So I'm going to do a little experiment
I'm gonna ask you two questions
and you have to do is answer in you head
Are you ready?
Ok, first question there is
Can you learn?
just answer yes or no in your head
and the second question
Can you learn the hardest language
in the world?
Did you see what happened there
maybe you weren't sure with the second one
wasn't as easy as the first.
Did you say no?
did you say maybe?
did you say probably? I don't know
because if you did then
you've just experienced what the majory
of foreigners feel when they
come to Finland
excited, ready to learn Finnish
and then everyone tells them
it´s really hard language
and the grammar is impossible.
It'll take you years,
and so what I whant to do today is
I want to descontruct this question
a little bit
and then I want to talk about three things
that I think influence
how we answer this question.
Because I don't know really
think the answer has anything to do
with your ability.
And at the same time
I want to reassure the Finns in the room
that this is also a discussion for you.
So I'm going to go through a bit of
a language coaching exercise.
There's going to be a lot of questions
for the Finns you can pretend it's
another language if you want
or you could just try to empathize
and see what it's like for, for us.
At the same time I'm going to use
some examples from gymnastics coaching
because that's also somenthing I do
and it puts learning in a bit more
of visual context.
So the first part of the question is:
Why learn?
Because sometimes we get so
wrapped up in the subject
that we're learning
and we forget all about the process.
But luckily our speakers haven't
forgotten about that.