A reaction to #1. From a swede. I think Finns should be very proud of themselves! They are a people of a hard working, honest kind. They keep their promises and stand up to what they think is right. They have had many sacrifices during the years (1809-1945), but they have endured. Tough, reliable people! Much appreciated by us Swedes!
Not to mention that so traumatized were the Swedes that ever since losing the region to the Russians in 1809, they have cowered their way out of every single war.
To #2: Earlier in the Finnish schools the language classes were like translating text word by word, not using a foreign language practically. You had to translate sentences while other students and the teacher were listening. And if you made a mistake, the teacher interrupted you immediately and corrected the error. That's the reason why Finns think that their English sucks. We are just taught to be perfect translators and to be afraid of mistakes that nobody cares about. My Russian friend said in early 90's: (read in strong Russian accent) "When I speak English, I make many mistakes, but I don't care!" Then I got "enlightened" and realized that the point is to be understood, not the perfect grammar.
Another Texan in Finland here! Just visiting (for the third time) and hoping to move to this awesome country soon. The first time I came here I was amazed by how much I had in common with the Finns. Love of silence? Check. Love of sauna? Check. Love of sausage and beer? Check. And those all those Moomin mugs? Hell yes. I never wanted to leave and will be sad to go back to the States. Keep up the great vids!
I feel you. Finns love it when foreigners enjoy their country and culture. When you actually get to the point that you have moved to Finland, it just feels so good.
August Szabo Awesome! Thanks for sharing. I hope you get to actually live there soon ❤️❤️❤️ I love that country. One day I will move back. When the time is right for us. It’s good to know another fellow Texan fit right in there
I always say I was born in the wrong country. For real, I'm German but I feel a really really deep connection to Finland, its language and culture. I plan on moving there soon :3
I'm falling in love with Finland all over again while watching your videos. And I've lived here my whole life :D I really enjoy the way you talk about Finland and just your voice is so calm and pleasant! You got yourself a new fan. 🌈
I love very hot sauna , salmiaki , lakrit candys(salty ones) original long drink, mumins, salmon soup , blod sausages and my finnish boyfriend ❤ and ofc finnish heavy metal music ❤❤❤❤❤👌🏻
I think I might be a Finn ... I love sauna and salmiakki and ruisleipä .. and I watch your videos about Finland because I like to hear what foreigner thinks about us...but I don't want to stand in line for a free bucket 😁... Oh and sorry for my terrible english 🙏
this was hilarious :D I think I might be as well.. Even though I dont even watch ice hockey, its important that someone else won than sweden xd also I dont understand the issue with the free bucket ?!
Finnish band "Nightwish" they are great. My favorite vocalist is Floor Jansen, she is Dutch, BUT, the band is Finnish. Great music, listen to Floor Jansen with Nightwish Live at Wacken singing "phantom of the opera" "The pit and the pendulum" "Ever dream" just about ANYTHING. They've had 3 vocalists all together, my fave is Floor Jansen, BUT many prefer their first vocalist Tarja Turenen or something similar to that. They have these songs in videos on here, RUclips. Very great performances.
Actually most Finns find the bucket queuers funny too. But there is a significant minority who spare no effort to save a little. That was more common a few decades ago, because after the wars there was a rather serious shortage of many things.
The bucket queues exploded when some store openings decided to use the bucket as kind of lottery ticket. So everybody else gets a bucket but one lucky customer gets a bucket with 1000 euros. And if you wait in queue and you're lucky, you win that prize. And if you're unlucky, you still get a free bucket!
What!? Number one is definitely not true! Oh, wait... I'm a Finn and subbed to you because I'm curious to know what you think about us 🙈❤️ You also nailed all the other points as expected
Thanks for another awesome video and yeah most important in this list is, that it does not matter if Finland loses, it only matters that Sweden gets their bum kicked. Sauna, Hockey and Salmiakki three really important things for me and i love that dog. 😍😍☺️🇫🇮
@Big blue whale Finland is still part of the Soviet Union and Costigan is the president what it takes many years the washing away the commonest idea from your brain
Yeah, I'm a Finn! A Swedish Finn, but a Finn none the less. Swedes are basically the same. Except for the sauna (because Swedes think 60 degrees Celsius is sufficient temperature... crazy) and the Finland winning Sweden losing thing. That's so true it's hilarious. Thank you for adding the last part about bring valuable. ❤
@@Alexandros.Mograine Sweden is a wonderful country, and I don't think it "has become" anything that isn't visible everywhere else in the world. I wouldn't want to live anywhere else, but all the "wrongs" with this country is due to the fact that modern society values economic progress over human lives. This is a global problem, visible exactly everywhere.
hahaha, #2 is so true, but a friend of mine explains that its because they go through such rigorous grammar learning than other places i know of (including the US and the UK). and having lived in Philly, with a strong hockey tradition, I absolutely love how Finns love their hockey. and you said Sauna well!! instead of saw-na xD
"The important thing is that Sweden lost"? Swedes feel the same way about Finland. Except if the Finns are competing against any other country than Sweden, like Russia, or USA, or Canada... Finns and Swedes share many attributes. Like when you go sitt in the sauna and someone else comes in, and they say "Hi." First thing in your head is "Oh, great. We got a Talker..." I like your videos. :)
My english is not so good, because I don't speak english like... At all. I can have conversations in my head but when I have to talk outloud it's like "The race was good, and the, team was great." Also, google translate helps 😁
Speaking fluently comes with practice. I know English well enough to read and write it almost as fluently as Finnish (and have for over half my life), but even still it took a good while of knowing foreign people, and actually speaking English semi-regularly, until I felt really comfortable in a spoken conversation.
Sauna - is bath. And of course the bonus is the relaxation. And for your american fellow specimens of our species you can explain why being naked in sauna is not that sexual though we are naked. Like people bathing and showering tend to :) I mean just tell them about the Fahrenheits normally involved. When you're sweating, huffing and puffing in the heat you don't think that others are naked next to you - you're trying to handle the heat, though you might feel like your skin is burning soon - but it's not: you're not in sunlight. And it's not like with a hot bath, there you may burn yourself. In saua it's steam, and not coming straight from the stove like from a steam engine. It spread all over the sauna room, and so you swea in the hot steam. Sweat your dirt off deep within the skin. And then you wash it off - and then your skin is soft and moist, like a baby's skin again - and you've been deeply cleaned!
