sporedandroid wrote:Stephendaedalus wrote:The videos I was watching were entirely in Finnish. They’re just slower and somewhat simplified. Some of them are close to natural speech and some are obviously very simplified. I’d never expect to make progress on videos in English that talk about another language.
I like a lot of genres in Finnish music. I got into a lot of traditional Finnish folk music. I also like indie and some more mainstream pop-rock. I don’t actually like a whole lot of metal besides some Nightwish songs.
Well, good luck. Once you know how to construct finnish sentences like you would construct english sentences, you'll eventually come to realize that while they are grammatically correct sentences, they're not very pleasant-sounding, hence why we've developed some constructions which seem counterintuitive to english. (Consider, for example, why instead of saying
"I bought a car which has a bigger trunk, in order to travel with my family.", you might say
"In order to travel with my family, I bought a car which has a bigger trunk." In finnish both word orders would be grammatically correct, but both would sound ugly to me, hence we'll go with the participle
"Ostin auton, jossa on isompi takatila, matkustaakseni perheeni kanssa." becomes "
Ostin isomman takatilan omaavan auton matkustaakseni perheeni kanssa." When you rephrase any of these, in either language, to a question, it becomes quite clear to see the advantages and disadvantages of each rendition.)
As to music, have you heard these: Muuttohaukka, Syksyn Sävel, Hiljainen Laulu, Kuuran Kukka, Vaikene Sydän, Lauralle ?