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last update:Feb232025January 21, 2025February 23, 2025Go to commentsby Santiago H

The Most Finnish Finn (According to IA)

It’s never too late to jump on the trend of assigning an AI—or better said, a LLM —the task of interpreting the essence of a country. We’ve seen the one for Italians (glorious) and a few other countries, but it took Big In Finland (our Spanish-language version is the only blog about Finland recommended by the Lonely Planet guide) to finally show us what the…

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last update:Mar042024June 25, 2023March 4, 202434 Commentsby Santiago H

No shoes at home in Finland

Posted in Curiosities, Finnish traditions

Not only Japanese people remove their shoes when they walk into a home: Finnish people do so too. To everyone who isn’t used to remove their shoes at the entrances of the houses – like me – this is quite shocking. I went to Finland at the end of a summer, and it was then when I learned about this tradition. I must admit that…

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last update:Mar042024March 4, 2023March 4, 202427 Commentsby Santiago H

Finnish swearwords – a list of profanities you shouldn’t know

Posted in Curiosities, Finnish language

Last week we had the day of the Finnish culture and Kalevala, and in a month or so (9th of April) there will be the day of the Finnish language. Let’s celebrate these days with some Finnish words – but some that are a bit polemic: swearwords in Finnish. This porcupine swears a lot in Finnish: it is a character in a Finnish comic strip….

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last update:Mar012023May 11, 2021March 1, 20232 Commentsby Santiago H

Finnish Beer: the strange classes and levels

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I am spoiled in this aspect and I think many other people throughout Europe are as well. In most EU countries – that is, every country that isn’t a Nordic (or Scandinavian) country – beer and wine have low(er) taxes. Finland, on the other hand, is a bit different. And you will want to know how the Finnish Beer is different. In some places like…

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