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 ...

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 ...

There are over 700,000 people living in Sweden with Finnish roots. Sweden Finns’ Day (Finnish: Ruotsinsuomalaisten päivä, Swedish: Sverigefinnarnas dag) is celebrated in Sweden on 24 February. The ...

When Samah Zain, mother of three, moved from Saudi Arabia to Finland in 2016, she was determined to enroll her children in Finnish language schools. The marketing professional believed doing this ...

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 ...

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 ...