It's very common to have your babies sleep outside during winter in Finland. Multiple layers of clothing, a sleeping bag and the cover of the stroller will keep them warm and comfy. That + the fresh cool air = great sleep.
"Minä tapaan sinut" and "minä tapan sinut" are exactly as the meme suggests. To our ears short and long vowels are truly different. I had never even thought that these two sentences could be mixed by accident, because they don't sound alike. Another one: Saanko olutta. = Can I have a beer. Sanko olutta. = A bucket of beer.
About the snow: yes, it can be as deep as in some of those pics. But it's not always like that, southern Finnish winter can be pretty wet and mild these days... but then you have a crazy blizzard or two and that's it then, get out your snowblower as your shovel will not be near enough. About tapaan/tapan: yes, the length of a vowel can and often does change the meaning of a word. Sometimes dramatically.
Not just sleeping outside in the cold, but humans just overall sleep better in a cooler temperature. Something about lowering your body temperature letting you experience deep sleep easier. I know for a fact I sleep the worst during summer because of the heat.
When my kid was a baby, he'd be really warm when I took him out of the stroller. Maybe even a bit warmer than sleeping inside. Multiple layers of clothing and a sleeping bag keep the body heat from escaping, so the guy was basically his own little radiator in there. ☺
All my 3 children slept outside all year round (daytime naps of course!), but when it got below -15 degrees celsius I just went outside with them until they fell asleep and brought them back in, but they wouldn´t fall asleep indoors! They slept outside until the age of 2,5 years.
The word "Perkele" is basically a Finnish word for "Perkūnas" (Baltic god of thunder), it's used quite similarly to the expression "God damn it", but it can also be used to give you supernatural strength and make the weakest wet their pants. 👍🏻
10:07 That's after all the snow from the roof has been dropped on the ground. I used to rent a row house apartment and that window view is exactly what my little backyard looked like after the maintenance cleaned the rooftops of snow. It was done for safety reasons (only once in a winter) right before spring began to melt the snow.
About Finnish autumn being like 50 shades of gray.... Nothing could be further from the truth. Finnish Autumn is incredibly colorful and vivid. When the leaves turn, there's flaming colors of red, purple, orange, yellow, and brown everywhere - even on the ground. And it lasts a few weeks. After that scenery does turn gray, but that's called winter - not autumn.
November is just 1 shade of gray. No sun everything has died and like this week tihkusadetta. Ei mua haittaa. Yhtä vittuuntuneilta ihmiset aamulla näyttää, kun ratikassa oon kuin kesällä. Sama meininki työpaikalla eli tosi jees ja kotona on valot...jee. Joku vuosi oli, ettei aurinkoa näkynyt ainakaan täälä yli kuukauteen. Se oli jo aika paha jopa tälläiselle ei niin tunteikkaalle ihmiselle.
Lol "snow that deep" 😂 Mate, you wouldn't have known there was a car parked if you hadn't parked it there yourself the night before. And yes, there's police reindeer in lapland. Also there's the best license plate in a police car in Sodankylä: "LUU-5", which means "bone-5", as in fist 😂
The cold constricts the mucus membranes in your nose. If your baby has a stuffy nose, they'll sleep better outside in the cold, where they can breathe easily, than inside with a stuffed up nose. 👍🏻 They're wrapped up in so many layers that they don't even notice they're out in the cold.
There isn't much information about Sámi in internet but your best bet is probably websites of sámediggi. Everything there is made by our community of northern-, inari- and skolt sámi in Finland. Sámediggi is a self-government body of Sámi. Our people spread over northern parts of Finland, Sweden, Norway and a small part of Russia. There are 9 still existing sámi languaged and all of them are endangered.
"Suomi mainittu, torilla tavataan" is my favourite ridiculous Finnish saying. It means "Finland was mentioned, let's all meet up at the market square!", meaning whenever Finland is mentioned in foreign media, we will all get so excited that we must come together as a nation and since it's a tiny nation, we can all meet up at one place. It also refers to the actual Capitol Central Station market square where the big party is when we win hockey championship.
I like your channel Mert, do you ever get tired of hearing how good a Scottish accent sounds? I like your calm enthusiasm. I think you'll fit in well here, in our strange Moominland 🙉🙊🙈
3:33 "How long would it take to get fluent in Finnish for a foreigner?" If you're an adult and are not already familiar with multiple languages, especially Japanese, I would say 2-7 years. If you also want to sound native, 20+ years.
Yes we do leave babies out in the cold, but they aren't there without clothes or any other protection, they're fully clothed in a sort of sleeping bag. My nieces baby monitor has a temperature gauge and it always shows room temperature in there so they're definitely warm and cozy.
Yeah, I've seen a moose... 0.5 seconds before my car collided with it 😬 I was lucky and only suffered a mild concussion and some small wounds on my knuckles. The car was broken beyond repair and the moose died
I have seen a lot of moose. Several right in my back yard, but also by the roads. Perkele is a swear word. I won't go to the ethymology of the word, as others in the comments have already explained it. Karelian pie is savory pie, rice porridge inside and very thin rye crust outside. Usually eaten with egg-butter (boiled egg mixed with melted butter). I know several non-Finnish who have learnt to speak very good Finnish. You can hear they are not native, but it doesn't matter. Rarely Finnish who speak other languages, sound native either. Beginning of Autumn is very colourful, when the trees and plants on the gound turn into Autumn colours. It is called "Ruska" in Finnish. The grey season don't usually last that long, depending how quiclky snow comes.
Yeah sausage on a stick is a popular method of cooking sausages in open fire. Usually if you go ski during winter, you take a pack of sausages with you so you can make a fire, grab a stick and cook the sausage on a stick while taking a rest at the same time. Sausages in Finland are crazy popular and we have I think close to 30 different flavored sausages, to mention a few popular flavours are, Chili and cream cheese, Blue Cheese and garlic and smoked bacon sausages
3:30 never is the answer. Yes, you can learn Finnish and get by, but if you haven't grown up with the Finnish language, speaking fluently, that you would pass for a native Finn is nearly almost impossible. I know for sure sure that with enought time and effort, or just pure talent, alot of people will learn finnish in away that in short conversations they speak finnish perfectly, but the longer the conversation progresses, native Finns start to notice that there is something strange in not native Finns spoken language. Firstly becomes in mind that there might be some Finnish dialect, but pretty quickly native Finns catch on to the fact that Finnish is not the mother tongue for someone. Even though Finnish sounds very monotonous, words have weight, tones, and those tones can change the meaning what has just said. Personally I don’t care does other person speak fluently finnish, main thing is that both parties understand eachother. If someone is learning finnish, I'm always ready to help if I can, cause you don't learn any language from the books, you have to interact with people.
