HOK/SOK job vacancy fair on Friday

[Pursuivant]

Nail on head hit....

Can't say it was a surprise, especially with the tourism statistics.

Staff so far appointed have already started Russian language courses,

i guess the hotel schools are switching (if not already) the obligatory German to obligatory Russian

[onkko]

Yeh russian is good groving market so its good to know language.
I managed few i stumbled upon with "sign language" (not too often. 92 and 2002 ;D )
Russians dont speak english at all. I just hope goverment trash that useless swe

[Rosamunda]

I must agree ( ), the fact that Swedish is obligatory for native Finnish speakers has a direct (negative) impact on the number of kids learning Russian. My kids' schools only offer Russian mother tongue for the few kids who already speak it but I don't know of any schools that offer it as a B language in yla-aste and only one or two that offer it in Lukio (Kaitaa maybe and then the lukio in Karjaa has a strong language programme). It is a crazy situation. Why, why do all the ala-aste and yla-aste in Espoo offer French A and B language (and sometimes German or Spanish) but no Russian
Many of the companies where I teach English are also hiring Russian teachers for their employees... Russian is a good language to have for getting a job in Finland. As long as you speak Finnish and English fluently too!

[EP]

a very large plaster statue of David with removable fig leaf

How do you know it was removable?

[Rosamunda]

The guy who gave us the tour (husband of a friend) told us that originally David had been built without a fig leaf, but this was later considered inappropriate for the American market (the ship was heading off to the Caribbean). So they added it afterwards.