I am looking for a person that I can practice Finnish with, but in particular I would like it if the native speaker knew one of the Savonian dialects that is closer to the Karelian language. In any case though, any dialect will work.

Edit: C2 in Spanish, C1 in Russian. Native in English.

  • Hi, I’m a native finnish person and I’d like to learn Spanish better! Also some russian could come in handy, which one(s) are your native language(s)?

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    It has some extra cases that are interesting and helpful for other Finnic languages like Veps and Karelian (Livvi) and I prefer “mie sie se myö” etc to “mä sä …” among other things in how the Savolaiset talk

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    Estonian is Finnic, and there is definitely lexical similarity but I don’t believe it’s fully mutually intelligible, especially to someone who is not a native in either language. Furthermore Estonian is littered with German loanwords.

    Granted, very close similarities exist. “kõik” vs “kaikki” for example.

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    You are correct. As far as I know Estonians have easier time understanding Finns than the other way around, but even then most people can barely understand the what the other party is talking about. Many words that exist in both languages also have very different meanings that can cause confusion.

    For example the word "mold" in Finnish is home and in Estonian it's hallitus

    However in Finnish hallitus translates to "government"

    You can kind of see how Estonians and us sometimes get good chuckles from each other.

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  • I found the following users who may fit your language exchange criteria:

    Username Date Post Link Relevance Offered Matches Sought Matches
    u/wise-presence-5335 2021-10-29 Post 6 --- English, Spanish, Russian
    u/yardayel 2021-10-31 Post 6 --- English, Spanish, Russian
    u/excellent-big-0904 2021-11-27 Post 6 --- English, Spanish, Russian
    u/a-esha 2021-12-24 Post 6 --- English, Spanish, Russian
    u/cryupstairs6722 2021-12-26 Post 6 --- English, Spanish, Russian

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