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HIM’s frontman Ville Valo is poised to release a duet of the Lee Hazelwood/Nancy Sinatra classic Summer Wine with Polish singer/actress Natalia Avelon.

The single features in the German film Das Wilde Liben (English title: Eight Miles High) and will be released on February 27th on Warner Bros. Records.

I remember the first time I heard Finnish spoken. My brain tried desperately to find some word or phrase that sounded familiar. After I gave this up as a lost cause, I started to hear the flow and intonation of the words. I quickly came to the conclusion (and some of you may disagree) that this was a beautiful language to hear. About this time I also realised that this was one HARD language, and that is where the fun began. You might have noticed that this is not your common garden variety Indo-European language that many of us speak. Hell no! Let’s just start by looking at a few differences shall we…  

1. Ever take French? Remember those irritating le and la you had to attach to every noun? Fear not! The Finnish language has no gender! Yeah you heard me! Actually this is the same in English. However, I do want to point out the in Finnish there is only one word for he and she: hän.
2. Finnish has no definite or indefinite articles. Talo means “house”, “the house” and “a house”. Economical!
3. The stress is always on the first syllable. That makes it is to remember.
4. Here is the trippy part. The Finnish alphabet has 21 letters, 8 vowels (a, e, i, o, u, ä, ö, y) and 13 consonants.  B, c, f, q, w x, z are not included in the Finnish alphabet except in foreign words (makes me wonder what their keyboards look like).
5. No verb “to have”. They use “to be” instead.
6. The really confusing part. Finnish has a declension of the noun that has 14 case endings. So it depends on the context in which you are saying it and if it is singular or plural that decides what ending you put on the noun. More on this in later lessons!
7. Why are there huge words in Finnish? Because they have some impressive compound nouns! Two, three or more words can be used to form some impressively long words: polttomoottorilennokkikilpailut (kippis to Lauri Ylönen for introducing me to that one!)
8. Finish does not have static negative markers. Trust me on this, its too confusing to explain briefly.
9. Yes and no questions are asked by adding ko or kö to the end of the word. Example: menen (I am going) menenkö (Am I going?)
10. No prepositions. Once again, Finnish does this by changing the case endings.  

talo house                                                                                  

talotta without a house

talossa in the house

taloon to the house

talosta form the house                      

Interesting, huh? More to come!