Finnish from Afar Blog

New Year's celebrations are over for another year. And so is the broadcast on TV of one of the most successful piece of British comed...

There are two things I bring back from Finland on a regular basis. There's the amazing Fazer chocolates – no surprise there. And there...

A couple of weeks back, my friend Simo forwarded an email to me that had me smiling and frustrated in equal measure. The email contained a...

Over a year ago, I wrote a blog-post about the fact that the Finnish language lacks a future tense . In that post, I contrasted this with ...

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, ...