Comments on: The difficulty of the Finnish language is a national myth http://www.chivacongelado.com/2009/03/the-difficulty-of-the-finnish-language-is-a-national-myth/ Musings from a child of globalisation. Thu, 24 Nov 2011 18:05:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: chivacongelado http://www.chivacongelado.com/2009/03/the-difficulty-of-the-finnish-language-is-a-national-myth/comment-page-1/#comment-9939 chivacongelado Tue, 25 Jan 2011 10:23:03 +0000 http://www.chivacongelado.com/?p=2313#comment-9939 Ei haittaa. Kiitos! :) Ei haittaa. Kiitos! :)

]]> By: Jauh0 http://www.chivacongelado.com/2009/03/the-difficulty-of-the-finnish-language-is-a-national-myth/comment-page-1/#comment-9924 Jauh0 Mon, 24 Jan 2011 00:36:01 +0000 http://www.chivacongelado.com/?p=2313#comment-9924 As a finn, I hope you can let me make some improvements to your comments: @chivacongelado: “Suomen kieli ei niin vaikea ole, vaan erilainen”, this sounds more like native finnish: "Ei suomen kieli niin vaikea ole, vaan erilainen" or "Suomen kieli ei ole niin vaikea, vaan erilainen". @Delfin: "Kielen ymmartäminen on Suomen yhteiskunnan ymmärtaminen :o )" you have to use ä twice in "ymmärtää", also you should add "Suomen to the beginning, it sounds more natural, it sort makes the difference between "a" and "the": "Suomen kielen ymmärtäminen on Suomen yhteiskunnan ymmärtäminen" As a finn, I hope you can let me make some improvements to your comments:
@chivacongelado: “Suomen kieli ei niin vaikea ole, vaan erilainen”, this sounds more like native finnish: “Ei suomen kieli niin vaikea ole, vaan erilainen” or “Suomen kieli ei ole niin vaikea, vaan erilainen”.
@Delfin: “Kielen ymmartäminen on Suomen yhteiskunnan ymmärtaminen :o )” you have to use ä twice in “ymmärtää”, also you should add “Suomen to the beginning, it sounds more natural, it sort makes the difference between “a” and “the”: “Suomen kielen ymmärtäminen on Suomen yhteiskunnan ymmärtäminen”

]]> By: chivacongelado http://www.chivacongelado.com/2009/03/the-difficulty-of-the-finnish-language-is-a-national-myth/comment-page-1/#comment-9591 chivacongelado Fri, 17 Dec 2010 08:25:00 +0000 http://www.chivacongelado.com/?p=2313#comment-9591 German is also logical, but the logic again is completely different. German is also logical, but the logic again is completely different.
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]]> By: fonso http://www.chivacongelado.com/2009/03/the-difficulty-of-the-finnish-language-is-a-national-myth/comment-page-1/#comment-8675 fonso Thu, 25 Nov 2010 15:27:08 +0000 http://www.chivacongelado.com/?p=2313#comment-8675 Agree completely. German is much more difficult for me, if only because of the three grammatical genders. Agree completely. German is much more difficult for me, if only because of the three grammatical genders.

]]> By: chivacongelado http://www.chivacongelado.com/2009/03/the-difficulty-of-the-finnish-language-is-a-national-myth/comment-page-1/#comment-413 chivacongelado Tue, 07 Apr 2009 09:18:53 +0000 http://www.chivacongelado.com/?p=2313#comment-413 Agree wholeheartedly =) <abbr><em>chivacongelado’s last blog post..<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/chivacongelado/~3/G-GYe3i-L6I/" rel="nofollow">Ethnic passengers?</a></abbr></em> Agree wholeheartedly =)

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]]> By: Delfin http://www.chivacongelado.com/2009/03/the-difficulty-of-the-finnish-language-is-a-national-myth/comment-page-1/#comment-394 Delfin Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:01:53 +0000 http://www.chivacongelado.com/?p=2313#comment-394 One of my teachers once explained it like this: English is like an inverted pyramid, with very few knowledge (words and grammar) you can say a lot of things, but as long as you advance things get complicated due irregularities and idioms, so practically anyone can speak it, but few can speak it properly. Finnish is like a normal pyramid, first you need to learn tons of things, words and rules, to being able to make a simple sentence. But when going further things begin to fall by themselves on its place, and following the logic structures it's easier and easier. I think this famous "difficulty" concept was initiated originally by english-speakers, for whom I see is specially hard, then Finns took it as a pride flagship, which is perfectly OK. Kielen ymmartäminen on Suomen yhteiskunnan ymmärtaminen :o) One of my teachers once explained it like this:

English is like an inverted pyramid, with very few knowledge (words and grammar) you can say a lot of things, but as long as you advance things get complicated due irregularities and idioms, so practically anyone can speak it, but few can speak it properly.

Finnish is like a normal pyramid, first you need to learn tons of things, words and rules, to being able to make a simple sentence. But when going further things begin to fall by themselves on its place, and following the logic structures it’s easier and easier.

I think this famous “difficulty” concept was initiated originally by english-speakers, for whom I see is specially hard, then Finns took it as a pride flagship, which is perfectly OK.

Kielen ymmartäminen on Suomen yhteiskunnan ymmärtaminen :o )

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