FITCHBURG — The Finnish Center at Saima Park is once again excited to offer their 10-week Finnish language class, beginning this coming Monday, April 1 through Monday, June 10, at the center, located ...

FITCHBURG — The spring session of Finnish language classes is set to begin on Monday, March 31, at the Finnish Center at Saima Park, located at 67 Scott Road. Saija Laurla, a native of Finland, will ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. I admit, I don’t spend a lot of time comparing English to Finnish.

When a large number of asylum seekers arrived in Finland in autumn 2015, volunteers jumped in to teach them Finnish. Since then, the training sessions arranged for the volunteer language guides have ...

Hancock, Mich. — For some of the students in Hilary Virtanen’s community Finnish class, studying the language is a practical matter. “My kids are going to Finland, and one of us better know how to ...

Officially, Sweden doesn’t keep a record of the languages its inhabitants speak. That fact was infuriating to Mikael Parkvall, a linguist at Stockholm University, so he decided to find out for himself ...