What if you live in Finland, you have difficulties with reading or learning, and your first language is not Finnish? Where could you find literature in an accessible format, in both Finnish and your first language? Operating as part of the National Archives under copyright law, Accessibility Library Celia serves people with reading disabilities, i.e. […]
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There are many attitudes and beliefs about languages and their use that we repeat in our everyday lives and that we take to be true or reflective of reality. For example, we may listen to the dialect of a speaker and infer likely personality traits or the region of their origin. However, many of these
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In the light of current research, people learn new things throughout their lives. You can practice your language skills like any other skill. It is also known that language skills develop well in everyday interaction. The City of Helsinki has many work communities where multilingualism is commonplace and Finnish or Swedish is learned alongside and
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