#language bingo

A more fleshed out table of what I will be doing:

If you also choose to do the bingo challenge you can of course customize it for yourself!

I am also using other resources besides this like courses and textbooks etc. but this bingo is intended to challenge me more specifically.

disclaimer! Learning Finnish is basically the main thing I do at the moment because I need it to get a study place/work. So I probably have a lot more time to focus on learning Finnish than maybe you have to focus on your language learning. So adjust the challenge to what you can realistically achieve.

If you join in, tag me to let me know!

Having others also challenging themselves is an additional motivator!

I actually listened to this episode a few days ago for the first time while drawing. Just to familiarize myself with it a bit.

Then I went through it again today and took notes. The episode is 38 minutes long and it took like 1 hour and 30 minutes until I was finished. For the last like 10 minutes of the episode my concentration definitely wavered. This was a very intense way to do listening practice.

They are basically talking about loneliness and if it is your own fault. Someone called Annika Ollila shares her experience and the podcaster Roosa Rahkonen talks about it together with the psychotherapist Emilia Kujala.

I am actually half shocked, half fascinated how much I can actually understand just from context. Even at the speed at which they speak. It shows me that I am actually understanding a lot already, even if it doesn't feel like it most of the time.

Here is a list of the words and phrases/sentences I noted down: (corrections are welcome!)

disclaimer: Sometimes it is puhekieli because they are obviously speaking puhekieli, but I also made notes of what the full words are. Those notes are then in brackets (). There are also probably mistakes as I wrote these notes just from listening (thankfully Finnish is a phonetic language...)

fyysinen/ emotionaalinen yksinäisyys - physical/ emotional loneliness

Se vaikuttaa aivois(sa) samas(sa) paikassa, kun missä hän on fyysinen kipu. - It affects the brain in the same place as where there physical pain is.

ulkopuolisuus - externality

ristiriita - conflict, discrepancy

Mikä he kaipaat multa (minulta)? - What do they want from me?

katkos - failure, break

maski - mask "aina olen iloinen, koska iloisia ihmisiä tykätään" - I am always happy, because happy people are liked

haavoittuvuus - vulnerability -> haava - wound

yhteys - contact, connection

liittyä - be joined, unite

liittää yhteen - to connect

sosiaalinen liima - social glue (I found this wording very interesting)

aisti - sense

Haavoittuvuus liittää yhteen ihmisiä. - Vulnerability connects people.

(mistä +) johtua - be caused by (what)

näkemys - view, opinion

vuorovaikutus - interaction

julkisuuden - the public

ilmiö - phenomenon

korostua - to be emphasized

porukka - (social) group

häpeä - shame, stigma

torjuttu - repressed

Pelko, että toinen voi hyllättää mut (minut). - The fear that someone might abandon me.

hyllättää - to abandon

fiilis - vibes

Olla täällä mua (minua) varten. - To be there for me.

annettu (sille?) äidinmaidossa - it was given in my mother's milk (like 'it is in my blood'?)

luottaa - to trust

tukea - to support

Yksin olo ja yksinäisyys on kaks(i) ihan täysin eri asiaa. - Being alone and loneliness are two completely different things.

henkilökohtaisesti - personally

Meidän omis(sa) näpeissä. - literally: in our own fingertips; meaning: (it's) in our own hands

vastaavanlainen- similar

laumaeläin - herd animal

luultavasti - probably