You’re gonna need an hour or so to teach ‘em the Ä, Ö, and Y letters; and pray they don’t take the hydrofoil over to Tallinn, because then they’re really gonna get confused. “🇫🇮👈🤬👉🇪🇪 What the hell is going on, you two!”
The problem is when they have mishmashed English and Finnish to make brand new words. Kowsit Lats = Cow Shit Flats, where people put their cows out to pasture.
Finnish is super easy to pronounce for Anglos. Just take your time and pronounce every letter.
You’re gonna need an hour or so to teach ‘em the Ä, Ö, and Y letters; and pray they don’t take the hydrofoil over to Tallinn, because then they’re really gonna get confused. “🇫🇮👈🤬👉🇪🇪 What the hell is going on, you two!”
Lol the mainland Estonian õ is pretty fatal too.
TIL: Estonia has islands, I guess I had seen them on the map before, it just never registered I guess.
Ha! I almost mentioned that, too lol
The problem is when they have mishmashed English and Finnish to make brand new words. Kowsit Lats = Cow Shit Flats, where people put their cows out to pasture.
And put the emphasis on the FIRST vowel.
It’s NO-kia, not No-KIA.