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Re:English as a second language: Test results on the most fl... by tincholio on Friday April 08, 2011 @08:58AM (#2423532)
Finnish is in the Finno-Ugric family, not an Altaic language (at least according to the wiki, there are no mentions of Altaic for the Finnish entry, or vice versa).

In any case, it's completely different than anything most people ever heard (I've been living in Finland for close to 5 years, and it just hasn't clicked for me yet, despite being very fluent in 3 languages and dabbling in 3 others).

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Re:English as a second language: Test results on the most fl... by cemregr on Friday April 08, 2011 @12:40PM (#2424552)
Do you live in Helsinki?

You should maybe change the people you hang out with. I befriended "Finnish rednecks" for a year but that helped me go from 0 to fluent (YKI 5) in 2 years.

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Re:English as a second language: Test results on the most fl... by tincholio on Friday April 08, 2011 @04:26PM (#2425465)
I don't, I live in Oulu. My main problem is that I work in a very English-friendly environment, so I don't really have the pressure to learn the language beyond supermarket and restaurant "use cases".
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