Did you know that adults get paid by going school? It's 9€ (10$) per day. Crazy as it might sound it's true. I am in college even when I am turning 40 years old soon. We have nice opportunities to learn new profession. Sauna is great! Even small apartments often has sauna. I am not so keen to go to the public sauna. In those there is always some random guy who puts so much water on to the kiuas (heating device) that everyone is suffering from extreme heat XD And because we are Finns no one says anything. We just suffer silently :D
Carwash Finland haha I know those type in the sauna! Finland is amazing. My husband wants to come study there. I was astonished when I moved there and found out they were gonna pay me to take a Finnish language course.
In their small community my grandparents had the neighborhood sauna. My earliest memory is being in the sauna with my grandmother. Saturday night was the big night, and after a sauna folks would gather in my grandmother's kitchen to relax. It was nothing for someone to sit there for thirty minutes or more and never say a word. I was very talkative as a kid and was known as having the "gift of gab". I think they thought it was cute, I guess.
I feel like our insecurity might come from not only general humbleness but also from school. English is taught to everyone since 3rd grade (might be possible to start earlier if you go to international school or something, idk I don't have experience with that) and the mentality is always that only perfect is good enough and it literally felt like grammar was taught a lot more in English than in Finnish classes and I remember my first Finnish class in high school the teacher said that we`re not going to spend time learning grammar because it`s not that crucial to know all that. In English, never. So the "you have to be grammatically perfect, pronounce everything perfectly and have a huge ass vocabulary to ever be able to speak English" mentality is strong in us. Fun fact, no one you'll ever speak English to, except your English teacher, gives a crap about your grammar or vocabulary as long as they are kind of able to understand what you're trying to say. Not like knowing that always helps much but it might and according to my experience it`s still the truth, helpful or not. You would be amazed to know how much time I spent googling words and phrases to make sure I spelled and worded everything correctly and I'm still pretty sure I didn't and none of this makes any sense.
Hello, I'm learning English with your videos. I'm Finn, but I have never really spoken English, only when I visited Sweden in 2016 and 2017. Besides that, I only speak Spanish (and Finnish, of course) with my friends and in my daily life.
Ancient Finns built Sauna first when they settled. In Sauna all people and animals lived together since there was warm through harsh winter. Sauna was warmed every or every other day.
Yay for more videos from you! So great to watch you and fun too, thank you for your positivity. I just got my dna results, 98,9 % finn and 1, 1 % chinese lol So yes very much Finn here.
So true. I don't mind sports but when Sweden is out of WM on ice-hockey or Finland won I will go to swedish news websites to read The comments ...IT IS so fun 🤣
You are so spot on! Its like we have met. I might suggest a future video to be about five most common things a finn reveal while saunasuffering. I have the answer...
You nailed it! Sorry for being curious how foreigners think about us, that is me watching this video, sorry for my bad english, I must have made at least on mistake here, sorry for being sorry... You got them right!
haha, spot on .. at least the very first and the very last point is true. Personally i have never q-d for buckets or coffee, , but i hear this so often - it probably is true ;) And while i cheer when finnland beats sweden in ice-hockey, you would not find me in that fountain. I would just walk home with a certain springing step and a smile on my face. Then again, helsinki kids (where the fountain is) are beeing kept isolated from the rest of the population for a reason :)
I thought I would start by denying the first part, but then realized that I have been watching these foreigner reaction videos like past hour and half so yes that was on point as well 😅. Yes the positive feedback is a thing but it also seems that the much higher personall energy and maybe expressions (than us finns) are enticing as well. At least I get positive mood lift as well.
Jason Evans I didn’t! I don’t know what happened? What the heck? I’m glad you let me know. I remember hearting it. Maybe it has to do with my internet connection. Idk but that’s annoying 😔
As a Finn living in Finland who enjoys sauna, I really doubt that sauna is a "sacred" place to most people today, nor is it especially a place where one would "open up" on feelings. It is just a nice experience among others, a part of relaxing and cleaning up. Sometimes with friends, sometimes just by yourself. And I think it is also important to say that if someone is going to a sauna for the first time, just take it as you feel, do NOT believe any myths or stories about how you should behave or "perform", it is for your pleasure, not a ritual, and if at any point you feel uncomfortable, just get out and have a shower (or whatever) :)
Once again exactly on point! 😁👍👌 Darn girl, you're good! 😆 I of course LOVE sauna! I especially loved how you've noticed that we love our (exceptionally beautiful) homeland of ours, even though we don't brag about it. (Except that I just bragged a little bit...) I guess that I'm quite interested to know what foreigners think of us. Why else would I be so interested what you think of us? 😉😆 But this whole queing in line for a free plastic bucket thing is weird to me. I know that us Finns do that but I just don't get why. It's not like plastic buckets would be rare or overly expensive here. You can buy plastic buckets of basically any color you want anywhere for 2€ or less... so why wait in line for several hours just to get one free of charge❓❔❓ I do think that I myself am kinda weird Finn too, because I don't want Sweden to lose. Not even in ice hockey. Of course I reaaallly want Finland to win when we are playing against Sweden, but if we have lost already, I always hope Sweden to win. I mean that if they lose playing against some other country, I feel like I lost too. Oh, and English is not my native language, so I'm so sorry for all my mistakes! 😉😅 Please forgive me and please correct me, because that's how I learn. 😙❤ Hyvä Raakkeli! 😃😄👌
Finland is the heavy metal country, with more than 50 metal bands for every 100,000 people. That’s more metal bands per capita than anywhere else in the known universe.
Well, as an Finn I want to be sure that I am really Finn and did your famous test! And yep, it seems that I am a Finn but free buckets is not my thing...I am not sure but I believe it is not question of free buckets, my opinion is that it is more like social happening. After all, what possible could be better way to spend some time than with some fellow citizens and be on line for free buckets and discus with others how much berries or mushrooms you and they can pick and pack to free bucket for to eat on winter time? On same line you can have tips concerning good picking places on forests and also some new info how to make cake new way from berries... Also must confess that Ice hockey is not game to my taste...But sure it is when Finland wins world championship! Then I will join with those peoples on fountain pool.
