Language Learning and Cultural Identity: A Finnish Scientist's Perspective

[By55]

How did you find PF?

Heard about this site from a friend that got some help for her homework

I think the title speaks for itself, I am from a country that half of the planet doesn't know exists. Iäm a typical finn that is socially so akward that wont go to the common tutor meeting to get help, but rather goes online and spends way too long on simple problems.,

 

[berkeman]

Welcome to PF. We'll be happy to help you out.

Just be sure to show your best efforts to work on the problems that you post here in the schoolwork forums, and you will get lots of good help. Enjoy PF!

 

[By55]

Yeah, it's a shame that my knowledge in material and their behaviour won't be that usefull on other peoples problems on this forum. Would love to give back to the forum if I get help.

 

[fresh_42]

How did you find PF?: Heard about this site from a friend that got some help for her homework

I think the title speaks for itself, I am from a country that half of the planet doesn't know exists. Iäm a typical finn that is socially so akward that wont go to the common tutor meeting to get help, but rather goes online and spends way too long on simple problems.,

Hello and

from a Kaurismäki fan (both) a little southwest of Helsinki!

 

[Janus]

Tervetuola*, from a fellow Finn. Though I was born in the U.S., my grandparents were all from Finland.
I also tend towards the Finnish end of the social interaction scale. At least in Finland, it is the considered the norm, unlike here.

* Unfortunately, my Finnish doesn't go too much further than this. I know some of the basics, but my vocabulary is very limited. I could ask someone if they speak English, for example(Though there wouldn't be much point to it, because if they did, they would have understood you if you asked in English.)

 

[By55]

Tervetuola*, from a fellow Finn. Though I was born in the U.S., my grandparents were all from Finland.
I also tend towards the Finnish end of the social interaction scale. At least in Finland, it is the considered the norm, unlike here.

* Unfortunately, my Finnish doesn't go too much further than this. I know some of the basics, but my vocabulary is very limited. I could ask someone if they speak English, for example(Though there wouldn't be much point to it, because if they did, they would have understood you if you asked in English.)

Nice to see Finland represented here so widely. What is comes to languages I can also tell that my English is so messed up because my studies are basicly 50/50 in Finnish and english. So the terminology is all over the place.

 

[PeroK]

How did you find PF?: Heard about this site from a friend that got some help for her homework

I think the title speaks for itself, I am from a country that half of the planet doesn't know exists.

A few years ago, we had Finlandia by Sibelius at The Last Night of the Proms:



Sibelius Violin Concerto and Second Symphony are two of my favourite pieces.

 

[By55]

A few years ago, we had Finlandia by Sibelius at The Last Night of the Proms:



Sibelius Violin Concerto and Second Symphony are two of my favourite pieces.

Finlandia is one of the greatest finnish masterpieces to date. It is something that every finn can recognise and has a special place in your culture and history

 

[DaveE]

Welcome!

I am from a country that half of the planet doesn't know exists.

LOL, Here in Silicon Valley we definitely know about Finland. I've worked with some excellent Finnish engineers. I'd guess they all worked for Nokia at some time.

 

[By55]

Unironically I have met people that doesn't know about FInland, or the nordics anyways. But They probably aren't the people working at Silicon Valley.

 

[DaveE]

Unironically I have met people that doesn't know about FInland, or the nordics anyways. But They probably aren't the people working at Silicon Valley.

Not at all surprising. There are many Americans that have poor education about the rest of the world; or maybe just a poor education.

https://media.nationalgeographic.org/assets/file/NGS-Roper-2006-Report.pdf

 

[Janus]

Nice to see Finland represented here so widely. What is comes to languages I can also tell that my English is so messed up because my studies are basicly 50/50 in Finnish and english. So the terminology is all over the place.

The sad part is that is that both my parents spoke Finnish, but didn't pass it on to us kids. If they had, I likely would be fluent in both.( though, as my Mom learned when she went back to visit relatives in the '70's, there had been some slight changes in usage from when Her parents left. For example, a word she had learned to mean "smell" in general, now was used for "stink". )