I have a friend who’s learning Finnish.
She says it makes her head a bit spin-ish.
All the endings of the nouns and the verbs.
Are like hallucinogenic accent herbs.
Unlike how she thinks, she’s good.
I don’t know many people who could
Pronounce everything, like the R and the O.
(L’s a little off, but with practice… you know…)
I love Finnish and I love how,
I can tell her facts and she’ll go “Wow!
That’s so cool! What about this?
Does it sound OK if I do it with a hiss?”
It’s fun to hear her try real hard
And succeed (the tone only slightly scarred.)
Or just crash and burn in a fiery blaze,
Which cracks me up and leaves me in a daze.
That’s OK, though, that’s how you learn.
That’s how you water your language fern.
Next time it comes up, you’re primed and ready
Know to steer clear and good, nice and steady.
I still get to laugh and giggle
Because I hear the syllables wiggle.
The sounds she makes are sometimes fun,
Mostly beautiful, like a lake in the sun.
This is why I can never get enough.
Triumph or fail, speech is fun stuff.
Sillynity 