tags: Suomi, Helsinki, Finland, travel, language, streaming video
This charming little video attempts to teach me a few simple phrases in Finnish, so I thought you'd also enjoy it [1:27].
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tags: Suomi, Helsinki, Finland, travel, language, streaming video
This charming little video attempts to teach me a few simple phrases in Finnish, so I thought you'd also enjoy it [1:27].
Argh. They are blithely ignoring a crucial point of grammar in the phrase "I live in ..."; in the Finnish language the role of the preposition "in" is taken by a suffix "-ssa"/"-ssä". Thus: "I live in Syracusa" -- "Minä asun Syracusassa"
Every time there is a preposition in an English phrase (and quite often when there isn't), there will be a suffix in the Finnish equivalent.
Your notorious Scibling PZ Myers has already provided a Finnish video covering 90% of routine conversational matter.
weird! why would he do that? is PZ traveling to finland, too?
is PZ traveling to finland, too?
Nah, the winters are too warm for his taste.
Besides, that disrespectful headline would make it even hotter for him there...
Not really, Pierce. They'd just stare at him, look miserable, and sing about it later.