Finland Forum

I was just in Lahti at the in-laws and received the book How to Marry a Finnish Girl. It was quite funny, but the most interesting bit is that I noticed that it was written by Phil Schwartzmann. That name seemed really familiar, am I losing it or did Phil used to post on this forum quite frequently ...

Hei all,

I've been wondering if there is anywhere online that I can get copies of this show, an FTP site or something like that? I really think that it is an excellent show to learn spoken finnish off of and it really helped me during the summer when I was in finland.

Also, does anyone else have ...

I grew up in Wisconsin drinking bulktank milk, so all of these "altered" dairy products really frighten me. Perhaps the worst food experience of my life was accidentally buying Hyla maito...oh, and in one of my genetics texts I read that Finland has a 40% lactose intolerance rate and the highest ...

That law has always really bothered me. So are the Sami supposed to lose their citizenship? I know they wont, but murrr...well, I wont write anymore here, its more of an eduskunta topic.

I have the most trouble with öy words like köyhä and höyry. I actually know a few finns who have had to have their frenulums clipped to allow them to properly make rs, and have willingly undergone the procedure because otherwise they feel that they sound mentally impaired. BTW, does anyone know what ...

I've been using the Finnish Windows 2000 for over a year now, I now know all my muokkaa commands and I can get ohje like a mo fo.

quite truthfully I have to say that one of my biggest fears about moving to Finland and marrying my gf is the idea of getting conscripted. It goes against everything that I believe in, and I spent years working night shifts during my university so that I wouldn't have to join the U.S. army to pay ...

I initially found this with a google search over a year ago on the old smartgroups pages, but somehow I lost my old account after I didn't have internet access for a while, oh well, I only made about 15 posts in a year. So if I do sound half familiar to some of you "old" guys, then I am, you aren't ...

Hey Brett,

I'm right in Madison, and I've been going through this for over 2 years now, I can definitely help, and I can give you lots of language help if you want, I've had 4 semesters at UW and I have spent 5 months in Finland doing nothing but practicing Finnish. BTW, did you learn napa because ...

Yes Niall, that is the bunch that I was referring to, free and quite useful in their own way.

Yup, gavin is right. You have to put yourself in situations where you are forced to speak Finnish, either in a class, or repeating a tape, or with a partner. I've tried the book method too, over 80 hours to read through Borje Vahamaki's Learn Finnish!, I'm afraid that the books alone will be a very ...

Hi,

I think that I can usefully chime in on this subject, I studied Finnish intensively in Univesity for a year, the equivalent of 4 semesters or 14 U.S. college credits, however at the end of that time I could kinda read finnish. After that I studied on my own for another year, but not as ...