@@osemarvin2847 that is very true, but he has only lived in Finland since 1969. But if you listen him speak in 1980's talk shows, you can pickup that he is not native Finn.
You can also often tell if someone has a Finnish-Swedish background. Not for everyone but many times you can. Even if they have spoken Finnish in a professional setting for decades and have been exposed to Finnish language their whole life. You can still hear that Finnish is not their first language.
There are some people with a crazy talent of learning new languages. Those might get very fluent in a couple years, to the point you don't immediately notice they aren't natives.
I didn't have a yard or a balcony, so I walked outside for two hours every day with the stroller. That my child could sleep outside and get some fresh air. At the same time, I got exercise and support when I could talk to friends, even if it was just on the phone.
Perkele is a character in finnish mythology. I won't go too deep into it since I can't remember how it goes rn and I don't want to misinform, but I think he could be compared to satan from christianity. Perkele is a very common swear word and when you fuck things up yelling "PERKELE!" makes you instantly feel better since it has some power behind it. Funnily Satan also is used as a swear word in finnish language. You might just randomly hear a finn yell "Saatana!"
So originally Perkele originates from the slavic mythology, where Perkunos was the name of the thunder god. As such it's quite possible that it was originally a name for Ukko the thunder god and later twisted to be an alias for the devil.
The Sámi Parliament of Finland elections ended at the beginning of October, which were conducted entirely by mail vote. The new members have been elected for the next four years. The elections are only personal elections, i.e. official parties are not elected in the elections.
I think all this was true. Some winters we have a lot off snow, some winters less. I live in Helsinki so the snow amount in winter is not that bad as it is in Lappland / north Finland. But here also taking your car out off snow in winter is normal.
if one mosquito in your room makes you feel uneasy, imagine what tens of them inside feels like :D The summer cottages here are usually in the middle of nowhere, near leak or not, usually surrounded with forest so there will be lots and lots of mosquitoes.
11:43 Naked. You lie down on your back in the snow, hands and feet closed to body, then spread legs and hands, go back and forth to create a form of an angel in the snow. You need fluffy snow to do it. Its called LumiEnkeli which is translated to SnowAngel. It feels exceptionally good after you get up and then you warm up in the Sauna.
Yep, minä tapaan = I will meet, Minä tapan = I Will kill... And yeah there are huge moose population in Finland and hunting moose is a really popular hobby. The suburbs of Finland are often near forests so moose can sometimes wander literally in peoples backyards. I consider myself as a stay home person but I think i have seen a moose from pretty close three or four this year... And yeah kalsarikännit directly translated means "wasted while wearing underpants"
I took my Brit friend Lee to sauna and he didn't understand why we took cold beer to a sauna to make it warm. He understtod when the temperature got to 110 degrees centigrate. He run out as hell when I threw 2 buckets of water to the stove. Then I took him outside to bathe in snow. It was - 25. Then he run like hell into the sauna.
Shorts an T-shirt is good as long as sun is shining. Haven't seen it for several weeks, except yesterday and today. It was only -2, so I went walking on ice on shorts and T-shirt. It was very nice untill the wind went up. I started to freeze my fingers and ears. It was still ok for my legs but upper body got little chilly. Nothing too bad, though.
I have only one thing to say about Scottish weather compared to Finnish or Swedish. Scotland had for a long time a Swedish coach for their National Women's team in Football (aka Soccer), and when asked she said she loved the weather since it was so much milder than in Sweden (but I think she spent the summer in Sweden and the other 11 months in Scotland), and Sweden and Finland have very similar weather (at least if one discount Sweden south of Stockholm).
Sami people adopted Finnish language some thousands years ago to trade with the Fennic ethnic tribes. So Sami is like Finnish language one thousand years ago . Estonian sounds to me like Finnish spoken in a comedy.
I did let my both kids have their map outside in winter 🇸🇪. It works absolutely amazing. The kids get a very good long sleep, and very relaxed when wake-up.
Omg that was a good video.. PERKELE and SISU are words that cannot be translated.. Is there someone better in Scotland than in Finland?? Someone can try to translate this too.. Tuu perkele koittaan!! 😁
My husband, born in Finland moved to Sweden with his parents as a toddler. He planned a trip to his aunt in Finland and send a mail to her. Minä tulen kohta tappamaan teitä. He ment offcourse that he was going to meet them soon insted he wrote that he was coming to kill them soon. His aunt wrote back and thanked him for the warning so she could escape to a safe place.
Did you know that the first Scots came to Finland in the 1200s Teit/Teet. many others have come since then in the 1500-1600s. For example Moliis/moylitson/Molitz and Udnie/Udnij/Udny/Udny of Tillery. They are my ancestor and i have Aberdeen 16oc Great kilt❤ tears come out when I hear the bagpipes playing. just like they are calling me home! Alba gu bràth
global warming is a fact because in my childhood i could ski about september and today it's mostly warm winters where you are lucky if it's snowy and not wet in south finland by december.there are still harder winters occasionally and lap land is still mostly cold but in south we experience new animal populations and some new plants.
If you want to get fluent in Finnish, depending on your language skills its about 2-5 years, you can understand and talk it in 1-2 years, so not long, again it depends on YOU.
I was born in autumn so my ice sleeps as baby came early. I havent met mother who doesnt put his baby outside in balcony for naps, no matter ho❤w much below zero. I think its around -25 to -40 is the limit when they consider it might be too cold to put baby outside to sleep naps
=) When the spring and summer is on a wednesday there must be like a silent agreement from like Denmakr on, I suppose up to like Green and Iceland and maybe some more Eastern Friends that those clothers for warmer weather circumstances are come out as soon as ther eis Spring and Summer on the calendra, have no doubt..like even when I was in England, ages ago it was still longsleave,trousers if not ocassionally hoodie cold but the peeps were like "It is spring so it's Mini skirt and shorts time!" I suppse that line starts somewhre in Denmark and ends as I said as the most nothern point where no humans are left basically.^^
9.45 if temperature is -10 C or warmer then it is good for baby sleep outside, when He/ She have good clothes and blanket, You must check how baby feel after some minutes, all the time
I belive that the word Suomi comes from a word Saame. Also a finnish word Saatana (satan) would make sence comming from name Saame. But I'am not educated to say, so this is just my opinion. However Saame is the only original tribe in the world. In north there say, there is a country called Saamenmaa.. that is not offisial country of course. That goes trow from finland to sweden and norway.
