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Finnish

Name: Anonymous 2009-07-05 15:37

I want to learn Finnish.

Name: Anonymous 2009-07-06 9:40

>>4
Also there is no great Finnish literature that would make learning Finnish worthwhile.

>>21
there is close to none interesting Finnish literature out there

I'm sorry if there's no interesting Finnish literature out there for people who only learn a language to read manga and to play (most likely pretty ecchi) games, but dismissing the literature of a whole nation like that just shows how ignorant you both are. Enjoy your バトル・ロワイヤル, 時をかける少女 and shittily translated Haruki Murakami books.

>>22
Ironically enough the Kalevala is the only Finnish book that shouldn't be read in any other language than Finnish, and even then it's a pretty challenging read because it has a very rich vocabulary with many dialectal, archaic and archaic dialectal words (although you can surmise the rough meaning from the context). Kalevala is a perfect example of a book whose language  is untranslatable: in translation it loses all of its beauty. The story might be there, but the magic is gone.

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