
Starting a business in Finland – podcast interview about small entrepreneurs
Learn entrepreneur-related Finnish by listening to my interview with Liisa Hanén, who knows a thing or two about what it’s like to be a small business owner in Finland.

Learn entrepreneur-related Finnish by listening to my interview with Liisa Hanén, who knows a thing or two about what it’s like to be a small business owner in Finland.

Practice your Finnish listening skills and learn how to talk about picking berries and roaming in forests! In this episode of the Finking Cap Podcast, you will hear a conversation (in Finnish) about nature and everyman’s rights, jokaisenoikeudet, which relate to the freedom to roam in nature, regardless of who owns the land.

Do you struggle to speak Finnish? In this episode of the Finking Cap Podcast, you’ll hear me talk about my struggles with speaking French before I was forced to actually speak it at work.

Listen to me describe Finnish words in easy Finnish, and try to guess what they are! You’ll find the correct answers in this blog post.

If you have ever moved to and tried to settle down in a new country, you might relate to what I say in this podcast episode.

Practice speaking Finnish with these dialogues suitable for intermediate and advanced Finnish learners. See if you can keep up with the conversation, using the prompts provided!

Listen to my friend Hanna and I talk about the Finnish sauna: are you supposed to go in naked, who goes with who, how is the sauna at the summer cottage different?

Join us in this episode of the Finking Cap Podcast, where Mari Nikonen (from Ask a Finnish Teacher) and I chat about what the Finnish YKI test is like.

Listen to this basic conversation in Finnish: how to greet in Finnish, how to say thank you in Finnish and how to respond when they ask if you need the receipt.

How do you talk about family and how do you say “I have” or “Do you have” in Finnish? Listen to a short dialogue and then we’ll go through the dialogue and the spoken Finnish structures in it.