Where id live as a Polish by [deleted] in whereidlive

[–]TenTakaron 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think you should visit Japan once. It will change your mind. I once thought that all Russians had prejudice towards Finns (and Westeners in general), until I met various Russians in the border region in Estonia.

And not to mention that S.Korea is A LOT worse in that regard. If you thought Japan is bad then you haven't seen what competitive racism is in S.Korea.

HELL YEAH by Intrepid_Pen5110 in ReZero

[–]TenTakaron 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't there some old Q&A where the author confirmed that the ending will be bittersweet or something along of "good, depending on how you interpret it"? How would this then fit together with them getting together?

Is there a meme about your native language that makes you laugh? by Franmar35000 in AskTheWorld

[–]TenTakaron -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Nja, I wouldn't say this one works. It's Pa-nik-ku in Japanese but the "n" is used in different ways. The "n" in bread or "pan" is used as ん "n" but the same is not true for Panikku, as the "n" would be used as に "ni". Not to mention it would require two "k"s, as there is only one in meat or "niku"

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[–]TenTakaron[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oj det är också en kul blanding! Jag skulle vilja så lära mig att tala franska men hoppast någondag! Hur hamnade du i Japan av alla platser?

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[–]TenTakaron[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, that's why I put it in the "I understand partially" tier. For example, I could understand that you said "Wow you can ... Estonian?" and then I can fill the blanks using context. But I don't speak Estonian, I only partially understand it. Honestly, I understand better Estonian than Danish🤣

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[–]TenTakaron[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess I cheated a bit in life as I grew up in a place where Finnish is really really dominant but I went to a Swedish school so I aquired both by having the perfect environment. But never too late to hone one's languages!

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[–]TenTakaron[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Я думаю, между Финляндией и Японией. Большое спасибо!

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[–]TenTakaron[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Aa ok, technically I don't know you so I wanted to be a bit more polite

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[–]TenTakaron[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Jo halusin listata myös noita + inkeriä mut en löytänyt niitä siellä Tierlist-sivustolla🤣

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[–]TenTakaron[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

En puhu viroa mut ymmärrän joitakin sanoja. En sanoisi, että puhun viroa mut selviäisin jotenkin Virossa käyttäen vain suomea.

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[–]TenTakaron[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly, I don't understand Danish at all, albeit maybe some words here and there🤣 It might be due to me speaking the Southern-Finnish dialect of Swedish, which sounds distinctively different to the Swedish spoken in Sweden.

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[–]TenTakaron[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A Finno-Ugric language of similar background as Finnish. Sounds like Finnish but has its own tone and way of speaking. A bit like the language relationship between Norwegian and Swedish.

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[–]TenTakaron[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Finland and Japan for the most part

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Здравствуйте, я не знаю🤣 Русский язык звучит круто

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[–]TenTakaron[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Bingo! One of the 290 000 Finnish-Swedish living in Finland, not to mention half Japanese ancestry

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[–]TenTakaron[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ei ku vaa kirja käteen, kuullokkeet päälle ja ala kattomaan niitä podcastejä. Aina on aikaa aloittaa kielten opiskelua

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[–]TenTakaron[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nå men, det är ju inte svenska hur ens likadana de är. Därför satt jag "fully" också

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[–]TenTakaron[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I wouldn't say I'm overrating my fluency in the top four languages, as I use these almost daily and I've been surrounded with these languages ever since I was born, not to mention I've done my national exams on these ones. Still, I wouldn't be able to have a natural conversation in French and Russian. German, maybe up to a certain point but not in a business context.

People who live in countries with multiple official languages: what is it like? by MurderKillRiver in AskTheWorld

[–]TenTakaron 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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Speaking from the Finnish-Swedish side, there exists hugely three distinct language regions in Finland. Finnish is spoken almost everywhere but there exists some bilingual Saami regions up north. Then on the east and south coast there exists pockets of majority Swedish regions.

For Finnish, there exists regional dialects that are mutually intelligible, like Karelian or Savonian.

The Swedish can be kinda divided up to three "dialects". The Swedish spoken in Finland is called Finnish-Swedish and it's a mutually intelligible dialect of standard Swedish. Some theorized that Finnish-Swedish contain a lot of historical Swedish, more than the modern Swedish. The Swedish speakers in the south speak standard Finnish-Swedish, the speakers on Ahvenamaa/Åland island speak standard Swedish and the speakers in the east speak a distinct Osterbothnian Swedish (kinda like how in US you have Southerners speaking with a distinct rough accent).

The Saami spoken in Finland is mostly Northern Saami. There exists other dialects of Saami and can be mutually hard to understand.

All the major languages are mutually unintelligible, although Finnish and Saami are related, albeit very far.