gfunho wrote:
I suppose the statement about Finland having zero connection to anything Spanish was a joke.
No, but yours was pretty good.
What is the number of Finnish tourists going to Spain? How many finns are living in Malaga? How many finns travels to South America?
How many business they have there? (e.g. the paper factories)
And guess what language Finns speak there... English!
Or Finnish. Canary islands appear to have that as second official.
Same with Malaga.
So, that you cannot see any reason for having a Cervantes institute where the finns can learn the most spoken language in the world as a mother tongue and the second overall does not mean that the claim was stupid.
What? Since when Cervantes institute teaches Mandarin Chinese?
(native speakers of Mandarin: esimates from 800 million to little over one billion. native speakers of Spanish: estimates from 350 million to 500 million)
We have far more need for English, German and Russian.
And yes, Finland has 5 million inhabitants with low density but Helsinki/Espoo/Vantaa have around a million and they look quite dense to me.
That density has HKI area included. Furthermore, you forget that most people in HKI area are unlikely to be interested in what Cervantes offers.