Pronouncing the Finnish alphabet: individual letter sounds | KatChats
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- A complete beginner's video on pronouncing each individual letter in the Finnish alphabet.
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My previous video on pronouncing the Finnish ÅÄÖ: • Learn Finnish: Pronoun...
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Just to make it clear I made a video already where I go over the ÅÄÖ of the Finnish alphabet, that's why I didn't include it in this one! :) Here's the link: th-cam.com/video/vnsGvkLF2pE/w-d-xo.html
KatChats thanks u teach me the alphabet and i am stil learning katchat
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for the R , just say PERRRRRRRRRKELE
Voi vits7
One of the few words people want to know in Finnish lol
Time for a nice coffee break. Mmm kafeaaaa
TOTTA VITUSSA
WHOOOO!
Pronouncing “i” sound with your mouth shaped like “u” sound enables you to pronounce “y” sound!
that's how germans pronounce "ü" which is called " "Umlaut". I learned that in my German classes, i'm not a native german, i'm from east europe where about 50% of people speak Russian or other slavik language(s).
AWESOME THANKS!
wow thanks!!
I did not find this session boring at all! In fact I really do appreciate your efforts to communicate. I am forever grateful to my English friend with the Finnish family who introduced me to your videos
For saying the "R" sound saying the word butter over and over really fast is a helpful trick for some people. My Chinese cousin was able to roll his r once. It was a big deal for him. Kiitos!!!
For French people (like me), it's easy to pronounce the Finnish 'Y' letter because it sounds like the French 'U' (but slightly open).
The Finnish "Y" is pronounced like the french "U" :)
Amélia Daguet it's almost like the Danish y as well.
And the Dutch u, too!
Yesss
And the German ü
April fools!
Finnish pronunciation is the closest modern language to latin when pronounced. Just simply drop ALL all additional quirks to letters. Every single letter is both spelled and always pronounced one single way. In other words, if you were a newborn, a language where all lettera were always pronounced the same way, would be the easiest one to learn.
Okay another point I'd like to make (sorry for spamming the comments :P ) there's a little mistake in the video - for "to bake" the basic form is meant to be LEIPOA, so just ignore what I said. And feel better about your own Finnish since we all make mistakes, even me!! xD
How did you even came up with this bew form :D
thnks. it's sound like a piece of cake. jumping to vocabulary.
In many parts of Scotland we pronounce the oo sound like your y, so we would have no problem with it. For German speakers it is like u+umlaut.
Which language is easier to learn Is it Finnish language or German language
I want finnish grammar videos next! :D
Thank you Kat! c:
Finnish y is the same as French u, I guess.
I struggled at first, but try pronouncing i while rounding your lips (like she said it can be explained like in the middle of i and u), then you'll get used soon.
I am native Turkish speaker and i am learning Finnish. Both languages have a lot in common so i can easly understand.
-Attachments are coming to the end of words.
-Pronounced as it written.
-Words grow with the attachments they receive 😊
-Ü
-Ö
And i wanna say thank you becouse you are teaching Finnish very sweetly.
You do understand spain,italian languages?
Learning how to pronounce R very well is important in Czech. We don't normally roll the R, but we also have "Ř" (R with a hat), which is a similar vibration as R, but the tongue is raised (a "raised alveolar non-sonorant trill"). That is really difficult, and even a large part of the native population struggles to learn it. To learn it properly, one has to learn to roll the R first.
One common way to learn R is to say T D, like "teddy", on repeat, and gradually speed it up. The D in it often becomes clear R at speed, and one can start to roll it.
Thanks, my mother tongue is spanish but i started to study finnish from english but the pronunciation of many words becomes easier from spanish.
On the “Y” I was taught to make an “oo” shape with my mouth and then try to say a little i sound (as in “it”) through the o shape
Y is like the U in 'Dude' and Ö is like a how a Surfer says the U in Dude.
