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How about a day in Jyväskylä, followed by a classical music concert in the evening?  I have two tickets to Sibelius' Kullervo on Thursd...

Do you sometimes have to cancel or reshedule a meeting? Here are a couple of phrases that you can use:  Expressing that you are sorry  Valit...

Here's something simple and nice that you can write when commenting on other people's social media pictures and posts. Translations...

I have quite a few posts with some kind of negative grammar structures and challenging situations. Let me know if I'm missing something ...

The answer to this question is quite clear:  Only when there's more than two people in the situation and you want to get the person'...

Here's a list of questions that you hear in Finnish schools: Mihin minä laitan tämän? Mihin tämä kuuluu? Mihin tätä käytetään? Onko...

Yes is kyllä or joo . However, in colloquial Finnish, you can hear Finns saying jes, jess and jees . What's going on with that?  This...

Here are  phrases that you could use when talking with you employer: Voisinkohan mä opiskella suomea työajalla? - I was wondering if ...

Are you bored with Hei-hei and Moikka ? Here are some nice sentences that you can use when leaving a conversation, but first, an ad: Feel ...

The last time I dated Finnish men was in 2003, and obviously that didn't go so well as I'm now married to an American. However, the ...

Here's a dialogue that I had yesterday after realizing that I had lost my parking garage ticket. Just in case you are ever in the same s...

I was completing this Memrise course about my easy Finnish novel , and I realized how many different verbs Finnish has for pushing.  Do you ...

Wrong in Finnish can be either väärä, väärin or väärässä. Tämä on väärä koko. - This is a wrong size.  Mä olin merkinnyt kalenteriin ...

I have a new job! I'm officially a selkomukauttaja now. Selkomukauttaja is a person who rewrites books in simpler language, so I...

Here are some common idioms that I actually use. Do you know what they mean and when to use them? Mulla on tässä asiassa oma lehmä ojass...

Are you still in the situation where your friends switch to English when you're around? Change that now !  I'm using   friend   in ...