In which Cam attempts to learn Finnish

[camrogers]

"Why doesn't this language have any resemblance whatsoever to English? There are eight vowels! Every word's a fucking ambush!"

"If Tolkien can get this you can."

"Yeah, 'cause Tolkien was a total retard."

Fun Facts

There are no separate masculine, feminine or neuter words. At all. There's is no 'he' or 'she'. There's a human-version of 'it.' Big on equality. First country to give women the vote.

Nokia is a Finnish company, named after the city in which it started. Always thought they were Japanese.



The actual scaffolding on which the language hangs is easy enough to comprehend, but it's remembering the words that's gonna be the biggest thing. Seriously. In the end it's going to come down to living in a country where I'm surrounded by people who speak Elvish whether I can or not. Weirdly, I think I'll pick this up quicker than French. J's a better teacher (she runs her own school.)

Comments

[ed-dirt.livejournal.com]

remember, tell them you don't want to speak English or they will! Constantly! The Finns are used to nobody understanding their language and so they've learned other languages in order to communicate.

Once you learn Finn, btw, you'll have a breeze learning Hungarian

For some reason, Hungarian and Finnish have the same language root.

[patchworkkid.livejournal.com]

Brilliant!