I started learning Finnish from today on 23rd December from Russia, thanks to you Katya for your tutorials
Kiitos! Glad to hear it and hope it goes well!
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The R in Finnish is like the R in Spanish (I noticed), Native-Spanish-Speaker though
For native English speakers, the hardest thing about learning to roll or trill the R, is learning to pronounce an R-flavored sound with the tip of the tongue in the top half of the mouth. The English R is normally pronounced with the tongue pretty far away from the roof of the mouth. (It's difficult to explain. Linguists usually classify it as a retroflex approximant, but I think they're kind of grasping at straws. If anything, it's closer to being a vowel, albeit a weirdly atypical one. In fact, it forms diphthongs with any vowel that comes before it, which is something you don't normally expect most consonants to do. Maybe it's a glide, I don't know.) Anyway, the English R sound isn't possible to trill or roll, because the tongue isn't close enough to the top of the mouth, so the first step to learning how to pronounced a trilled or rolled R is to learn to pronounce a Latin-style R, with the tongue near the roof of the mouth.
For Y, since it's close to the french 'U'
Put your mouth in a 'O' form, as if you tried to pronounce a 'O', and pronounce a 'i' at the same time. It takes a while to get, but once you have it, its pretty straightforward
This is a great help! I'm just starting out learning Finnish, was tripping up on the difference between a and ä, as well as Y, so thank you for isolating those sounds!
Glad it was helpful!
Another lovely and really useful video. Thanks!!!
Thank you, this is so helpful! Cant wait for more. 👍🏼👍🏼❤️
I think Finland is a beautiful Country. I would like to learn finnish. You're Videos, that I have seen so far, were really helpful! Kiitos😁❤
Aww thank you so much/Kiitos!!
You are right about the way to pronounce Yy sound about the lips; you have to round the lips and compress them(?) I think, but it does not come out yet because you have to place your tongue close to the roof but in front, not center like most of the rounded vowel. As if you're going to pronounce ee or ea in some English words: feat, sheep, steep, sheet, meet, meat, ... But instead, you round your lips compressed.
hi katchats! your videos are so helpful!! keep it up! me and my best friend are going to go to finland and i am a beginner at learning finnish.. could you maybe do more videos on the basics?
I have really enjoyed watching your videos over the past few years. Always so helpful! I do have a tip for explaining how to pronounce the back and front vowels, which I hope might be helpful. I think of the back vowels as "tongue depressor" vowels. You know how when you go to the doctor and he or she wants to look at your tonsils, so they tell you to say "aww" so that you're pulling your tongue down in the back? Well, the back A is like that. For the front ä you would just let your tongue relax, bringing it to the front of your mouth. It would be similar for the remaining back/front pairs. The Y is just a front U, if that makes sense.
To pronounce y, say i; then, keeping the tongue in that position, round the lips to say u. The position of the tongue is what makes the vowel.
It's like the German ü, which is made like trying to squeeze ue in "blue" really close together through pursed lips.
Sorry, I meant the Finnish "y". Sorry.
This was excellent! I was really struggling with pronouncing the “y” but after saying it a couple times with this video I got it. Thank you!
I'm so glad to hear that! Thank you for watching! ^-^
This is helpful. My hispanic/latin heritage inevitably forces me to pronounce and articulate vocals which makes my accent show up.
I'm glad you found this helpful! :)
The finnish alphabet:
Common: a, d, e, g, h, i, j, k, l, m, n, o, p, r, s, t, u, v, y, ä, ö
(Appear in everyday language)
Uncommon: b, f
(Appear in everyday language but not so often)
Rare: c, w, å
(Appear in a few loanwords, and names)
Very rare: q, x, z
(Appear in very few loanwords and names)
Unofficial: š, ž
(Not in the official alphabet, but are reccomended to use instead of sh, or zh in names. Also appear in very few words such as šakki (chess), but can be written as shakki. Also in the word šamaani (shaman) which can be written as shamaani.)