Hello from Finland' s west coast i have 4points of 5, so i am typical finn. Finnish captain in last ice hockey world championchips was from our village....sri my english ; )
Raakels return party! Jos joskus tuut suomeen käymään, niin me fanit voidaan järjestää paluujuhlat johonkin suihkulähteeseen. Omat muoviämpärit mukaan.😀
Sauna is just about the best thing there is in Finland. I knew a couple that had three of them, one electric, one smoke sauna and one with wood stove. I do not fit these stereotypes well, but still, no matter what is the competition, it is a cause of celebration when Sweden loses it. Finns are totally nutty about Eurovision song contest, where Finland has been a winner only once, but after the inevitable Finnish defeat is secured, the next thing is to wait for Sweden to be defeated. For some odd reason, there are voters that support Sweden in Finland, but they have to be Swedish tourists.
@Niko There are always exceptions. I do not queue free buckets or free coffee or free anything. Once there was a Sweden-Russia hockey game in Finland and the Swedes really wondered when all the Finns cheered the Russians.
Hhhhh😄 funny vdo, sorry my english is not good enough lol It's nice some times sad video, sometimes formal, sometimes funny... smart strategy or you can say ... just break the routine.. big up from 🇩🇿2🇨🇱
You are spot on with that "sweden lost". There is not many things what bring us more joy than sweden lose, especially in icehockey. But every sport event will be the same. It not even matters how our team does if sweden lose. Its all good if that happens.
finns are mostly just shy about their english spelling, since we dont normally practice it in real life and older generations can be totally clueless, especially in the countryside :D
Finland is nice and all, but Please do more 'Murica/Texas stuff if you can, maybe throw in a Finland comparison where applicable. I like to call those the "överikorneri" (over-the-top segment), because some things truly are over-the-top and huge over there, as seen in one of your previous videos. Cheers from Finland.
Suomi mainittu! Torilla tavataan! My English skills are just really messed up. For example I don't need subtitles in TV programs, movies or games. English subtitles are useful in rare cases in games. For some reason I still think my English is bad. Maybe it's because I wasn't good at it in school. Speaking in English is just uncomfortable to me.
5 signs you might be a Finn: 1. You were born in Finland. 2. Your parents are Finnish. 3. Somehow you speak Finnish. 4. It says it on your passport. 5. You’re blacked out naked in the snow with a bottle of Koskenkorva in hand.
I can see some Finish qualities in myself (American) like being quiet and not being comfortable with small talk and NOT being all "emotional" with even close friends UNLESS I have had a bit to drink (booze) BUT, the whole sweating naked among strangers, I can't imagine doing that. Being an American, I am fat, I KNOW not all Americans are fat, BUT, I am. I however am NOT a big fan of being in the heat, and humid heat is even worse in MY opinion. I have however gone topless at a US "nudist resort" in Florida, which was quite far from MY hometown, so, nobody there knew me and I would not be likely to see them EVER again. I just could NOT let it ALL hang out. I have seen a bunch of Swedish bicyclists (mostly or all were men) riding their bikes nude on RUclips before. I GUESS IF you ARE going to go nude in public often, it WOULD make you more likely to be slimmer. I do kinda wonder what other nations think of the USA, I do think they MUST wonder NOW, just what the hell is wrong with us that we have elected such a "horrible jackass" and many in the US still support him. He is a giant boil on the ass of every GOOD American that KNOWS we need REAL CHANGE, as in getting his oily orange carcass out of the White House, I am just wondering IF the one that seems to be likely to run against him (Joe Biden) will be much better, there are a good number of OTHER people running on the Democrat side, BUT, it seems that Joe Biden has the money to back up his campaign and the others are NOT going to have a chance in hell at being the ones to run vs Trump, I like at least 3 others besides Biden, BUT, they need more money to even be considered. Biden has refused to say that he no longer think s the way he once did many years ago about women working outside of the home and an issue about helping Blacks and other minorities get to the voting booths to vote. He was given the chance to say that he "no longer holds those points of view" but, he refused to say that he no longer holds those points of view. Most families now in the US are households where women are the chief breadwinner. Biden is living in the olden days back when dad's and husbands stuck around and provided for their families, these days even IF dad's still around, it takes 2 incomes to pay the bills and even then, it is hard. IF I hadn't seen that part of the debates where Biden outright hadn't said that he no longer believes like he once did about minority voters and women working, I'd have never believed it. I am usually quiet and shy, BUT, I have been drinking tonight, so I have been posting many comments to "Wildwoods" videos about America and many bad things. I DO LOVE my country, I am happy where I live, BUT, we NEED to get rid of the sorry excuse for a President we have now, and I hope we don't have another President that is just going to coast along and NOT improve things, and I think that Biden isn't going to do much IF he is elected. He seems to NOT really have any REAL plans to speak of, and it seems like he is "already on his way into being the one that will be vs Trump. Many other GOOD and eager to try and change things people will surely NOT even be given a chance. Biden is leading in the polls or the percentages that they show as to who is in the lead and it seems to all come down to the almighty dollar, and THAT sucks big time. IF BIden expects for women to stay home and raise babies, he damn well BETTER make the men (those thaty are sticking around) earn much MORE money, and what about the single mothers? I can't tell you what Biden's plan are for them. Biden is always saying stuff about his buddy and one time President Obama, BUT, it seems he had been a racist at one time OR he was NOT strong enough to say anything against racists he worked with years ago. I GUESS, IF HE HAD, he'd have NO job. BUT, he refused to say that he "no longer held those same views that he once had" and THAT shows me that he is a bigot at heart, maybe THAT is why he KEEPS mentioning Obama, he is trying to seem NOT racist by mentioning Obama, BUT, he must still be racist, IF he will NOT say that he thinks differently NOW.
