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re: Learn Finnish or Welsh?
Posted on 12/3/20 at 11:28 am to The Silverback
Posted on 12/3/20 at 11:28 am to The Silverback
Finnish, so you can sing like this.
Posted on 12/3/20 at 11:29 am to The Silverback
I'd learn the language of my local Native American tribe, or Cajun French first.
Neither are practical uses of your time for day-to-day speech. However, it could prove useful in a historical sense later on down the road when there are even fewer native speakers.
Neither are practical uses of your time for day-to-day speech. However, it could prove useful in a historical sense later on down the road when there are even fewer native speakers.
Posted on 12/3/20 at 11:29 am to Salmon
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Finnish for me
but I'm kinda obsessed with nordic shite, so
Finland is bilingual, you could learn Swedish too
Posted on 12/3/20 at 11:29 am to The Silverback
This topic reminds me of a scene from Charlie Wilson's War.
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"I've spent the past three years learning Finnish, which will come in handy here in Virginia"
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"I've spent the past three years learning Finnish, which will come in handy here in Virginia"
Posted on 12/3/20 at 11:29 am to NakaTrash
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Which one has hotter chicks you could one day try to pick up?
The Welsh are the hairiest northern European ethnic group, so unless that's your fetish, pick the Finns.
Posted on 12/3/20 at 11:31 am to The Silverback
Finns are generally nice people.
Imagine, though, going into a bar full of gritty Welsh coal miners and being about to shoot the bull with them in their language. You'd get free ale all day.
Imagine, though, going into a bar full of gritty Welsh coal miners and being about to shoot the bull with them in their language. You'd get free ale all day.
Posted on 12/3/20 at 11:31 am to NakaTrash
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Which one has hotter chicks you could one day try to pick up?
Not sure about the specific Finnish-Welsh match up, but in general, Scandinavian chicks >> British chicks...
Posted on 12/3/20 at 11:37 am to The Silverback
My granddad was born in Finland. As his health declined, all he would speak was Finnish. No one had a clue what he was saying, but it sounded cool.
Posted on 12/3/20 at 11:48 am to The Silverback
Finnish. The curses are cooler. My Finn grandma taught me some
Like
Ivan oxceta
Or
Boska murriat
Both have incredibly long words
Like
Ivan oxceta
Or
Boska murriat
Both have incredibly long words
Posted on 12/3/20 at 11:53 am to The Silverback
Another cool thing about Finnish is it’s not an Indo-European language.
Developed separately, Finno-Urgic is the term I believe. Only a few languages in that family, Finnish, Estonian, and maybe a couple others.
I love to speak what little I know with my grandma and grandpa.
My Isö Aitï and Isö Isa
Developed separately, Finno-Urgic is the term I believe. Only a few languages in that family, Finnish, Estonian, and maybe a couple others.
I love to speak what little I know with my grandma and grandpa.
My Isö Aitï and Isö Isa
Posted on 12/3/20 at 11:57 am to The Silverback
If you want a Nordic language, Learn Norwegian Bokmål. You'll get Danish for free, and you'll be able to understand a lot of Swedish and some Icelandic. You also have a head start on West Germanic languages like German & Dutch.
I have Finnish friends and the language is a nightmare, avoid unless you're a Finn or really want to live there. Even then, they will speak to you in English (if you can even get them to speak since they are anti-social ).
The best language to learn is the one YOU are most interested in though. What do YOU want to invest hundreds to thousands of hours in?
This post was edited on 12/3/20 at 12:03 pm
Posted on 12/3/20 at 11:58 am to Salmon
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Your life is a waste of time.
Piss off, I’m giving the man good advice.
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Let the man learn something different.
Negative fricks.
If you are going to go to the effort of learning something like a new language, I don’t see the benefit of choosing one that the native speaker can speak your language better than you could ever speak theirs. That is, a waste of time.
And as almost anyone that has learned a second language can attest, the only way you can truly learn to be conversant is to, you know, have conversations. You got to go to both of those places in order to do that.
I’m Finnished with this foolishness
Posted on 12/3/20 at 12:00 pm to fr33manator
Now this is cool! And something I find very interesting. Hungarian is another odd-ball language that's quite different from your more popular European languages.
Posted on 12/3/20 at 12:05 pm to fr33manator
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Another cool thing about Finnish is it’s not an Indo-European language.
Posted on 12/3/20 at 12:11 pm to The Silverback
I Finnish-Ed furniture when I was younger. Oh, wait, way to corny for a proper OP.
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