There is also à which is used to mean "a piece" in price lists. Of course most write it incorrectly as "'á". Google "á la" -"à la" and you'll see Finnish restaurants. Letter é is also used in names like Lasse Virén though leaving it out is not a major sin.
Your videos are so helpful for me who work in Finland and doesn’t speak Finnish much. Thank you so much.
I’m so glad to hear that thank you!
Thank you so much for your lessons.We will move next month Finland.Your lessons are very usefull and you are very good teacher.I hope you will continue to make this kind of videos.
Thank you for sharing!
Thanks for the video, it helps me a lot. I just started to learn two days ago.
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We look forward to learn more Spanish ! You have the best beaches & The Sun ! Hasta Lluego
really great, Hope I can master this lang soon.
I'm glad I found these videos, been slowly going through them as my schedule allows. I've been doing the Finnish course on Duolingo since October and still feel like it's not sticking, which is weird because I used it for Welsh and it had me both reading and speaking in about a month where as I can read Finnish but can't recall words to speak it. Hopefully hearing an actually person instead of a robot voice will help progress things along. :D
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greetings from Costa Rica.
Thank you very much for the video...
Your way of saying the words makes it easier for me to learn the Finland language.
We have the same sound in Mandarin for finnish Y !!!!!!
I can’t tell how happy am I right now
Cuz in Taiwan when foreign friends asked my name
I said 俞德 ㄩˋㄉㄜˊ Yu-De but none of them can pronounce the first character right (same sound in Finnish Y they always repeat saying U )
Finally got some western language can say my name corrected 🤣🤣
+宋俞德 hahaha wow that's awesome ! Maybe Finnish people can pronounce your name then :p
@@KatChatsFinnish In albanian Y is also pronounced the Finnish Y
it's the same for the other Scandinavian countries.
Same in german. Y is sounding like Ü, which is similar pronounced like finnish Y.
Thank you sooo much for this!!! You're awesome! You did great this helped me so much 😁💖🙏
That's so lovely to hear! :D
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Does the A have to sound that nasal or is it the same as in the slavic languages and I'm just hearing things
Great video, really helpful! 😊
I am a native English speaker who learned Turkish. The Turkish Ü sounds a lot like the Finnish Y. To learn this I thought about the U in the English word “turn”. Knowing that trick and listening to your explanation of the Finnish Y, it is very easy to learn to pronounce both accurately.
Because Finnish and Turkish same language family 'Ural -Altai' some words same
@@erdemuysal4897 isn't Turkish part of the turcic language family?
@@btce9739 Main line Ural - Altai
Turcic
Turkish
Uzbek .
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@@btce9739 Ural
Fin- ugor
Estonish
Humgarian
@@erdemuysal4897 the concept of an Ural-Altaic language family is very controversial, at least Wikipedia says so.
I'd like to learn about the cases next please
Hauska tavata! Thanks for the straightforward video! I started my journey of learning Finnish a week ago and I'm lovin it! Cheers from Brazil
Hi! That's amazing, I wish you the best with your language learning journey! I'm glad my video was helpful! ^-^
Thank you for these videos!! I'm applying to study abroad in Finnish next year and I don't know anyone that speaks finnish so this is very, very helpful
How was it? I'm planning to study in Finland
Where Do You live / which Country ?
Fun fact: The Finnish Alphabet is just like the Swedish alphabet, except that we have two extra additional letters: Ž and Š. So it would technically be A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z, Å, Ä, Ž, Š, Ö. Also, the W is also sometimes called, "kaksois-vee". So, for all intents and purposes (and mainly for all purposes), I call the W "kaksois-vee" and include the letters Ž and Š. The Ž and Š (both appear only 0.0001% of the time) are extremely rare. In fact, they are less common than the Å (which appears only 0.0002% of the time).
I like how you articulate. Your method is very helpful. Thank you.
