How much daylight do you get in Finland?
Right now (November 11th) it's about 8 hours in Helsinki (rise 8:30, set 16:30) and about 7 hours in Sodankylä (up north in Lapland, rise 8:00, set 15:30). But just in the end of December it will barely be 6 hours in Helsinki (rise 9:30, set 15:30) and - 45 minutes in Sodankylä (rise 11:45, set 12:30)..
So most of the winter the sunrises when you're going to school or work (or even before) and sets when you're getting out of there (or even earlier). The days are sometimes grey and cloudy so even when the sun is up, you might not see it. Then again, the most beautiful winter days are really beautiful. So that time is only for how long the sun is above the horizon.
And in the summer it's all light?
In the middle of June, in Helsinki there's almost 19 hours of light and during the night it doesn't get dark even though the sun is down. In Sodankylä it's 24 hours of light from the mid-June to mid-July. HOW LOVELY IS THAT! Che bello!
Is it cold now in Finland?
According to people and forecast around zero, sometimes a little below, sometimes a bit over. It's been snowing but the snow doesn't stay on the ground. Anyone anything to add?
Is Finland actually in Scandinavia?
Wikipedia answers you: "Scandinavia is a historical and geographical region centred on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe which includes the kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. The other Nordic countries, Finland, Iceland and the Faroe Islands, are also often included because of their close historic and cultural relations to Norway, Sweden, and Denmark." There's also a point that the countries alltogether are nowadays just Nordic countries, because of arguments about that.
Is finnish language alike to swedish, norwegian, danish, hungarian, italian, english...?
Finnish is not really like any other language. It belongs to the same language group with hungarian, but we cannot understand each other at all. We can understand only a little and only some words here and there of Estonian.
Is english your official language?
NO!
So why do you speak so good english then?
I don't know. We learn it in school at least 8 years. I've learned it for 13 years now. And our tv is not dubbed.
Do you swim in the sea, also in the winter?
Yes we make a whole to the ice and swim in it after sauna and before sauna. (More: Wikipedia/Ice swimming)
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Suomen tämän hetkinen lumitilanne näkyy tästä linkistä http://www.fmi.fi/il/index.html?neito=lumi. Eli pohjoisesta löytyy jo lunta :)
minä oon kyl lukenu englantii vaan 6 vuotta koulus (yläaste+lukio) ;P tällasii kummajaisii ei taida kyl kauheest löytyy :DD nykysin varmaan vielä vähemmän kuin sillon.
Olisi mielenkiintoista lukea sun italialaisuuden kokemuksista. Puhutaan kulttuurituntemuksesta kun puhutaan globalista maailmasta. Se on kuitenkin syvempi juttu kuin tapakulttuuri tai kieli. Se on jotakin jossa oppii ymmärtämään mitä toiset oikeasti tarkoittaa kun ne sanoo näin. Toisen kulttuurin tapa toimia.
Kertomasi lämmityssysteemi on yksi todellisen hämmästyksen kohde kylmästä pohjolasta katsottuna :P Täällä ajatellaan, että on parempi ja energiaa säästävämpi tapa lämmittää jatkuvasti kuin se, että lämmittää hetken ja sitten lämmöt kokonaan pois. Aikaisemmin virastoissa suositeltiin että viikonloppuisin lasketaan lämpöä, mutta sitten todettiin että lämpötilan nostaminen vie enemmän energiaa kuin sen ylläpito koko viikonlopun ajan.
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