Hancock’s annual Heikinpäivä season began with the start of a six-session Finnish language class. It is being offered by the ...
FITCHBURG — Finnish is often regarded as one of the most difficult languages to learn, those looking to learn it will now have an opportunity in a fun, encouraging setting. This fall, the Finnish ...
FITCHBURG – While Finnish may be a difficult language to learn, instructor Saija Laurla’s says her classes are always fun and interesting, and she is excited to welcome the community to classes this ...
For Estonian speakers, the Finnish accent is the easiest to recognize. In contrast, accents such as Lithuanian and Danish tend to be more challenging to identify. However, attitudes toward Estonian ...
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 ...
Uralic languages like Estonian and Finnish likely did not evolve in Europe, but instead were imported from Siberia at the beginning of the Iron Age 2,500 years ago. Most Europeans are descendants of a ...
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 ...
Members of the staff of the University of Helsinki: please register for the Language Services courses with the form the address of which you can find on the Intranet Flamma. Students of the University ...
English-language teaching has largely replaced Finnish at Aalto University, especially for Masters programmes in the fields of business and technology, according to a ruling issued on Monday by Mikko ...