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 ...

Officially, Sweden doesn't keep a record of the languages its inhabitants speak. That fact was infuriating to Mikael Parkvall, a linguist at Stockholm University, so he decided to find out for himself ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Research Group for Finnish Language and Literature Education studies, in particular, subject didactic questions related to the teaching of mother tongue and literature and Finnish as a second ...

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 abundant use of English does not threaten the position of the Finnish language, according to a study by the University of Eastern Finland. The research project looked into the status of English in ...

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 ...