Learn Finnish: Pronouncing Å, Ä, Ö
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ส.ค. 2016
- For my debut video on this channel, I figured I would start with something fairly basic. How to pronounce Å, Ä and Ö in a Finnish way. I made an attempt to give out some examples and such...hopefully they help you at least a little! :)
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When I was a young man I was intrigued to learn that Finnish is one of the few languages spoken in Europe that does not belong to the Indo-European Family of languages. That was more than sixty years ago. Now, thanks to your contribution, I have made a tentative start at learning some Finnish though there is not a huge demand for it in Northern New South Wales, Australia, where I live. Thank you for your efforts. I appreciate them tremendously.
That's amazing to hear! I'm glad to be able to help even a little.
KatChatsc Finnish
I know this was 4 years ago, but I'm interested in learning Finnish and I live in Western Australia haha
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I feel it's quite useful that my first language is French! Ä, Ö and Å sound almost exactly like our A, E and O. They're easy for me to pronounce.
the problem is the difference between ä and a
The Finnish Öö is literally the English vowel found in the word 'air' which is [e] but with rounded lips. So pronounce the word 'air' (non-rhotic - no R sound) and then round the lips - you'll shift from [e] to [ø]. Finnish Öö is [ø], basically.
I spent just a week i Finland in.2010. As my friend drove me from the Airport to her home in Espoo the duplicated Road signs made a huge impression on me. First in Finnish then in Swedish. I was informed that as one gets closer to Sweden the order of the languages changes. Yet as we drove east the Swedish signs disappeared.
+Denis Matthews That's because the language of the road signs is dictated by the dominant languages in every individual municipality. If Swedish is the more common language in a municipality, the signs will be primarily Swedish with a Finnish translation, if Finnish is more common, then the signs will be in Finnish with a Swedish translation. If the municipality has something like 98% Swedish speakers, then the signs will only be in Swedish, and if the municipality has pretty much only Finnish speakers then the signs will only be in Finnish. Why all the signs can't be in both languages, I don't know. I don't think anyone does.
Coastal provinces from southeast up to Kokkola/Karleby level in north are bilingual, so all road signs are in both; Finnish and swedish.
In counties where swedish-speaking population is dominant those signs are first in swedish, then in finnish.
Helsinki metropolitan area is in Uusimaa province (swedish: Nyland) and in the coast so all the street signs are bilingual.
You can often hear especially the older people speaking swedish, their native language in the public in Helsinki.
Both Helsinki and Turku (Åbo) have significant finland-swedish minority and many small counties around Helsinki metropolitan zone are dominantly swedish
It is a PERFECT lesson, my mother tongue is Russian, but still it's super clear!! Thank you a lot!
Wow so happy to hear that! Thank you!
Some finnish people laugh with the "Ä" like kimi räikkönen
This is something a foreigner told me and i never heard anyone think about it
"hähähähähäää"
well. finnish "laugh" has a meaning for almost all vocals
hah!
heh.
hih :3
hohohoho
Aha I never thought of that xD
Höhöhöhö
I feel very lucky to be Turkish. We can say all the letters you mentioned:
Å=Oğ , There is not Å in Turkish Alphabet but we can say it.
I can read Ä as Â. There is not Ä or  in Turkish Alphabet but the letter  is often used to pronounce foreign origins in Turkish.
The letter  is not in our alphabet, but we can read it.
Also there is Ö in Turkish Alphabet(as 19th letter of Turkish Alphabet).
Also as other letters: There is Ç,Ğ,İ,ı,Ö,Ş letters in Turkish also there is not W,Q,X but we can say them so I feel very lucky myself as a vocabulary.
Since I can pronounce many letters from the Middle East and European Geography, I don't think I will encounter any problems in the alphabet pronunciation training part if I start learning a language.
But of course there will be an accent problem as a natural.
Your efforts of explaining the pronunciation of ä and ö is definitely one of the cutest things I have ever seen. :)
Haha I tried my best :P
+KatChats I've been learning Swedish so I totally get you :)
Creepy. Would you say that to a man?
I just realized that ä sounds weird.
äää
äääääää
äää
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ä
Wow. What a smart finn I am.
Hana c it actually doesn’t sound that weird but you finns over pronounce it so much😂 (I‘m german)
@@linajurgensen4698 This is just not true at all. German is from a different language tree.
The german ä ≠ finnish ä.
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@@linajurgensen4698 In Deutschland you say the Ä more like between E and the finnish Ä. it’s not as clear as in finnish
Im from finnish= mä olen suomesta
I sound like a combination of Stitch and a parrot when I say Ä.
