Posted on 09/03/2021 7:18:19 AM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
“Helsinki could call itself an English-speaking city, where people who speak English wouldn’t need to speak Finnish or Swedish,” the capital’s mayor, Juhana Vartiainen, told the Helsingin Sanomat newspaper.
The paper recently profiled four foreign postgraduates in fields such as artificial intelligence and mobile communications who left the country saying the Finnish language was too difficult, wages were low and Finns too hard to connect with.
Vartiainen said the city and country’s efforts to attract and keep foreign professionals were “a terrible failure”, adding that it had sunk in “only very slowly to the political consciousness that we need employment-based immigration”.
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Woody Allen had a joke about this in “Bananas”.
I am a great admirer of final and and i am learning the finnish language
Admirer of Finland and learning the language
Same here. But wow, they face a lot of pressure against them.
There are certain people who do find this kind of thing a joke.
The Finnish language has 10X more palindromes than any other language
Why, what an exact great place for whimsies.
This is a beautiful tune, but I don't understand a word. Maybe you can.
La Cumparsita--Olavi Virtu & the Metro Girls (1956)
saippuakivikauppias
Longest palindromic word. A dealer in lye.
If you want to win, employ a Finn - Top Gear.
I would have appended the old Broadway song that starts “It’s not how you start, it’s how you Finnish.”
It’s not like learning Finnish is all that difficult. As long as you can say “Voin syödä lasia, se ei vahingoita minua.”, what else do you really need to know?
Somebody probably got a big payout on Jeopardy for knowing that.
I can eat a glass it doesn’t hurt me??
That’s what a Finnish masseuse told me. Actually Google translate.
And the old one about a trip to the rest room:
On the way you’re Russian
While there European
and finally Finnish.
>> I can eat a glass it doesn’t hurt me??
Yes. Clearly you’re not familiar with one of the greatest pages of the early internet, the “I can eat glass project”.
As explained by that site’s founder:
visitors to a foreign country have “an irresistible urge” to say something in that language, and whatever they say usually marks them as tourists immediately. Saying “I can eat glass, it does not hurt me”, however, ensures that the speaker “will be viewed as an insane native, and treated with dignity and respect”.
All news to me. I wasn’t in on the early internet.
More education received free to me on Free Republic.
But how do you say my hovercraft is full of eels?
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