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Linkriina · October 13th, 2006, 01:14 PM

People, like my grandmother, uses Swedish every single day and she's almost 80 years old and she can't speak so good finnish because her relatives has all been finnish swedish for hundreds of generations. If she get's an official paper from the bank for example in finnish she doesn't understand it. And I've been to a swedish school and we had to learn finnish there. Those, who speak finnish as their mother tongue are not the only ones who are forced to learn the other language. I needed to learn finnish too.. And when Finland got independent, Finland made a law that Finland stays as a two languaged country.

October 13th, 2006, 01:14 PM	#51 (permalink)
Linkriina Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Hauho/Espoo Posts: 14	People, like my grandmother, uses Swedish every single day and she's almost 80 years old and she can't speak so good finnish because her relatives has all been finnish swedish for hundreds of generations. If she get's an official paper from the bank for example in finnish she doesn't understand it. And I've been to a swedish school and we had to learn finnish there. Those, who speak finnish as their mother tongue are not the only ones who are forced to learn the other language. I needed to learn finnish too.. And when Finland got independent, Finland made a law that Finland stays as a two languaged country. __________________ "Jos mä tuon sulle tuulihatun, niin lakkaatko sä mäkättämästä mulle?"