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"Why do you always have to make things so damn difficult?"
I wish I could answer that question. I really do. I don't know what compells me to take the hard road when it's OBVIOUS that there are easy roads all around me that would surely make my life easier. No, not me. I have to keep on trudging down the road that no one in their sane mind would take.
C'est la vie (at least for me).
I don't know if I'll ever learn Finnish well. How the hell can someone learn a language where the presence of one little letter can change the meaning of a word completely? And it's not in just a few cases, either, it's in A LOT of cases. For example, there's keksi, which can mean cookie, cracker, or biscuit (take your pick) but if you slap -ä at the end of it to make keksiä, you've got a word which means something along the lines of "invent" or "figure out" or "think of." And of course, you also have some of the following for examples:
tuli - fire
tuuli - wind
tulli - customs
muta - mud
muuta - other
mutta - but
And who in their right minds wants to say a word like kolmekymmentäkahdeksantuhatta? That's 11 syllables! In English, it's only 5 (thirty-eight thousand)! Looking at words that long makes me want to either faint or rip my tongue out of my mouth because it gets all twisted just from trying to SAY the word correctly.
English is NOT the hardest language in the world to learn. Americans might want to fool themselves into thinking this because their writing/speaking skills are shit poor, but it's only to make themselves feel better. I want to see those idiots try and conquer the mighty Finnish before they start whining that ENGLISH is hard!
I wish I could answer that question. I really do. I don't know what compells me to take the hard road when it's OBVIOUS that there are easy roads all around me that would surely make my life easier. No, not me. I have to keep on trudging down the road that no one in their sane mind would take.
C'est la vie (at least for me).
I don't know if I'll ever learn Finnish well. How the hell can someone learn a language where the presence of one little letter can change the meaning of a word completely? And it's not in just a few cases, either, it's in A LOT of cases. For example, there's keksi, which can mean cookie, cracker, or biscuit (take your pick) but if you slap -ä at the end of it to make keksiä, you've got a word which means something along the lines of "invent" or "figure out" or "think of." And of course, you also have some of the following for examples:
tuli - fire
tuuli - wind
tulli - customs
muta - mud
muuta - other
mutta - but
And who in their right minds wants to say a word like kolmekymmentäkahdeksantuhatta? That's 11 syllables! In English, it's only 5 (thirty-eight thousand)! Looking at words that long makes me want to either faint or rip my tongue out of my mouth because it gets all twisted just from trying to SAY the word correctly.
English is NOT the hardest language in the world to learn. Americans might want to fool themselves into thinking this because their writing/speaking skills are shit poor, but it's only to make themselves feel better. I want to see those idiots try and conquer the mighty Finnish before they start whining that ENGLISH is hard!