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Finland's results in the European election bucked a continent-wide trend of rising support for parties on the outer fringe of right-wing politics, with the Left Alliance and the National Coalition winning big at the expense of the nationalist Finns Party.

Leftist leader Li Andersson received more votes than any other candidate has ever received in a European election.

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 30 points 3 months ago (12 children)

I hope you know Finnish already or are really good with languages because it's completely unrecognizable to people who speak most other European languages. My dad went to Helsinki in the 90s and said the only signs he could recognize were ones which had international logos like McDonald's.

This is (according to a search) "I love you" in Finnish: minä rakastan sinua.

But yes, it sounds like a very nice place to live.

[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (6 children)

I'm familiar with the language, I just don't know it. But Finland is bilingual, as there is also a lot of ~~Norwegian~~ Swedish spoken and many signs are in ~~Norwegian~~ Swedish too. I have less issues understanding ~~Norwegian~~ Swedish. Myself I'm Dutch, I've been to Finland several times. I'm not even going to try to learn the language, it's really hard. But in major cities they speak English.

Edit: I didn't remember correctly the second language

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Is it not Swedish, rather than Norwegian?

[–] Vebred@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Yes it is swedish that is the second official language in finland :)

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