Tag: Helsinki
“I felt guilty that I had let so much of my Englishness slip”
“As a migrant in Finland you have to be 2-3 times better than your native competitors”
“I talk with the customers in Finnish, but once they hear I’m not Finnish they switch to English”
“I was scared I wouldn’t be able to speak English because giving birth is such a primitive state”
“I wish my Karelian grandmother was still here so I could practise Finnish with her”
“Finnish companies can benefit a lot from foreigners”
“I was born in Angola, but we were forced to flee because of war when I was four”
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