Immigrants Learning Swedish over Finnish Run into Problems. Finland’s integration policy calls for newcomers to learn either of the country’s two official languages, Finnish or Swedish. However many ...

About 90 percent of respondents surveyed said they spoke some English, while seven out of 10 spoke Swedish – not counting the approximately 5.5 percent of Finns who speak Swedish as their native ...

To generalize, we could say that Spanish, German and Finnish have gained the most from the changes as they're the B-languages of more students this year." Initial data from the ministry suggests 1.3 ...

Klemets still can't believe their success, which she hopes will "strengthen the position of Swedish" within Finnish society. The decline of the Swedish language. Finland has two national languages ...