re: Learn Finnish or Welsh?

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What did your Finnish friends say was the most difficult aspect of learning the language?

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It translates over to nothing we know. Grammar isn't hard but you have no reference for words. Some of the words I've picked up on I just have to force myself to associate to something. With a germanic language, often I can read new words and immediately associate them to a word in english. With Finnish it looks like you slammed your head on the keyboard and threw vowels (a's and i's especially) allover.

I'm going to throw some random words out there, try to see which ones you can pick up on. Sound them out and think of the closest english word you can think of.

fisk / kalastaa

brød / leipää

øl / olut

vindu / ikkuna

regn / sade

en mann / mies

hund / koira

jeg liker du / pidän sinusta

Mandag Tirsdag Onsdag Torsdag Fredag Lørdag Søndag / Maanantai Tiistai Keskiviikko Torstai Perjantai Lauantai Sunnuntai

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I've tried to learn Icelandic but materials were severely limited

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For Icelandic:

You can find natives here: LINK (keep in mind it's a younger community, probably around college age)

You can text/voice chat with native speakers. there are channels with educational resources in there as well. It is definitely harder to find good material for learning Icelandic