Thread: Scandinavian language in your country?

Finnish is cool.

Oh yeah, Finland's ice hockey team owns.

Yes, very cool.


I don't really care about hockey, sorry.

Originally Posted by EmDii

Though I love my mothertongue, I still wonder why anyone would really like to learn it. It is difficult -- very very much more difficult than, for example, Swedish.

I'm starting to learn it now (second time ) Hopefully I'm not gonna quit.

Originally Posted by EmDii

I had no idea what you were talking about, but found out. The words are just gibberish sounding like Finnish.

Well, those are few words in the middle while the rest is definitely in Finnish

Nuapurista kuulu se polokan tahti
jalakani pohjii kutkutti.
Ievan

Originally Posted by Alware

Well, those are few words in the middle while the rest is definitely in Finnish

Yes, it is. I, however, thought that we were talking only about this: http://dojo.fi/~rancid/loituma__.swf


Translating that whole text is quite a process, it being a dialect -- do you / does anyone want me to?

Talking about Finnish grammar, I came across this program which can show about 1000 inflexions for every Finnish verb: http://www.wakkanet.fi/%7Epahio/esitteet.html

The program's also in English.

Originally Posted by EmDii

Translating that whole text is quite a process, it being a dialect -- do you / does anyone want me to?

I found this translation in the net, I'd just ask you to say is it correct? and how close it is to the original text?

The sound of a polka drifted from my neighbor's
and set my feet a-tapping oh!
Ieva's mother had her eye on her daughter but
Ieva she managed to fool her, you know.
'Cause who's going to listen to mother saying no
when we're all busy dancing to and fro!

Ieva was smiling, the fiddle it was wailing
as people crowded round to wish her luck.
Everyone was hot but it didn't seem to bother
the handsome young man, the dashing buck.
'Cause who's going to mind a drop of sweat
when he's all busy dancing to and fro!

Ieva's mother she shut herself away
in her own quiet room to hum a hymn.
Leaving our hero to have a spot of fun
in a neighbor's house when the lights are dim.
'Cause what does it matter what the old folks say
when you're all busy dancing to and fro!

When the music stopped then the real fun began
and that's when the laddie fooled around.
When he took her home, when the dancing was over
her mother angrily waiting they found.
But I said to her, Ieva, now don't you weep
and we'll soon be dancing to and fro!

I said to her mother now stop that noise
or I won't be responsible for what I do.
If you go quietly and stay in your room
you won't get hurt while your daughter I woo.
'Cause this fine laddie is a wild sort of guy
when he's all busy dancing to and fro!

One thing I tell you is you won't trap me,
no, you won't find me an easy catch.
Travel to the east and travel to the west but
Ieva and I are going to make a match.
'Cause this fine laddie ain't the bashful sort
when he's all busy dancing to and fro.


Anyways I'll try to translate it myself.

Alware,

The translation is a good one; it is at the same time rhythmically good and close the meaning of the original.


You're really going to try and translate it? How long have you been studying Finnish? It's going to be a really tough job: the text is in the dialect of Savo, and as Finnish is written as it's pronunciated -- well, it's full of words etc. not found in proper Finnish, not even in a normal dictionary.


I'll give you a representation.

Here's the first verse:

Nuapurista kuulu se polokan tahti
jalakani pohjii kutkutti.
Ievan

[quote=EmDii]You're really going to try and translate it? How long have you been studying Finnish? It's going to be a really tough job: the text is in the dialect of Savo, and as Finnish is written as it's pronunciated -- well, it's full of words etc. not found in proper Finnish, not even in a normal dictionary.


I'll give you a representation.

Here's the first verse:

Nuapurista kuulu se polokan tahti
jalakani pohjii kutkutti.
Ievan

there's not a lot of scandinavian language material. there's especially little for danish.

and finnland isn't scandinavian.

oh and cases in finnish aren't as scary as they seem. it's just like learning prepositions in any other language.

Originally Posted by awb

and finnland isn't scandinavian.

Finland is not a Scandinavian country, but I have long since stopped caring about that, because _everyone_ makes the mistake.

Everyone makes this mistake because they learn it from people like you! Finland is not a scandinavian country and Finnish is not a scandinavian language. Profess that in every post you make and educate the world!

Originally Posted by kalinka_vinnie

Everyone makes this mistake because they learn it from people like you! Finland is not a scandinavian country and Finnish is not a scandinavian language. Profess that in every post you make and educate the world!

I think I've got better things to do.

Anyhow, I have never claimed that Finland is a Scandinavian country (and even less that Finnish is a such language).

Andrei Silnov