The mayor of Helsinki has said the capital should become an English-speaking city because their language is too difficult for foreigners to learn. Juhana Vartiainen said English speakers coming to the ...

Kielipankki – The Language Bank of Finland is a service for researchers using language resources. Olli Kuparinen tells us about his research on language variation and change where he has used The ...

FITCHBURG — Finnish is often regarded as one of the most difficult languages to learn, those looking to learn it will now have an opportunity in a fun, encouraging setting. This fall, the Finnish ...

The Finnish Film Affair, an annual industry event running parallel to the Helsinki International Film Festival, handed its top prize Thursday night to “Je’vida,” a historical drama about memory, ...

Helsinki kärsii taitopulan vaikutuksista ja sen pormestari uskoo, että pääkaupungista virallinen englanninkielinen kaupunki voisi auttaa ratkaisemaan tilanteen. Or, put another way, “Helsinki is ...

I am Terhi Ainiala, a researcher of onomastics and university lecturer of Finnish language at the University of Helsinki. I am also the head of the department of Finnish, Finno-Ugrian and Scandinavian ...

Helsinki’s early history is a dismal cycle of building, settling, fires, rebuilding and resettling. And then there was the ...