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figure skating: taitoluistelu

Thanks for this topic, Katie!

We will probably need it next year! (Euros in Helsinki... :naughty15kz:)

:skatesmile2: well, then I will be answering here next year for sure! I will go to Euros too! Can't wait!!

Actually I watched the Olympics SPs on a Finnish webtv and I learnt "kolmo axel" - it is triple axel, right?

Very good idea of opening a subject,Katie, it can help members who will want d ' to go to Euro in Finland..

Thank you all! Nice that you consider this topic a good idea.

Yes, you are right Titanilla. It means triple axel and the right way to write and pronounce it in finnish is 'kolmoisakseli'.

All the questions are wellcome!

thanks for opening this topic, katie
and....how about telling us some of the pronounciation rules? i think it's one of the most important things when you want to learn a new language...

It is not easy to explain how to pronounce finnish. In Finnish, consonants and vowels are almost always pronounced in the same way, and the neighbouring sounds do not affect the way how, for example, the sound of the letter "S" or "T" is pronounced in words. The best way to learn, of course, is just listen how the letters and words are pronounced and look at the words.

as i see you have quite long words in finnish....do you know actually if it is similar to hungarian? it is said so.....
could you put here some simple words for me to see differencies....
just being curious
thanks

Sorry that it took so long. I had some registretation problems and I had to register all over again...... Well yeah, we have quite long words. But I don't know how much it is similar to hungarian so it would be interesting to find out. If I write a sentence or two here, then maybe it will clear this thing out a bit. Or maybe it's better if I just copy a short text from wikipedia about figure skating...

Taitoluistelu on urheilulaji, jossa luistellaan jääkentällä taitoluistimilla ja esitetään erilaisia ohjelmia musiikin tahdissa. Taitoluistelussa pyritään yhtä aikaa sekä teknisesti vaativaan että taiteelliseen ja musiikkia tulkitsevaan suoritukseen, jossa eri elementit kuten hypyt ja piruetit muodostavat kiinteän kokonaisuuden.

Should I translate that in english... I can do that later if it is necessary..

Katie, What type of problem had you to be connected on the forum?

well interesting.thanks Katie!
i understood only a few words out of it, so as i thought, hungarian and finnish are not alike.
this is the hungarian wikipedia info. not the same thing i'm sure

Páros és női, illetve férfi versenyre bontható a sportág. Mindháromban egy ún. rövidprogramot és egy kűrt kell bemutatni. Mindkét program fő elemei az ugrások, forgások, lépéssorok, illetve ezek kombinációi és egyéb figurák. A rövidprogram hossza mindhárom kategóriában maximum 2 perc 50 másodperc. A vokális zene nem megengedett, egy pont levonás jár érte.

The problem was only my own stupidity. I simply forgot my password and couldn't ask it to be sent to my e-mail because i have chanced my e-mail to a new one. And I would have needed my old e-mail with this complicated case.. Shame on me...

Hmm... I have to say that all what I understood from that hungarian text was only because of english. But I'm surprised how much I understood - or at least I think I did