The Official Languages Thread

[Almie]

Originally posted by Artanis
Minä rakastaa sinoa (or something like that)

It's Minä rakastan sinua. (=I love you).

The following is perhaps the most beautiful Finnish sentence in my opinion. -it's also strangely fitting in a Tolkienian setting:

Aavan meren tuolla puolen jossakin on maa.

Transl. "Somewhere beyond the vast sea lies a land."
(It's a beginning of a famous Finnish tango.)

How come the Finnish speaking Finns still has to learn Swedish in Finland? Well being a Swede myself I think that's great but I see no point in it

Well, that's a big discussion topic here... whether there's a point or not. But I think it's because of our history, and because the Swedish-speaking Finns are such a prominent minority -they have legal rights to get schooling, communal services and such in their native language.