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- A Chance to Speak Finnish - On this page you can learn Finnish words and phrases by listening. Plus a song about the Finnish language in RealAudio.
virtual.finland.fi/speak/speak.html
- An Electronic Corpus of Ingrian Finnish - On-line corpus of spoken Ingrian Finnish. Includes transcriptions and sound samples.
helmer.hit.uib.no/Ingrisk/ingrian.html
- An Introduction to "Finglish" - A survey of "Finglish", the form of English spoken by Finnish immigrants to the USA and heavily contaminated by their native tongue (by Jenni Tuominen).
www.uta.fi/FAST/US1/P1/finglish.html
- Employment of Foreigners Hampered by Language Barriers and Attitudes - by Vellamo Vehkakoski. Helsingin Sanomat article describing language acquisition as an obstacle for foreigners seeking jobs in Finland.
www.helsinki-hs.net/thisweek/20112000.html
- Finnish as a World Language? - A humorous article by Richard Lewis.
www.helsinki.fi/~jshermun/intercultural/wlanguage.html
- Finnish Characterized - by Eugene Holman. General information about Finnish from the FAQ of soc.culture.nordic by a linguist specializing in Finnish and other Baltic-Finnic languages.
www.lysator.liu.se/nordic/scn/finlang.html
- Finnish Grammar / Finnische Grammatik / Suomen Kielioppi - Brief, well-organized (if rather incomplete) introduction to Finnish grammar. Trilingual site (English/German/Finnish).
www.cc.jyu.fi/~pamakine/kieli/suomi
- Frequently Asked Questions about Finno-Ugrian Languages - by Johanna Laakso. Is Finnish the most ancient language in the world? Where do Finnish words come from? A Finno-Ugric linguist answers these and other common questions.
www.helsinki.fi/~jolaakso/fufaq.html
- Lingsoft, Inc. - Finnish language technology company, offers proofreading and other software for Finnish and other Nordic languages.
www.lingsoft.fi
- Suomen-nimi - The Finnish Names Database - Database of Finnish or Suomi names.
membres.lycos.fr/callens/fin
- The Finnish Centre for Technical Terminology - A language service in Finland which compiles vocabularies of specialized terminology for various technical fields.
www.tsk.fi/index-en.html
- The Finnish Language - Short introduction to the Finnish language, with a well-organized page devoted to the use of cases in Finnish. Links to Finnish resources on the Internet. [By Jukka Korpela]
www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/Finnish.html
- The Finnish Language Site - Articles on the Finnish language and its history, learning resources, and a mailing list for beginners who wish to learn Finnish.
members.tripod.com/suomenkieli
- The Research Institute for the Languages of Finland - Studies and provides advice on the usage of Finnish, Swedish, the Finno-Ugric languages, Finnish Sign Language, and Romany, the language of the gypsies in Finland.
www.kotus.fi/inenglish
- Verbix - Verb Conjugator - On-line verb conjugation service for Finnish and 50+ other languages. Includes list of 10,000 most frequent Finnish words.
www.verbix.com/languages/finnish.shtml
- Virittäjä - A linguistic quarterly published by Kotikielen Seura (The Mother Tongue Society). Summaries in English.
www.helsinki.fi/jarj/kks/english
- Yahoo Groups : Finnish - Discussion list for people studying Finnish language and culture in Finland or elsewhere.
groups.yahoo.com/group/Finnish
- Yamada Language Center WWW Guide: Finnish Language - A guide to Internet resources on the study of the Finnish language.
babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/guides/finnish.html
- The Finnish Language (Who's Afraid of Finnish?) - by Hannele Branch. Virtual Finland's extensive guide to the distinctive features of Finnish, attempting to answer the question, "Is Finnish a difficult language?"
virtual.finland.fi/finfo/english/finnlang.html
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