Category: Curiosities

Nov182014November 18, 2014August 13, 20191Commentby Santiago

The priests that holds Heavy Metal masses in Finland

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Heavy Metal is one of Finland’s exports: it is said that they have more Heavy Metal bands per capita that any other nation in the world. It is no coincidence, then, that they also took the next step and created a Heavy Metal mass. Finnish Metal I am more inclined towards other kinds of music, and therefore my knowledge of Finnish Metal is limited. Nonetheless,…

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Nov112014November 11, 2014August 13, 2019Bethe first to commentby Santiago

Most frequent Finnish words

Posted in Curiosities, Finnish language

It is widely known that the most important thing for learning a language is the method you use. A method that will take you the farthest in the minimum amount of time is learning the most frequent words of a language. To help with that for the Finnish language, here it comes: the list with the most frequent Finnish words. This list was compiled by…

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Oct242014October 24, 2014August 1, 20192Commentsby Santiago

Tinder in Finland: women and men

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One of the best websites I discovered this year was Tinder na Suecia. The story goes like this: a Spanish man from Galicia went to Sweden, and his friends back at home asked him how the girls on Tinder (the app for meeting people available on iPhone and Android) in the Nordic and Scandinavian countries are. Instead of describing them, he went the smart way:…

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Aug192014August 19, 2014April 21, 20205Commentsby Santiago

The strange park of Veijo Rönkkönen

Posted in Curiosities, Finnish Culture

If you were asked to name a statue from the top of your head, you’ll probably say “The Venus of Milo”, as it might be one of earliest encounters with sculpture we all had. But if you ask this question in the Finnish town of Parikalla, in the south-east of Finland and next to the Russian border, the answer will surely be the strange sculptures…

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