Finnish from Afar Blog

Last week, a volcano erupted near a small Finnish village, throwing hot ash and smoke thousands of feet into the air, forcing thousands of p...

“Hey Jyrki”, I shouted to my colleague through the small cubicle wall that separates our respective workspaces. “Do you have spare hirvi [m...

Finnish jokes seem to involve primarily 3 subjects: - Drinking - Being taciturn - Swedes Here is a small selection of short Finnish j...

One of the many challenges of trying to learn Finnish is that the vocabulary is so very different from other languages. I have already menti...

Have you wondered how many Finnish acts have actually appeared in the UK's top-40 pop charts? Oh, so it's just me then. Well the a...

It might be unfair to say that that Finns are pessimists, but they definitely don't believe in the future. Future tense that is.

Today is the eve of Juhannus, the celebration of the mid-summer solstice. Well, the solstice was technically a few days ago, but this is the...

In the previous post, I explained how I thought my colleague was going to become a snail . The confusion arose as a result of my inability t...

Yesterday, one of my co-workers told me in Finnish: “Tomorrow, I will be a snail”. Even accounting for Finnish eccentricity, aspiring to b...