When a large number of asylum seekers arrived in Finland in autumn 2015, volunteers jumped in to teach them Finnish. Since then, the training sessions arranged for the volunteer language guides have ...

Finnish is the language of instruction in the Finnish courses organised by Language Services. The ”Finnish in Finnish” method has been proven to accelerate and to enhance learning; the progression of ...

The Finnish language has a fearsome reputation. With its 15 grammatical cases, 200+ verb endings, and the seemingly never-ending ways to inflect a noun, the language is notoriously difficult to learn ...

Helsinki University’s lecturer in Dutch language and culture Rogier Nieuweboer says that learning a new language involves many factors. Nieuweboer, who has lived in Finland for about ten years, says ...