Glad it was helpful! Thank you :)
3:33 I have always thought of rolling the R almost like a very light D sound. If you just flip it once instead of letting it roll for several “flutters,” it’s going to sound like a D. so I imagine when up to a fluent speed you would probably hear it very similarly. If you can’t roll it then any double r’s will probably be difficult however.
Great vid thank you
loved this!
thank you!
great. i like to learn a language starting from the alphabet. and you teach well.
Wow, the finnish alphabet is really familiar to an italian speaker. I would have never thought that.
Most of the letters are pronounced the same!
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I learned without any trouble. thank you.
This helps me so much. Thank you:)
thank you!
for the prononciation of [y] it like [i] but with projection of the lips
What are some good exercises for rolling r's? I can roll an r by itself, but I can't use it in a word. Thanks!
I still have trouble with Y, but I think it helps to practice Y along with U, O, and Ö to get comfortable with the difference.
Also, another word to help with the Z is Fazer. Even though it doesn't start with Z, I also remember how to pronounce it. Plus, that chocolate is fantastic.
Fazer chocolate really is fantastic xD
Knight of the Old Code
I personally learned this way:
You round your lips as though you're saying "ooh", but instead of saying "ooh", try to say "ee" instead without moving your lips.
kiitos,
Y is worth practising. It really pays the price.
As far as I've learned, to pronounce Finnish 'Y' you have to purse your lips while saying the letter 'E'(English 'E' or Finnish 'I'). If you start saying 'E' with normal unrounded lips and then progressively round/pucker your lips it will naturally start sounding like the Finnish 'Y'. Same with Finnish 'Ö', but from English 'E' in the word 'Elder'(or from Finnish 'E').
Thgank you for the good video. May I suggest that the letters appear on screen as you pronounce the whole alphabet at the end?
for the Y, it seems like the tongue is at the very front of the mouth, changing the sound of the vowel.
Thank you for this! I read a lot. And quite often the reading involves reading words in a language I do not know! I must say however, that I took Spanish in high school; and there are definite similarities between the 2 languages! I completely understand your attempt to explain the "r" sound. In Spanish, there is the single r, which is pronounced exactly the same as in English. But then there is the double rr which requires the speaker to roll their tongue! I know this in my brain. But just like you, to this day, I really have never gotten the hang of saying it with my mouth! :) Also, the w in Spanish is pronounced the exact same way as in Finnish: doble v! What is funny about the English pronunciation is that it is pronounced double u, although it is shaped like a double v! When you think about this discrepancy, we come to the conclusion that Spanish and Finnish have the correct pronunciation! How about that!
That is really interesting! Thank you for taking the time to share :D
It seems that Finnish sounds as it's written, just like Spanish. Most of the vowel sounds and the rolling R are exactly the same in both languages as well.
Love te way u teach
Great job!
Not a boring video! Especially when you have just started learning Finnish, and are confused about the nuances of sounds between English and Finnish. And you have a great personality for teaching this. As for the Y - I began taking a class last Monday, and the teacher said Y sounded like "oo" as the "ew" in New York. Hope that helps. But it is those R's that I am going to have to figure out, sounds much like the Spanish R's (which I didn't quite get right either).
Thanks for taking the time to comment :) glad it’s not boring and that’s a good tip!
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Thank you 😊
Finish grammar, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, etc. Simply speaking, put everything on table.
Finish Line vs Finnish Line - could You finish Your first Finnish line !
Thanks for your video! you're really cute! I still have trouble with d,t and aÄ which for me almost same.
You should have started with the logical simplicity of Finnish like duration: one letter = short sound, two letters = long sound. 👌
And stress is always on the first syllable: HELsinki, not helSINki…
Letters are pronounced practically the same independent of surrounding letters unlike in English or French who have little respect for letters or even Swedish, German… 😏
The exceptions are pairs: nk and ng which are the same as in English because there’s no letter for that phoneme.🤔
Are there no exceptions for the first syallable stress? Some langauges have grammar rules with a few exceptions.