I would advice new speakers to avoid the verb "tavata"/to meet and use instead "nähdä"/ literally translated to 'to see'. Not because of any other reason than the possible misunderstanding 😂 especially since double vocals tend to be hard to foreigners so...
I did take foreing friend to sauna last summer, he had to go ot bed after it... Have seen mooses saveral times in wilds, 3 times less than 3 meters away. Those were like 2-3 yearsolds all of them.
Getting fluent in Finnish? I know a girl who's from Hungary (the comedically relative language but nothing alike) who fell in love with Finnish mythology stories as a kid and studied Finnish in university, moved to Finland, was in a relationship with a Finnish guy for 7 years and after 13 years in Finland still makes mistakes almost every message. I suppose you just need to stop caring about it at some point and do your best. For the Sydney opera house meme you need to know that Finland seems to be the only country in the world who came up with the dish drying cupboard above the sink so you don't need table space for the dishes or to dry them with a towel. Saami people: regular Finns don't know much if anything at all about them, other than that their traditional costumes and that they live up in the very north, also in Sweden and Norway, and that they herd reindeers. Saami people on the other hand seem to hate Finns passionately for existing.
Me and my siblings have slept outside in prams in freezing temperatures, so maybe thats why my comments are so stupid but anywya.. "Yeah" How long it takes to get fluent in Finnish, My Guess: "probably never! " If you are not born in the Finland, I already mentioned, that I had a colleque from India he have been here since 1970 retired from It field. But he hardly makes any mistake in spoken language but Originally finnish person can hear that he is not finnish even he speaks seemingly fluent Finnish.. so almost 50 years you could learn it to almost perfectly(with Finish wife, actively using it with relatives colleques and with children speaking it DAILY!! ).. So in that sense the one "Learn fluent Finnish in six months - impossible " Perfect Fluent Finnish try to learn one word Dog: dog == "Koira" but there are some endings that you should be aware of in single form and in a plural form as same amount so there is a joke about the finnish language to show the how versatile the "bending of different endings can be" and same amout of different way to all possible for all words that you besically start to learn in new language.. So it is not the easiest language (probalbly one of the hardes to learn actuallly) to try to learn fluently in a six months ??🤣 == > You could learn fluently use words cat, dog and cow in a six months: An English man and a Swedish man were talking. English: A dog. Swedish: What? English: The dog. English: Two dogs. Swedish: Okay. We have: En hund, hunden, Två hundar, hundarna. German: Wait, I wan't to try it too! English: No, go away. Swedish: No one invited you. German: Der Hund. English: I said go away.... German: Ein Hund, zwei Hunde. Swedish: Stop it! German: Den Hund, einen Hund, dem Hund, einem Hund, des Hundes, eines Hundes, den Hunden, der Hunden. Finnish: Sup. English: NO. Swedish: NO. German: NO. Finn, you go away!! Finnish: Koira, koiran, koiraa, koiran again, koirassa, koirasta, koiraan, koiralla, koiralta, koiralle, koirana, koiraksi, koiratta, koirineen, koirin. German: WHAT? Swedish: You must be kidding us! English: This must be a joke... v Finnish: Aaaand... koirasi, koirani, koiransa, koiramme, koiranne, koiraani, koiraasi, koiraansa, koiraamme, koiraanne, koirassani, koirassasi, koirassansa, koirassamme, koirassanne, koirastani, koirastasi, koirastansa, koirastamme, koirastanne, koirallani, koirallasi, koirallansa, koirallamme, koirallanne, koiranani, koiranasi, koiranansa, koiranamme, koirananne, koirakseni, koiraksesi, koiraksensa, koiraksemme, koiraksenne, koirattani, koirattasi, koirattansa, koirattamme, koirattanne, koirineni, koirinesi, koirinensa, koirinemme, koirinenne. English: Those are words for a dog??? Finnish: Wait! I didn't stop yet. There is still: koirakaan, koirankaan, koiraakaan, koirassakaan, koirastakaan, koiraankaan, koirallakaan, koiraltakaan, koirallekaan, koiranakaan, koiraksikaan, koirattakaan, koirineenkaan, koirinkaan, koirako, koiranko, koiraako, koirassako, koirastako, koiraanko, koirallako, koiraltako, koiralleko, koiranako, koiraksiko, koirattako, koirineenko, koirinko, koirasikaan, koiranikaan, koiransakaan, koirammekaan, koirannekaan, koiraanikaan, koiraasikaan, koiraansakaan, koiraammekaan, koiraannekaan, koirassanikaan, koirassasikaan, koirassansakaan, koirassammekaan, koirassannekaan, koirastanikaan, koirastasikaan, koirastansakaan, koirastammekaan, koirastannekaan, koirallanikaan, koirallasikaan, koirallansakaan, koirallammekaan, koirallannekaan, koirananikaan, koiranasikaan, koiranansakaan, koiranammekaan, koiranannekaan, koiraksenikaan, koiraksesikaan, koiraksensakaan, koiraksemmekaan, koiraksennekaan, koirattanikaan, koirattasikaan, koirattansakaan, koirattammekaan, koirattannekaan, koirinenikaan, koirinesikaan, koirinensakaan, koirinemmekaan, koirinennekaan, koirasiko, koiraniko, koiransako, koirammeko, koiranneko, koiraaniko, koiraasiko, koiraansako, koiraammeko, koiraanneko, koirassaniko, koirassasiko, koirassansako, koirassammeko, koirassanneko, koirastaniko, koirastasiko, koirastansako, koirastammeko, koirastanneko, koirallaniko, koirallasiko, koirallansako, koirallammeko, koirallanneko, koirananiko, koiranasiko, koiranansako, koiranammeko, koirananneko, koirakseniko, koiraksesiko, koiraksensako, koiraksemmeko, koiraksenneko, koirattaniko, koirattasiko, koirattansako, koirattammeko, koirattanneko, koirineniko, koirinesiko, koirinensako, koirinemmeko, koirinenneko, koirasikaanko, koiranikaanko, koiransakaanko, koirammekaanko, koirannekaanko, koiraanikaanko, koiraasikaanko, koiraansakaanko, koiraammekaanko, koiraannekaanko, koirassanikaanko, koirassasikaanko, koirassansakaanko, koirassammekaanko, koirassannekaanko, koirastanikaanko, koirastasikaanko, koirastansakaanko, koirastammekaanko, koirastannekaanko, koirallanikaanko, koirallasikaanko, koirallansakaanko, koirallammekaanko, koirallannekaanko, koirananikaanko, koiranasikaanko, koiranansakaanko, koiranammekaanko, koiranannekaanko, koiraksenikaanko, koiraksesikaanko, koiraksensakaanko, koiraksemmekaanko, koiraksennekaanko, koirattanikaanko, koirattasikaanko, koirattansakaanko, koirattammekaanko, koirattannekaanko, koirinenikaanko, koirinesikaanko, koirinensakaanko, koirinemmekaanko, koirinennekaanko, koirasikokaan, koiranikokaan, koiransakokaan, koirammekokaan, koirannekokaan, koiraanikokaan, koiraasikokaan, koiraansakokaan, koiraammekokaan, koiraannekokaan, koirassanikokaan, koirassasikokaan, koirassansakokaan, koirassammekokaan, koirassannekokaan, koirastanikokaan, koirastasikokaan, koirastansakokaan, koirastammekokaan, koirastannekokaan, koirallanikokaan, koirallasikokaan, koirallansakokaan, koirallammekokaan, koirallannekokaan, koirananikokaan, koiranasikokaan, koiranansakokaan, koiranammekokaan, koiranannekokaan, koiraksenikokaan, koiraksesikokaan, koiraksensakokaan, koiraksemmekokaan, koiraksennekokaan, koirattanikokaan, koirattasikokaan, koirattansakokaan, koirattammekokaan, koirattannekokaan, koirinenikokaan, koirinesikokaan, koirinensakokaan, koirinemmekokaan, koirinennekokaan. English: Swedish: German: Finnish: Aaand now the plural forms! (Similar amount of words as the singular)
I love the Sami colours - they live in the far north, we basically stole most of their lands... :( Pretty much like the aboriginal people of Northern Scandinavia
Typically we don't have very much snow in Finland, but that's because it don't rain a lot at winter. However, the period is long when it don't melt. For example in many parts of US, you can get 1m when there's storm but then in few days, wear shorts and T-shirt again. In Finland, 1m snow during entire winter is lot. Sometimes we get 30cm per day. However, Finland is very far north. Practically same as Alaska, so we don't have sun in winter.
Here is not so debressing.summer is usualy really good here.snow ok some winters there is a lot,some dont,laplandclothes and person are not showing here.only in lapland.there is not so grey than people think,i live in town and here i hawe newer seen babies sleeping outside in winter.countryside maybe thats true.i like video.but litlebit carricateristic style.we are not were talkative and like own space,thats true.but we are not so depressive style people at all in reality.
About the Sami. They're annoyed with Finns since they're pretty racists against the Sami. The Sami village in Finalnd has only ethnically Finnish people, wearing Gatka (traditional Sami outfits). Which the Sami find offensive. They don't want any non-Sami to wear thier traditional and cultural dresses. Sami are basically misstreated by everyone. Finns aren't the only ones. All Sami know some Finnish so if you can speak Finnish, you can talk to any Sami person. and just to end things, I'm 100 % ethnically Finnish. I don't drink coffee.
We do have private schools ofc but im willing to bet that, some small village/small local school has more to offer then some private school in a big city. If you feel like i we can have a call and i will tell you everything you´r wondering about these vid´s.
12:27: "Is this a delicacy or some sort of real food... or is it just a sausage on a stick?" -Yes, to all three.
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It's very common to have your babies sleep outside during winter in Finland. Multiple layers of clothing, a sleeping bag and the cover of the stroller will keep them warm and comfy. That + the fresh cool air = great sleep.
In all of the Nordic countries.
Never heard. Been living here 56 years.
@@aake8497 You heathen. Try sleeping in a bedroom @ 25c. Then try it again in a bedroom @ 15c. You'll sleep better in the colder one.
"Minä tapaan sinut" and "minä tapan sinut" are exactly as the meme suggests. To our ears short and long vowels are truly different. I had never even thought that these two sentences could be mixed by accident, because they don't sound alike. Another one:
Saanko olutta. = Can I have a beer.
Sanko olutta. = A bucket of beer.
About the snow: yes, it can be as deep as in some of those pics. But it's not always like that, southern Finnish winter can be pretty wet and mild these days... but then you have a crazy blizzard or two and that's it then, get out your snowblower as your shovel will not be near enough.
About tapaan/tapan: yes, the length of a vowel can and often does change the meaning of a word. Sometimes dramatically.
Not just sleeping outside in the cold, but humans just overall sleep better in a cooler temperature. Something about lowering your body temperature letting you experience deep sleep easier. I know for a fact I sleep the worst during summer because of the heat.
When my kid was a baby, he'd be really warm when I took him out of the stroller. Maybe even a bit warmer than sleeping inside. Multiple layers of clothing and a sleeping bag keep the body heat from escaping, so the guy was basically his own little radiator in there. ☺
All my 3 children slept outside all year round (daytime naps of course!), but when it got below -15 degrees celsius I just went outside with them until they fell asleep and brought them back in, but they wouldn´t fall asleep indoors! They slept outside until the age of 2,5 years.
Perkele is a curse word, that finns use quite often.
and it can't be translated
Perkele is the great grandfather of Satan
The word "Perkele" is basically a Finnish word for "Perkūnas" (Baltic god of thunder), it's used quite similarly to the expression "God damn it", but it can also be used to give you supernatural strength and make the weakest wet their pants. 👍🏻
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@@leopartanen8752most common translation i see and everyone agrees with is it means "devil" because i mean. That's the literal translation of it.
10:07 That's after all the snow from the roof has been dropped on the ground. I used to rent a row house apartment and that window view is exactly what my little backyard looked like after the maintenance cleaned the rooftops of snow. It was done for safety reasons (only once in a winter) right before spring began to melt the snow.
"how long it would take to get fluent in Finnish?"
-maybe 3
3 what?
-3 generations
9:48 I think so, too.
