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 ...

I ONCE attended a lecture, delivered in German by a Romanian whose native language was Hungarian, and who also spoke Finnish. When the inevitable question as to the similarity of the two languages ...

The way in which the Finnish language is taught in schools is creating a two-track system, according to Helsinki primary school teacher Annukka Kinnunen. Kunnunen told Yle she worries that the ...

There are over 700,000 people living in Sweden with Finnish roots. Sweden Finns’ Day (Finnish: Ruotsinsuomalaisten päivä, Swedish: Sverigefinnarnas dag) is celebrated in Sweden on 24 February. The ...

An increasing number of schools in Estonia are adding, or hoping to add, Finnish language lessons to their curricula. At the same time, an initial shortage of teachers may be addressed purely due to ...

The abundant use of English does not threaten the position of the Finnish language, according to a study by the University of Eastern Finland. The research project looked into the status of English in ...