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This isn't so much Swedish language as, well, culture, but.

How is a Finnish accent perceived in Swedish? That is, if someone speaks Swedish with a Finnish accent, what do people think of it? Is that accent funny-sounding? A little exotic? Equivalent to the famed British "brain brie"? Annoying? Hyper-sounding? etc, etc.

Hmm, that's a somewhat tricky question. I will try to answer this the best I can.

I would say that most people doesn't really care to much if someone speaks in a Finnish accent, but you always notice if the person is Finnish, as the accent is rather unique. It's easy to recognise, but still, there's a lot of Finnish people in Sweden (if I remember correctly, most immigrants in Sweden are actually from Finland) so it's not really something that special. If you're only used to hearing Standard Swedish, it might sound a bit odd because the pronunciation of some words differ, but this goes for the dialects spoken in northern and southern Sweden to, like scanian which can actually be more difficult to understand for some people than a Finnish person speaking Swedish.

Also, there is two types of Finnish accent, those who are raised speaking Finnish and have learned Swedish afterwards, and those who are from a Swedish speaking part of Finland (even thought it's not to common, there are some people in Finland who only speaks Swedish to). The later is called Finland Swedish. (Wikipedia article here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finland_Swedish)
Swedish was also taught at Finnish schools for quite some time, although I'm unsure how that is today...

I'm sorry if this wasn't to much help, as your question was how Finnish accent is perceived... To tell the truth, I'm not really sure, but I think most people would agree that it's easy to notice, but it's not annoying. If something, I always get the feeling that it sounds a bit melancholic.
I feel like I somewhat failed as answering what you were asking, so it anything is unclear, feel free to ask about it. ^^

Oh goodness, that's a lot of information! Thank you so much! You not only answered my question but gave a lot of extra details that gave me the opportunity to be more realistic with the fill I'm working on.

And now that I've asked an annoying difficult question, here's another: how is "Finland Swedish" perceived? Archaic? Weird? "Country" accent? A little bit silly?

Thank you in advance!

Heh, I guess I got a bit caught up writing it so it ended up a bit long. Glad to hear that it was helpful to you though.

As for Finland Swedish, it sounds really similar to Finnish people speaking Swedish, at least to us Swedish (some people might disagree with me on this). I think most people can't really tell those apart, but there are some differences. For example, Finland Swedish uses many words that might seem a bit odd and outdated because the language hasn't changed in the same way as here. So basically it sounds like a Finnish person speaking a somewhat aged Swedish.

I should also perhaps ad that the two languages Swedish and Finnish is not related in any way. Swedish is a part of the Germanic language family, like the the other Nordic languages, German and English, while Finnish is a part of a very small language family (apparently called Finno-Ugric languages) which consist of Finnish, Hungarian and Estonian.
This means that a Swedish speaking person and a Finnish speaking person actually doesn't understand each others at all, as the languages isn't even similar.

I once again hope that this is of any help to you, and feel free to ask if there is anything else. I'm only glad to be of any help.

It was indeed helpful.

The details about Finland Swedish and Swedish Swedish sounding similar is really good to know; thank you.

Thanks again! (I will probably end up with more questions at some later point and will be even more bothersome. =D)

Swedish was also taught at Finnish schools for quite some time, although I'm unsure how that is today...

Yes, it is still taught. It's obligatory from grade 7 to grade 9 (junior high school) and in high-school, and it used to be obligatory to pass the matriculation examination but that changed a few years back (I think it was four years ago, can't remember). Of course, if it's a Swedish-speaking school, it's the other way around with Finnish.
Finnish and Swedish are called the two domestic languages, other languages are called foreign languages. Usually kids start to learn foreign languages before the second domestic, though, for some reason. Most often it's English but German is very popular in Finland as well. Russian tends to be really unpopular even though there are lots of jobs available for Russian-speakers.

In theory, all Finns are required to be at least trilingual. In practice it's not true, of course, but everybody has to have studied three languages at least. (There is a saying that Finns are bilingually fluent in silence. xD; And... if you ever go to Finland, it's a good thing to keep in mind I think. Especially in the Western Finland, the average people are very quiet and shy and downright rude. It might be uncomfortable for a foreigner.)

*/tl;dr* Sorry, ;;;;; I got a bit excited, it seems... orz

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