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Finnish and Swedish battling it out for title of the longest word

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Havunen Minttu on mun lemppari Ääniloiri

Miku is wearing etelä-pohjanmaa Finnish national dress and the art is inspired old packaging of Finnish Oat brand called Elovena.

In original packaging Elovena girl is actually wearing mishmash of different elements of multiple different Finnish national dress. I wanted Miku to wear an actual national dress and the Etelä-Pohjanmaa was the closest one.

Because Touden siblings are from the northern region, I had to draw them in my country's (Finland) Traditional outfits.

Laios is wearing men's Karstula and Falin Tuuteri's outfit.

Susannah reads; an announcement

I’m going to start a comment/review series on books I haven’t read before; some (if not most) of them being books that are considered “classics”.

The first one is “Ivanhoe” by Walter Scott; first published in 1819.

I’m going to read a Finnish translation; the third, linguistically corrected version, published by Werner Söderström, printed in 1930 in Porvoo; translated by Suonio. (that’s the only name in the book for the translator).

I’ll write some of my thoughts about this novel here, and hope you’ll find it somewhat entertaining.

lbffr, english is an outlier on this site adn should not be counted. so.

Do not vote if your first language is English!!!

If you have multiple first languages, please choose to vote for the one that is not English OR the one that you think will have the least votes!

I am aware that Indo-European is still going to win but I do hope the results will be a little less skewed!

And no, I will not give you a "see results" button <3

Finnish Pie

Mie sanoisin, että pohtimalla missä tilanteissa sie tunnet sitä ikäkriisiä ja kahtelemalla ajan kanssa ympärilleen. Ihmiset elää tosi erilaisissa vaiheissa elämäänsä ihan eri ikäisinä. Joo, toki jos tuntee paljon keskiluokkasia cisheteroita, niin voi tulla sellanen olo, että ympärillä ihmiset muodostaa perheitä, valmistuu nopeesti määräajassa, menee naimisiin ja ostaa taloja.

Mut varsinkin jos on esim. trans, niin se spontaanin kokeilullinen, eri elämäntapoja, harrastuksia ja vaikka päivärytmiä kokeileva elämänvaihe, minkä muut on saattanu kokea jo teininä, voi tulla vasta kun on transitioitunut (kirjoitinko tuon oikein).

Aivot kehittyy muistaakseni 21-vuotiaaks. Ihmiset eroaa, muuttaa ammattiaan, uudelleenopiskelee ja vaihtaa paikkakuntaa koko elämänsä ajan. Nekin, joitten elämä tuntuu hirveen vakiintuneelta jo nuoressa iässä, saattaa joutua muuttamaan monia asioita niitten elämässä myöhemmin.

Ja sit ehkä myös se, et miten sie määrittelet sen että siusta tuntuu 16-vuotiaalta? Millanen tää siun 16-vuotias on? Jotkut tylsät ihmiset määrittelee aikuisen tosi oudolla tavalla - näkemys, jota mie ainakaan en yhtään allekirjoita. Pitäis lopettaa konsolipelaaminen, harrastaa korkeintaan jotain tylsää urheilulajia, käydä aikuisten pihajuhlissa ja hankkia perhe ja työ, jossa oot sen 40 vuotta.

Tää näkemys on ensinnäkin tosi haitallinen, koska se ei anna tilaa luovuudelle, leikkimiselle ja ihtensä kehittämiselle. Sen näkemyksen mukaan - joka muuten on TOSI keskiluokkanen, kapitalistinen ja tietyssä määrin aika ableistinen - ihminen jotenkin perfektoitus siinä 27 maissa, kun hän "saavuttaa tämän kaiken". Nää ihmiset on kans tosi ankaria itselleen. Ja usein nekin ihmiset, jotka kyselee hirveesti siun elämästä sukujuhlissa kyselee asioita, koska ne kaipaa nuoruuden "vapautta", jota ne ei koe, että ne vois ite enää toteuttaa - koska sosiaaliset normit ja yhteiskunta.

Mut siis oikeesti. Älkää uskoko tuota. Tehkää, kokeilkaa, harrastakaa. Enemmän se harmittaa, jos ei tee tai kokeile, mitä tekis mieli harrastaa tms. vaan sen takia, että on semmonen olo, ettei tässä iässä enää pitäis.

Legot, konsolipelit, sadut ja mikä tahansa muu, mikä kiinnostaa on ihan valideja harrastuksia, ja monet niistä on ihan hyväks aivoille. Ihan sama, minkä ikäinen ihminen on. Jos se tekeminen ei satuta ketään, miks hemmetissä sitä pitäis hävetä?

