Learning Finnish Don't put anything here 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". 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 Don't put anything here Don't put anything here HTML Fields Main Head Body Header Menu Logo Page Content Template Sidebar Footer Tags Allowed for XSSFilter HTTP Fields Cache-Control Expires Guru Fields Don't put anything here Templates Translations Fields Edit UI Admin Edit UI A summary of your changes Edit Summary Don't put anything here save preview cancel