@@cosmiceggs2385 There are no exeptions.
Haven't really ever tought of that but that's how it is when you think of it.
And also, there is one (or two) exception(s) for that the letters are always pronounced the same: ng and nk.
The reason why French or English have a pronunciation very different from the script (they have "non-phonetical scripts") is because they have a very old literary tradition, which implies that the script USED TO BE pronounced quite phonetically at some point (in Middle French or Middle English for example), but it was fixed early then, while the phonetics orally were still moving (as in every language). The fact that the Finnish script is quite recent explains why it fits so well with its actual pronunciation (the same with Turkish = it was made by linguists to match perfectly). All of this to explain it is silly to say such a phenomenon is having "little respect for letters", it is just having respect for the living and actual aspect of the language rather than stick to obsolete diction just because it is still written this way.
your tutorial is well done I think , thank you
Thank you so much!
Thank you! This was very helpful!
Glad you found it helpful! :D
Hei! I'm beginning to learn Finnish and this video was very helpful to me. Thanks for doing it!
PS. The other about the vowels is great too!!
Hei! I'm so glad you've found my videos helpful! Kiitos for watching them xD
Thank you for your videos and efforts. Is it possible to have a video teaching the R sound --the rolling R. My own language doesn't have this sound, is there any tips to learn it? Thank you very much. Another question is---if I pronounce it without rolling tongue, will Finns get confused? Thank you
Thank u so much,
such a good video for us absolute beginners!! Thanks
Glad it was helpful!
Not boring at all, it's a perfect video!!! Kiitos!
Yay Kiitos!
Perfect!
Yes, you pronounce clearly that I can get all words ; I really like this video.
Yy - the tip of your tongue is behind your lower front teeth, like English speakers say the letter 'e' or 'ee'. Your lips are saying 'oo' So your tongue and lips are saying two different vowels. Start with 'ee', note where your tongue is (and keep it there!), then make your lips say 'oo'
Thank you
THNX! It's really helpful! Though I feel I need an alphabet in front of me to follow you pronouncing the whole thing at the end.
Some comments about U and Y... I've noticed that in most words in Finnish they sound like a hard-soft pair with "U" giving a hard sound (as in "boot) and with "Y" giving a soft sound (as in "beautiful" without "j" sound, pronounced this way by some Americans).
I read in one book that "w" Finns pronaunce like "kaksois ve"
That's the actual way it's supposed to be said, but it's normal to use "tuplavee". Tupla and kaksois mean almost the same
Re. the R: I have never been able to trill that well, either. However, one tip that one of my school teachers gave was to simply make it sound like a d and that works well for me.
Kiitos, helped me alot :D
Just a small mistake: "Leivota" is not a word. To bake is "leipoa" on Finnish
Joo vahingossa sanoin tollein 😅
The Y sounds more like a cross between the French U and the English oo to me.
Finnish Y sounds like hungarian Ű to me (the long version of Ü)
I am an American who is undertaking this language for a challenge, and I am visiting Finland in summer! Thank you!
your spelligns are incredible good and clear, i will def stick to this channel ... like and abonnementing the bell included ... great video tutorial for pronouncing :)
Thanks and welcome :)
Y in Finnish is pronounced exactly the same as ü in Chinese pinyin... not really an advice but I find it quite interesting.
I found it very helpful as a beginner. Thanks
I'm so glad, kiitos for watching! :)
The Finnish Y sounds similar to the German U with two dots on top (Can't find the dots on my keyboard.) Thank you ever so much for your videos!
Excelente saludos
Would y be like the german umlaute ö? Its hard to explain but i learned how to make the german ö sound by saying o but saying e XD so like o shape but try to say e.
Thank you teacher, Now I know how to pronounce your lovely alphabet.