English-Finnish vocabulary

In Finland, you can get by in English pretty well, especially with young adults. With older people, German tends to work better.

However, there are some Finns with whom communicating in English can be tedious at best. Thus, it's a good idea to be prepared by knowing a few common phrases. In case you want to learn a bit more about the Finnish language you can check out this online course, which also includes some useful audio clips so you can hear how Finnish is pronounced.

For other phonetical languages, as Spanish, Finnish is easy to pronounce: just read aloud. The only difficulty comes with ä (pronounced as "cat"), ö (pronounced as an open "o") and y (pronounced as a french "u"). Double characters (such as "kk", "tt" and "ll") are doubled while speaking.