Today I saw a line of people queuing for free buckets. I skipped it, because I had to catch my bus. But it would have been nice to have an extra bucket in my sauna. ;) BTW, have you red the book The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life by Anu Partanen? Anu met an american man, moved to NY and got married. In the book she is comparing American and Nordic life, public services, education, daycare etc. It is very interesting. Thanks again for a great and funny video. But at 1:45, oh please don´t give us more pressure about our English, hahah :D
Those bucket's started as a joke of a one shop and it has turned a national joke. 😉 Why que for a approximately a one dollar bucket? Just for the joke of it. 😂😂😂 Soon propably we have contest, who have the biggest ammount of the give away buckets, because we really like to compete in everything. 👍😂😂
I'm a Finn and not interested to follow any type of sport. Victories or losses of Finnish athletes or sport teams mean nothing to me. That kinds of wins and losses are just symbolic and not real in the level of reality that I am interested in. Sport losses and wins are not signs of Finnish people or society really winning or loosing anything. Still I love my country and my people (not necessarily the state) and I'm very worried about real problems Finland and the Finns have to face, and very interested to follow the real losses and victories of Finland in fields like development of our society, environment, culture, language, democracy etc.
As a kid I heard that Norwegians think they're better than Swedes, Swedes think they're better than Finns. Finns know we are better than both, but we keep our mouths shut.
After using only english in my day to day life for over 6 months I still recognize myself from #2 and only recently started to speak English with native English speakers, I was just too scared to speak if the other one didn't have a funny accent as well.
@@WildwoodVagabond yea I dated a spanish guy and moved to Spain without speaking a word of Spanish. (not a wise move, i noticed they don't speak English nearly as well as here in Finland) you just gotta start doing a secment of your videos in Finnish, good way to practice plus you'd get feedback for sure!
@@WildwoodVagabond haha yea, it might not be so encouraging feedback, but feedback nevertheless 😂 I personally hate it when people complain youtubers accents or mispronounciation, how small can someomes problems be so that kinda thing bothers enough to them leave a comment :D
Hmm, Raahe is called subutexas because it was one of the first places in Finland where Subutex replaced heroin as a drug and it was loaded a lot from France to Raahe, which was then seen in the street scene.
A reaction to #1. From a swede. I think Finns should be very proud of themselves! They are a people of a hard working, honest kind. They keep their promises and stand up to what they think is right. They have had many sacrifices during the years (1809-1945), but they have endured. Tough, reliable people! Much appreciated by us Swedes!
❤️ That's awesome to hear as a Finn.
Not to mention that so traumatized were the Swedes that ever since losing the region to the Russians in 1809, they have cowered their way out of every single war.
To #2: Earlier in the Finnish schools the language classes were like translating text word by word, not using a foreign language practically. You had to translate sentences while other students and the teacher were listening. And if you made a mistake, the teacher interrupted you immediately and corrected the error. That's the reason why Finns think that their English sucks. We are just taught to be perfect translators and to be afraid of mistakes that nobody cares about. My Russian friend said in early 90's: (read in strong Russian accent) "When I speak English, I make many mistakes, but I don't care!" Then I got "enlightened" and realized that the point is to be understood, not the perfect grammar.
Another Texan in Finland here! Just visiting (for the third time) and hoping to move to this awesome country soon. The first time I came here I was amazed by how much I had in common with the Finns. Love of silence? Check. Love of sauna? Check. Love of sausage and beer? Check. And those all those Moomin mugs? Hell yes. I never wanted to leave and will be sad to go back to the States.
Keep up the great vids!
I feel you. Finns love it when foreigners enjoy their country and culture. When you actually get to the point that you have moved to Finland, it just feels so good.
August Szabo Awesome! Thanks for sharing. I hope you get to actually live there soon ❤️❤️❤️ I love that country. One day I will move back. When the time is right for us. It’s good to know another fellow Texan fit right in there
I always say I was born in the wrong country. For real, I'm German but I feel a really really deep connection to Finland, its language and culture. I plan on moving there soon :3
I'm falling in love with Finland all over again while watching your videos. And I've lived here my whole life :D I really enjoy the way you talk about Finland and just your voice is so calm and pleasant! You got yourself a new fan. 🌈
Kerttuatar Awesome! Thank you so much for your encouraging comment ❤️☺️
I love very hot sauna , salmiaki , lakrit candys(salty ones) original long drink, mumins, salmon soup , blod sausages and my finnish boyfriend ❤ and ofc finnish heavy metal music ❤❤❤❤❤👌🏻
I think I might be a Finn ... I love sauna and salmiakki and ruisleipä .. and I watch your videos about Finland because I like to hear what foreigner thinks about us...but I don't want to stand in line for a free bucket 😁... Oh and sorry for my terrible english 🙏
Hahaha :D Thanks for watching
hei, mulla ois ämpärit jos tulisit noutamaan :)
this was hilarious :D I think I might be as well.. Even though I dont even watch ice hockey, its important that someone else won than sweden xd also I dont understand the issue with the free bucket ?!
Same here, I can pay that 2€ for that bucket, to not need to be close to ppl :D
Your english is perfect!
My english is not that good, but you forgot heavy metal..
Lehkazz lol
@@WildwoodVagabond tusks open air I've heard of it
@@erichani1hahaa. its tuska, which means pain
or maybe more closely agony
Finnish band "Nightwish" they are great. My favorite vocalist is Floor Jansen, she is Dutch, BUT, the band is Finnish. Great music, listen to Floor Jansen with Nightwish Live at Wacken singing "phantom of the opera" "The pit and the pendulum" "Ever dream" just about ANYTHING. They've had 3 vocalists all together, my fave is Floor Jansen, BUT many prefer their first vocalist Tarja Turenen or something similar to that. They have these songs in videos on here, RUclips. Very great performances.
Actually most Finns find the bucket queuers funny too. But there is a significant minority who spare no effort to save a little. That was more common a few decades ago, because after the wars there was a rather serious shortage of many things.
The bucket queues exploded when some store openings decided to use the bucket as kind of lottery ticket. So everybody else gets a bucket but one lucky customer gets a bucket with 1000 euros. And if you wait in queue and you're lucky, you win that prize. And if you're unlucky, you still get a free bucket!
What!? Number one is definitely not true!
