Meeting 2 Finnish-German: Ice-Skating on Tohloppi

Yesterday, our group of German girls and on Finnish girl, had our second meeting. Our destination yesterday was the Tohloppi, where we wanted to go skating. After Jasmin had said that she would like to speak more in German this time, we talked in a mixture of German and English.

Since we were on a lake, most of the learning yesterday revolved around that. We learned that ice means jää in Finnish and to skate means luistella. Because of the rain on Sunday, the snow was very frozen and you could break off whole pieces of it. Jasmin told us that in Finland there is an extra word for such snow: hangen kuoret. That was very interesting, because we don’t have anything like that in Germany. In German, we talked about German train connections and about the city of Bremen, where Jasmin is planning to spend her stay abroad.Apart from that, we made a lot of physical effort yesterday and went for a ride on the lake before it got too cold.

The meeting was a lot of fun again and gave us some new insights, so that little by little some Finnish words are expanding my vocabulary. For the next meeting, we plan to bake and listen to Finnish and German music. I am very curious to hear what Finnish music sounds like and what certain foods we need for baking are called in Finnish.

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