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Kelsi Vaahtojärvi from the United States in Helsinki, Finland. Photograph by Peter Seenan for Finland My Home project.
April 13, 2019July 19, 2020

“Sometimes I default to Swedish when I try to ask for something in a shop”

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Peter Thompson from England, photograph by Finland My Home outside the Accenture office in Ruoholahti, Helsinki in 2017.
February 12, 2019February 12, 2019

“I felt guilty that I had let so much of my Englishness slip”

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Meg Sakilayan-Latvala in Helsinki, Finland
October 15, 2018February 12, 2019

“As a migrant in Finland you have to be 2-3 times better than your native competitors”

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Leon Onderwater in Helsinki, Finland My Home
September 30, 2018September 30, 2018

“I talk with the customers in Finnish, but once they hear I’m not Finnish they switch to English”

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July 1, 2018July 20, 2020

“I was scared I wouldn’t be able to speak English because giving birth is such a primitive state”

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James Meachin pictured in Helsinki by Finland My Home
May 10, 2018May 10, 2018

“I wish my Karelian grandmother was still here so I could practise Finnish with her”

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Duong in Helsinki
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“Finnish companies can benefit a lot from foreigners”

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Marta Reprezas and daughter in Helsinki
May 6, 2018May 7, 2018

“I was born in Angola, but we were forced to flee because of war when I was four”

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Luis at table
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“Finland is probably the only place in the world where being a geek is cool”

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