So true in Finland. Here I’ve improved my English quite a lot by attempting to speak with Finns in Finnish 😊
Being grateful is one thing, something to be encouraged but let down with a poor graphic instead of real, meaningful words. Feels less sincere.
I just started learning Finnish this week and I’m super happy with my progress so far! Minä olen Maddie ja olen mukava 🙂
Lol this happened last week when the taxi driver seemed impressed by my “kaunis kaupunki”
Finland being recommended to me cuz I live in Estonia. Thank you reddit
You’re clearly not from where I’m from
If you want to have better English skills, try going to Finland and speaking Finnish with the locals 🙂
kissa
Hah you are so fucking crazy. Good luck. You need it.
I’ve been to Finland twice to visit my cousins, and it’s so funny when I meet folks who are afraid to speak English around me because they’re worried it’s not good enough, and I’m like, I promise your English is better than my Finnish lol.
I spent 3 months learning key Finnish words and phrases before I vacationed there. After a week talking with many ppl in pubs I couldn’t really carry a conversation in Finnish, but I started recognizing words used often and could usually tell what the person was generally talking about. They said I spoke good Finnglish. 🙂
I don’t know a single word of Finnish, but I read recently that the Finnish language has an astounding 16 noun cases. Coming from a language like English, with so few cases that most English speakers don’t even know what a “case” is, that is highly intimidating.
And if it is true that Finnish has a gender-neutral third person singular pronoun, then English needs to borrow it so we can stop having to say “he/she” and similar, awkward phrasings.
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So true in Finland. Here I’ve improved my English quite a lot by attempting to speak with Finns in Finnish 😊
Being grateful is one thing, something to be encouraged but let down with a poor graphic instead of real, meaningful words. Feels less sincere.
I just started learning Finnish this week and I’m super happy with my progress so far! Minä olen Maddie ja olen mukava 🙂
Lol this happened last week when the taxi driver seemed impressed by my “kaunis kaupunki”
Finland being recommended to me cuz I live in Estonia. Thank you reddit
You’re clearly not from where I’m from
If you want to have better English skills, try going to Finland and speaking Finnish with the locals 🙂
kissa
Hah you are so fucking crazy. Good luck. You need it.
I’ve been to Finland twice to visit my cousins, and it’s so funny when I meet folks who are afraid to speak English around me because they’re worried it’s not good enough, and I’m like, I promise your English is better than my Finnish lol.
I spent 3 months learning key Finnish words and phrases before I vacationed there. After a week talking with many ppl in pubs I couldn’t really carry a conversation in Finnish, but I started recognizing words used often and could usually tell what the person was generally talking about. They said I spoke good Finnglish. 🙂
I don’t know a single word of Finnish, but I read recently that the Finnish language has an astounding 16 noun cases. Coming from a language like English, with so few cases that most English speakers don’t even know what a “case” is, that is highly intimidating.
And if it is true that Finnish has a gender-neutral third person singular pronoun, then English needs to borrow it so we can stop having to say “he/she” and similar, awkward phrasings.