Finnish from Afar Blog

This week, I travelled to Finland in a bid to escape the Royal Wedding fever that has gripped the UK. Admittedly, my real motives for the...

My parents came to visit last weekend, for Easter. We had a lovely time, and, as we often do, we put the world to right on many subjects... ...

The Easter Bunny must have been cooking. Not literally, not in the oven... perish the thought! I mean, the Easter Bunny must have found it ...

A Finnish colleague of mine went on an English copywriting course in London a couple of weeks ago. Upon her return, she told me that she had...

Bertolt Brecht once said the Finns were the only people in the world who were "silent in two languages". That is grossly unfair ...

A couple of years ago, I had a little misshap down an unlit country lane in the UK. It was a bit of an unpleasant experience, yet when I rel...

Talking to a Finnish friend the other day, instead of saying “sinä olet kummitäti” (“you are a god-mother”), I claimed “sinä olet kumitäti” ...

Angry Birds have come from nowhere, to become the best-selling mobile game of all time, in the process making it one of Finland's most h...

In a previous post, I mentioned how Finns don't have the verb "to have" , and instead use a convoluted construction to get aro...