Ei = egg or no

Although I try to get my Finnish language skill sharper and better is funny that more and more Finns I know also want to learn Dutch. I think one of the most strange language you will ever encounter.

Where you in Finnish (is regarded as one of the most diffelcult language to learn) write something, you know how to pronounce it. Sometimes that can be the struggle because I fall over the letters. Escepcialy when there are two the same two consonants, but still, my Finnish is better then their Dutch. I find it kind of cute that the Finns are so insecure about there language skills. They speak one of the best English as non native speaker in the world and still they are the only ones not to realise it. So don't be shy Finns and be proud for once in your life. You have an amazing language and culture and Finland is has the biggist fanclub on social media from all the countries in the world! Never ask why we want to learn Finnish, just laugh and help us when we try. The world loves Finnish

But if you want to learn a language where you have no clue how to pronounce it if you write it down and it's still in Latin script, try Dutch. We have the strange habbit to not pronounce letters in a word, where ever it's place in a word. Also the pronounciation changes depending on it's position in a word. Sometimes we make a complete new pronunciation by combining two or more letters: sch, ch, oe, ui, au, ou, ei and ij. Altough digraphs are common in more languages, Dutch can't survive with out them. Sometimes the pronunciation is typical Dutch, and then we Dutch all melt away by the struggle foreigners have with it. And then feel ashamed when we can't speak a foreign language fluently.

Dutch and Finns, sometimes more alike then we want to admit...