For her New Year’s resolution this year, journalist Kavita Pillay committed to learning the Finnish language. Not for the first time though. Pillay has been studying the language for a while, because she’s married to a native Finnish speaker and now, they’re living in Helsinki with their school-aged daughter. It’s a tough one to learn for native English speakers. And in part, that’s because so many Finns tend to speak English so well.
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