And when I try Ö, I sound like some cavegirl.
Lol
@@towobey
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We have the same 3 letters in Norway too. Å one is the same while ä is an æ, while ö is an ø in norway, written slighty differently, but the å one is the same like you guys in finland and in sweden :) but they are pronounced the same.
Oh awesome! I didn't realize that ø and æ is the same pronunciation as ö + ä ! Thanks for sharing! :)
Jag undrar om det har att göra med att Norge har tillhört Danmark. Dom har ju också æ, ø och å.
Actually, you explained well. I understood. Thnx.
the letter that cost me the most to pronunciate in suomi is "y". the ä å ö I have them more or less controlated.
Many greetings from Greece and thank you for your help! I love Finland (Helsinki is sooo nice town) and I try to learn Finnish language 😀
You can find clear ö sound in word earth. for me it sounds like ööth :D
yeah true!
PiuwPiuw ä
Also "word" has a nice clean Ö-sound
This is only true if you have an English accent. unfortunately it does not work in an american accent
It's close - but not exactly the same. The place in mouth is different, even the manner of forming it, and these are the criterias to define a vowel. Maybe the English don't hear it close the same? People have a tendency to hear the vowels of another language as one of their own, coz with vowels, the mouth is kinda fully divided between them. There's 'no space' for new ones. Except when sound changes take place, but such things last years, a few generations.
Now in Australia and some British dialects the vowels are about to change again, they sorta 'shift', the whole setting moves. It has happened already once, before that English had similar vowels as all the other (European) languages. 'I' was sometimes said like 'ee', and eye, as ay+e (e of bEt, like be').
Though using that English vowel sound in EArth, wOrd, gIrl, bUrn, hEr etc. will work just fine for the Finnish ö.
Your Finnish and English is so good, I seriously can't tell which one is your primary language.
Thank you ^-^I'm bilingual so I consider both my 'mother tongue'
What language do you *think* in?
Thank you, Kat! That was so fun and simple. I just discovered your channel today. I recently moved here in Finland and it's been hard to learn Finnish on my own. So please, continue your channel!. Kiitos!
Kiitos for your sweet comment! Good luck with your Finnish journey, I’m glad this video was helpful :)
I will start studying Finnish tomorrow because of you i loved the language and I liked your videos very much, gonna speak with my teacher now, all the love from me and from Syria 🇸🇾
Now I know where the term "yrjö" comes.
Now lets learn Lithuanian: Š Č Ž Ė Ę Į Y U, Ū ... 🤭😂😂🤷🏻♂️
now let's learn Hungarian: á é í ú ü ű ó ö ő lol😂
Now lets learn Turkish ı,İ,Ü,Ö,Ğ,Ç,Ş
Now let's learn Portuguese: á à ã â é ê í ó ô õ ú ç
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Now let's learn Polish: ą, ć, ę, ł, ń, (ó), ś, ź, ż
Since I've been studying Finnish for six months so far, though not on a regular basis, it will be helpful for me to learn more easily about Finnish. I wish I apply for an exchange program in Finland in two years :-) cuz all I had been wanting to do is studying in Finland that's been my most covetous thing:-). Thank you, Katchats for apprising those tips to Finnish rookie and novice ;-). Hyvää huomenta.
Kiitos! And I hope you can make your wish to study in Finland a reality! :)
It's also worth covering the Finnish Y and U, as they're a bit different to how they are in English. I'd say the English U is pronounced somewhere between the Finnish Y and U.
Finnish u is oo sound in English
For Ö: Try to say E while having round lips, liak saying O.
German Ö, simpler
French eu
Der Meister des Spiegels einfacher für deutche menschen dein idiot
I've been trying more than six months to say this letter! Thank you! I'm happy now hahahah
FinnSalsa You mean a finnish E, right? Just making sure.
Kiitos paljon, Katya. I appreciate these videos very much.
Ö in Finnish is "E" in French, that is interesting!
Or perhaps even like in the word "eau" there is the longer, two vowel version
"deux" has the single vowel "ö" pretty close also
Oui c'est pareil, ou alors comme le son de "oeuf". :)
Ah tiens des Français. C'est tellement rare de voir des Français qui s'intéressent au finnois.
english E sound like finnish I. so, becouse english is pronaunced in correctly. finnish only language that pronaunce words like it written lol
Ö is exactly the same in French in the way we say eu
For anyone struggling with Ö, try saying "Learn" then only the "ea" part, that helped me greatly with pronunciation. Excellent video!
