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Finnish Social Security - Kela

Found out today that if you move to Finland and don't have a husband/wife/sambo that is in the Finnish system - you won't either be. So in my case where my Finnish sambo has a non-Finnish employer - I will not get a Kela card. So no snowboarding this season …

Finnish - Word Cases - Locative (expressing place)

Part one of this article - describing the Cases expressing Grammatical Functions. Part three: Others Part four: Non-productive Locative cases (expressing place) - internal locations (in) Inessive Meaning/function: in, inside, etc (STA) Ending: -ssa/ -ssä Example: hotelissa, puolessa, tunnissa Examples: I am in the/a hotel now. - Olen nyt hotellisa. I …

Finnish - Word Cases - Grammatical Function

Finnish works the way that it adds something at the end of the word (and maybe change the middle of the word) to make it mean things like: location, possession, from, receipient, future, channel, how, ..., there is 16 of them - obviously I find this a little difficult! I will try …



Netti + Sony Ericsson X10 Mini + DNA

So you just got your SE X10 Mini in another country and wants to use it in Finland with the telephone service provider DNA? Not as easy as it seems! Well, first it's hard to get the actual number, but after you get your social security number it should not …

Finnish IT Words

I have composed a google spread sheet with the intention to create a vocabulary of English - Finnish IT words and terms. If you want to make additions I can give you access to the spread sheet or just write a comment in this article :) It's quite hard to think of …

How to get an update when a blog has gotten a new post

Hello and welcome to my blog :) New Stuff From 2023 All Content Feed IT Finland Storage These days I use inoreader. Old Stuff From 2011 If you want to get an update whenever there is a new post you can subscribe (for free of course) to an RSS feed. This …

Book Review - The Hunter's Trilogy by R.A. Salvatore

Another great thing about being around home is to go find a proper library, I even found a fantasy/sci-fi shelf in the English part of the library on Rikardinkatu. I have been on the lookout for some new long series to get my hands into but just I just …

Best pizzeria in Helsinki city

Tried a few near us so far. The one on Korkeavuorenkatu was good but felt a bit shady. Primula was very nice and it's a nice pub too. Best take away so far is Sopranos on Petersstreet very small place so you can't eat there if you are more than …