Do I Have To Say It?

What are you good at?

One thing you must understand about us Finns is that we are not good at anything.

Or actually, we are good at various things, but actually admitting that would be horrible! That is probably because of our Lutheran upbringing, whereas we are told not to brag.

Luckily, that atmosphere is changing, and I can admit that I am good at languages; I speak Finnish, Swedish, English, and a bit of German and Spanish, and I am studying Arabic. Thanks to my wifey, I also understand some Bahasa Malaysia, which means I can amuse people with a sentence “Saya suka minom jus jeruk,” which means a different thing in Indonesian and Malay. In Indonesian, it means that I want to drink orange juice, but in Malay, it means that I want to drink pickle juice.

Study languages, people. It opens up doors to different cultures!