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Author Archives: Ross

Speaking while inhaling – what is that?

Have you ever heard someone speaking while they are breathing in? That’s called ingressive speech. [...]

Oddities in Finnish – Joo ei: Finland’s yeah no

Positive and negative answers are some of the very first words you learn when studying [...]

Learning Finnish by feeling the rhythm

Living in another country and learning a new language can be challenging to a person [...]

Day of Finnish Identity

Suomalaisuuden päivä, suomalaisuus meaning Finnishness, is the day of Finnish identity celebrated on the 12th [...]

International Nurses Day 2020

International Nurses Day is an annual worldwide celebration, held on the 12th of May. The [...]

Mother’s Day in Finland

The 10th of May means Mother’s Day for most of the world this year (2020), [...]

Vappu – May Day in Finland

About a month after Palm Sunday and the Finnish custom of Virvonta/Virpominen (Act of refreshment [...]

5 tips on how to prepare yourself for an YKI (Finnish Language proficiency) test

To apply for a job or admission for education, you demonstrate your fluency with the [...]

Finnish language day and Mikael Agricola

The first printed book written in Finnish appeared in 1543. Beginning in 1960, on the [...]

Medical Finnish – Understanding your patients

In the Finnish language, there are many ways to describe pain. As a healthcare professional, [...]