Exactly! Aleksihimself said it similarly 'with "Earth'
Thank you so much for this ! I'm a dual-citizen and never understood Finnish (like ever), but now its so cool to actually be able to learn it for when I go to Finland ! x
I'm glad I could help a little bit :)
Moi mitä kuulu sä et kyl tunnista mua ja saanko mä nyt lipittää sitä sun pilluas😎
Second channel, I'm here hahaha. So nice to hear more about finnish language. Thank you.
I'd like to ask you, if possible, to make a video about a few commom sentences at hotels. It would help me a lot.
Kiitos :)
I just started learning some Finnish, and I watched some of your videos and I love how you teach the language. Your pronunciation is perfect! I wondered do you have a video on the Finnish alphabet? My boyfriend is Finnish and I kind of want to surprise him and learn some of the language, he’s very proud of it!
Ö is like when you mix ew and eh in English....at least that's what it sounded like to me. This was a great help, thanks!
You're pretty 😍 and thanks for the lessons! I'm Polynesian (Samoan & Tahitian) but part of my ancestory goes back to Finland so I'm kind of obligated to learn it now lol
Aw thank you! Haha hopefully my videos can be of some help at least xD
@@KatChatsFinnish More like gorgeous :) Not being a creeper! I came here for some pronunciation lessons and kept smiling the whole time, enjoying your personality and charming delivery :)
Great language teacher, it is great way for me as a beginner.
Thank you very much for your lessons .. I hop to find someone to practice with
Turku in swedish (Åbo) is pronounced like Åbu but like a bit higher
a bit higher?
Thank you very much!! Your lesson is really helpful! ❤🇫🇮
Kiitos paljon :)
Åbo, OO-bu.
Thank you for the breakdown much appreciated
Kiitos!❤️🔥 It helps me so much for learning Finnish!
Greetings from Hongkong!
Thank you so much, I'm glad you've found it helpful ^-^
The problem is that we have the "Ä" too in the german language. But your "Ä" sounds more like our normal "A" our "Ä" is pronounced deeper. It's so confusig xD
Ohh is that so? Yeah that must make it a bit more challenging!
+. Stimmt ^^
I remember when this young german woman was visiting our school and we had to pronounce some sentences to her in our german lesson. She was smiling so widely at us and we were trying so hard to not laugh :DD
Of course we couldn't pronounce anything right as we were just starting to learn the language.
. Exactly :d
DarkObsession German Ä is more closer to Swedish Ä a very deep vocal
In Portuguese we have â, ã, á, à, ç, ê, é, í, ô, õ, ó and ú. These are not considered separated letters. Instead, they are variants of the letters a, c, e, i, o and u. The hardest ones are ã and õ. The Estonian language has õ too, but the pronunciation is totally different. Here in Brazil, we have the word "pão", which means "bread" in English. Many foreigners find it hard to pronounce the 'ão' sound, so they say "pau" instead. And, here in Brazil, "pau" is a piece of wood and it is also means "dick".
It's gold! Love the explanation :)
Thanks! 😃
@@KatChatsFinnish no problem! I'm so glad you are here! What you do to teach in Finish on YT is so beautiful as there are few if anyone at all who talks Finnish learning online & for free a bit at least :)
@KatChats ö is like trying to say "e" while putting your mouth as if you were to say "o"
Hi Minaå, how are you? Really nice video, I would like to ask you if you can advise me some way to learn the Finnish language, where can i start? Thanks you :)
hi katya! i love you videos! the way you put effort on it, it is clear to understand especially for beginners like me! I'm planning to move in finland to be with my husband and your videos are so helpfull! keep it up! (following you on ig as well :))
Aw thank you so much for the support, glad you like my videos! :)
Awesome video! keep up the good job!
Thanks!
Merci beaucoup, tu es magnifique au passage.
Luckily for me I learnt some Swedish before trying to learn Finnish so these sounds are easy!
omg xD its super fun and informative in the same way!
I've to watch more of those xD thumps up
Aw thanks xD
hi dear ,praying for your health,you are doing superb job,please kindly keep it up for such assisstant.thankyou
Is the a with the double dots more like the beginning of _eyes_ or the e in _well_ ?
It sounds amazing
Pajlon kiitos
There is a village in Norway, which is just called "Å". It must be pretty funny such a dialog. "Where are you from? " "Å" :D Just to add, it´s an amazing place and cute word Å :)
Maybe describing the shape of the mouth, position of the tongue will help one pronounce that last one.
