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This summer, I went to Helsinki, Finland for the first time. I've always been told that almost every Finn can understand and speak Swedish. Well, they don't! Why do Finns get offended
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TIL that the earliest written record of the Finnish language is someone saying "I want to speak Finnish, [but] I am not able". : r/todayilearned
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4 Reasons Why I Will Never Speak Finnish Fluently | Finland Today | News in English | finlandtoday.fi
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