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. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:11:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 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 =)

chivacongelado’s last blog post..Ethnic passengers?

]]> 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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