I have a agreement with my friends that if any foreingers try to speak Finnish to us we would switch to the heaviest dialect we could think of and start inventing new words on the spot.
Denmark should be in red.
I thought France was “thank you for that, *now* we can use English.”
Helsinki should definitely be blue.
I once read about some lady who got a job offer from Finland and decided to take some language lessons before moving over. She learned that both Finnish and Swedish were official languages and decided to learn Swedish since that was easier for her as an English speaker – and presumably thinking every Finn understood both fluently. Upon arriving she tried to ask for instructions in Swedish… in Oulu, a city with 0,2% Swedish speakers.
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I have a agreement with my friends that if any foreingers try to speak Finnish to us we would switch to the heaviest dialect we could think of and start inventing new words on the spot.
Denmark should be in red.
I thought France was “thank you for that, *now* we can use English.”
Helsinki should definitely be blue.
I once read about some lady who got a job offer from Finland and decided to take some language lessons before moving over. She learned that both Finnish and Swedish were official languages and decided to learn Swedish since that was easier for her as an English speaker – and presumably thinking every Finn understood both fluently. Upon arriving she tried to ask for instructions in Swedish… in Oulu, a city with 0,2% Swedish speakers.
Nice try