Oh, wait... I'm a Finn and subbed to you because I'm curious to know what you think about us 🙈❤️ You also nailed all the other points as expected
Arkkis haha ... thank youuuu ❤️☺️
Thanks for another awesome video and yeah most important in this list is, that it does not matter if Finland loses, it only matters that Sweden gets their bum kicked. Sauna, Hockey and Salmiakki three really important things for me and i love that dog. 😍😍☺️🇫🇮
Finnish Beast ☺️❤️ thank you!
What do you have against Sweden 2 million of you finish paperwork there for over 40 years they give you job that give you food shame on you
@Big blue whale yeah I got to catch some Finnish people and take a DNA and find out which part of mars the from
@Big blue whale Finland is still part of the Soviet Union and Costigan is the president what it takes many years the washing away the commonest idea from your brain
Yeah, I'm a Finn! A Swedish Finn, but a Finn none the less. Swedes are basically the same. Except for the sauna (because Swedes think 60 degrees Celsius is sufficient temperature... crazy) and the Finland winning Sweden losing thing. That's so true it's hilarious.
Thank you for adding the last part about bring valuable. ❤
I know a couple of swedes and they have told me that its a shame what sweden has become nowdays.
@@Alexandros.Mograine Sweden is a wonderful country, and I don't think it "has become" anything that isn't visible everywhere else in the world. I wouldn't want to live anywhere else, but all the "wrongs" with this country is due to the fact that modern society values economic progress over human lives. This is a global problem, visible exactly everywhere.
Kirsi L Thanks for your feedback ❤️
hahaha, #2 is so true, but a friend of mine explains that its because they go through such rigorous grammar learning than other places i know of (including the US and the UK). and having lived in Philly, with a strong hockey tradition, I absolutely love how Finns love their hockey. and you said Sauna well!! instead of saw-na xD
This was fun! I’m from Sweden but i’ve never ever heard of the buckets-thing 😂
"The important thing is that Sweden lost"? Swedes feel the same way about Finland. Except if the Finns are competing against any other country than Sweden, like Russia, or USA, or Canada...
Finns and Swedes share many attributes. Like when you go sitt in the sauna and someone else comes in, and they say "Hi."
First thing in your head is "Oh, great. We got a Talker..."
I like your videos. :)
54tisfaction haha 😄 thank you!
Thank you for your amazing videos about Finland. I like them so much.
Otto Von Stirlitz Yay! Thanks for watching ❤️
*I think I act like one especially because there's no sauna without a summer camp 😂😂 I totally enjoyed this video. Greetings from Finland ❣️*
You got it right Raakkeli! 😃
Plus yr so cute!
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That litle grince when you talk about finns! 😃
Ari Leskelä ☺️🤓❤️thanks
My english is not so good, because I don't speak english like... At all. I can have conversations in my head but when I have to talk outloud it's like "The race was good, and the, team was great."
Also, google translate helps 😁
Vesa Rouvali You write it well!
Speaking fluently comes with practice. I know English well enough to read and write it almost as fluently as Finnish (and have for over half my life), but even still it took a good while of knowing foreign people, and actually speaking English semi-regularly, until I felt really comfortable in a spoken conversation.
I had same, but when start to talk, it start to go better soon, just use it :)
Sauna - is bath.
And of course the bonus is the relaxation.
And for your american fellow specimens of our species you can explain why being naked in sauna is not that sexual though we are naked. Like people bathing and showering tend to :) I mean just tell them about the Fahrenheits normally involved.
When you're sweating, huffing and puffing in the heat you don't think that others are naked next to you - you're trying to handle the heat, though you might feel like your skin is burning soon - but it's not: you're not in sunlight. And it's not like with a hot bath, there you may burn yourself. In saua it's steam, and not coming straight from the stove like from a steam engine. It spread all over the sauna room, and so you swea in the hot steam. Sweat your dirt off deep within the skin. And then you wash it off - and then your skin is soft and moist, like a baby's skin again - and you've been deeply cleaned!
Did you know that adults get paid by going school? It's 9€ (10$) per day. Crazy as it might sound it's true. I am in college even when I am turning 40 years old soon. We have nice opportunities to learn new profession.
Sauna is great! Even small apartments often has sauna. I am not so keen to go to the public sauna. In those there is always some random guy who puts so much water on to the kiuas (heating device) that everyone is suffering from extreme heat XD And because we are Finns no one says anything. We just suffer silently :D
Carwash Finland haha I know those type in the sauna! Finland is amazing. My husband wants to come study there. I was astonished when I moved there and found out they were gonna pay me to take a Finnish language course.
In their small community my grandparents had the neighborhood sauna. My earliest memory is being in the sauna with my grandmother. Saturday night was the big night, and after a sauna folks would gather in my grandmother's kitchen to relax. It was nothing for someone to sit there for thirty minutes or more and never say a word. I was very talkative as a kid and was known as having the "gift of gab". I think they thought it was cute, I guess.
You got it with that bonus one. Yep. That is the very essence of being a Finn.
I feel like our insecurity might come from not only general humbleness but also from school. English is taught to everyone since 3rd grade (might be possible to start earlier if you go to international school or something, idk I don't have experience with that) and the mentality is always that only perfect is good enough and it literally felt like grammar was taught a lot more in English than in Finnish classes and I remember my first Finnish class in high school the teacher said that we`re not going to spend time learning grammar because it`s not that crucial to know all that. In English, never. So the "you have to be grammatically perfect, pronounce everything perfectly and have a huge ass vocabulary to ever be able to speak English" mentality is strong in us.
Fun fact, no one you'll ever speak English to, except your English teacher, gives a crap about your grammar or vocabulary as long as they are kind of able to understand what you're trying to say. Not like knowing that always helps much but it might and according to my experience it`s still the truth, helpful or not.
You would be amazed to know how much time I spent googling words and phrases to make sure I spelled and worded everything correctly and I'm still pretty sure I didn't and none of this makes any sense.
Ella haha... you’re english looks perfect to me. Thank you for your comment. Interesting perspective! And it makes sense
Hello, I'm learning English with your videos. I'm Finn, but I have never really spoken English, only when I visited Sweden in 2016 and 2017. Besides that, I only speak Spanish (and Finnish, of course) with my friends and in my daily life.