My journey with this new and fun language starts today. Wish me luck!!
Best of luck! You can do it! :)
I loved the video! I'm from Brazil and I LOVE Finland, I have many friends there and I study finnish since 2014 but it's too hard!!! Thanks for the video oot ihana 💙
No funkční
@Henry of Monmouth kkkkkkkkkkkkk meu deus sim!!!
@Henry of Monmouth eu ainda estudo e realmente é muito difícil, meu sonho é alcançar a fluência, mas a forma mais facil é indo pra lá e eu ainda nao tive essa oportunidade
I’m starting to learn my grandparents” language, Finnish.
I have heard from learners in other language to start by just learning words and dialogue. Others say you have to learn Finnish grammar first.
Thoughts?
(I have to admit, Finnish grammar terrifies me !)
Thanks for this video. Really helpful. Please keep making videos like that. I want to learn Finnish language so bad.
Thank you so much! :)
So I'm not sure if it's like the German exactly or not, but when I teach "ö" to English speakers trying to learn German, I say it's like going "uuuuhhhh" but with rounded lips.
I like the video, it was helpful to me as an English speaker to hear the sounds and be able to see what your mouth was doing. It could be helpful in future videos to perhaps explain what your mouth is doing. For example, with Ö : I found that if I say an English A like in hat then keep my tongue the same while making an o with my lips, I was able to get the sound of an Ö. So just trying to suggest that as a teacher, explanations like that and being able to see what your mouth is doing, could be even more helpful to your students. Keep up the good work! I.M.H.O. it's the vowels of a language that are the trickiest, but most important.
"Get the words out" yep I remember that. Simply brutal. But I only recollect. The recall is beyond budget limits.
Hei Kat, I am learning Finnish by a paid online course for 3 months now and already reached level A1. I have some friends from Tampere and Lappeenranta so there are enough people I can ask for help. Though I need more practice so I want to watch all your videos. Let's see how far I come. Nähdään pian!
That’s great! :D
Your pronunciation is very clear to my ears, perhaps it is due to my Spanish speaking background.
We use the Letter ö in turkish too
And ü also
OH MY LERD NON INDO EUROPEAN LANGUAGE MUST BE TURK ANKARA IS ALSO A WORD IN FINNISH FENZ R TRUKS CONFREMD
P.S. This is a strawman and if you say anything akin to this post, then you will only prove your intellectual inferiority. :DD
Kiitos paljon for all your tips and lessons
:)
Just started to Finnish today 😊 It's my 16th language 😄
Wow!
Oh, I forgot a word "learn" 😅
"Just started to learn Finnish today".
By the way, my mother tongue is Cantonese. Finnish is so different from my mother tongue, it would be a challenge for me, but I hope my knowledge of Korean/Japanese will help me a little bit in terms of grammar :) And I was very curious about Finnish - one of the most difficult languages in the world! 😊
@@mirae9163 Yess the grammar can be a bit tricky, but if you have studied 16 languages already maybe the background can be helpful for you (or I hope so at least!!)
Could you please recommend me a book or a system to follow to learn Finnish? I love your videos, but, I think If I follow a method it would help me. I read online good things about Suomea Suomeksi and other I can't remember now. Do you know a good one? Tks!
Hmmm I haven't actually read any of the Finnish books, maybe you can join my Finnish facebook group and ask the others there which ones they use? :)
Hyvää huomenta! Terve!
Sharing knowledge is good.. Thanks for sharing and making us learn Finnish.. Welcome your efforts.. Your videos shows how much you like your land and language
Thank you so much :)
In Turkish we have the ä sound but we don’t have a specific letter for that and it’s just represented as “e” when it’s followed by n, l and r because that’s when it usually replace the regular e. So since it’s an assimilated version of e, they didn’t create a specific letter not to complicate the orthography. For example, Turkish “sen” (you) is actually pronounced like “sän” in Finnish but when it’s “seni” (direct object of you) it’s pronounced with a regular “e”as it’s written as “seni” in Finnish because the syllable no longer ends with the “n” sound so it’s not assimilated. But this sound would never be at the end of the syllable like minä so that’s a bit challenging. But the other central asian languages like Kazakh and Turkmen have this sound on its own and they spell it as ä too.
Great Video, Thanks!
