Swedish vs. Finnish

helgihg · Post by **helgihg** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 7:43 pm

I understand that Swedish is also an official language in Finland, although spoken natively by a minority.

My question is this: Are all official papers also in Swedish? I'm Icelandic and for some twisted reason we're forced to learn a pseudo-language commonly referred to as "Danish" in school... but the bonus is that reading Swedish is pretty easy to us.

In Iceland it's almost as if the government is trying to make immigrants' lives a living hell when it comes to paperwork, by expecting them to learn Icelandic even before they even have a remote chance of learning it. I'm wondering if it's the same in Finland... either English or Swedish is fine, but with all due respect, I'm not gonna learn Finnish until I've been over there for a while.

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Hank W. · Post by **Hank W.** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 9:04 pm

Yes, its an official language so everything *must* be available in Finnish and Swedish - in the bilingual counties atleast you get them side-by side, going to Sisä-Savo they might need to go get a vacoom cleaner first. But then again if you get the paper in front of you, remember the bureaucratese hasn't much evolved from 1809

kalmisto · Post by **kalmisto** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 4:45 pm

helgihg

Internytt for you : http://internytt.yle.fi/

kalmisto · Post by **kalmisto** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 5:45 pm

helgihg

General information on Finnish for you

:

http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Didarasq

Hank W. · Post by **Hank W.** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 6:00 pm

Kalmisto, something to read:
http://www.hufvudstadsbladet.fi
(not the 'f' spelling)

kalmisto · Post by **kalmisto** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 8:37 pm

Hank W. wrote:Kalmisto, something to read:
http://www.hufvudstadsbladet.fi
(not the 'f' spelling)

Tack så mycket !

There is an excellent newspaper site at :

http://www.esperanto.se/kiosk/enplena.html

The site has links ( 2 pages of Finnish newspapers ) to many Swedish language newspapers that are published in Finland.

opinto · Post by **opinto** » Wed Jan 11, 2012 1:35 pm

Anteeksi Olen Qäyttötunnus nimi opinto ja qiiliqesqoos

olen pahoillani salasana mitä minum pitäisi tehdä.

kalmisto · Post by **kalmisto** » Wed Jan 11, 2012 6:15 pm

...olen pahoillani salasana mitä minum pitäisi tehdä

Sinun pitäisi kirjoittaa englanniksi, ei suomeksi. Sinä kirjoitat niin huonoa suomea,että kukaan ei ymmärrä mitä sinä tarkoitat.

a pretty good machine translation into English of the text above .
http://translate.google.com/#fi|en|Sinu ... 0tarkoitat.

kalmisto · Post by **kalmisto** » Wed Jan 11, 2012 6:21 pm

Anteeksi Olen Qäyttötunnus nimi opinto ja qiiliqesqoos...

What is "qiiliqesqoos" ? Is it "kielikeskus"?

onkko · Post by **onkko** » Thu Jan 12, 2012 2:42 am

Opinto... Please dont post anything where you try to be "funny". It insults me that you literally rape my language withouth having even slightest try to write it like it should be written.
Atleast i assume you are trying to be funny, other intepretion is that you try to insult finns and i wont like to go there.
Every online or other machine translator makes way better finnish than your mocking insult of "something what resembles finnish", stop it.

Write in english, if you cant then dont write at all.

Rosamunda · Post by **Rosamunda** » Thu Jan 12, 2012 10:04 am

onkko wrote: It insults me that you literally rape my language withouth having even slightest try to write it like it should be written.

Interesting comment from... er... onkko

snowcelt · Post by **snowcelt** » Thu Jan 12, 2012 10:26 am

onkko wrote:Opinto... Please dont post anything where you try to be "funny". It insults me that you literally rape my language withouth having even slightest try to write it like it should be written.
Atleast i assume you are trying to be funny, other intepretion is that you try to insult finns and i wont like to go there.
Every online or other machine translator makes way better finnish than your mocking insult of "something what resembles finnish", stop it.

Write in english, if you cant then dont write at all.

Ah yes, one of the "do what I say, not what I do" brigade.

onkko · Post by **onkko** » Thu Jan 12, 2012 2:52 pm

snowcelt wrote:
onkko wrote:Opinto... Please dont post anything where you try to be "funny". It insults me that you literally rape my language withouth having even slightest try to write it like it should be written.
Atleast i assume you are trying to be funny, other intepretion is that you try to insult finns and i wont like to go there.
Every online or other machine translator makes way better finnish than your mocking insult of "something what resembles finnish", stop it.

Write in english, if you cant then dont write at all.

Ah yes, one of the "do what I say, not what I do" brigade.

Su joo är delling dac ai vrid lig dis?

onkko · Post by **onkko** » Thu Jan 12, 2012 2:53 pm

penelope wrote:
onkko wrote: It insults me that you literally rape my language withouth having even slightest try to write it like it should be written.
Interesting comment from... er... onkko

Zo i zougd stad tu wride lige dis?

snowcelt · Post by **snowcelt** » Thu Jan 12, 2012 5:36 pm

You can if you want. Doesn't bother me. It makes you sound like Matti Vanhanen speaking tankero english though. Whatever floats your boat....

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