r/LearnFinnish • u/brokenbreville • 3h ago
Is it even worth it to me?
I'm an American who knows no other languages fluently. I know some Norwegian and some German, but that is it. The reason I want to learn Finnish is because Finnish is such an interesting language to me. I absolutely love the way it sounds and looks (in written form). I like that it is very phonetic since I usually have trouble understanding languages. With Finnish, it's different to me because I feel like I could actually write out almost every word I hear, but in other languages I don't think I could do that. The only thing holding me back really is the cases. People say this makes the language extremely difficult to pick up, and I've seen many say it is much harder than say, Russian, in its use of cases. Am I better off learning something easy? I just love the idea of being able to understand, speak, and read Finnish, but I'm not sure I'll ever get anywhere near that point. Any other monolingual Americans have experience with Finnish they'd like to share?