I must say, to a finn estonian sometimes sounds like retarded finnish :D It uses the same words, but they often have different meaning, for example finnish for 'hut' means 'house' in estonian. I have no idea how finnish sounds to an estonian though.. Hungary is actually related, but doesn't reseble finnish at all.
Yes, it is. But the languages splitted so long ago, you don't really see similarities, unless you speak both and understand how languages change over time
In the spirit of Itchy Feet and the desire to learn new languages correctly, that should be "the languages split so long ago". No such word as splitted. :-)
well, considering immigrants here learn it in about 3 to 10 years for understandable level... no seriously one big thing that often causes problems to nons candi is Ă„ and Ă– (which can be replaced with A and O, albeit it sounds slightly retarded) but if you can wrap head around suffixes here you get far even with pronouncing part of said letters being issue
Isn't Finnish related to Estonian? And going further out, you've got all those other Uralic languages, like northern / southern Sami ...
ReplyDeleteAny other "major" language, perhaps?
DeleteWell, Estonian could be major...
DeleteI must say, to a finn estonian sometimes sounds like retarded finnish :D It uses the same words, but they often have different meaning, for example finnish for 'hut' means 'house' in estonian. I have no idea how finnish sounds to an estonian though..
DeleteHungary is actually related, but doesn't reseble finnish at all.
estonia and any other language related to finno-ugric language group
DeleteOuch. You got schooled by mouse in a very educational way.
ReplyDeleteThat's my favorite kind!
DeleteOkay... This is a nice comic Malachi.
ReplyDeleteIs Hungarian related?
ReplyDeleteYes, it is. But the languages splitted so long ago, you don't really see similarities, unless you speak both and understand how languages change over time
DeleteIn the spirit of Itchy Feet and the desire to learn new languages correctly, that should be "the languages split so long ago". No such word as splitted. :-)
DeleteIf you don't care, just ignore me. ;-)
yes kinda, even without split though finn can learn hungary with ease and hungarian can learn finnish with ease because baseline is same
DeleteKarelian?
ReplyDeleteWhy is Finland a tortilla chip it's making me hungry
ReplyDeleteMmmm...Finnlicious.
DeleteIt's because of last week's comic. This is kind of a continuation...
Well, I could try learning Finnish and report back on whether it's really as bad as all that... but I'm too busy right now learning Farsi :-P.
ReplyDeletewell, considering immigrants here learn it in about 3 to 10 years for understandable level... no seriously one big thing that often causes problems to nons candi is Ă„ and Ă– (which can be replaced with A and O, albeit it sounds slightly retarded) but if you can wrap head around suffixes here you get far even with pronouncing part of said letters being issue
DeleteGood luck if you really decide learning it. I started learning it in 2013, 2 years after I gave up.
ReplyDeleteI guess suffixes and pronouncing were major headache? (suffixes part being bit unique to finno-ugric languages)
DeleteYou get the prize for "I started learning it....two years after I gave up." :-D
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