Learning Finnish Don't put anything here Page Content Page Name (for URL) Page Title Breadcrumb Text I consider myself reasonably good with languages so before heading to Finland I tried to learn some Finnish. It turned out to be a rather humbling experience. Finnish is a difficult language to learn for an Indo-European speaker in several different way. First, the grammar is very different, e.g., no prepositions and tons of cases. Second, it's fairly [fusional](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusional_language) - the words can't be easily broken apart into meaningful chunks, you have to learn the combination as a whole. (This makes Finnish harder, for instance, than Japanese, which has somewhat similar grammar, but is purely [agglutinative](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agglutinative_language).) But what probably hits you most as a first time visitor is not the grammar, but the fact that the vocabulary is completely different. Even the words that one would expect to be "international" are different in Finnish: "yliopisto" for "university", "ravintola" for "restaurant", "tietokone" for "computer", "puhelin" for "phone". Don't put anything here Advanced Fields Category 2002200320042005200620072008200920102011201220132014E. AsiaE. EuropeL's FamilyL's FriendsN. AmericaN. EuropeS. AmericaS. AsiaW. EuropeY & LY's FamilyY's Friends Prototype Redirect Permissions0 Actions Config Markup Module HTML/Meta/Keywords HTML/Meta/Description Save Hook HTML Fields Main Head Body Header Menu Logo Content Template Page Sidebar Footer Tags Allowed for XSSFilter HTTP Fields Cache-Control Expires Guru Fields Templates Translations Fields Edit UI Admin Edit UI Don't put anything here Don't put anything here A summary of your changes Edit Summary Don't put anything here Don't put anything here save preview cancel