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@TingeltangelMoni I'm pretty sure you'd do great with Finnish

Just try and you'll see :3

In dutch it's called "ijsberen" which literally translates to "polarbearing"

https://media.riemurasia.net/albumit/mmedia/42/pz/ijh/441785/1397871603.jpg
This says it all..

@Tihru LOL

My super Power: Speak finish perfectly

@bordelo *claps*

@bordelo *claps harder*

@bordelo My secret power is to spell countries' demonyms correctly.

*Finnish (double n, forgot the capital)

@TheEpicGabriel0 The missing capital is actually pretty common problem for Finns. We don't capitalize languages so "suomen kieli" (Finnish language) is not capitalized, neither is "suomalainen" (Finnish person), but "Suomi" (Finland) is capitalized. Sometimes it's hard to remember that in English you capitalize every word with the country in it.

The missing n on the other hand was probably just a typo, but to be honest where does that second n come from? We really don't like weird rules on our language. For example we don't have spelling bees because if you can pronounce the word you already know how it's spelled.

@Barracuda Huh, so Finns are the opposite of Germans when it comes to capitalization. German capitalizes every noun. English only capitalize proper nouns, and now Finns only capitalize some proper nouns. Language is weird.

@EclipseMaster459 Well it makes a difference: Suomi (Finland) vs. suomi (Finnish -language).
Also, if a suffix includes a, that means it has a variant with ä instead due to something called vowel harmony. So when we speak of those, it's common to use -A to note that variation. -ssA rather than ssa/-ssä and there are lots of such things.

OH. MY. GOD. FINLAND SAID SOMETHING.

@P3rk3le Perkele...

@Barracuda what does perkele mean anyway.

@Bhekizizwe It's a name of our old thunder gods. Nowdays it's usually translated as the devil, thanks to christians misusing it.

Kokko kokoo koko kokko kokoon, Finnish is real versatile language.
It sound fantastic: Alavilla mailla hallanvaara
And Finnish sound really much Japanese: Hajosiko takakumi, and Narisiko kakarasi

Yes, i love Finnish language!

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@TingeltangelMoni in America, we have: Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg, and it's the name of a lake

That's why I wanna learn Finnish x)

@Vold They have a lot of interesting words like Poronkusema.

Nowadays, actually, the youth have difficulties in learning the language, at least the writing. In informal speech, it has for some time been a custom to drop some of the suffixes, or shorten them even further. Young people read less books than their older siblings and their parents, and it has even been suggested that the generation born in 1997 was the last to mostly do well in elementary school. That is, the youngsters who turn 19 this year. The decline is especially clear in compound words and punctuation. The younger people are, the more trouble they will have deciding whether they should write sanomalehti or sanoma lehti, and that is just sad. :/ (In case you were wondering, it's the first option, "sanomalehti", and it just means a newspaper, which, incidentally, is a compound word in English, too. It would look rather silly if someone wrote it "news paper", am I right?) Linguistic skills are important for communication, after all. I often will stress the importance of punctuation with this sentence from Alko's advertisement (Alko is the national alcoholic beverage retailing monopoly in Finland, and handles anything with over 4,5% of alcohol content basically):

"Älä välitä alkoholia nuorille!" ("Don't provide the youngsters with alcohol!")

"Älä välitä, alkoholia nuorille!" ("Nevermind, give alcohol to the youngsters!")

@Stanzara A bit of the same situation, Norwagian isn't hard to learn, It's just all the different accents. Just go one hour away from Olso and everyone will talk different from what you learned...

When i was a language student with EF, one of my classmates from Finland taught me a really good word: Kalsarikännit. He told me that it meant, sitting at home getting drunk, while only wearing underwear. I looked it up afterwards, and it is comprised by two words: the word for underwear, and the word for drunk xD