aijaa Monty, ihan kiva tiedää.

Estonian is, I think, the only language that has some close similarities to finnish. I always got a little confused in Tallinn when I overheard people because I could understand 10% or so of every sentence, and nothing else :)

ChrisLange said:
On aivan kiva mulle että ei melkein kukaan ymmärtää suomi :)

Kyllä mä ymmärrän mitä sa puhut, minun kirjoitama suomen kieli voi olla vähän roskainen, mutta mä ymmärrän ihan kaiken ... Suomen televisio opeti sen minulle Neuvostoliiton aikana :D

I speak Estonian and English, i also understand Finnish, but I'm not that good at speaking or writing it as I've learned it from TV and the Finnish media.

camera - kaamera or fotoaparaat
aperture - ava
shutter - katik
flash - välk(lamp)
body - kere
lens - objektiiv
focus - fookus or teravus
photography - fotograafia
photographer - fotograaf or piltnik
photograph - foto
darkroom - pimik
film - film
chrome film - diapositiivfilm
color film - värvifilm
black and white - mustvalge
memory card - mälukaart

I can help with Bulgarian and occasionally in Russian.
Although, we share most of the expressions, but written in Cyrillic, we have specific words for some of the terms.
Similar examples:
Camera – камера
Photographer – фотограф (photograph).
Altho we have for photo camera – фотокамера (same pronunciation), but mostly we use to name it фотоапарат (comes from photoaparatus).
And completely different terms for:
Aperture – бленда (Pronounced - blenda)
Speed – скорост (Pronounced - skorost)
Lens – обектив (sounds like objective) or in jargon – стъкло (Pronounced - stu(a)klo and direct translation is - glass).

This one is for you Pete.

photography: Fotografering
photographer: Fotograf
photograph: Billede
darkroom: MørkeKammer
film: film
black and white: Sort/Hvid
memory card: Hukommelseskort
Color Film: Farve Film
Aperture: Blænder
Shutter: Lukker
Camera: Kamera
Glass: Objektiv
Camera Body: Kamera Hus
Photo Journalist: Foto Journalist :D
Sports Photographer: Sports Fotograf
Wedding Photographer: Bryllups Fotograf
Wildlife Photographer: Vildtlivs Fotograf
Landscape Photographer: Landskabs Fotograf

Can't think of more now cause im headed straight for bed right about now.

Edit: This is Danish/Denmark.
Kristian.

NikoDoby said:
moose loving friend :^)
These can be very difficult to fall in Love with

Actually the only Canadians I personally know all live in Mexico, so go figure :^)

I would not want to live there at this time, Mexico is sadly falling apart, bit by bit

My Parents are Canadian Snow Birds and spend most of their winter months in Mesa, but also Spend some time maybe near your place, Edinburg, McAllen or something like that, they were real close to the border anyway

Pete

bmxdad said:
BTW I think Niko you might be a Spanish speaking Mexican, not that there is anything wrong with that, are you then maybe an Illegal immigrant and therefor have to hide your identify, anyway welcome back

Oh how wrong you are my beaver hat wearing, Danish eating, moose loving friend :^) I was born in the USA. My grandparents were from Spain and France though I'm sure we have descendants from all over the globe by now. Mexico is such a beautiful country, it's a shame the drug war is giving it such a bad reputation :^(

Actually the only Canadians I personally know all live in Mexico, so go figure :^)

English, Danish, German(but getting a bit rusty, when teenager fluent, had German Grandparents)

Them I talk Dinglish, special when talking to my Uncle in Denmark about Camera Gear

Pete

BTW I think Niko you might be a Spanish speaking Mexican, not that there is anything wrong with that, are you then maybe an Illegal immigrant and therefor have to hide your identify, anyway welcome back

English and at one time fluent Spanish (or fluent enough that native speakers thought I just had a different dialect, not that I was a gringo).

English with what I believe to be a standard New York accent and Cantonese.

But I can't read and write in Chinese and I don't know too many photographic terms, so I'm out of luck if I need to translate for Cantonese photographers.

Hey! Another fan of crazy car drivers!!
I speak english, with a weird mix of midwestern/northeastern U.S. accent mixed with Southern expressions. I used to speak some German (mother born in Germany) and French. Can't remember much of either now.

ChrisLange said:
Haha sä puhut suomi, niko? ihan hauskaa :), käydätkö sä koskaan suomessa?

No but I'm a fan of Ari Vatanen, Mika Häkkinen, Kimi Räikkönen, and Heikki Kovalainen :^)

Hey adamz is aparat only for camera body or can it be used as in female aparat?

flash - I have no idea

lens - objektif

body - forget it, just use "fotograf makinesi" ;^)

focus - Nope, sorry :^P

You see, my Turkish is really bad. I understand it OK, but can't translate to it. And I don't know anything about Turkish grammar or whatnot.

Oh, and here's camera in Persian: دوربین ;^)

Haha sä puhut suomi, niko? ihan hauskaa :), käydätkö sä koskaan suomessa?

polish - most of the times, english - when I'm on forum :D and occasionally german - but need to drink before that

as for polish words for:
aperture - przyslona
lens - obiektyw
flash - lampa blyskowa
shutter - migawka
body - aparat

ChrisLange said:

On aivan kiva mulle että ei melkein kukaan ymmärtää suomi :)

Niinkö?

No, actually camera's not universal. It's "fotograf makinesi" or "photo machine" in Turkish.

As for the other too, give me a moment... (shhh, don't tell anyone I'm using google translate!)

aperture - "diyafram" or "açıklık" (I know "açıklık" means opening)

shutter - "fotoğraf makinesi kapağı" which is like "camera cover"

Finnish and English right here.

On aivan kiva mulle että ei melkein kukaan ymmärtää suomi :)

Niko: camera is kamera, aperture is aukko, shutter is suljin, flash is salama, runko is body, objektiivi or linssi is lens, tarkennus is focus.

photography: valokuvaus
photographer: valokuvajaa
photograph: valokuva.
darkroom: pimiö
film: filmi
chrome film: dia-filmi
color film: väri-filmi
black and white: mustavalkoinen or mv
memory card: muistikortti

I have trouble remembering how to translate back and forth between languages sometimes. When I'm trying to explain ISO, shutter and aperture in other languages I confuse myself and the person I'm explaining it to.

Hey we should share how you say some basic photography terms in various languages.

Chris how do you say Aperture and Shutter in Finnish? Alpha what about Turkish?
I was going to ask about camera but I think that's pretty much universal.

LOL, you beat me :^D

I speak English with a heavy Persian-Turkish accent. Today I'm no longer to speak Persian or Turkish (forgot them when my parents started teaching me English), though I still understand "home-economics" Turkish so I can eavesdrop on my parents ;^)

I've never had trouble learning photography, it's always been communicating with others what I've learned through talking. Nobody understands me, so I always have issues with things like that :^(

What language do you speak most often? If English isn't your native tongue does it make learning photography more difficult?