Teksas, of cheese, gotcha.

@@timomastosalo 👍

Juustonaksu

Juuston, Teksas, Amerikka, Helvetti... which is quite close to Helsinki, Suomi, Eurooppa, Helvetti.

@@livedandletdie Sehän on tuo Hell-sinki josta löytyy tuo juum Sir Nainen

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Hyyvä poika! 🤗

You just happened to be a genuine positive human.♥️

He thinking same as we usual thinks. He only say it more funny way. Respect.

Yes, she's good. She's interested, she has prepared a set of meaningful questions and she lets him actually answer and reacts to what he's saying.

I was happily surprised about that! Great touch from the show!!!

surprised to see that this guy was in my hometown! There is a lot of diversity here in Houston, must be one of the world's greatest

And her pronounciation of the Finnish words was good! The typeface missed the "umlauts", so like "kalsarikänni" really should have ä and not a between k and n.

Thank you!

I agree! actually did her homework and showed a genuine interest!

I ögree, very good houst.

The plastic surgery weirds me out, but she does seem very sweet otherwise.

I'd say there are more saunas than cars as cars are necassary in the outbacks, and yet the sauna is even more important for life. Sauna is what a holy sweat lodge is to real Americans, who consider Finns and Samis as brothers with an independent indigineous nation. Samis deserve their own, but as for the Finns I must say their language is almost identical with the eleven Sami languages and that makes them rather indigenous with their holy saunas even though they have lost much of their other ways. One love! Yhtä rakkautta! Rahkisvuohttain! Uksi armastus! (in finn/sami/estonian)

@@fixit8492 "real Americans"? The real Americans are the Europeans who make up the American nation.

he said we like to be warm lol

Voe helevetti pojjaat me ollaan kuses! Ny amerikaanot tietää meirän Suomen puolustuskyvyn

:DD

No ei se kumminkaan ole huonompi kuin Ruotsin puolustuskyky (= olematon)!

@@mariaolsdotter63 Siitä ei ollutkaan puhe.

Nyt amerikaanit panee perseeseen

Emphazise matter.

The Hungarians (their language is distantly related to Finnish BTW) also have a very funny word where they probably get drunk but at least don't plan on going out. Donaldkacsázás which is translated quite literally as “Donald Ducking”, meaning they walk around at home with a shirt but no pants on.

@@Spetulhu Well D. Duck is most liked character and familiar in Finland... And Swedish are called Gladstone Gender.

Did you knew that back in the 1950-s donald duck comics were banned in Finland. Reason - not wearing pants. Greatings from Finlands neighbour - Estonia.

@@Spetulhu That's hilarious!

hattua nostaa

@saneless Taidat käyttää jotain muuta kieltä sanajärjestystä valitessasi. Suomeksi "nostaa hattua" on parempi sanajärjestys.

@@woowooNeedsFaith ei voi muuta sanoo

Ainut vaan, että tää oli vähän kiirreellistä, mutta tuskinpahan tälle mitään mahtaa kun asiat on perinpohjin näin kaavailtu.

niin suomessa, riippumatta onko jonkun mediatalon toimittaja, vai jonkun ns viihdeohjelman pääjehu niin yleensä haastattelu on oman asian pönkittämistä tai suoranaista vittuilua haastateltavaa kohtaan, ja sitten on niitä kysymyksiä joita ei haluta kysyttävän, mutta kysytään silti. koska noh. Suomi

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@@OwnedByGalatea torilla tavataan

@@OwnedByGalatea He said: ”There he’s bringing Finland and Finnish language to world map. Well done, Ismo” And that ”torilla tavataan” (Let’s meet at the marketplace or plaza) is Finnish saying we use whenever Finland is mentioned outside of Finland. Kinda self-pun to ourselves as we are not necessarily most social folk on earth.

Thanks!

"exotic"? maybe use another word. The word "exotic" sounds very degrading and racist. A foreigner or a finnish person sounds better.

@@MimiMangetsu Are you serious?

@@MimiMangetsu Write a book about it.

Yes. Goes to show that not all Americans are culturally-insensitive pricks

@@JHsara yes, in the sense "brilliantly funny" I can't imagine anyone would read my comment as Ismo is a proper English language professor🤣🤣🤣

Benny Lloyd-Willner No shit didn’t know that.

