Skating in the Centre

Weekend in Helsinki

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January 12th 2007
Moi! (Hi!) Mitä kuuluu? (How are you?) My first class - Survival Finnish 1 began today and I’m beginning to learn some basic phrases. Hopefully I won’t be as lazy with Finnish as I was with French because I’m still having trouble shopping at the grocery store and so I actually need to be able to understand a bit of Finnish (unlike French since everything at home is bilingual). I had a gre ... read more

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Finland was a province and then a grand duchy under Sweden from the 12th to the 19th centuries and an autonomous grand duchy of Russia after 1809. It won its complete independence in 1917. During World War II, it was able to successfully defend its f... ... read more