People
Finnish people are more quite people than people in other countries. Finnish people also like their personal space. If you go to talk to a stranger people think there is something wrong with you. People don’t talk to each other if they don’t know each other. Finnish people don’t have idea how to small talk. In Finland that doesn’t happen or if it does it’s usually akward. In Finnish culture it’s also ok to be quite and not to be akward about it. Finnish people are proud of what they have created like Nokia, Rovio and Kone but we don’t like to brag about it. That’s why everyone automatically thinks those companies are from the United States or from Asia.
Language
Finnish language is one the hardest languages in the world. To make it even harder in different parts of Finland people talk differently. You can say the word I so many different ways: minä, mä and mie. When learning Finnish it’s extra frustrating to foreigners to learn the right form minä in class and then realize that nobody uses it. Also Finnish language quite doesn’t remind of any other major languages like English or Spanish. In Finnish language we don’t have a word like please so we might come out as rude when we travel. Also if we didn’t catch what other person said we just say what not sorry or I didn’t catch that could you repeat.
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