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Originally Posted by LenaJ
 That's so funny! You probably have to be acquainted with the letter รถ to fully appreciate that sentence. |
Anyway, I noticed that I've been stupid: the example I gave was not of a Finn pronouncing phonetically, but of a Finn pronouncing... with a Finnish accent. Some people here really speak English as it is written, though...
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To me it's an angry sounding language. I have a bunch of relatives living way up north in Sweden. They speak Finnish as well as Swedish, but since the Finnish language border goes through that part (Tornedalen) of Sweden I'd say they use Finnish more.
Anyway, I think they sound so angry even though I know they're not.
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Hmm, Finnish can sound very monotonous at least. I think "speaking like the book" Finnish sounds actually beautiful, even to many foreigners. But many dialects are harsh - spoken Finnish is quite different from written Finnish.
