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Re:Re:Finnish verbs
Moi!
I think she's just being lazy in her pronounciation, because you should ALWAYS pronounce "ä" like "ä" and "a" like "a". Because Finnish can be spoken without opening your mouth and moving your lips very much (which surely won't do in languages like French!!), "ä" might sound a bit like "a". Some Finns even say tiä when they should say tie, or Suami when they sould say Suomi. I myself find this extremely irritating ;).
Sorry, I'm not a gold member, so I can't write you email :(. But if you have further questions, I'll try to answer them here.
Hyvää pääsiäistä! Have a nice Easter!
Hanna
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Hanna H.
April 14, 2006
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Re:Re:Finnish verbs
Moi!
I think she's just being lazy in her pronounciation, because you should pronounce "ä" in hyvä like "ä", not like "a". Because Finnish can be spoken without opening your mouth and moving your lips very much (which surely won't do in languages like French!!), "ä" might sound like "a". Some Finns even say tiä when they should say tie, or Suami when they sould say Suomi. I myslef find this extremely disturbing ;).
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Hanna H.
April 14, 2006
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Re:Finnish verbs
Both letters "a" and "ä" are pronounced in different ways, always. The "ä" resembles the pronunciation of 'a' in the English words 'cat' /kæt/ and 'hat' /hæt/. The "a" is pronounced like 'a' in 'mark' /mark/ or 'art' /art/. Always.
There is no system similar to the umlaut system in German. "A" can't change to "ä". They are different letters. In Finnish every letter is pronounced in one way, only. Letters a and ä can't even appear in the same word (except in compound nouns).
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Antti-Mikael T.
April 11, 2006
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Re:Finnish verbs
Hei!
I couldn't figure out a word in which "ä" would be pronounced like "a"... could you give an example? If I know something (and I'm a native speaker) "ä" is never pronounced like "a".
terveisin Hanna
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Hanna H.
April 11, 2006
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Re:Re:Re:finnish clases
Estoy seguro que eemeli puedo ayudarte hallarme. Con la ayuda de un medio, inventado por Larry Page y Sergey Brin, hallará eemeli. (->Nimi tai sähköp...)
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Antti-Mikael T.
August 1, 2005
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Re:Re:Re:finnish clases
Estoy seguro que "Eemeli" puedo ayudarte hallarme. Con la ayuda de un medio, inventado por Larry Page y Sergey Brin, hallará Eemeli.
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Language pair: Portuguese; Finnish
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Antti-Mikael T.
August 1, 2005
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Re:Re:Re:finnish clases
Cocozco a nadie también pero puedes tratar de escribirme. Mi nombre escrito todos los partes unidos sin sigmos de puntuación at en portal americana (A crude or brutish person). Trato de hallar más pistas a...m...t
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Language pair: Portuguese; Finnish
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Antti-Mikael T.
August 1, 2005
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Re:Re:Re:finnish clases
Cocozco a nadie también pero puedes tratar de escribirme. Mi nombre escrito todos los partes unidos sin signos de puntuación y en portal americana (A crude or brutish person). Trato de hallar más pistas a...m...t
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Language pair: Portuguese; Finnish
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Antti-Mikael T.
August 1, 2005
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Re:finnish clases
Quisiera instruirme más de español y quizás los fundamentos del portugués. Puedo ayudarte apprendir finés. Tenemos que hallar una solución como podemos ponernos en contacto. No soy Gold Member.
Antti-Mikael
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Language pair: Portuguese; Finnish
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Antti-Mikael T.
July 31, 2005
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Re:Re:basic terms (ex: hello, how are you...)
[About Finnish pronunciation]
> K is softer than English K
> P is softer than English P
> T is softer than English T
English speakers should also
note the lack of aspiration, i.e.
pronounce K rather as in "skate"
than as in "Kate". Ditto with
P and T.
> Ö (O with two dots above it) is roughly
> like the same letter as in
> German or EU in French; the nearest
> equivalent in English is the
> (long) vowel in "fur" which would be
> written in Finnish as "föö"
> or "föör"
Also note that Finnish Ö is pronounced
with rounded lips and the tongue is not
even near to touching the palate. You
can produce it by modifying the E of "get"
by rounding your lips and lowering your
lower jaw just a little bit.
Puti
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Language pair: Finnish; All
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Juha-Petri T.
June 16, 2005
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Latest: June 16, 2005
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