Ancient Finns built Sauna first when they settled. In Sauna all people and animals lived together since there was warm through harsh winter. Sauna was warmed every or every other day.
Funny thing though, that bucket costs less in a shop than a cup of gas station coffee ^^
Also this video made me paranoid about my grammar.
TheAzynder lol I know the feeling. Every time I write my finnish friend I get paranoid about my grammar because hers is so good.
My ex taught me to say "perkele" for celebrate or damn things, definitely I became a Finn lol
Yay for more videos from you! So great to watch you and fun too, thank you for your positivity. I just got my dna results, 98,9 % finn and 1, 1 % chinese lol So yes very much Finn here.
Minna Kaaretsalo that’s so awesome! I can’t wait to do a test one day!
So true. I don't mind sports but when Sweden is out of WM on ice-hockey or Finland won I will go to swedish news websites to read The comments ...IT IS so fun 🤣
Enjoyed, laughed, and I am equally proud to be a Texan
Pricilla Sanders love you mom❤️❤️
You are so spot on! Its like we have met. I might suggest a future video to be about five most common things a finn reveal while saunasuffering. I have the answer...
MrJanZko haha oh lord... what are the answers 😃 this sounds great
Sauna, ice-hockey and koffee. That is Finland.
Ou yeah the coffee!!!!
Tänks Raakel greit video! I spike in englis sou greit änd write too. Nau i gom in sauna my plastik paket too.
Jukka-Pekka Anttila haha 😄
There is a very insightful documentary called Steam of Life (in English), which talks about the lowering of those interpersonal barriers in the sauna.
Serendip sounds interesting. I’m gonna try to find it
Sign #6 ,#7, you enjoy Korpiklaani and short answers :). Great videos. Rakastan Suomea.
You nailed it! Sorry for being curious how foreigners think about us, that is me watching this video, sorry for my bad english, I must have made at least on mistake here, sorry for being sorry... You got them right!
haha, spot on .. at least the very first and the very last point is true.
Personally i have never q-d for buckets or coffee, , but i hear this so often - it probably is true ;)
And while i cheer when finnland beats sweden in ice-hockey, you would not find me in that fountain.
I would just walk home with a certain springing step and a smile on my face.
Then again, helsinki kids (where the fountain is) are beeing kept isolated from the rest of the population for a reason :)
zoolkhan haha 😄 good then... that fountain crowd seemed a bit out of control
I thought I would start by denying the first part, but then realized that I have been watching these foreigner reaction videos like past hour and half so yes that was on point as well 😅. Yes the positive feedback is a thing but it also seems that the much higher personall energy and maybe expressions (than us finns) are enticing as well. At least I get positive mood lift as well.
Raakkeli got us Finn weirdos again by our nuts 😝 Good job 👍
Jason Evans 😆
@@WildwoodVagabond Did u unheart me? Whyyy Rach, whyyy? 😢
Jason Evans I didn’t! I don’t know what happened? What the heck? I’m glad you let me know. I remember hearting it. Maybe it has to do with my internet connection. Idk but that’s annoying 😔
@@WildwoodVagabond It's all good, just wanted to stick it to u a bit if u did 😋😁
Jason Evans lol ☺️
As a Finn living in Finland who enjoys sauna, I really doubt that sauna is a "sacred" place to most people today, nor is it especially a place where one would "open up" on feelings. It is just a nice experience among others, a part of relaxing and cleaning up. Sometimes with friends, sometimes just by yourself. And I think it is also important to say that if someone is going to a sauna for the first time, just take it as you feel, do NOT believe any myths or stories about how you should behave or "perform", it is for your pleasure, not a ritual, and if at any point you feel uncomfortable, just get out and have a shower (or whatever) :)
That bonus one is SO TRUE! xD
Once again exactly on point! 😁👍👌 Darn girl, you're good! 😆
I of course LOVE sauna! I especially loved how you've noticed that we love our (exceptionally beautiful) homeland of ours, even though we don't brag about it. (Except that I just bragged a little bit...)
I guess that I'm quite interested to know what foreigners think of us. Why else would I be so interested what you think of us? 😉😆 But this whole queing in line for a free plastic bucket thing is weird to me. I know that us Finns do that but I just don't get why. It's not like plastic buckets would be rare or overly expensive here. You can buy plastic buckets of basically any color you want anywhere for 2€ or less... so why wait in line for several hours just to get one free of charge❓❔❓
I do think that I myself am kinda weird Finn too, because I don't want Sweden to lose. Not even in ice hockey. Of course I reaaallly want Finland to win when we are playing against Sweden, but if we have lost already, I always hope Sweden to win. I mean that if they lose playing against some other country, I feel like I lost too.
Oh, and English is not my native language, so I'm so sorry for all my mistakes! 😉😅 Please forgive me and please correct me, because that's how I learn. 😙❤
Hyvä Raakkeli! 😃😄👌
Tuija Roininen Great comment! Thank you for sharing. I didn’t notice any mistakes 😄 hope your summer is going well!
Finland is the heavy metal country, with more than 50 metal bands for every 100,000 people. That’s more metal bands per capita than anywhere else in the known universe.
I wouldn't brag about that.
4:23 That hurt.
/Swede
"Tärkeintä ei ole voitto, vaan se että Ruotsi häviää." Yup, my dad used to say that a lot. ^^"
Well, as an Finn I want to be sure that I am really Finn and did your famous test!
And yep, it seems that I am a Finn but free buckets is not my thing...I am not sure but I believe it is not question of free buckets, my opinion is that it is more like social happening.
After all, what possible could be better way to spend some time than with some fellow citizens and be on line for free buckets and discus with others how much berries or mushrooms you and they can pick and pack to free bucket for to eat on winter time?
On same line you can have tips concerning good picking places on forests and also some new info how to make cake new way from berries...
Also must confess that Ice hockey is not game to my taste...But sure it is when Finland wins world championship! Then I will join with those peoples on fountain pool.