Täytän tasan kuukauden päästä 25, mut oon henkisesti yhä 16-vuotias. Pystyykö ikäkriisiä mitenkään helpottamaan muuten kuin kirjoittamalla noloja novelleja joissa on 14-vuotiaita teinejä kännäämässä? Koska tota keinoa käytän ja musta tuntuu silti ihan hirveän vanhalta vaikken oikeasti sitä ole.

WHOA

*brain worm noises* yeah,,

WHOA

Some Finnish things that I've turned into creatures lately :)

Free Online Language Courses

Here is a masterpost of MOOCs (massive open online courses) that are available, archived, or starting soon. I think they will help those that like to learn with a teacher or with videos.  You can always check the audit course or no certificate option so that you can learn for free.

American Sign Language

ASL University

Arabic

Arabic for Global Exchange (in the drop down menu)

Arabic Without Walls

Intro to Arabic

Madinah Arabic

Moroccan Arabic

Catalan Sign Language

Intro to Catalan Sign Language

Chinese

Beginner

Basic Chinese

Basic Chinese I. II, III, IV , V

Basic Mandarin Chinese I & II

Beginner’s Chinese

Chinese for Beginners

Chinese Characters

Chinese for HSK 1

First Year Chinese I &  II

HSK Level 1

Mandarin Chinese I

Mandarin Chinese for Business

More Chinese for Beginners

Start Talking Mandarin Chinese

UT Gateway to Chinese

Chino Básico (Taught in Spanish)

Intermediate

Chinese Stories

Intermediate Business Chinese

Intermediate Chinese Grammar

Dutch

Introduction to Dutch

English

Online Courses here

Resources Here

Faroese

Faroese Course

Finnish

A Taste of Finnish

Basic Finnish

Finnish for Immigrants

Finnish for Medical Professionals

French

Beginner

AP French Language and Culture

Basic French Skills

Beginner’s French: Food & Drink

Diploma in French

Elementary French I & II

Français Interactif

French in Action

French for Beginners

French Language Studies I, II, III

French:Ouverture

Intermediate & Advanced

French: Le Quatorze Juillet

Passe Partout 

La Cité des Sciences et de Industrie

Frisian

Introduction to Frisian (Taught in English)

Introduction to Frisian (Taught in Dutch)

German

Beginner

Beginner’s German: Food & Drink

Conversational German I, II, III, IV

Deutsch im Blick

Diploma in German

Rundblick-Beginner’s German

Advanced

German:Regionen Traditionen und Geschichte

Landschaftliche Vielfalt

Hebrew

Biblical Hebrew

Know the Hebrew Alphabet

Teach Me Hebrew

Hindi

A Door into Hindi

Business Hindi

Virtual Hindi

Icelandic

Icelandic 1-5

Indonesian

Learn Indonesian

Irish

Introduction to Irish

Italian

Beginner

Beginner’s Italian: Food & Drink

Beginner’s Italian I

Introduction to Italian

Italian for Beginners 1 , 2, 3 , 4 , 5, 6 

Intermediate & Advaned

Intermediate Italian I

Advanced Italian I

La Commedia di Dante

Japanese

Genki

Japanese JOSHU

Japanese Pronunciation

Sing and Learn Japanese

Tufs JpLang

Kazakh

A1-B2 Kazakh (Taught in Russian)

Korean

Beginner

First Step Korean

How to Study Korean

Learn to Speak Korean

Pathway to Spoken Korean

Intermediate

Intermediate Korean

Nepali

Beginner’s Conversation and Grammar

Norwegian

Introduction to Norwegian

Norwegian on the Web

Portuguese

Curso de Português para Estrangeiros 

Pluralidades em Português Brasileiro

Russian

Beginner

Easy Accelerated Learning for Russian

Advanced

Reading Master and Margarita

Russian as an Instrument of Communication

Siberia: Russian for Foreigners

Spanish

Beginner

AP Spanish Language & Culture

Basic Spanish for English Speakers

Beginner’s Spanish:Food & Drink

Fastbreak Spanish

Introduction to Spanish

Restaurants and Dining Out

Spanish for Beginners

Spanish for Beginners 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Spanish Vocabulary

Intermediate

Spanish:Ciudades con Historia

Spanish:Espacios Públicos

Advanced

Corrección, Estilo y Variaciones 

Leer a Macondo

Spanish:Con Mis Propias Manos

Spanish: Perspectivas Porteñas

Swedish

Intro to Swedish

Swedish Made Easy 1, 2, & 3

Ukrainian

Read Ukrainian

Ukrainian Language for Beginners

Welsh

Beginner’s Welsh

Discovering Wales

Multiple Languages

Ancient Languages

More Language Learning Resources & Websites!

