suomen kieli, suomi - Finnish (language)
suomalainen - Finnish (person)
Finnish sound system differs greatly from other languages and might sound hard and blunt at first. For Estonian, Japanese and some Javanese it might sound very familiar. Estonian is the closest spoken relative language. Hungarian is another, but not that close. We share some grammatical similarities with Korean, but I think that's just a coincidence.
Don't worry, it might sound weird, but fear not. Finnish kids learn to speak younger than many other language speakers, since the sound system is actually very natural.
(This table is from: http://www.omniglot.com/writing/finnish.htm )
I'm not gonna try to make my own pronunciation guide, since the Internet is full of good ones.
http://www.unilang.org/view.php?res=53
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/finnish.pronunciation.html
PS. If this blog gets enough readers, I'll start making sound files too.
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