>what do you think of swedes ability
>to speak finnish? I don't know a word
>of finnish
Generally, swedes suck at finnish. The swedish/finnish population in finnland learn both languages from birth and thus pull it off quite well (even though their swedish is influenced by finnish - finno-swedish).
As a native swede, you'll have to be more or less a language genious to learn the proper pronounciation of finnish. I know people who've lived in finnland for decades without ever getting rid of their swedish accent.
Same goes the other way around - finns have an extremely hard time learning proper swedish pronounciation.
>I think it might be becuz finnish uses
>the same "sounds" as swedish
They do in fact, NOT use the same sounds. Finnish is a harder (spoken, not learned) language in many ways. Originally, finnish didn't have g and b among others, and it's still rather evident with native finns - they pronounce g as k, b as p.
This gives us such hilarious instances of mispronounciation as borrmasking (swedish for drilling machine) and porrmasking (porn machine), snobben (swedish name of 'Peanuts' comic) and snoppen (swedish for dick).
Ethymologically, swedish is a west-germanian (I think it was) language (german, norwegian, danish, swedish), while finnish is part of the Finnish-Ugrish language family (finnish, hungarian). Both are as hard to learn for everyone but the natives and those who grow up with both.
>except for ei saa peiti
The correct spelling is "ei saa peittää". And yes, it means "do not cover".