Finnish from Afar Blog

The website " What's Up Finland? " organised a short story competition recently. The theme was "the Finnish summer...

A few years ago, while on a summer holiday in Lapland, I went on a one-day guided cycle tour in the countryside around the small "tow...

One of my former colleagues, Simo, is fond of saying (I suspect only half jokingly) that Finnish is the second best encryption language in t...

The London 2012 Olympic games have now come to a close. These were the most successful Olympics for Britain ever, but how were they for Finl...

Regular readers of this blog will know that I use it occasionally as a platform to moan about the complexity of the Finnish language. Well, ...

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 , ...