have natural instinct for it:) Cheers and kiitos!
Excellent. I have subscribed to your channel. Learners need to be able to learn the case system. Sooner or later, some Finn out there has to start uploading more videos about these mysterious 15 cases. Either that or A1/A2/B1/B2 level courses. That alone would encourage more people to start learning Finnish. (I am currently studying Russian. Yes the cases are difficult to learn, but it's not impossible). Have you thought about using patreon to get more funds to be able to upload new videos? I have not looked very deeply, but it seems to me that there is not enough Finnish resources specific to language learning available online. Learning a language requires 500 to 2000 hours of listening practise... more podcasts are needed for example... much more is needed for beginner and intermediate students...
I live in Finland 6 months now and im in love with the language , the nature and people even if they are abit distant, they are always polite.
Once you make a Finnish friend, they are truly the best , same goes for romantic relationships :)
I am trying to learn Finnish alone without any classes so your videos are very helpful.
Greetings and love from Greece
Excellent. I have subscribed to your channel.
Learners need to be able to learn the case system. Sooner or later, some Finn out there has to start uploading more videos about these mysterious 15 cases. Either that or A1/A2/B1/B2 level courses. That alone would encourage more people to start learning Finnish. (I am currently studying Russian. Yes the cases are difficult to learn, but it's not impossible).
Have you thought about using patreon to get more funds to be able to upload new videos? I have not looked very deeply, but it seems to me that there is not enough Finnish resources specific to language learning available online. Learning a language requires 500 to 2000 hours of listening practise... more podcasts are needed for example... much more is needed for beginner and intermediate students...
Yle kielikoulu is a great service for learning. It provides finnish subtitles and exercises for Yle shows.
Terveisiä Brasiliasta! Kiitos for the good content =D
I purchased books to learn the language. Although I'm doing my best, a book can't answer questions! Like, why is the inessief sometimes -ssa and sometimes -lla . Most words are -ssa but how can I know when to use -lla . Let's have a look at your videos, maybe you have an answer :-)
kiitos paljon. your videos are very helpful.
Hi, do you have patreon?
Kiitos
i know turkish english and a little bit deutsch turkish seems harder than finnish
Im finnish💜🇫🇮
Terve! My greatgranfather was born in 1900 as Ekman and then he transformed into Tammi :)
This is well produced, clearly narrated and has a lot of effort put behind it. However, this video is full of linguistic and even logical errors. A language family is the same thing as a language group and the Finnish language does not belong in either. "Scandinavia" comes without a "the" prefix and is written with a capital letter.
The languages most similar to Finnish (in the sense that you use it, grammatically and phonetically) are Karelian and Estonian. Japanese is far, far away from Finnish, both in grammatical construction and "sound". Also, the "if you speak any of the larger languages in the world, Finnish will seem very different to you because of prefixes" idea is patently false. Two of the most widely spoken languages in the world, Mandarin and Arabic, are both agglutinative (i.e. form meanings with suffixes), Arabic being famously even more complicated then Finnish.
I would suggest sticking to things that you know or have expertise about (i.e. the actual teaching of grammar and vocabulary) and leaving claims about linguistics to people who have read more into it.
+timmyko Thanks for the comment and corrections! Yes, maybe I should have been more precise with my info and checked the facts a bit more. I did not mention Karelian, bececause it does not have a country of its own (nor does Ingerian, Veps, Mari etc.) so it is not as widely known. Yes, the link between Japanese and Finnish is officially non-existent, this is just a opinion I have picked up from a couple of single individual people from the internet, who have said, that they have noticed that from their perspective, the two languages have many little things in common. Cheers o/
@@aurasfinnishlessons7626 hey! I know this thread is very old, but as a linguistic student, there are certain aspects that I'd like to add on.
Firstly, Mandarin is a famous analytic isolating language. Though I must confess that the classification of agglutinative versus analytic is somehow outdated, because linguists have found some counterexamples. That being said, it wasn't very strong to use Mandarin as an argument
Secondly, regarding the similarity between Japanese and Finnish, as a language enthusiast, I have realised some subtle similarities between them as well (also between Finnish and Mongolian, if you are interested) Though I admit that the consensus among linguists is that Japanese is an isolate language, with no affiliation to any known language families, the point is that the whole language family is a hypothesis and linguists have been and are arguing about it over and over. Therefore, I don't think it is valid to use it educate others on their findings.
Last but not least, I am not familiar with Arabic, so I would not comment much on it. However, it is rather presumptuous to say that Arabic is more difficult. It is well known that the language difficulty is not a fixed value, rather is associated with which mother tongue the learner speaks. The Semitic language family, which Arabic belongs to, has a user base of 330 million people (c.r. Wikipedia), so statistically speaking, more people would find Arabic easier.
In general, I found Aura's videos very interesting and helpful to my Finnish study. And I sincerely wish you won't feel disheartened by some comments to tell you "stay out of the field where you have no expertise". Linguistics is for everyone, and I think you really have natural instinct for it:) Cheers and kiitos!
Excellent. I have subscribed to your channel.
Learners need to be able to learn the case system. Sooner or later, some Finn out there has to start uploading more videos about these mysterious 15 cases. Either that or A1/A2/B1/B2 level courses. That alone would encourage more people to start learning Finnish. (I am currently studying Russian. Yes the cases are difficult to learn, but it's not impossible).
Have you thought about using patreon to get more funds to be able to upload new videos? I have not looked very deeply, but it seems to me that there is not enough Finnish resources specific to language learning available online. Learning a language requires 500 to 2000 hours of listening practise... more podcasts are needed for example... much more is needed for beginner and intermediate students...