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 ...

With its inflectional stems and 15 grammatical cases, Finnish is often considered to be an especially challenging language to learn, but this fearsome reputation in itself may be causing an even ...

The research project aims at finding new ways to support adult learners of Finnish by exploiting the language learning possibilities offered by their everyday environment. Our project provides ...

In 2016, nearly 35,000 people came to live in Finland from around the world, according to data from Statistics Finland. Many of them will be looking to learn the Finnish language -- with varying ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Picture this: you find yourself in a Helsinki karaoke bar one night, and someone encourages you to get up and sing a well known ...

Picture this: you find yourself in a Helsinki karaoke bar one night, and someone encourages you to get up and sing a well known song in Finnish. Without knowing a word of the language you grab the ...