Last updated: March 1, 2017

To say, “This is my uncle,” in Chinese, you have no choice but to encode more information about said uncle. The language requires that you denote the side the uncle is on, whether he’s related by marriage or birth and, if it’s your father’s brother, whether he’s older or younger.

“All of this information is obligatory. Chinese doesn’t let me ignore it,” says Chen. “In fact, if I want to speak correctly, Chinese forces me to constantly think about it.”

This got Chen wondering: Is there a connection between language and how we think and behave? In particular, Chen wanted to know: does our language affect our economic decisions?

Chen designed a study — which he describes in detail in this blog post — to look at how language might affect individual’s ability to save for the future. According to his results, it does — big time.

While “futured languages,” like English, distinguish between the past, present and future, “futureless languages,” like Chinese, use the same phrasing to describe the events of yesterday, today and tomorrow. Using vast inventories of data and meticulous analysis, Chen found that huge economic differences accompany this linguistic discrepancy. Futureless language speakers are 30 percent more likely to report having saved in any given year than futured language speakers. (This amounts to 25 percent more savings by retirement, if income is held constant.) Chen’s explanation: When we speak about the future as more distinct from the present, it feels more distant — and we’re less motivated to save money now in favor of monetary comfort years down the line.

But that’s only the beginning. There’s a wide field of research on the link between language and both psychology and behavior. Here, a few fascinating examples:

Navigation and Pormpuraawans In Pormpuraaw, an Australian Aboriginal community, you wouldn’t refer to an object as on your “left” or “right,” but rather as “northeast” or “southwest,” writes Stanford psychology professor Lera Boroditsky (and an expert in linguistic-cultural connections) in the Wall Street Journal. About a third of the world’s languages discuss space in these kinds of absolute terms rather than the relative ones we use in English, according to Boroditsky. “As a result of this constant linguistic training,” she writes, “speakers of such languages are remarkably good at staying oriented and keeping track of where they are, even in unfamiliar landscapes.” On a research trip to Australia, Boroditsky and her colleague found that Pormpuraawans, who speak Kuuk Thaayorre, not only knew instinctively in which direction they were facing, but also always arranged pictures in a temporal progression from east to west.

Blame and English Speakers In the same article, Boroditsky notes that in English, we’ll often say that someone broke a vase even if it was an accident, but Spanish and Japanese speakers tend to say that the vase broke itself. Boroditsky describes a study by her student Caitlin Fausey in which English speakers were much more likely to remember who accidentally popped balloons, broke eggs, or spilled drinks in a video than Spanish or Japanese speakers. (Guilt alert!) Not only that, but there’s a correlation between a focus on agents in English and our criminal-justice bent toward punishing transgressors rather than restituting victims, Boroditsky argues.

Color among Zuñi and Russian Speakers Our ability to distinguish between colors follows the terms in which we describe them, as Chen notes in the academic paper in which he presents his research (forthcoming in the American Economic Review; PDF here). A 1954 study found that Zuñi speakers, who don’t differentiate between orange and yellow, have trouble telling them apart. Russian speakers, on the other hand, have separate words for light blue (goluboy) and dark blue (siniy). According to a 2007 study, they’re better than English speakers at picking out blues close to the goluboy/siniy threshold.

Gender in Finnish and Hebrew In Hebrew, gender markers are all over the place, whereas Finnish doesn’t mark gender at all, Boroditsky writes in Scientific American (PDF). A study done in the 1980s found that, yup, thought follows suit: kids who spoke Hebrew knew their own genders a year earlier than those who grew up speaking Finnish. (Speakers of English, in which gender referents fall in the middle, were in between on that timeline, too.)

Language Apps I Use

I got a lot of questions asking me what specific apps I use so here you are (in alphabetical order by language):

Arabic: Arabic (Nemo Apps) Arabic English Dictionary (iComet) Arabic Alphabet (Hamdouchi Interactive) Learn Arabic (Greg Vick)

ASL: The ASL App (Ink & Salt) How to Sign Language! (Kinetix) Signing Savvy (Signing Savvy)

Dutch: Dutch (Nemo Apps) Learn Dutch Language (Andrian Andronic) Learn Dutch ツ (xinsight) Learn Dutch iLang (Greg Vick)

Esperanto: Intense Esperanto (Chuck Smith) Esperanto Flashcards (improvingmedia.com)

Finnish: Finnish (Nemo Apps) Learn Finnish Language (Andrian Andronic) Learn Finnish (Innovative Language Learning) Learn Finnish (Greg Vick)

