How many times have I heard the story of country X – or population X – that has 40 words (or more) for “snow”? Most of them said that the Sami people – indigenous population of the Nordic and Scandinavian countries – was the population with the most words for the white-falling element. It is true that there are 40 words for “snow” in Eskimo,…
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Finally: Duolingo has added the Finnish course to its language app (if you, like many people, are unsure about the name of the language VS the people we recommend you check out the post “Is it Finn or Finnish?“). And I, as a regular user of this language learning app, have set out to tell you about it in this post. If you don’t have…
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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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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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Not true. These human figures have teeth, which are actually dentures, that Rönkkönen got from a local dentist and later…
Not linked to the Nazi regime? The one you mention as a "Swedish count" was Eric von Rosen, who was…
Agreed!
I don't think it is dumb :)
the picture of a tar "candy bar" is actaully a box of tar candies