Jenny

[sanni]

Mitä sä täällä teet tän piti olla mun chatti! Nyt sitä häiriköidään ja hypitään silmille?! KERRO IHAN OMIN SANOIN! Tää chatti on liian pieni kahdelle suomalaiselle! ETTÄ SUOMALAISET ON "SUPER", ei ainakaan jos tommosii päästetään nettiin meitä edustamaan.... "tapu, tapu, (hurjaa hurraamista) tapu, tapu"
-sanni-

P.S maajoukkue tasoa... tää tietää sotaa...!

[jenny]

Sorry! I´m atleast writing in english!!! That´s meant in this forum! If you think this forum is too big for two finnish people that´s ok by me--- you can @!#$ yourself and go to hell!!! I am rude I know!!! I am staying!

[Byro-Nenium]

Hi Jenny,
I was just curious, how is badminton as a game in Finland? Is it well recognised as a sport that holds tournaments or is it considered more of a "backyard sport"?

[jenny]

No it´s not at all a kind of backyard sport!! We have about 150 good active players and a lot of more competitors who will be good and are ok. We have a lot of tournaments almost every 2nd week and we have a national team and a junior national team and these teams has only good players! We have two BIG clubs and a lot of small clubs. In next spring here in Finland is a tournament called Finish open!! A big tournament and here comes players from many countries! We have good practices and I practice twice a day... no not at all just a backyard sport! Here is about 50 players who really takes badminton seriously.

[kwun]

Jenny,

practice twice a day is a lot, i wish i could devote so much time for badminton.

at what level do you play?

kwun

[sanni]

Jenny... katsos nyt mitä kävi! Susta on tullu suosittu täällä... toi viimesin joka sano et kaks kertaa päiväs on paljon ei selvästikkään oo keskustellu sen mikä-ikinä-olikaan-nimeltään kanssa joka treenas 63h/vk.... mä jatkan sotaa niin kauan kunnes sä lennät täältä ulos tai sut sensuroidaan kokonaan sinä !@#%{?##,. (suomeks voi kirjotella rumia sanoja!!!)

[Byro-Nenium]

i wish i had the time to practise "so" much, tomorrow will be the first time i play outside school since, i dunno, ages ago.......

Anyway, enjoy!

[jenny]

Well.... I am one of the best juniorplayers in Finland. I´m in the Finnish junior nationalteam and practicing hard to get to the national team--- What will happend probably in January2002!! It´s good if I get there beacuse I´m 17 and it´s a good age to get there..(even if almost everybody in the national team are older than I) YES, I play on such a high level.... I don´t know how to explain.... =( sorry... but anyway on a high level!

[jenny]

I LOVE EVERY SINGLE HIT WHEN MY RACKET TOUCHES THE SHUTTLE!!! I love to practice I love to compete I love badminton more than anyone! Thanks! I will really enjoy!!

[kwun]

Jenny,

that is very cool!! good luck to you in joining the national team, and please do visit this forum often and let us know your progress and give us more insight into the game!

[Brett]

In English please! All those Finnish umlauts are giving me a headache. :)

At the risk of brewing up an international incident, I'm curious about your language as I have never met a Finn before and would like to ask a few questions. I know that Finnish is an Ugric language in the same family of languages as Hungarian and Estonian, but to my non-expert eyes and ears, it almost seems a bit like a cross between German and Japanese in pronunciation and in spelling - is that even slightly accurate? I have/had relatives who speak/spoke Hungarian and it did not sound much like the small amount of Finnish I have ever heard on television. Is English taught in most Finnish schools as a mandatory foreign language or is it an elective foreign language? Since Swedish is also one of Finland's official languages, is that also taught to all school children? What percentage of the population speaks Swedish also?

Also, could you tell us a bit more about badminton in Finland? How popular is it outside of Helsinki? What percentage of Finns play badminton?, what brands of badminton equipment are popular or available there, etc.... ?

Kiitoksia oikein paljon.


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[Adel]

That was a priceless disclaimer, Brett! =)

Yes, Jenny... do tell us more.

[cooler]

Ahh, we have another true badminton purist. Welcome to this forum Jenny. I hope one day Finland would become big in badminton like denmark, sweden.and germany.

[sanni]

Oh, too much questions for my brains... I´m not an expert with this but I think finnish sounds most like estonian... A lot of childrens have english their first language but it´s not mandatory... (we can choose english, swedish or french)
In the 7th class you have to take swedish if you haven´t take in before. About percentage I´m not sure...
propbably jenny knows more....
-sanni-

Ole hyvä!

ps.sori, noi kymysykset oli sulle mut mul ei ollu muutakaan tekemist... mitä ne valittaa siin Brettin viestin alapuolella?

[Brett]

Thanks Sanni.

I hope you weren't enclosing that Finnish message for me - I don't speak Finnish. I just did a quick web search about the Finnish language and one of the sites that had some useful information also had an English to Finnish phrases book section, so I looked it up in there.

[sanni]

No, that message was for jenny...

[marshall]

I agree with Adel. Your disclaimer is a jewel.

[jenny]

I don´t know what it was!!??!! Yes you can answer to Brett... I think you can give him better facts than I. :) keep on!

[Brett]

Jenny, you were confused about my disclaimer? That was mostly a joke. Last week I posted a similar question about languages in a different country, trying, as I have done here, to learn more about that country. Several individuals decided, by using a system of locic I cannot begin to understand, that I was not actually asking a genuine question for educational purposes, but that I was (a) "stupid," and (b) attempting to say bad things about their country. After trying to explain to them that my questions were genuine, one of them became so irrational that he accused me of being part of some evil international conspiracy to split his country into a number of smaller countries! Therefore, I put this disclaimer up, in part, to state that it was a real question I was asking because I was curious and I meant no insult or offense to Finland or to Finns. Also, I put it up because I have an obnoxious streak and I thought it would be entertaining to make fun of those two individuals from last week.