Which Finnish vowels are the hardest ones for you? Leave a comment below!

This is probably the only channel on KZfaq that directly compares the pronunciation of the Finnish "A" and that of "Ä" (the difference between which is extremely problematic for many foreigners, including me) as isolated phonemes. Exactly what I needed, thank you so very much! I have been trying to find this kind of comparison for such a long time, but in no other video have I found a comparison where "A" and "Ä" are pronounced right one after the other and where they are not presented as within a word (which actually makes the difference harder to spot), but really as isolated sounds. Thank you once more! :)

Oh my God the way i have different to get to know how and where to use these, and in 2022 today i run into your channel and i finally understand it …. My goodness… thank you a lot . And now am watching everthing for this fact that you made me understand.

You are a very intelligent teacher. Been studying this for 11 months and finally got to understand it from you .

4:55 As a native Finnish speaker, I notice I pronounce "olympialaiset" as "olumpialaiset". "Psykologia" and "labyrintti" are easier, though I might turn them into pseudo combound words: "psy-kologia" and "la-byrintti".

This is so far the best video to explain the confusing a and ä. Thank you so much!

This is very interesting. Finnish vowel harmony is almost the same as Turkish, except we have no neutral vowels. In Turkish the neutral vowels "i and e" are considered front vowels. I'm not a linguistic expert but my guess is that neutral vowels are probably the Indo-European influence.

Been studying finnish as a beginner for months and never heard it explained like this. You made this so clear instantly. But for some reason 'Y' gives me the most trouble lol 😆

Thank you so much. I have been seven years in Finland and never understood those roles before today. Really appreciate that. 🙏

When you meet quality content you just know . I hit subscribe button immediately. I've an interview with my Finn employer in a weeks time.

Am glad I found u. U are a great teacher

Thank you thank you very much. I learned so many times vowel harmony But i couldn't understand it completely! But now, i watched your this video. I did understand completely now. Thank you very much❤🌹♥️

Tämä on erittäin hyvä selitys - kiitos!

Im watching your video now its almost 4 years later since did this video and I want to say your videos are the most easiest to understand. Thank you and God bless you 🙏 ❤

Thank you for your videos! I like how you explained the vowels and how they are pronounced.

omg I just found you channel. Thank you for your explanation! It is very clear! I like how you explain as they like to "hang out" ☺

Kiitos paljon for this video! It's very illustrative :D When I started learning how to pronounce them (since my native language only has a, e, i, o and u), the best advice to pronounce ö and y was: - ö: position your lips as if you were to pronounce an O, but pronouce an E (Spanish E, or the one in rEd) - y: position your lips as if you were to pronounce an U, but pronounce an I (Spanish I, or the one in sit) Best of luck to all of us!! (Tsemppiä!!), I hope this is useful for someone :)

Great explanation, thanks you so much!

((Hi, vowel harmony gang. In Hunagrian we have two helping words: autó (car) for the low vowels (a, á, o, ó, u ú,), and teniszütő (tennis racket) for the high vowels (e, é, i, í, ö, ő, ü, ű). The logic is basically the same, although we have mixed word roots, and also a low í in the word híd (bridge), which is a remainder from the past, and goes with low suffixes.)) Finnish sounds more and more interesting with every such video. I have half a mind to try to learn at least the basics now. Thanks for your work.

Ótimo vídeo, continue produzindo conteúdo como este!!! Kiitos paljon :)

Kiitos Emmi tämä video auttää minua paljon 😊😊😊

this is excellent thank you, you are serious teacher I like this

Thank you!! You were very clear!! ❤

very useful and easy to understand

Gigachad language

Just started soumen last night. I love this kitos!

Here in New Zealand the Maori vowls A E I O U are pronounced the same however we don't have Ä Ö Y. But we do have Wh which makes the same sound as the letter F. We roll our R too

Kiitos

Kiitos, kaunis opettaja! :)

Kiitos paljon ❤

Excellent video, thanks for it and keep going... ;) I'm at the beginning with my finnish language adventure, and the most difficult aspect of the finnish vowels for me is a difference between a and ä. I've watched tons for videos and still have a problem with distinguishing between them "from hearing". Sometimes ä sounds for me as in english "man" (between a and e) but in most of cases like regular a (like in my native polish). Your video helped me a lot... Another finnish peculiarity are diphthongs. Maybe some video about them. I'm subscribing and... paljon kiitoksia!

pretty useful :) paljon kiitoksia!

Kiitos 💙

Thank you it was really clear

Excelente vídeo. Finalmente, Yo creo que entendí la diferencia entre las vocales frontales y las «traseras». ¡Vídeo genial!

kiitos paljon opettajalle🫡🤚🏻

Oh this is so helpful

Bien explicado, chulenga!

Opettaja, make a video on CONSONANT CHANGES.

You are excellent

Ahhhh Kiitos!

please, make a video about the suffixes / endings.... I would love that, it's really hard to learn on your own..... greetings from Brazil

Thanks for telling the difference btw ssa and ssä can you also talk about vat and vät, ko & kö

selvä. sä selität tosi hyvin. tykkään et mä näen sua videossa.

It's 11:46 at night and my entire family is asleep and I'm trying to pronounce Finnish vowels. I cannot tell the difference between Ö and Y

Ótimo vídeo,a fonética do finlandês é muito difícil.

Since the neutral vowel can go with either the Front or Back vowels and itself, can the Front vowel go with the Front vowel as well as the Back vowel go with the Back vowel?

Me: "yö."

Weirdly enough, as Estonian I can't find many words in Estonian which would end with Ä Ö Ü or Õ. Only words I can remind myself are "öö", "töö", "löö", "vöö", "pää"(Estonian uncommon dialect) and couple more :D. Never thought about it before. Southern Estonians use those a lot.

Thank you for the video, but I have a question hope you could answer me. The exercise 2 of Chapter 1 in Suomen mestari book, there is a question that is “punaviini-....” and I fill “ssa” in it. However, the answer is “-ssä”. Why do I wrong? The word “punaviini” has back vowels and neutral vowels, how can it be “-ssä”?

Nice video, but I still struggle to differentiate a and ae by ear.

Rovaniemellä or Rovaniemella which one is correct? Seinäjoella or Seinäjoellä which one is correct?

I am confused. When you pronounce "A" and "Ä" on their own I have no difficulties to tell the difference because it's basically the same in German. But when you pronounce words like "minä" and "kiva" suddenly both letters sound like an "A". And it's not only you where I've noticed this. Is it just me having bad ears or is it some kind of finnish slang/dialect etc.? And can I pronounce the "Ä"s more clearly or would that make me less understandable? Thanks for the help

A>Ä, O>Ö, BUT U>Y ??? It should be U>Ü !!! What happened?

I just can't get the Ä right for the life of me.

Is there a group, telegram or whatsapp, we can learn the Finnish language through conversation.

I like the Finnish language

Kittos

*Myymäläauto* äa

Just like Hungarian.

I understand the difference between a and ä. Only thing i dont hear that difference when i hear the spoken language. Or when i listen Käärijä 's music. Btw venäjä - venäjällä. Why not venäjässä?

Kiitos