5th meeting: Finnish - German

On the 28th of April Sofia and me had our 5th meeting online in Teams. Since it was just a couple of days before the 1st of May we first talked about German and Finnish traditions to celebrate the 1st of May. In Finland it‘s called Vappu and usually people (mostly students) celebrate in the night before and wear their graduation hats. On the next day, the actual 1st of May, many people have a picnic in a park and buy a vappu balloon. In Germany the 1st of May is called Tag der Arbeit which means day of labour, therefore it‘s a bank holiday to give the workers a rest on that day. In the night before people also celebrate, traditionally dancing around a Maibaum (=maytree, decorated tree).

After that we talked about work vocabulary in Finnish and German including words like salary/palkka/Gehalt as well as some sentences that can be useful in a job interview. In the picture you can see a mindmap that we created with the words!

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