Oh yes, I saw the rhyming but did not know if the pronunciation would rhyme.

Finnish pronunciation is always the same in every letter no matter their position in the word or what ever letters are next to them. And the letters ä and ö are entirely different letters although some (perhaps English speakers, idk) may think it's just a different way to say a and o. So if the end of the word looks the same, the ending of the word is pronounced the same. It rhymes. And it's all the same how you pronounce for instance S as long as there's some hissing there, same goes with the letter R. Typically you are supposed to rumble and roll your tongue (I suppose the similar as in Afrikaans) but it doesn't matter if you make the R sound in the back of your throat or roll it with your tongue or pronounce a soft R like English speakers do, it doesn't change the meaning of the word and people do understand although it may sound funny.

What an excellent video! I can totally hear the difference when there are two people speaking the same language but with a different dialect. Dutch to me sounds softer than Afrikaans and the differences are so obvious! I was thinking that perhaps German way to speak Afrikaans would be closer but then again German pronunciation seems to lack so many things, just like French pronunciation. Although it might also depend what French dialect one would compare it with because there are different but correct ways to pronounce the R in French.

Sorry for the next metaphor but it's the first thing that comes to my mind: there's this sound that I think you make in the back of your throat, the kind that sounds like your clearing your throat from a giant slime lump. 😁 I think there is a German dialect that has that sound too, not entirely sure.

Sorry, this comment is so long already!

Sorry for the long comment. Again. Or... should we both stop apologizing this? 😀

There's this (or was as most of the band members aren't alive anymore) Finnish band, Hurriganes, where the drummer is also the singer but he didn't at the early stages (in the seventies) know that much English and the lead guitarist who wrote the songs, had to write the songs phonetically to the drummer. So when the Finnish drummer sang the song, he pronounced it like it was written, as Finns would pronounce Finnish. (This song actually was made by the drummer and the he did know a little more English but I wanted to take this song because it's their most famous one.) So this song would be written phonetically to a Finn like this:

Tsast a swiit Karolaina, tsast rokkin litl mama
Tsast liiv mai beibi in old Alabama
Rokkin in the iivnin wen tö san gous daun
Miin gitaar, täts a svigin ould taun
Rokkin änd arollin tsust a litl wail
Eint gat no roulin, eint got no houldin

Gedoon, gedoon beibi, gedoon
Gedoon, gedoon beibi, gedoon
Wel let mii bii, rokkin änd roulin frii

(Yeah, looks like gibberish to me too.)

Just a sweet Carolina, just a rockin' little mama
Just leave my baby in old Alabama
Rockin' in the evenin' when the sun goes down
Mean guitar, that's a swingin' old town
Rockin' and a-rollin' just a little while
Ain't got no rollin', ain't got no holdin'

Get on, get on baby, get on
Get on, get on baby, get on
Well, let me be, rock and rollin' free