Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Picture this: you find yourself in a Helsinki karaoke bar one night, and someone encourages you to get up and sing a well known ...

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 ...

Personally, I feel like you lose a lot of depth and detail in communication with people if you only speak English. The language on the courses is very different from how people actually speak, so what ...

An increasing number of schools in Estonia are adding, or hoping to add, Finnish language lessons to their curricula. At the same time, an initial shortage of teachers may be addressed purely due to ...

The abundant use of English does not threaten the position of the Finnish language, according to a study by the University of Eastern Finland. The research project looked into the status of English in ...

Picture this: you find yourself in a Helsinki karaoke bar one night, and someone encourages you to get up and sing a well known song in Finnish. Without knowing a word of the language you grab the ...