He's the only comedian they got. Be gentle with him.

@Ægsnåmet Vjäturþøðikke Yeah but Houston is a city. Not even the biggest city in the country. Finland on the other hand is a whole country. Her statement makes sense both from an American's perspective (Finland is way smaller than the US) and from a statistical perspective (Finland is actually below the median in a list sorted by population (116th out of 233) but definitely by the population's density (172nd out of 194).

Ægsnåmet Vjäturþøðikke She was talking about the population.

@Ægsnåmet Vjäturþøðikke it was a good comparison so her viewers could understand what a small country is.

@@fcbculeg9226 Yes it must have been the population because otherwise every European country would be a small country (compared to US)

But Europe is bigger than the USA and by average European Union member states and bigger than United States member states.

As a Serb, I guess I'm not supposed to understand this completely authentic Croatian language? (There is no such thing as a Croatian language, there is a South-Slavic group of languages at best, also known as Serbo-Croatian, or Croato-Serbian, depending on how much you care about the exact ordering of the words as if they're supposed to convey nationalism in this context. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbo-Croatian )

@@milanstevic8424 Why even worry or type about this nonsense, even by your wikipedia page ( under "History" "Early development") it says Serbo-Croatian started as Old Church Slavonic, so the language actually originated from Slavonia or Croatia and later when used by regular people it became known as the Croatian version of old slavonic. So from what you're saying I assume you think that Serbian is also not a language but it's also Serbo-Croatian?

@@22222roro what's your logic here? why don't we call your language Proto-Germanic then? there is a reason it evolved into Old English from the fusion of Norse languages and West-Germanic dialects of Anglo-Saxons. Similarly, Serbo-Croatian was developed from Old Slavonic language group (but not the actual Church variant however, read below). If you didn't know, we are all Slavs: Poles, Slovaks, Czechs, Croats, Slovenians, Serbs, Russians, Ukrainians, and many others. There is no Slavonia!! There was never a country called Slavonia, there is a region by that name, but contrary to what you're thinking, it's not the birthplace of the Slavs, it was named like that after the fact. Likewise, there is no distinct Croatian language. Sure, there is a country of Croatia, but Croats actually share their language with at least 4 other populations in the same general area. No, the primary language did not originate in Croatia. If you had read the article with due attention you'd learn that there are three major distinct dialects of Serbo-Croatian, and these are the variants that constitute the whole difference between the nations. But these differences are so nuanced that Croats, Serbs, Bosnians, and Montenegrins can outright understand each other on their mother tongue. The primary language we all speak is named after the two most dominant speaker nations, Serbs and Croats, and it wasn't named like that by me, it was the international consensus that the language should be named Serbo-Croatian. English people aren't Germans, declaratively, yet their language evolved from a proto-German dialect. Not to mention the plethora of words borrowed from Latin and later French. Is French then the same as English? Is English then same as German? Contrary to these examples, Serbs can understand Croats without any exposure or practice with the "Croatian language". Can you figure out the nonsense in your line of thinking? If this person said "I speak Slavic" that would be nonsensical as well. There is no singular Slavic language, even though there are so many Slavic people, but obviously the roots to all Slavic languages can be traced back to old Slavic dialects, that are for some reason CALLED Slavonic. Why? Well, Old Church Slavonic wasn't a true spoken language but a literary one, used as a standard to marry the meaning, laws, and literature between all Slavic peoples at the time. At the time, scholars were expected to learn several literary languages: Church Slavonic, Latin, and especially Greek were a must, but in the medieval period Persian and Arabic were also prized. Literary language is not the same thing as a spoken one. "Old Church Slavonic was *adopted* as the language of the liturgy in churches serving various Slavic nations." "Old Church Slavonic or Old Slavonic was the first Slavic *literary* language." "The beginning of written Serbo-Croatian can be traced from the *10th century* and on when *Serbo-Croatian medieval texts* were written in five scripts: Latin, Glagolitic, Early Cyrillic, Bosnian Cyrillic and Arebica, the last principally by Bosniak nobility. *Serbo-Croatian* competed with the more established literary languages of *Latin and Old Slavonic* in the west and Persian and Arabic in the east." There is no Australian! There is no Canadian! There is no Falklandislandian! There is no American! There is no Croatian! There is a principle of common reason behind this, because it is well-established what constitutes a standalone language in this world. I'm sorry but you must be a shitty troll if you completely disregard the 1000+ year old legacy of a language that no European thinker or politician had the balls to deny.

