Finnish from Afar Blog

As a finnophile, I often find myself surfing the Web for information about Finland or the Finnish language. What I find generally veers betw...

Last Saturday, the World Wife-Carrying Championship took place in Sonkajärvi, Finland. A Finn won it. Again. Finns do excel at bizarre...

Ah, Finland. The land of a thousand lakes. Actually, the land of a billion trillion zillion quillion mosquitoes. In the summer, behind e...

The Finnish language has long words. Yeah, we know that. Indeed I have mentioned this many times before in this very blog, including here , ...

Stonehenge, the statues on Easter island, the Mayan pyramids... These monuments all have two things in common: they involve really big st...

Swearing is not big and it's not clever. However, it can be both therapeutic and amusing in any language. As it happens, rude words are ...

When I left my job recently, I was touched to discover that my Finnish co-workers had clubbed together to get me a present: a pair of Reino...

The Finns are often portrayed as taciturn, but this has not been my experience: most Finns I know are quite talkative. However, pockets of ...

This week, a particular viral picture caught my attention. The reason it caught my attention is because it provides a perfect illustration o...