Customs

I decided to write about Finland and our language and how we have to spread our culture more so we can get more tourism in here and why we should learn about English better.

How do you experience the prevalent customs from your point of view in the context of tourism and hospitality?

I think Finland for tourism is difficult because Finnish people doesn`t speak English much and our second language is Swedish, but people can`t talk even that in Finland very well. But you can survive English language in Finland because we understand something basic things. I think English would be great second language in Finland because all other countries know how to speak it, but we have Swedish our second language, I think that is not very good decision because Swedish isn`t worldwide language but I understand that Sweden is big thing in Finland`s history. Finland was part of Sweden at 1617-1712 so that`s why we learn Swedish language because Swedish people live in here even today and board of education think that we respect Nordic countries with mandatory Swedish, and we can be two language country. We have in restaurants, shops, public transport etc. in English information help tourism to understand and you can find tourist tours in English language if you are interested Finnish history or attractions, so I really recommend join them if you are interested. It could be clever idea if we write or make something interesting about Finnish culture, history and language in English so different countries people can learn about us and then we can get more visibility in other eyes. Now everybody knows us about Moomins and Koskenkorva, salty liquorice and northern lights but it is not enough because Finland has many potential things what would interest people.

I think that we are country who get bigger and bigger if we do something about it, we have beautiful country and it deserve get all attention with beauty and safe that we have.

 Do the customs and values reflect your own ones?

I am good at English when I watch movies or listen to music but I don`t speak or write very good English but I try to learn to be better with English language because I think it`s important to be good at languages so I can help other language people when they need help in Finland and it would be great if all could speak English in here because that would bring more tourism in Finland because tourist have feeling that we understand them and they are welcome here. I think, my thoughts are similar with other Finnish because all we want that our work would be easier if we would understand people better and it would bring better fame for our country in tourism. I think most of Finnish people want to learn speak different languages because it`s fun and we like to travel so it will be easier if we speak another language with Finnish.

As student in this field, I see that we can get Finland famous with team work and we should think about why we travel different places and what we can do same way, of course we can`t change our weather but we can make big events in English example festival and try promote our ideas to big events maker.

 

 

Reflect on what type of changes there might appear in customs in the near future?

I hope future English language would be more popular here. Finland has big part of in immigration so maybe we have many languages here what people speak, example: Somali language and Arabic because those countries have many refugees and they come live and stay in Finland. And also, now have war in Ukraine and Finland has taken Ukraine’s refugees here and it is possible that some of them stay here so Ukrainian language is possible new language in Finland. Finnish language will change more larger with the vocabulary of other countries and that way Finnish will be easier understand. I hope that Baltic rail will give us more tourist because you can easily drive to Baltic countries to Finland when they get tunnel ready, the same way that United States and their canal.