About Finnish autumn being like 50 shades of gray....
Nothing could be further from the truth. Finnish Autumn is incredibly colorful and vivid. When the leaves turn, there's flaming colors of red, purple, orange, yellow, and brown everywhere - even on the ground. And it lasts a few weeks. After that scenery does turn gray, but that's called winter - not autumn.
Here in Finland most babies are born in august so I think You are right. When it gets dark and nothing to do...
November aka Lonkeromonth isn't winter...Or maybe it could be in Lapland, but not elsewhere in Finland.
November is just 1 shade of gray. No sun everything has died and like this week tihkusadetta. Ei mua haittaa. Yhtä vittuuntuneilta ihmiset aamulla näyttää, kun ratikassa oon kuin kesällä. Sama meininki työpaikalla eli tosi jees ja kotona on valot...jee. Joku vuosi oli, ettei aurinkoa näkynyt ainakaan täälä yli kuukauteen. Se oli jo aika paha jopa tälläiselle ei niin tunteikkaalle ihmiselle.
Depends on if you live in a place dominated by leaftrees or not
@@siiriheikkinen2071 So you're saying that the Finnish autumn is not colourful? That's the weirdest thing I've ever heard.
I love your way to explore us Finns.
Thanks gor reacting finnish things, that makes us very happy🇫🇮 you earn a new sub
Lol "snow that deep" 😂 Mate, you wouldn't have known there was a car parked if you hadn't parked it there yourself the night before. And yes, there's police reindeer in lapland. Also there's the best license plate in a police car in Sodankylä: "LUU-5", which means "bone-5", as in fist 😂
It was a common joke in Finland during Covid:
"people, you now have to stand 2 meters apart from each other!"
finns: "we have to get THAT close??"
Yeah it was really a relieve to get back to 5 meters.
I mean, snow swimming after a sauna is a thing some folks do, so the least amount of clothes a lot of people have worn in the snow is... none
The cold constricts the mucus membranes in your nose. If your baby has a stuffy nose, they'll sleep better outside in the cold, where they can breathe easily, than inside with a stuffed up nose. 👍🏻 They're wrapped up in so many layers that they don't even notice they're out in the cold.
My thai friends definitely suffered when I took them to a sauna :) I loved it
Anti-stalking is real deal :D
2:40 You should see the other one, it's way crazier haha.
Sami are part of northern Norway, Sweden and Finland.
There isn't much information about Sámi in internet but your best bet is probably websites of sámediggi. Everything there is made by our community of northern-, inari- and skolt sámi in Finland. Sámediggi is a self-government body of Sámi.
Our people spread over northern parts of Finland, Sweden, Norway and a small part of Russia.
There are 9 still existing sámi languaged and all of them are endangered.
That "energy bar" was a grilled sausage. We love to grill and eat sausages in open flame.
"Suomi mainittu, torilla tavataan" is my favourite ridiculous Finnish saying. It means "Finland was mentioned, let's all meet up at the market square!", meaning whenever Finland is mentioned in foreign media, we will all get so excited that we must come together as a nation and since it's a tiny nation, we can all meet up at one place. It also refers to the actual Capitol Central Station market square where the big party is when we win hockey championship.
I like your channel Mert, do you ever get tired of hearing how good a Scottish accent sounds?
I like your calm enthusiasm.
I think you'll fit in well here,
in our strange Moominland
🙉🙊🙈
Delicacy?! That was sausage that had been cooked on a campfire.😂
It is a delicacy for sure! 😅
@@Jantzku don't know if I want to call it a delicacy but yes it tastes great.
You can say anything and sound brilliant!! Greatest accent in the world. Great videos thou.
3:33 "How long would it take to get fluent in Finnish for a foreigner?"
If you're an adult and are not already familiar with multiple languages, especially Japanese, I would say 2-7 years. If you also want to sound native, 20+ years.
Holy shit... I actually have been doing that anti stalking thing without realizing it.
Sausages are very popular here in Finland.
Also Finns risking bodily harm to win is basically hard-coded to our DNA.
Yes we do leave babies out in the cold, but they aren't there without clothes or any other protection, they're fully clothed in a sort of sleeping bag. My nieces baby monitor has a temperature gauge and it always shows room temperature in there so they're definitely warm and cozy.
Yeah, I've seen a moose... 0.5 seconds before my car collided with it 😬 I was lucky and only suffered a mild concussion and some small wounds on my knuckles. The car was broken beyond repair and the moose died
I have seen a lot of moose. Several right in my back yard, but also by the roads.
Perkele is a swear word. I won't go to the ethymology of the word, as others in the comments have already explained it.
Karelian pie is savory pie, rice porridge inside and very thin rye crust outside. Usually eaten with egg-butter (boiled egg mixed with melted butter).
I know several non-Finnish who have learnt to speak very good Finnish. You can hear they are not native, but it doesn't matter. Rarely Finnish who speak other languages, sound native either.
Beginning of Autumn is very colourful, when the trees and plants on the gound turn into Autumn colours. It is called "Ruska" in Finnish. The grey season don't usually last that long, depending how quiclky snow comes.
I am kind of happy how we Finns have humour 🤣
Yeah sausage on a stick is a popular method of cooking sausages in open fire. Usually if you go ski during winter, you take a pack of sausages with you so you can make a fire, grab a stick and cook the sausage on a stick while taking a rest at the same time. Sausages in Finland are crazy popular and we have I think close to 30 different flavored sausages, to mention a few popular flavours are, Chili and cream cheese, Blue Cheese and garlic and smoked bacon sausages
I need that Doormat. Just for a friend, just asking... where do I get one?
3:30 never is the answer.
Yes, you can learn Finnish and get by, but if you haven't grown up with the Finnish language, speaking fluently, that you would pass for a native Finn is nearly almost impossible.
I know for sure sure that with enought time and effort, or just pure talent, alot of people will learn finnish in away that in short conversations they speak finnish perfectly, but the longer the conversation progresses, native Finns start to notice that there is something strange in not native Finns spoken language. Firstly becomes in mind that there might be some Finnish dialect, but pretty quickly native Finns catch on to the fact that Finnish is not the mother tongue for someone.
Even though Finnish sounds very monotonous, words have weight, tones, and those tones can change the meaning what has just said.
Personally I don’t care does other person speak fluently finnish, main thing is that both parties understand eachother. If someone is learning finnish, I'm always ready to help if I can, cause you don't learn any language from the books, you have to interact with people.
