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FinlandiUpdates - Finnish Sustainability, Education, and more: April 2014
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FinlandiUpdates - Finnish Sustainability, Education, and more. Sunday, April 20, 2014. Finnish fiddling: Building a Finlandssvensk tune. First a bunch of stuff about history, tradition, and some music theoryish stuff. Skip to the bottom for recordings! You all were wondering it - what is the difference between a fiddle and a violin? Comes from Italian while " fiddle. Comes from Old English, so the association of violin with imported classical music and of fiddle with traditional folk music makes sense!
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FinlandiUpdates - Finnish Sustainability, Education, and more: September 2013
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FinlandiUpdates - Finnish Sustainability, Education, and more. Friday, September 27, 2013. What is the purpose of education? When I meet Finns, the conversation generally goes "So why did you come to Finland? By which they are really wondering "Why on Earth would you come to this country when you could go to any other place on the globe? They have a big inferiority complex that makes them think their country is terrible even when it is considered one of the best education systems. Is it to help people un...
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FinlandiUpdates - Finnish Sustainability, Education, and more: Finnish Similarities to Other Languages
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FinlandiUpdates - Finnish Sustainability, Education, and more. Friday, September 13, 2013. Finnish Similarities to Other Languages. To give you an idea of how different Finnish is from English, remember that English is an Indo-European language, along with things like Russian, Hindi, and Sanskrit. Finno-Ugric is another grouping at the same level, so if Russian and English are as similar as a dog and a goldfish (both are animals with backbones), then Finnish is as similar as a potato. There are not too m...
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FinlandiUpdates - Finnish Sustainability, Education, and more: Finnish Christmas - Suomen Joulu - Finlands Jul
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FinlandiUpdates - Finnish Sustainability, Education, and more. Tuesday, December 24, 2013. Finnish Christmas - Suomen Joulu - Finlands Jul. As a disclaimer, I am actually visiting relatives in Stockholm on Christmas, and so I wrote this post in advance of Christmas based on my experience with the season leading up to Christmas in Turku. As with so much of Finland, there are some things that are paradoxical to my American brain, so I will start with those. More Christian, less religious. Which benefit fro...
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FinlandiUpdates - Finnish Sustainability, Education, and more: Runeberg, Swedish-speaking Finns, and delicious cakes (with recipe!)
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FinlandiUpdates - Finnish Sustainability, Education, and more. Monday, February 17, 2014. Runeberg, Swedish-speaking Finns, and delicious cakes (with recipe! Last Wednesday (February 5) was one of Finland's few national holidays. It marked the birthday of Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Finland's national poet, perhaps best known for composing the poem that became the words to the national anthem ( Maamme/Vårt Land. Runeberg and the Finland-Swedish. Look more like you expect? NOTE: The reason I have hesitated to ...
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FinlandiUpdates - Finnish Sustainability, Education, and more: October 2013
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FinlandiUpdates - Finnish Sustainability, Education, and more. Sunday, October 27, 2013. Now that it is Halloween, the amount of daylight is really low compared to when I arrived almost three months ago. I guess that is what happens at 60.45 degrees North. Since I love numbers and geography, I decided to look up exactly how little daylight we currently have here in Turku, and compare it to the shortest day of the year in Michigan. It turns out that just three days ago the day length here. Learning about ...
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FinlandiUpdates - Finnish Sustainability, Education, and more: November 2013
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FinlandiUpdates - Finnish Sustainability, Education, and more. Wednesday, November 20, 2013. Why does food cost so much outside the US? What Finland (and other countries) spend on food. The first question is much easier to answer, so I will start there. I found the awesome map below on the interesting food blog Civil Eats. If you go to the map in the post itself. Map of country spending on food. Check it out at its source. For the lazy - Americans spend $2200 ( 6.9%. Nope According to estimates I found, ...
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FinlandiUpdates - Finnish Sustainability, Education, and more: February 2014
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FinlandiUpdates - Finnish Sustainability, Education, and more. Saturday, February 22, 2014. Diversity in Finland part 2 of 3, By the Numbers. Sorry if it kind of rambles and is disconnected - I spent a lot of time looking things up and ended up just writing what seemed interesting. The next post will put some of this in context. Finland's minority populations = 10%. Population percentages are based on a total Finland population of 5,426,674 (. Based on # Swedish speakers; data from Statistics Finl and.
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FinlandiUpdates - Finnish Sustainability, Education, and more: December 2013
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FinlandiUpdates - Finnish Sustainability, Education, and more. Tuesday, December 24, 2013. Finnish Christmas - Suomen Joulu - Finlands Jul. As a disclaimer, I am actually visiting relatives in Stockholm on Christmas, and so I wrote this post in advance of Christmas based on my experience with the season leading up to Christmas in Turku. As with so much of Finland, there are some things that are paradoxical to my American brain, so I will start with those. More Christian, less religious. Which benefit fro...
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FinlandiUpdates - Finnish Sustainability, Education, and more: Diversity in Finland part 2 of 3, By the Numbers
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FinlandiUpdates - Finnish Sustainability, Education, and more. Saturday, February 22, 2014. Diversity in Finland part 2 of 3, By the Numbers. Sorry if it kind of rambles and is disconnected - I spent a lot of time looking things up and ended up just writing what seemed interesting. The next post will put some of this in context. Finland's minority populations = 10%. Population percentages are based on a total Finland population of 5,426,674 (. Based on # Swedish speakers; data from Statistics Finl and.