[The B2 Finnish Language Barrier] The story of 'Pokémon' that made me feel a sense of closeness to Finland for the first time after 5 years of study

While I was binge-watching the Yle Areena channel on YouTube, I found a clip of the Finnish version of Pokémon uploaded!As ...
Yle

Overcoming Finnish language fears one step at a time — "If you don't speak, you won't learn"

The Finnish language has a fearsome reputation. With its 15 grammatical cases, 200+ verb endings, and the seemingly never-ending ways to inflect a noun, the language is notoriously difficult to learn ...

Notice of Finnish Language Classes and Why I Want to Teach Finnish

Interested in Finnish but haven't had the chance Want to spend time connecting with Finland Want to learn at least a little ...
Yahoo

Why we can read Finnish without understanding it – a look at ‘transparent’ languages

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Picture this: you find yourself in a Helsinki karaoke bar one night, and someone encourages you to get up and sing a well known ...
Helsinki

Multilingual students need increasingly determined support for honing their Finnish language skills

The Finnish language integrates immigrant pupils to the community. Senior University Lecturer Maria Ahlholm emphasises that teachers and pupils alike should receive stronger support in increasingly ...
Yle

How Finnish is taught in schools fuels educational inequality, teacher says

The way in which the Finnish language is taught in schools is creating a two-track system, according to Helsinki primary school teacher Annukka Kinnunen. Kunnunen told Yle she worries that the ...
The Guardian

I understand that the Hungarian and Finnish languages are related because the two peoples share a common origin somewhere east of the Urals. Where exactly do they come from?

I ONCE attended a lecture, delivered in German by a Romanian whose native language was Hungarian, and who also spoke Finnish. When the inevitable question as to the similarity of the two languages ...
ERR News

Growing interest in Finnish language as part of school curricula

An increasing number of schools in Estonia are adding, or hoping to add, Finnish language lessons to their curricula. At the same time, an initial shortage of teachers may be addressed purely due to ...
The Conversation

Why we can read Finnish without understanding it – a look at ‘transparent’ languages

Picture this: you find yourself in a Helsinki karaoke bar one night, and someone encourages you to get up and sing a well known song in Finnish. Without knowing a word of the language you grab the ...