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Swedish is an official language in Finland, meaning you can expect service in Swedish from the authorities. You can study even on the university level in Swedish. Not quite everything and not in every university, but in many faculties - including of course pedagogy, engineering and medicine. There's even one 100% Swedish speaking university in Turku.
Yes, I know it's a big difference. Swedish is an official language in Finland and Finnish is a minority language here in Sweden.
 
Yes, I know it's a big difference. Swedish is an official language in Finland and Finnish is a minority language here in Sweden.
We don't even have the concept of minority language in the legislature. But Swedish is a bit over 5% in the whole country. Russian (not a official language) has about 1,5%.
 
Strixy I love that I am able to talk to you about your country and language and stuff! Thank you for explaining. I’m your typical uncultured American 😂. I’ll be nice to myself actually and say I’m sheltered
Well, we don't know that much about the individual states in USA around here.

But we actually had to learn ALL the countries of the world and their capitals in school,. Continent by continent. A few very general things about each (not that I remember what they each export etc!)
 
Well, we don't know that much about the individual states in USA around here.

But we actually had to learn ALL the countries of the world and their capitals in school,. Continent by continent. A few very general things about each (not that I remember what they each export etc!)
Hockey players, Maple Syrup and Bureaucrats (The head of the Bank of England was a Canadian recently)
 
But we actually had to learn ALL the countries of the world and their capitals in school,. Continent by continent. A few very general things about each (not that I remember what they each export etc!)
This was a requirement in the Philippines too, not that I remember any of it. I remember having a passing mark overall, and hating the US and all their bloody capitals 😫
 
This was a requirement in the Philippines too, not that I remember any of it. I remember having a passing mark overall, and hating the US and all their bloody capitals 😫
We took the USA as one country with one capital. Didn't learn the individual states at all.

I know pretty many of the states by name anyway, but not as many of their capitals - and with many I barely know whether they are in the south, west, north, east or middle... I could place very few of them on the map correctly.

But we did actually learn the Great Lakes in school. Just like major lakes on any other continent. I have forgotten at least half of them - but I still know most of the countries in the world decently. Well, Middle Africa tends to get a bit mixed... the countries have even changed after I learn them!
 
I know! I took that as a sign of me getting old, hating the changes and grumbling why did I have to bloody learn that in school. I'm going to turn into a grump in a few years 🤣
I didn't. I was still in junior high when they started fighting in the former Yugoslavia. That taught me that geography isn't a constant thing. But it still is beneficial to know them. To have some basic knowledge of the world.

Just they could have taught us more about the history after WWII and not stopping there. Like, how Israel was formed (leading to the still ongoing conflicts there). Or how Yugoslavia was formed, and actually even what happened there during WWII - leading to the war in the 90's (and there's actually tension rising there at the moment... peace keepers are still needed!)
 
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