Neil Hardwick speaks pretty much perfect Finnish.
@@osemarvin2847 that is very true, but he has only lived in Finland since 1969. But if you listen him speak in 1980's talk shows, you can pickup that he is not native Finn.
You can also often tell if someone has a Finnish-Swedish background. Not for everyone but many times you can. Even if they have spoken Finnish in a professional setting for decades and have been exposed to Finnish language their whole life. You can still hear that Finnish is not their first language.
There are some people with a crazy talent of learning new languages. Those might get very fluent in a couple years, to the point you don't immediately notice they aren't natives.
and he has an accent@@osemarvin2847
If you eat meat, a grilled sausage straight off the campfire in winter is a delicacy.
I didn't have a yard or a balcony, so I walked outside for two hours every day with the stroller. That my child could sleep outside and get some fresh air.
At the same time, I got exercise and support when I could talk to friends, even if it was just on the phone.
Perkele is a character in finnish mythology. I won't go too deep into it since I can't remember how it goes rn and I don't want to misinform, but I think he could be compared to satan from christianity. Perkele is a very common swear word and when you fuck things up yelling "PERKELE!" makes you instantly feel better since it has some power behind it. Funnily Satan also is used as a swear word in finnish language. You might just randomly hear a finn yell "Saatana!"
So originally Perkele originates from the slavic mythology, where Perkunos was the name of the thunder god. As such it's quite possible that it was originally a name for Ukko the thunder god and later twisted to be an alias for the devil.
The Sámi Parliament of Finland elections ended at the beginning of October, which were conducted entirely by mail vote. The new members have been elected for the next four years. The elections are only personal elections, i.e. official parties are not elected in the elections.
You laugh, but relating to that "taking your foreign friend to their first Finnish Sauna" meme: "Bruce Oreck has an unusual sauna experience".
I think all this was true. Some winters we have a lot off snow, some winters less. I live in Helsinki so the snow amount in winter is not that bad as it is in Lappland / north Finland. But here also taking your car out off snow in winter is normal.
If you want to try out a video game that truly captures what living in Finland feels like, I suggest giving a game called My Summer Car a go.
if one mosquito in your room makes you feel uneasy, imagine what tens of them inside feels like :D The summer cottages here are usually in the middle of nowhere, near leak or not, usually surrounded with forest so there will be lots and lots of mosquitoes.
Naked is the least amount of clothes ive had in snow. Probably a common answer for a lot of finnish people too.
11:43 Naked. You lie down on your back in the snow, hands and feet closed to body, then spread legs and hands, go back and forth to create a form of an angel in the snow. You need fluffy snow to do it. Its called LumiEnkeli which is translated to SnowAngel. It feels exceptionally good after you get up and then you warm up in the Sauna.
Yep, minä tapaan = I will meet, Minä tapan = I Will kill... And yeah there are huge moose population in Finland and hunting moose is a really popular hobby. The suburbs of Finland are often near forests so moose can sometimes wander literally in peoples backyards. I consider myself as a stay home person but I think i have seen a moose from pretty close three or four this year... And yeah kalsarikännit directly translated means "wasted while wearing underpants"
Penguin walk is very sensible thing to do if you dont want broken bones! Seriously! The older you get, the slower you walk on ice.
10:39 "kalsarikännit"... you have a word for that 😂😂😂😂 please visit Finland 🇫🇮
some one told me "innit like we live inside a grey plastic bag ?"
12:27 its totally pure joke due how much beer and sausage are favored
I took my Brit friend Lee to sauna and he didn't understand why we took cold beer to a sauna to make it warm. He understtod when the temperature got to 110 degrees centigrate. He run out as hell when I threw 2 buckets of water to the stove. Then I took him outside to bathe in snow. It was - 25. Then he run like hell into the sauna.
2 sankoa vettä kiukaalle? Joko sä valehtelet, tai sä olet iha vitun kusipää ihminen...
Shorts an T-shirt is good as long as sun is shining. Haven't seen it for several weeks, except yesterday and today. It was only -2, so I went walking on ice on shorts and T-shirt. It was very nice untill the wind went up. I started to freeze my fingers and ears. It was still ok for my legs but upper body got little chilly. Nothing too bad, though.
I have only one thing to say about Scottish weather compared to Finnish or Swedish.
Scotland had for a long time a Swedish coach for their National Women's team in Football (aka Soccer), and when asked she said she loved the weather since it was so much milder than in Sweden (but I think she spent the summer in Sweden and the other 11 months in Scotland), and Sweden and Finland have very similar weather (at least if one discount Sweden south of Stockholm).
Sami people adopted Finnish language some thousands years ago to trade with the Fennic ethnic tribes. So Sami is like Finnish language one thousand years ago . Estonian sounds to me like Finnish spoken in a comedy.
I did let my both kids have their map outside in winter 🇸🇪. It works absolutely amazing. The kids get a very good long sleep, and very relaxed when wake-up.
Well, did they become orienteers?
We go sometimes to the snow naked, straight from sauna❤
From my experience babies sleep at least one hour more when in cold environment. This is good for the babies and for the parents too.
Im Finnish and i try avoid people as much as i can. So that anti-stalking thing is true for some of us.
Omg that was a good video.. PERKELE and SISU are words that cannot be translated..
Is there someone better in Scotland than in Finland??
Someone can try to translate this too.. Tuu perkele koittaan!! 😁
"Tuu perkele koittaan!!"
Same vibe as the saying "F around and find out!"
@@XaryenMaelstrom I would say no.."F around and find out!" is a much nicer 😁
@@Jari1973 I'd say it's more general in meaning. Where as the Finnish saying is more direct threat of a knuckle sandwich if you do try to find out.
My husband, born in Finland moved to Sweden with his parents as a toddler. He planned a trip to his aunt in Finland and send a mail to her. Minä tulen kohta tappamaan teitä. He ment offcourse that he was going to meet them soon insted he wrote that he was coming to kill them soon. His aunt wrote back and thanked him for the warning so she could escape to a safe place.
10:58 that look like a satellite picture of Finland and half of Sweden.
Slippery roads in the winter. It is impossible to go to the shop. I hate it. I have no food. Is this a happy coutry ?