French: French (Nemo Apps) Learn French (Busuu Limited) Learn French (MindSnacks)

German: German (Nemo Apps) Learn German (MindSnacks) Learn German (Busuu Limited) Learn German iLang (Greg Vick)

Greek: Greek (Nemo Apps) Learn Greek (Renkara Media Group) Learn Greek (Innovative Language Learning) Greek Alphabet Cards (Mulishani) Learn Greek (Greg Vick)

Hawaiian: Hawaii Words (BranchenKing) Hawaiian Word of the Day (Logic High Software)

Hebrew: Hebrew (Nemo Apps) Learn Hebrew (Renkara Media Group) The AlephBet App (Russel Neiss) Learn Hebrew (Innovative Language Learning)

Hindi: Hindi (Nemo Apps) Learn Hindi (Codegent) Learn Hindi (Innovative Language Learning) Learn Hindi (Greg Vick)

Indonesian: Indonesian (Nemo Apps) Learn Indonesian iLang (Greg Vick) Learn Indonesian Free (Bravolol Limited)

Irish Gaelic: Irish Gaelic (Nemo Apps) Irish Flascards (improvingmedia.com) Irish by Living Language (Random House)

Italian: Italian (Nemo Apps) Italian English Dictionary (Bravolol Limited) Learn Italian (MindSnacks) Learn Italian (Greg Vick)

Japanese: Japanese (Nemo Apps) Kanji Star (Aidan Povedano) Human Japanese Lite (Brak Software) TenguGo Kana (TenguLogi)

Korean: Korean (Nemo Apps) Hangeul 101 (Ubik Technology) Korean English Dictionary (Bravolol Limited) Learn Korean Language (Andrian Andronic) Scribe Korean (Guiix) PopPopping Korean (Hansol Education)

Mandarin Chinese: Mandarin Chinese (Nemo Apps) Learn Chinese Free (Bravolol Limited) Learn Chinese (MindSnacks) ChineseSkill (ChineseSkill Co.) Learn Mandarin Chinese (ChineseSkill Co.)

Polish: Polish (Nemo Apps) Learn Polish Free (Renkara Media Group) Learn Polish (Innovative Language Learning)

Portuguese: Portuguese (Nemo Apps) Learn Portuguese (MindSnacks) Learn Portuguese (Greg Vick) Learn Portuguese Free (Bravolol Limited)

Russian: Russian (Nemo Apps) Learn Russian Free (Renkara Media Group) Learn Russian (Bravolol Limited) Learn Russian (Greg Vick)

Swedish: Swedish (Nemo Apps) Learn Swedish Language (Andrian Andronic) Learn Swedish (Innovative Language Learning) Learn Swedish with Fabulo (Hallberg Ryman) Learn Swedish (Greg Vick)

Thai: Thai (Nemo Apps) Speak Thai (McCann Worldgroup Thailand) Learn Thai (Greg Vick)

Turkish: Turkish (Nemo Apps) Learn Turkish Free (Renkara Media Group) Learn Turkish (Greg Vick) CleverDeck Turkish Flashcards (Tea Time Inc.) Learn Turkish Free (Bravolol Limited)

Vietnamese: Vietnamese (Nemo Apps) Learn Vietnamese Free (Bravolol Limited) Learn Vietnamese (Innov. Language Learning) Learn Vietnamese Free (Thomas Hornbeck)

All of these apps are free but that works for me because I’m not extremely dedicated in any of these languages, so you may or may not like them. If you don’t, there’s plenty others out there, trust me.

It sucks to be finnish, bc like. ppl keep praising finland for how good our school system and (mental) health care are, so good and amazing. and i'm just sitting here like. ah yes the school system that gave me 9 years of trauma, gave me anxiety and depression, worsened all my other problems, and almost drove me to suicide? the school system that had me experiencing DAILY panic attacks? yeah so amazing, so good, finland is just so amazing, sure sure sure.

and don't even get me started on the mental health care i've gotten. spoilers; flashbacks, nightmares, and panic attacks so severe i may as well have PTSD.

i just find it so beautiful that moth in finnish is yöperhonen which literally translates to 'night butterfly'

SPAMTON SPIN!!!

NOTICE: (Video all made by me.)

Song name: Levan Polkka from 1996 !! ^_^💌

The big head. 

A Finnish BT-42 in period correct markings (when swastikas were yet not ruined) as seen in Parola Museum. Captured Soviet BT-7 light tanks were turned into assault guns by mounting a new turrets with British 4,5″ howizers. This resulted in a fairly tall top heavy tank, which probably comes as a surprise to absolutely no-one.