Nice bonus! I love it. :D
Most precise analysis and razor sharp commentary :D
Hello from Finland' s west coast i have 4points of 5, so i am typical finn. Finnish captain in last ice hockey world championchips was from our village....sri my english ; )
HIIHTONIILO1 Hello from Texas. Thanks for saying hi! ❤️
Bonus section was best!
TeeJii 79 😄😄😁
You missed that "tärkeintä ei ole se että suomi voittaa, vaan se että ruotsi häviää".
She said that. It was the bonus thing! 😁
@@tuikkur.5655 woops 😁
LOL! You absolutely nailed it!
Love you... you know more about us Finns than me, basic patriot Finn and Ice hockey born skates on crazy and sauna is my church...
Yes. New video from my favorite young youtuber girl👍😁
arska7708 haha not sure about the young part. Maybe young at heart 😄😁 thank you... to you.. to one of my favorite subscribers ❤️
Amazing, so spot on! :)
Raakels return party! Jos joskus tuut suomeen käymään, niin me fanit voidaan järjestää paluujuhlat johonkin suihkulähteeseen. Omat muoviämpärit mukaan.😀
Jukka-Pekka Anttila haha ... kuulostaa hauskalta. I’m down ☺️
Bonus made me laugh!! That is so true with all neighbours.
Hi. (sorry for my bad English)
Iiro Valtonen 😄😄
So true lol. Free buckets are pretty high on our bucket list. 😁
nonoo 😄😁
sorry about my english, but you have to move to finland girl. fififi is calling
Jaeger233 yes!
Brilliant video as always👍🏻
According to my Finnish wife, I’m more Finnish than her because I go to the sauna more than she does. 🤦🏾♂️😂
Quadiyr Wilson lol 😄
Sauna is just about the best thing there is in Finland. I knew a couple that had three of them, one electric, one smoke sauna and one with wood stove.
I do not fit these stereotypes well, but still, no matter what is the competition, it is a cause of celebration when Sweden loses it. Finns are totally nutty about Eurovision song contest, where Finland has been a winner only once, but after the inevitable Finnish defeat is secured, the next thing is to wait for Sweden to be defeated. For some odd reason, there are voters that support Sweden in Finland, but they have to be Swedish tourists.
haha ...thanks for sharing. hope you're doing well!
Niko hello from Texas!
@Niko There are always exceptions. I do not queue free buckets or free coffee or free anything.
Once there was a Sweden-Russia hockey game in Finland and the Swedes really wondered when all the Finns cheered the Russians.
So true its not important to win as long as sweden loses
Hhhhh😄
funny vdo, sorry my english is not good enough lol
It's nice some times sad video, sometimes formal, sometimes funny... smart strategy or you can say ... just break the routine.. big up from
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محمد msmd thank you ❤️ sending love from Texas
You are spot on with that "sweden lost". There is not many things what bring us more joy than sweden lose, especially in icehockey. But every sport event will be the same. It not even matters how our team does if sweden lose. Its all good if that happens.
hey I am sorry my english is not so good , but good points you has over there :)
haha :D
Rachel, oot niin ihq!❤️ Kiitos kaikista videoistasi!
56TF007 Kiitos ☺️❤️
finns are mostly just shy about their english spelling, since we dont normally practice it in real life and older generations can be totally clueless, especially in the countryside :D
Finland is nice and all, but Please do more 'Murica/Texas stuff if you can, maybe throw in a Finland comparison where applicable. I like to call those the "överikorneri" (over-the-top segment), because some things truly are over-the-top and huge over there, as seen in one of your previous videos.
Cheers from Finland.
pundewhee Definitely! Coming up soon. Greetings from Texas ❤️ I hope your week is going well
My Finnish friend built a sauna in his garage in Texas! I am not a sauna fan, but I miss salmiakki and ruisleipa.
Suomi mainittu! Torilla tavataan!
My English skills are just really messed up. For example I don't need subtitles in TV programs, movies or games. English subtitles are useful in rare cases in games. For some reason I still think my English is bad. Maybe it's because I wasn't good at it in school. Speaking in English is just uncomfortable to me.
Janne Laitinen I can tell by what you wrote that your English is great!
5 signs you might be a Finn:
1. You were born in Finland.
2. Your parents are Finnish.
3. Somehow you speak Finnish.
4. It says it on your passport.
5. You’re blacked out naked in the snow with a bottle of Koskenkorva in hand.
I think I might be a Finn also, ou nou I am a Finn!
Thank you very much for your lovely videos about Finland!
ilxhalx LoL! I might be 😏thanks for watching ❤️❤️
Spot on!
Yeeeessss the bonus BIG FACTS.....Just like everything else 🤣🤣
I can see some Finish qualities in myself (American) like being quiet and not being comfortable with small talk and NOT being all "emotional" with even close friends UNLESS I have had a bit to drink (booze) BUT, the whole sweating naked among strangers, I can't imagine doing that. Being an American, I am fat, I KNOW not all Americans are fat, BUT, I am. I however am NOT a big fan of being in the heat, and humid heat is even worse in MY opinion. I have however gone topless at a US "nudist resort" in Florida, which was quite far from MY hometown, so, nobody there knew me and I would not be likely to see them EVER again. I just could NOT let it ALL hang out. I have seen a bunch of Swedish bicyclists (mostly or all were men) riding their bikes nude on RUclips before. I GUESS IF you ARE going to go nude in public often, it WOULD make you more likely to be slimmer.
I do kinda wonder what other nations think of the USA, I do think they MUST wonder NOW, just what the hell is wrong with us that we have elected such a "horrible jackass" and many in the US still support him. He is a giant boil on the ass of every GOOD American that KNOWS we need REAL CHANGE, as in getting his oily orange carcass out of the White House, I am just wondering IF the one that seems to be likely to run against him (Joe Biden) will be much better, there are a good number of OTHER people running on the Democrat side, BUT, it seems that Joe Biden has the money to back up his campaign and the others are NOT going to have a chance in hell at being the ones to run vs Trump, I like at least 3 others besides Biden, BUT, they need more money to even be considered. Biden has refused to say that he no longer think s the way he once did many years ago about women working outside of the home and an issue about helping Blacks and other minorities get to the voting booths to vote. He was given the chance to say that he "no longer holds those points of view" but, he refused to say that he no longer holds those points of view. Most families now in the US are households where women are the chief breadwinner. Biden is living in the olden days back when dad's and husbands stuck around and provided for their families, these days even IF dad's still around, it takes 2 incomes to pay the bills and even then, it is hard. IF I hadn't seen that part of the debates where Biden outright hadn't said that he no longer believes like he once did about minority voters and women working, I'd have never believed it.
