Last Sunday I watched a very interesting, Finnish film titled Musta jää (Black Ice) which inspired me to learn Finnish. Luckily, the person I watched the film with is, oddly enough, from Finland and she is more than willing to teach me some of the lingo. The alphabet is fairly simple, especially if you know the Welsh alphabet because many of the sounds are the same and some of the words are fairly simple (providing you know the alphabet of course!) such as moi (hi - pronounced 'mwy' as in Welsh for 'more) and kiitos (thanks - 'key-toss') but then came a list kindly provided by aforementioned Finn.
The list, very basically, is an explanation of various Finnish prepositions. In Finnish it's not enough to simply 'with Liam' but there is a kind of mutation rule in which you add a suffix, 'with Liam' would be 'kanssa Liamin' - it's as if they actually change your name! I couldn't, of course, let her get away with landing this bombshell and so I gave her a small insight into the Welsh mutation system which I'm sure looks as random and nonsense as the Finnish list here does me.
In other news I've treated myself to a bit of online clothes shopping today after receiving a cheque for £222 (woo-hoo!) and I've been emailing the Welsh department at Aberystwyth trying to sort out some timetable issues - this happens every semester. Tomorrow I start both of my new politics modules: International Political Theory Today and Wales & Devolution. Unfortunately, IPTT is at 9am which means I have to get up early :( but I am very much looking forward to starting my first Welsh politics module :)
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