Finnish is generally a horrible sounding language that sounds a bit like I would imagine a chainsaw cutting through a live elephant and getting stuck on a bone would sound - With the elephant being a serious cigar smoking, whiskey drinker.
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Taraz has been in a grumpy mood for a couple of days now. :)
I also find that eloquently put, BTW.
Seriously, though, a lot of non-speakers of Finnish have described it as sounding somewhat like Japanese. As a native speaker, it's hard for me to judge accurately how it sounds like but I've found Korean to be a good match, too. No, the two languages are not related in any way. Korean is an isolate.
THere are definite similiarites with japanese and despite some of the sounds, Japanese weirdly do a pretty good job of learning Finnish from what I have seen. Also, there are some cultural similarities. I don't know much about Korean, but I have always found the people fun.
What's similar to Japanese is the variation in vowel length and a strong tendency for emphasis to be on the first syllable. Diphtongues are less frequent in Japanese, however, than in Standard Finnish (not in Ostrobothnia, though, which makes Ostrobothnian stereotypical male figures in sketches sound like samurai in Kurosawa's films.) Korean has consonant clusters but Korean has sibilants in them way more frequently (pretty rare in Finnish).
I think the main cultural similarities between Japan and Finland are that silence is well-tolerated in both cultures. Both tend to emphasize group consensus Finland being less authoritarian, though.
I think there is also a similarity in the focus of attention on one particular thing at a time. I think this is also why Finns can be very talented .. or alcoholics :D
Alcohol use is highly concentrated in this country. 10% of the people drink 50% of all alcohol.
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