Glad you liked it! Thank you so much for your generosity, kiitos todella paljon. It means a lot! ^-^
Hi kat! Subcribers from philippines🤗 just want to ask do you know online finnish language i want to learn more your video such a big help thank you for your respond😊
if i go finland.we want to learn surely swedish language?
"Ä" as in "Apple" is also a good example to think of. Us Swedes usually say more like the.. A in "Älska" (almost an E) Especially in Stockholm. =)
That's right! :D
Great video very helpful
Glad to hear it!
Tätä on kiva kattella.
What! You so good!
awesome thank u Finnish language is very difficult in the beginning and these videos help a lot so kiitos paljon
I'm glad you've found this helpful! :)
Thanks a wonderful job I hope if you have time to make a video about house ..Living room &Kitchen & Bedroom furniture ....
Noted!
Oh, so, do you have another TH-cam channel?
This is a really nice informative video :-) How weird did you feel making it? Also Ö is like saying E but shaping the mouth as in O.
Thanks for watching :) It was interesting that's for sure haha! And good tip!
You are a great teacher
Thank you :)
This made me laugh. I like how you were showing pronunciation and just couldn't hold in the laughter. I'm half Finnish and live in Canada, and sadly I lost mostly all of my Finnish. I remember some words. Hmmmmm, pulla... My little brother's nick name when we were small was yunta pulla. Not sure how to spell the first word. Cheers from Canada.
Hahah I'm glad you enjoyed xD
Junttapulla xD
Could be translated to Stubborn Scone 💚 😄
Great video! Could you please also teach us what is the pronunciation difference between D and T, as well as L and R. Thank you! :)
Thanks! Will add that to my list! :)
Moi! Kat do you have alphabet video in finnish language.. You are a big help for me..
Yes I do! th-cam.com/video/1VoD4_0Gxzc/w-d-xo.html
I remember my mum trying to teach me how to pronounce ö, except it was something my dad taught her and she thought that she could teacher her 5 year old daughter before moving to Finland, except she had a very distinct and strong Australian accent, so she made a very STRONG gagging sound and described it as vomiting almost like how you said it. So for my first few months in Finland, I'd end up embarrassing my dad by sounding like I was vomiting in public while trying to speak Finnish. He had to tell whoever I spoke to that I was born in Australia and just recently came to Finland... I still struggle with prouncing it XD
Hahah wow that's actually hilarious xD
What a great job
*I have learnt something new, I did not know ä had a different sound in Finnish because mostly in Germanic languages ä is known to sound like German Ä or English É*
*The Finnish ä sounds pretty much like an á*
Hi there! Thank you for your video. I was trying to improve my Finnish pronunciation and found your video. What a luck!
However, could you go into more about this topic for "ää", "öö", "uu"?
Thank you :)
Thanks! And yeah good idea, I'll add that to my list as well! :)
Soo... I'm swedish and I'm learrning finnish! So... :D
@- Tri108 - he is gay
@- Tri108 - потому что японцы д геи
@- Tri108 - переводчик... это есть !
I am too lazy to change my name Are they Japanese language? Lol, you know the kanji for Japanese person is different right?
It is my idea or when combining: ö d ä the d does not sound? I mean mutes the d?
Thanks!
How do you say kengat with the two dots on the a? Cant figure out how to say it.
i don't know but like your pronunciation of å and ö sounds like it's the same as in norwegian, but we use the letter ø instead of ö
Hi can you please do a vedio about entroducing you're self for a job thanks
The letter Ö makes the sound "eugh", as in "eugh, yuck!".
It also makes the "ir" in "bird", the "er" in "her", the "ear" in "earn" or the "ur" in "burn" in the Queen's English (also called "received pronunciation"), which is non-rhotic.
"British English" isn't a dialect. Britain includes England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, each of which contain many dialects, some of which have a rhotic "r" sound and some of which don't.
first of all, thank you queen!
could you do the non weird vowels?
moreover, I'm definitely waiting for ä diphthongs; please release it soon! also i can't figure out how to make the ä sound when it isn't at the end of a word. or at least not with an r after it, my mouth just can't move quick enough to execute the sounds.... so can you do the consonants too? haha
anyway your videos are very good!
trying to pronouce Päivätär (she's from the kalevala) has taken me an hour of research on wikipedia, youtube, and the IPA website haha
HYVÄ VIDEO
Thank u! Thank u!
The easiest way to explain ö to English speakers is to tell them to make the sound "e" as in "bet" (sometimes called "short e") and to round their lips while they say it.
Tongue like a "short e", lips like an "oh".
Finnish-American here and you are gorgeous.
Aww thanks