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 Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 9:46 am
Translation Wanted?
Is there something you want to translate in Finnish?
Or would you like to know what something in Finnish means in your own language?
Or would you just like help with Finnish grammar?
This is exactly the right place to post you question, as silly as they might sound to you. I'm sure there are several members in this guild who can and will gladly help you out!
pirate
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Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 2:46 pm
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Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 11:24 am
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Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 12:09 pm
Hi everybody!
I've got a song by Pikku G on my pc called 'Rajahdysvaara'
I can understand only few words... sweatdrop
Please translate me the name of the song
Thanx!
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Posted: Sun Jun 25, 2006 10:21 am
a-complete-mess Hi everybody! I've got a song by Pikku G on my pc called 'Rajahdysvaara' I can understand only few words... sweatdrop Please translate me the name of the song Thanx! Räjähdysvaara = "Danger of Explosion" It is a word that usually reads below signs that warn people about stuff that might go kaboom when not handled properly.
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Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2006 11:11 am
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Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 12:13 pm
I have a kysymys. Is it possible you can break down the pronouciation of each Finnish word because I want to pronouce them correctly. being that my main tongue is English followed by Japanese and a bit of Spanish. I noticed with Finnish the pronouciation sounds like a mix of Japanese and Spanish.
Example:
Like November - (Marrasku) I pronoucing it like (Ma-rasu-ku-) using Japanese pronouciation. And
Puhutteko englantia - I would pronouce it as (Pu-hu-de-ko Eng-lan-tia)
and lastly
Ymmarran Hyvin (U-ma-ran Hu-vin)
My main question would be am I pronoucing them almost correctly or no where near close and if it offend some here my apologies.
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Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 1:33 pm
Darkone Yuu I have a kysymys. Is it possible you can break down the pronouciation of each Finnish word because I want to pronouce them correctly. being that my main tongue is English followed by Japanese and a bit of Spanish. I noticed with Finnish the pronouciation sounds like a mix of Japanese and Spanish. Example: Like November - (Marrasku) I pronoucing it like (Ma-rasu-ku-) using Japanese pronouciation. And Puhutteko englantia - I would pronouce it as (Pu-hu-de-ko Eng-lan-tia) and lastly Ymmarran Hyvin (U-ma-ran Hu-vin) My main question would be am I pronoucing them almost correctly or no where near close and if it offend some here my apologies. Even though the accent is always on the first syllable of the word, the doble vowels and consonants in Finnish are pretty heavy as well. Most foreign speakers learning Finnish must think of 3 or 4 of the same letter where we write two to make it sound right. We would hyphenate the words above like this. This is also the way they are pronounced. (There are only a few exceptions when we don't pronounce a word as it is written.) Mar-ras-kuu. Pu-hut-te-ko Eng-lan-ti-a? Ym-mär-rän hy-vin. I hope this helps. And as I wrote to you in a PM, there will be a 'learn basic Finnish' thread later in this subforum. biggrin
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Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 1:50 pm
Wicked Even though the accent is always on the first syllable of the word, the doble vowels and consonants in Finnish are pretty heavy as well. Most foreign speakers learning Finnish must think of 3 or 4 of the same letter where we write two to make it sound right. We would hyphenate the words above like this. This is also the way they are pronounced. (There are only a few exceptions when we don't pronounce a word as it is written.) Mar-ras-kuu. Pu-hut-te-ko Eng-lan-ti-a? Ym-mär-rän hy-vin. I hope this helps. And as I wrote to you in a PM, there will be a 'learn basic Finnish' thread later in this subforum. biggrin But the Te sounds like De and the Hy in Hyvin threw me off because I was trying to look for a way to pronouce it. I know in japanese it has Hya, Hyo, Hyu and looking at Hyvin threw me off a bit so when I actually heard it to me it sounded like they said Hu-vin so I pronoced it like that.
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Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2006 12:55 am
Darkone Yuu But the Te sounds like De and the Hy in Hyvin threw me off because I was trying to look for a way to pronouce it. I know in japanese it has Hya, Hyo, Hyu and looking at Hyvin threw me off a bit so when I actually heard it to me it sounded like they said Hu-vin so I pronoced it like that. Believe me, there is a strong difference between 'd' and 't' in Finnish. ^^ And the vowel 'y' is a tricky one for English speakers, 'cause you don't have such a vowel in your language (nor do the japanese, I believe. They end up pronouncing 'y' as our 'j'), so 'u' is the closest.
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Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2006 12:04 pm
From what I understand Finnish has a heavier tone than japanese. The pronouciation on Japanese is soft but on Finnish its much heavy but for the 'y' the first thing I've done was turned it into a 'u'
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Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 6:36 am
There are some phonological charts online where you can hear the general 'y' used in phonetical transcription, also for the Finnish y. I found this site:
http://www.kisa.ca/ipa-vowels.html
I tried the y, and it isn't quite as we pronounce it in Finnish, but it's closer to it than just 'u'. smile
And you can try googling for IPA vowels. smile
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Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 2:20 pm
If you know how to spell German Ü, then you've got a decent idea how to spell Finnish Y
Just my two cents here smile
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Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 3:17 am
Taalen If you know how to spell German Ü, then you've got a decent idea how to spell Finnish Y Just my two cents here smile Pronounce, Taalen, not spell. wink (I know you meant it. smile )
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Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 8:16 am
Shinrin Minto Taalen If you know how to spell German Ü, then you've got a decent idea how to spell Finnish Y Just my two cents here smile Pronounce, Taalen, not spell. wink (I know you meant it. smile ) Well, yeah. I've kinda lost touch with proper written English, thanks to having to speak it with native English speakers... who, as you probably know, couldn't often care less about such minor details.. wink
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