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Or Swedish for that matter, as I believe Torvalds maternal language is Swedish

• young_unixer 6y ago
  Yes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rL-0LAy04E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rL-0LAy04E
• jacquesm 6y ago
  Finnish is stupendously hard. Far harder than Swedish, at least, by my estimation.
  • dehrmann 6y ago
    It is. Swedish and English are both Germanic languages, so there are a lot of commonalities. Finnish is in a completely different language family. English and Swedish are more closely related to Persian and Hindi than to Finnish.
  • dancek 6y ago
    Yes. Swedish is also easy compared to English and French, the other two languages I've learned after early childhood. The only thing that makes it hard is that you never really have use for it and you're forced to learn it nevertheless here in Finland. I'm happy to see people here on HN respect the difficulty of learning languages. Most foreigners that speak Finnish do it very poorly at first and even after decades they still sound like foreigners. But it shows huge respect to our small country for someone to make the effort, and we really appreciate it. I'm hoping other people see learning their own mother tongue the same way. Sure, most of us need English, but learning it well is still a huge task.
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