Reading Time: 11 minutesOur Journey to Finland — Part 7 Becoming a sairaanhoitaja, or registered nurse, in Finland was not something that happened the moment I arrived in the country. In fact, the journey started many years before Finland was even part of our plans. It began when I chose…
Reading Time: 9 minutesMy Finnish Language Journey — Part 5E Learning Finnish didn’t suddenly become easier for me because I discovered one perfect study method. There wasn’t one book, one class, one app, or one trick that magically made everything click. For me, improvement came from many small things happening…
Reading Time: 7 minutesMy Finnish Language Journey — Part 5D Some Finnish words are easy for me to recognize when I see them written down. Then I try to say them out loud. And suddenly, my mouth and my brain are no longer working together. 😂 When I first started…
Reading Time: 10 minutesMy Finnish Language Journey — Part 5C There are some things in Finnish that I can understand perfectly when I see them written on paper. Give me a sentence, my notes, and enough time to think, and I might be able to figure out which case ending,…
Reading Time: 14 minutesReading Time: 3 minutes5B Why Finnish was so difficult for me? There were a lot of reasons. Finnish is VERY new to me. I didn’t think of it even when I was young, living in the Philippines, or even when I was living in Dubai, that oh!…
