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Finnish Characterized  - http://www.lysator.liu.se/nordic/scn/finlang.html  by Eugene Holman. General information about Finnish from the FAQ of soc.culture.nordic by a linguist specializing in Finnish and other Baltic-Finnic languages.  The Finnish Language (Who's Afraid of Finnish?)  - http://virtual.finland.fi/finfo/english/finnlang.html  by Hannele Branch. Virtual Finland's extensive guide to the distinctive features of Finnish, attempting to answer the question, "Is Finnish a difficult language?"  Employment of Foreigners Hampered by Language Barriers and Attitudes  - http://www.helsinki-hs.net/thisweek/20112000.html  by Vellamo Vehkakoski. Helsingin Sanomat article describing language acquisition as an obstacle for foreigners seeking jobs in Finland.  Frequently Asked Questions about Finno-Ugrian Languages  - http://www.helsinki.fi/~jolaakso/fufaq.html  by Johanna Laakso. Is Finnish the most ancient language in the world? Where do Finnish words come from? A Finno-Ugric linguist answers these and other common questions.  The Finnish Language Site  - http://members.tripod.com/suomenkieli/  Articles on the Finnish language and its history, learning resources, and a mailing list for beginners who wish to learn Finnish.  Lingsoft, Inc.  - http://www.lingsoft.fi/  Finnish language technology company, offers proofreading and other software for Finnish and other Nordic languages.  A Chance to Speak Finnish  - http://virtual.finland.fi/speak/speak.html  On this page you can learn Finnish words and phrases by listening. Plus a song about the Finnish language in RealAudio.  An Electronic Corpus of Ingrian Finnish  - http://helmer.hit.uib.no/Ingrisk/ingrian.html  On-line corpus of spoken Ingrian Finnish. Includes transcriptions and sound samples.  Verbix - Verb Conjugator  - http://www.verbix.com/languages/finnish.shtml  On-line verb conjugation service for Finnish and 50+ other languages. Includes list of 10,000 most frequent Finnish words.  Finnish Grammar / Finnische Grammatik / Suomen Kielioppi  - http://www.cc.jyu.fi/~pamakine/kieli/suomi/  Brief, well-organized (if rather incomplete) introduction to Finnish grammar. Trilingual site (English/German/Finnish).  The Research Institute for the Languages of Finland  - http://www.kotus.fi/inenglish/  Studies and provides advice on the usage of Finnish, Swedish, the Finno-Ugric languages, Finnish Sign Language, and Romany, the language of the gypsies in Finland.  Yahoo Groups : Finnish  - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Finnish/  Discussion list for people studying Finnish language and culture in Finland or elsewhere.  Virittäjä  - http://www.helsinki.fi/jarj/kks/english/  A linguistic quarterly published by Kotikielen Seura (The Mother Tongue Society). Summaries in English.  The Finnish Language  - http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/Finnish.html  Short introduction to the Finnish language, with a well-organized page devoted to the use of cases in Finnish. Links to Finnish resources on the Internet. [By Jukka Korpela]  Yamada Language Center WWW Guide: Finnish Language  - http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/guides/finnish.html  A guide to Internet resources on the study of the Finnish language.  An Introduction to "Finglish"  - http://www.uta.fi/FAST/US1/P1/finglish.html  A survey of "Finglish", the form of English spoken by Finnish immigrants to the USA and heavily contaminated by their native tongue (by Jenni Tuominen).  Suomen-nimi - The Finnish Names Database  - http://membres.lycos.fr/callens/fin/  Database of Finnish or Suomi names.  Phonetics of Finnish  - http://www.helsinki.fi/hum/hyfl/Finnish_Phonetics/index_eng.html  Information on Finnish words and their phonetic structure, from the Department of Phonetics, University of Helsinki. Bilingual page (English and Finnish).  Learn Finnish  - http://www.filanya.com/finnish/  Online aid to learning Finnish vocabulary. The site is free, but registration is necessary.  Sounds of the World's Animals  - http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/ballc/animals/finnish.html  A list of how Finnish represents the sounds animals make.