@@milanstevic8424 English has influences from both the Danish Vikings, the French and the Romans, but is basically part of the Germanic language tribe that has much, much older ancestry.

@@dennislindqvist8443 How's that disproving what I said?

Would be even funnier if she let him speak for more than 7 seconds

😂

So book your flights into HEL(sinki)

Nerokasta!!!

En ole tuota ennen huomannutkaan... totta

@@antimonni Real Hell is in Norway tho xD

Thank you! We're glad you enjoyed the video :)

@@GreatDayHouston :-)

She talks too fast, we finns talk sloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.....w

@@GreatDayHouston Talk slower pls, hard to follow for non native english.

@@mazzyzi7178 yes

Was thinking same. Also hungarian. And i assume sentence structure should be sinilar to turkish too

​@@SamirustemFinno Ugric. A man from university learned Hungarian in the 60s and still speaks it fluently. Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian are probably most unfamiliar to an English speaker.

If he had been drunk he would have a very different opinion. And he'd hope it'd be the Swedes that attacked, just so he could say in Swedish så ja så ja jag skall inte skära bara rispa...

@@livedandletdie the power of perkele

@@iliilil5761 We just laught them off with Ismo :)

It does sound " a little fancy" when she says that he was a commander which would be like a general when he's just a corporal.

​@@petterimikael9 Do you just assume that people who don't use their real names or pictures aren't old enough and need a lecture or why are you telling me all this basic training stuff? Squad is also not a joukkue but ryhmä instead, a platoon would be joukkue. Mistake on my part was that I thought she said former commander. I've never heard anyone use the word formal commander which techincally is correct but does still give "a bit" fancy vibe.

Well, peoples feet are a more consistent(hopefully) distance to measure by.

Dirty one

Dale Icious it actually isnt, the poronkusema actually is quite a scientifical measure

I would guess it was originated by hunters who tracked deer.

@@williamwhitman4889 Actually it has its origins in reindeer sledding. See, reindeer can't pee and run at the same time, they have to stop to pee. They also have a nasty habit of accumulating various proteins in their urine. Over time those proteins can build up and cause a super painful blockage that can and will basically paralyze the reindeer. So poronkusema is the maximum distance you can force your reindeer to run between piss breaks, unless you actually like being stranded in the middle of nowhere in freezing temperatures, massaging the animal's bladder to try to break the blockage or, worst case scenario, trying to suck it out.

I'm not.

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Her?????

I am too. She pronounced amazingly well considering English and Finnish have different sounds for letters and different rules for pronounciation. Well, Finnish has one rule and English has so many rules you need to remember how to pronounce every word.

@@hamdi7150 racist

I mean, of course there had to be a study how long that actually is but the saying is used as an approximation. The distance is not common knowledge.

@@johannak8879 Yes, and I think it is only be used when you try to sound funny and/or when you are upset about something, like "I had to walk at least three reindeer peeings to get back to home" etc.

In fact: a reindeer piss a lenght between two reindeer pisses, if it doesnt stop. Its about 10km 😄

hostess?

Hostess???

Just a little tip, but Fins do not identify as Scandinavian, just northern

@@saladshla Fennoscandia...

Being Scandinavian, here has no advantage from the language family point of view. English is a closer relative to Scandinavian languages. Suomi is the odd friend there.

@@acmemasteri Fennoscandia is bullshit

Fiins are not Skandinavias

Get out of here!

That was genuinely interesting, thank you

Haha, especially with the fast Texas style :D "Me tulemme takaisin" was very much intelligible when she said it really fast. She'd be well understood in Karelia... x)

Finns love to kiss ass every time we are mentioned somewhere or someone tries our language. She sounded like shit, c'mon. Yes we got acknowledged, yay, just leave it at that and don't get too self important over it.

@@santerisalmivuori3872 you probably sound shit speaking English.

