Read a local newspaper and surprise suprise there was a face of Kimi Räikkönen..It was a story about army sporting school in Lahti, which is now coming to the end of its road. so its a place where Kimi did his military service. They have about half a kilometer long obstacle track were are about 40 different obstacles and they thought the winner will be either orienteerer, 400 hurdle runner or 10 000km runner..What did they know.. It was certain Kimi Räikkönen who won the track and with the same record time that was made in World games.
Quote: Appletree wrote in post #515Hm...interesting. Now I notice he talks finnish with certain accent. Not at all like in his childhood neighbourhood .
I can't tell the difference
Could it because he learned from someone in the army how to command a platoon? people don't usually talk like that in daily conversation?
yeah..thats the thing. He commands with the accent of people who live in Tampere. His "m"s are like that and general tone..then when he makes an inspection to the guys his accent is more casual and he talks like a karelian in some places leaving some unspoken letters at the end of the words. If he spoke like from the capital city area youngsters do, he would talk street slang, meaning shortening the words , putting more vocals to to the words and using more alphabets like F,G,B..like in the word "Hiffaat sä? " or "tajuutko sä?" its a slang word for "tajuatko sinä?" in english do you understand? Well..just a short lesson of finnish dialects.
We don't understand about Finnish dialects Apple, because we don't know basic Finnish. So it's all the same to us
But thanks for the lesson and the observation. So, does Kimi has this accents still? Or does he speaks like someone from Helsinki now? He has only lived half his life in Espoo and the other half all over the world speaking mainly English, so my guess is his Finnish it's a bit weird by now
I remember Kimi saying that what he didn't like about the army was the constant shouting I guess he didn't like the early mornings and being told what to do all the time.
Quote: WHATEVER wrote in post #522 About the article, I liked two things: the phase "there may be some more years still"
Quote: WHATEVER wrote in post #522 And the quote "I don't understand German anyway!" I love this guy
I thought really, he catch some words from Seb. And I think, he understand some words, because Seb said in Singapore 2012 German words to him before the podium.
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Tue Sep 02, 2014 3:28 pm
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It was certain Kimi Räikkönen who won the track and with the same record time that was made in World games.
it's interesting but really hard to hear any difference if you don't understand anything at all. 
to both of you 
, right Sonny? Those hats! 
They are funny and too big 
I thought really, he catch some words from Seb. And I think, he understand some words, because Seb said in Singapore 2012 German words to him before the podium. 
I don't get it. 