I am usually quiet and shy, BUT, I have been drinking tonight, so I have been posting many comments to "Wildwoods" videos about America and many bad things. I DO LOVE my country, I am happy where I live, BUT, we NEED to get rid of the sorry excuse for a President we have now, and I hope we don't have another President that is just going to coast along and NOT improve things, and I think that Biden isn't going to do much IF he is elected. He seems to NOT really have any REAL plans to speak of, and it seems like he is "already on his way into being the one that will be vs Trump. Many other GOOD and eager to try and change things people will surely NOT even be given a chance. Biden is leading in the polls or the percentages that they show as to who is in the lead and it seems to all come down to the almighty dollar, and THAT sucks big time. IF BIden expects for women to stay home and raise babies, he damn well BETTER make the men (those thaty are sticking around) earn much MORE money, and what about the single mothers? I can't tell you what Biden's plan are for them. Biden is always saying stuff about his buddy and one time President Obama, BUT, it seems he had been a racist at one time OR he was NOT strong enough to say anything against racists he worked with years ago. I GUESS, IF HE HAD, he'd have NO job. BUT, he refused to say that he "no longer held those same views that he once had" and THAT shows me that he is a bigot at heart, maybe THAT is why he KEEPS mentioning Obama, he is trying to seem NOT racist by mentioning Obama, BUT, he must still be racist, IF he will NOT say that he thinks differently NOW.
Julie Gogola thanks for sharing!
@@WildwoodVagabond Your welcome!
It's 'Sow' rhyming with 'Cow', then 'ner'.
Great vid/vids. Kitos!
My Finnish is not so hyva : - )
The Full Shilling 😂
Great stuff! Would like to hear more about Texans though also 😊
Turre Tuntematon definitely! I hope to get it done next week.
Sauna is also place where finnish business mans make agreement with each other. Also in sauna has been made big political desicions.
The plastic buckets: They actually fought on the streets for a good place in the queue for free plastic buckets( cost about 2 dollars!).
But she always says how calm and polite they are, never cutting in line or acting violently. Is it an urban myth then?
True, I'm always interested in what people think about finland
I don't think about it.
Today I saw a line of people queuing for free buckets. I skipped it, because I had to catch my bus. But it would have been nice to have an extra bucket in my sauna. ;)
BTW, have you red the book The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life
by Anu Partanen? Anu met an american man, moved to NY and got married. In the book she is comparing American and Nordic life, public services, education, daycare etc. It is very interesting.
Thanks again for a great and funny video. But at 1:45, oh please don´t give us more pressure about our English, hahah :D
Satu Leppänen haha...
I haven’t read that book. It sounds interesting though. Hope you’re having a good week!
@@WildwoodVagabond Thank you, you too. Keep on posting videos. I love to watch them... öhm, as you said it already. ;)
Those bucket's started as a joke of a one shop and it has turned a national joke. 😉 Why que for a approximately a one dollar bucket? Just for the joke of it. 😂😂😂
Soon propably we have contest, who have the biggest ammount of the give away buckets, because we really like to compete in everything. 👍😂😂
Aivansama1000 😄😄
I'm a Finn and not interested to follow any type of sport. Victories or losses of Finnish athletes or sport teams mean nothing to me. That kinds of wins and losses are just symbolic and not real in the level of reality that I am interested in. Sport losses and wins are not signs of Finnish people or society really winning or loosing anything. Still I love my country and my people (not necessarily the state) and I'm very worried about real problems Finland and the Finns have to face, and very interested to follow the real losses and victories of Finland in fields like development of our society, environment, culture, language, democracy etc.
Tell something about your tattoos?
First I read tacos, I want video of both now!
Hi, nice videos you make
I’m 1/2 Finn and love the sauna
My English not so good and I'm American
I love you net Primien. Minä pidän sinun kanavasta.
Deep inside we are all a little bit Finns 😊
Hey beautiful! You really know everything about us! LOL God Bless! ❤️❤️❤️
Leila Varano hello! Blessings from Texas! ❤️☺️✌🏼
@@WildwoodVagabond ❤️
Hauskoja videoita :) ❤
Ruotsi hävisi, SLÄP! hahahah...
Pure gold!
As a kid I heard that Norwegians think they're better than Swedes, Swedes think they're better than Finns. Finns know we are better than both, but we keep our mouths shut.
After using only english in my day to day life for over 6 months I still recognize myself from #2 and only recently started to speak English with native English speakers, I was just too scared to speak if the other one didn't have a funny accent as well.
that's cool you've been using it day to day. I wish I could somehow use my finnish here...
@@WildwoodVagabond yea I dated a spanish guy and moved to Spain without speaking a word of Spanish. (not a wise move, i noticed they don't speak English nearly as well as here in Finland) you just gotta start doing a secment of your videos in Finnish, good way to practice plus you'd get feedback for sure!
Anssi_Ilari yeah I’ll definitely get feedback 😄
@@WildwoodVagabond haha yea, it might not be so encouraging feedback, but feedback nevertheless 😂 I personally hate it when people complain youtubers accents or mispronounciation, how small can someomes problems be so that kinda thing bothers enough to them leave a comment :D
Anssi_Ilari I know right 😄🙄
You should visit Nivala, here in finland, it's called texas of finland.
Jari Härmä that would be awesome!
Hmm, Raahe is called subutexas because it was one of the first places in Finland where Subutex replaced heroin as a drug and it was loaded a lot from France to Raahe, which was then seen in the street scene.
Might be a Finn if you knew wildwood was talking about the sauna... 😄
Also, too true about the Sweden losing bit....
Jason Wright 😄
Its good thats sweden almost never losing to Finland then 😉
I subbed 👍😁
Hetsku Time1234 Awesome!! Thank you. Greetings from Texas ✌🏼❤️