Did you know that the first Scots came to Finland in the 1200s Teit/Teet. many others have come since then in the 1500-1600s. For example Moliis/moylitson/Molitz and Udnie/Udnij/Udny/Udny of Tillery. They are my ancestor and i have Aberdeen 16oc Great kilt❤ tears come out when I hear the bagpipes playing. just like they are calling me home! Alba gu bràth
global warming is a fact because in my childhood i could ski about september and today it's mostly warm winters where you are lucky if it's snowy and not wet in south finland by december.there are still harder winters occasionally and lap land is still mostly cold but in south we experience new animal populations and some new plants.
If you want to get fluent in Finnish, depending on your language skills its about 2-5 years, you can understand and talk it in 1-2 years, so not long, again it depends on YOU.
Rich people don't "invest" in schools. That is also illegal but they pay more taxes because they earn more money.
Those are just the most random things😂. Ok some of them was kinda true like the mosquito thing
How did you end up living in Malesia?
All of these were pretty much true. Speaking as a Fin.
7:14 def. guilty of this one
I was born in autumn so my ice sleeps as baby came early. I havent met mother who doesnt put his baby outside in balcony for naps, no matter ho❤w much below zero. I think its around -25 to -40 is the limit when they consider it might be too cold to put baby outside to sleep naps
=) When the spring and summer is on a wednesday there must be like a silent agreement from like Denmakr on, I suppose up to like Green and Iceland and maybe some more Eastern Friends that those clothers for warmer weather circumstances are come out as soon as ther eis Spring and Summer on the calendra, have no doubt..like even when I was in England, ages ago it was still longsleave,trousers if not ocassionally hoodie cold but the peeps were like "It is spring so it's Mini skirt and shorts time!"
I suppse that line starts somewhre in Denmark and ends as I said as the most nothern point where no humans are left basically.^^
9.45 if temperature is -10 C or warmer then it is good for baby sleep outside, when He/ She have good clothes and blanket, You must check how baby feel after some minutes, all the time
I belive that the word Suomi comes from a word Saame. Also a finnish word Saatana (satan) would make sence comming from name Saame.
But I'am not educated to say, so this is just my opinion.
However Saame is the only original tribe in the world.
In north there say, there is a country called Saamenmaa.. that is not offisial country of course. That goes trow from finland to sweden and norway.
I would advice new speakers to avoid the verb "tavata"/to meet and use instead "nähdä"/ literally translated to 'to see'. Not because of any other reason than the possible misunderstanding 😂 especially since double vocals tend to be hard to foreigners so...
I did take foreing friend to sauna last summer, he had to go ot bed after it...
Have seen mooses saveral times in wilds, 3 times less than 3 meters away. Those were like 2-3 yearsolds all of them.
Jaloviina was involved in the sauna episode?
Getting fluent in Finnish? I know a girl who's from Hungary (the comedically relative language but nothing alike) who fell in love with Finnish mythology stories as a kid and studied Finnish in university, moved to Finland, was in a relationship with a Finnish guy for 7 years and after 13 years in Finland still makes mistakes almost every message. I suppose you just need to stop caring about it at some point and do your best.
For the Sydney opera house meme you need to know that Finland seems to be the only country in the world who came up with the dish drying cupboard above the sink so you don't need table space for the dishes or to dry them with a towel.
Saami people: regular Finns don't know much if anything at all about them, other than that their traditional costumes and that they live up in the very north, also in Sweden and Norway, and that they herd reindeers. Saami people on the other hand seem to hate Finns passionately for existing.
Salmiakki Ice Cream is the best ice cream.
Me and my siblings have slept outside in prams in freezing temperatures, so maybe thats why my comments are so stupid but anywya.. "Yeah" How long it takes to get fluent in Finnish, My Guess: "probably never! " If you are not born in the Finland, I already mentioned, that I had a colleque from India he have been here since 1970 retired from It field. But he hardly makes any mistake in spoken language but Originally finnish person can hear that he is not finnish even he speaks seemingly fluent Finnish.. so almost 50 years you could learn it to almost perfectly(with Finish wife, actively using it with relatives colleques and with children speaking it DAILY!! ).. So in that sense the one "Learn fluent Finnish in six months - impossible " Perfect Fluent Finnish try to learn one word Dog: dog == "Koira" but there are some endings that you should be aware of in single form and in a plural form as same amount so there is a joke about the finnish language to show the how versatile the "bending of different endings can be" and same amout of different way to all possible for all words that you besically start to learn in new language.. So it is not the easiest language (probalbly one of the hardes to learn actuallly) to try to learn fluently in a six months ??🤣 == > You could learn fluently use words cat, dog and cow in a six months:
An English man and a Swedish man were talking. English: A dog.
Swedish: What?
English: The dog.
English: Two dogs.
Swedish: Okay. We have: En hund, hunden, Två hundar, hundarna.
German: Wait, I wan't to try it too!
English: No, go away.
Swedish: No one invited you.
German: Der Hund.
English: I said go away....
German: Ein Hund, zwei Hunde.
Swedish: Stop it!
German: Den Hund, einen Hund, dem Hund, einem Hund, des Hundes, eines Hundes, den Hunden, der Hunden.
Finnish: Sup.
English: NO.
Swedish: NO.
German: NO. Finn, you go away!!
Finnish: Koira, koiran, koiraa, koiran again, koirassa, koirasta, koiraan, koiralla, koiralta, koiralle, koirana, koiraksi, koiratta, koirineen, koirin.
German: WHAT?
Swedish: You must be kidding us!
English: This must be a joke... v Finnish: Aaaand... koirasi, koirani, koiransa, koiramme, koiranne, koiraani, koiraasi, koiraansa, koiraamme, koiraanne, koirassani, koirassasi, koirassansa, koirassamme, koirassanne, koirastani, koirastasi, koirastansa, koirastamme, koirastanne, koirallani, koirallasi, koirallansa, koirallamme, koirallanne, koiranani, koiranasi, koiranansa, koiranamme, koirananne, koirakseni, koiraksesi, koiraksensa, koiraksemme, koiraksenne, koirattani, koirattasi, koirattansa, koirattamme, koirattanne, koirineni, koirinesi, koirinensa, koirinemme, koirinenne.
English: Those are words for a dog???