@@peepeetrain8755 Yeah well, no matter what I say to you at this point will sound like lies to you since you've made up your mind about the fact, so let's leave it at that and agree to disagree.

Bullshit! What the fuck is this, then? af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suid-Afrika Looks pretty much like Dutch, to me.

Thank you!!

The yule goat still exists here in Finland as ornament too. But the origin for joulupukki is but different to yule goat. In here, "nuutti pukki" used to bring gifts, a meanspirited and somewhat cruel spirit/unnatural being who was mostly like a man but with a some parts of a goat, with it allways having a head or skull of a goat as face, with some variations to the body, for example centaurlike mix of man and goat, or a goat legged man, or just the head of a goat on a man. He would visit on st knuts day, a nordic holiday after christmas (his name even means knut goat) and he would stay in your house untill he is entertained enough to leave, most often this meant you would give the man in costume enough alcohol so he is drunk and leaves. But if the knut goat wasnt entertained enough he would make pranks to the household before leaving. The children were told he would take away mean and kill bad behaving children, and bring them to Joulupukki, who lives on korvatunturi, a mountain in lapland that was claimed to be made out of skulls of mean and badly behaving children taken there. You know, the fun kind of christmas tradition!

Anders om jag slänger ut en fråga till dig om vad som helst så kan du svara på det till hundra pcent. Alttid kul när en riktig felfinnare hittar något som är livsviktigt för dem. Lev väl. Idag första Maj så protesterade vi emot förtrycket och det det innebär. Frihet och rätt att ha en åsikt. Vad tycker du om det!

The origin of the yule goat and the "nuuti pukki" is probably the same, as well as the origin of the numerus different Krampus down in Germany, Austria etc. It's a goatlike man that might kidnapp and eat you if you haven't behaved during the year. But because it's so old, we'll never know for sure.

Santa Claus is actually an amalgamation of the Dutch Sinterklaas as well as Odin from Norse Mythology. Also there is inspiration from Sámi mushroom shamans of Lapland.

EI TÄÄLTÄ KERKEE POIS NÄEMMÄ TULLAKAAN

Siskosbroidi1 Ei nii 😂 Takasi vaa

Ei perkele ei taas?

😂😂😂😂

Haerksii Kyllä vaan mulla taitaa jäädä huomen koulun päättärit välistä ku toril menee taas koko saakelin yö..

He makes me think about American English in the same way and I'm still laughing to myself days later.

hyvä huomio!

Die mutter?

but it may as well be Finnish since it's not even used in Germanic languages anymore.

What is the word it's loaned from then? I can't really think of any Germanic terms that are similar - but then again, I don't know many so - I'm not saying you're wrong, just curious :)

@@sarcasm-83 it is a Germanic loanword but it's not used in any Germanic languages anymore so that's why you can't think of any examples.

Finland is good place to visit and live. But not all are nice and beautiful 😁, but Finland is worth a try 👍

I agree. The most intelligent people have a very good sense of humor. 😊

We dont want swedish gay people in tori

All those fucking cunts who say tori should go there and fucking stay there and shut the fuck about the fucking tori already.

@@Flerian haha you called me gay. Thats so funny

@@comradesanic4563 its a common joke here. but its true swedes are gay

@@Xerdoz TORILLE

and before Nuuttikpukki there was Kekripukki who came around Kekri (old Finnish harvest festival/day of the dead)

@@Fairychamber And then came Baltic Pagans and introduced Perkunas, their god of sky to Finns and Ukko turned into... one very famous Finnish word :D

Wow i can’t believe how mutch old history peoples know. These old christmas folklore are new to me. Where you read this stuff or you just know?

eikö se sanonu jo? @Moi Hoi

Mörkö

No clue where you live in, but definitely gonna disagree with you there. Really the only instances where i've heard of him have been on foreign talkshows.

I have to agree with Erik, Ismo unfortunately isn't the most famous or best liked comedian in Finland. 🤔 Don't get me wrong, he is well known and liked, just not our biggest star. I think the one that is everywhere right now is Sami Hedberg, no?

Sami Hedberg is the most popular comedian in Finland

Thanks Jimi!

It's a fancy word for alcoholic

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