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Since Ievan polkka is usually performed in a high tempo, I thought I would teach you how to do that. Like in any other language there are places in the flow of words and phonetics where you kind of slide into the next one combining the letters and sounds. You might also leave some letters unspoken. That way you can make the speech more fluent and faster.

I’m not a linguist nor a language teacher, but I’m telling this according to my own experience of studying foreign languages. So, there might be mistakes or funny words, but I hope this will help you to sing Ievan polkka faster without loosing the essential sounds and phonetics. I hope you find this useful, if you really want to sing ”Ieva” in a quick tempo. =)