Finnish: Wait! I didn't stop yet. There is still: koirakaan, koirankaan, koiraakaan, koirassakaan, koirastakaan, koiraankaan, koirallakaan, koiraltakaan, koirallekaan, koiranakaan, koiraksikaan, koirattakaan, koirineenkaan, koirinkaan, koirako, koiranko, koiraako, koirassako, koirastako, koiraanko, koirallako, koiraltako, koiralleko, koiranako, koiraksiko, koirattako, koirineenko, koirinko, koirasikaan, koiranikaan, koiransakaan, koirammekaan, koirannekaan, koiraanikaan, koiraasikaan, koiraansakaan, koiraammekaan, koiraannekaan, koirassanikaan, koirassasikaan, koirassansakaan, koirassammekaan, koirassannekaan, koirastanikaan, koirastasikaan, koirastansakaan, koirastammekaan, koirastannekaan, koirallanikaan, koirallasikaan, koirallansakaan, koirallammekaan, koirallannekaan, koirananikaan, koiranasikaan, koiranansakaan, koiranammekaan, koiranannekaan, koiraksenikaan, koiraksesikaan, koiraksensakaan, koiraksemmekaan, koiraksennekaan, koirattanikaan, koirattasikaan, koirattansakaan, koirattammekaan, koirattannekaan, koirinenikaan, koirinesikaan, koirinensakaan, koirinemmekaan, koirinennekaan, koirasiko, koiraniko, koiransako, koirammeko, koiranneko, koiraaniko, koiraasiko, koiraansako, koiraammeko, koiraanneko, koirassaniko, koirassasiko, koirassansako, koirassammeko, koirassanneko, koirastaniko, koirastasiko, koirastansako, koirastammeko, koirastanneko, koirallaniko, koirallasiko, koirallansako, koirallammeko, koirallanneko, koirananiko, koiranasiko, koiranansako, koiranammeko, koirananneko, koirakseniko, koiraksesiko, koiraksensako, koiraksemmeko, koiraksenneko, koirattaniko, koirattasiko, koirattansako, koirattammeko, koirattanneko, koirineniko, koirinesiko, koirinensako, koirinemmeko, koirinenneko, koirasikaanko, koiranikaanko, koiransakaanko, koirammekaanko, koirannekaanko, koiraanikaanko, koiraasikaanko, koiraansakaanko, koiraammekaanko, koiraannekaanko, koirassanikaanko, koirassasikaanko, koirassansakaanko, koirassammekaanko, koirassannekaanko, koirastanikaanko, koirastasikaanko, koirastansakaanko, koirastammekaanko, koirastannekaanko, koirallanikaanko, koirallasikaanko, koirallansakaanko, koirallammekaanko, koirallannekaanko, koirananikaanko, koiranasikaanko, koiranansakaanko, koiranammekaanko, koiranannekaanko, koiraksenikaanko, koiraksesikaanko, koiraksensakaanko, koiraksemmekaanko, koiraksennekaanko, koirattanikaanko, koirattasikaanko, koirattansakaanko, koirattammekaanko, koirattannekaanko, koirinenikaanko, koirinesikaanko, koirinensakaanko, koirinemmekaanko, koirinennekaanko, koirasikokaan, koiranikokaan, koiransakokaan, koirammekokaan, koirannekokaan, koiraanikokaan, koiraasikokaan, koiraansakokaan, koiraammekokaan, koiraannekokaan, koirassanikokaan, koirassasikokaan, koirassansakokaan, koirassammekokaan, koirassannekokaan, koirastanikokaan, koirastasikokaan, koirastansakokaan, koirastammekokaan, koirastannekokaan, koirallanikokaan, koirallasikokaan, koirallansakokaan, koirallammekokaan, koirallannekokaan, koirananikokaan, koiranasikokaan, koiranansakokaan, koiranammekokaan, koiranannekokaan, koiraksenikokaan, koiraksesikokaan, koiraksensakokaan, koiraksemmekokaan, koiraksennekokaan, koirattanikokaan, koirattasikokaan, koirattansakokaan, koirattammekokaan, koirattannekokaan, koirinenikokaan, koirinesikokaan, koirinensakokaan, koirinemmekokaan, koirinennekokaan.
English:
Swedish:
German:
Finnish: Aaand now the plural forms! (Similar amount of words as the singular)
12.30 oven (or grill) sausage
I love the Sami colours - they live in the far north, we basically stole most of their lands... :( Pretty much like the aboriginal people of Northern Scandinavia
Finns do have a traditional dress similar to the Sami
Suomen kysymys on meidän! Mies tekee parhaansa!
Typically we don't have very much snow in Finland, but that's because it don't rain a lot at winter. However, the period is long when it don't melt. For example in many parts of US, you can get 1m when there's storm but then in few days, wear shorts and T-shirt again. In Finland, 1m snow during entire winter is lot. Sometimes we get 30cm per day.
However, Finland is very far north. Practically same as Alaska, so we don't have sun in winter.
i have been in 3 car crash with moose.
Ace Hockey? Jääkiekko perkele! xD
Finnish before and after covid meme.
They made us come closer ?
Fluent? 15 years maybe and you would still have an accent. To be able to communicate and be understood a year would do it.
Here is not so debressing.summer is usualy really good here.snow ok some winters there is a lot,some dont,laplandclothes and person are not showing here.only in lapland.there is not so grey than people think,i live in town and here i hawe newer seen babies sleeping outside in winter.countryside maybe thats true.i like video.but litlebit carricateristic style.we are not were talkative and like own space,thats true.but we are not so depressive style people at all in reality.
There are tuo types of People. But im finnish
Sadly its mostly true
I meet u & I kill u - is almost in same in Finnish. Just one letter A difference, just like in your video.
pooring
u should make a video reacting to what we finns did to the saami people
About the Sami. They're annoyed with Finns since they're pretty racists against the Sami. The Sami village in Finalnd has only ethnically Finnish people, wearing Gatka (traditional Sami outfits). Which the Sami find offensive. They don't want any non-Sami to wear thier traditional and cultural dresses.
Sami are basically misstreated by everyone. Finns aren't the only ones. All Sami know some Finnish so if you can speak Finnish, you can talk to any Sami person.
and just to end things, I'm 100 % ethnically Finnish. I don't drink coffee.
We do have private schools ofc but im willing to bet that, some small village/small local school has more to offer then some private school in a big city. If you feel like i we can have a call and i will tell you everything you´r wondering about these vid´s.
Yeah but even the private schools can't look to gain profit or collect tuition fees so it doesn't make them about rich vs poor.