How to pronounce “finnis” in English

Finnish, he's from the north.

a Finnish word uh from Finland and it's sissu sissu is uh sort of generally

I am 15% Finnish.

And if you're Finnish, you have the identity of someone who when things are really hard and you've given all you can and you still are falling short,

of 1,200 Finnish and Swedish at-risk people, seniors, at risk for cognitive decline, that also showed

And the Finnish exchange rate would have fallen to enable Finland to export more and to import less.

called in Finnish. And that fish in Finnish they refer to as the wise old man

She may be Finnish.

It was a Finnish-German-British co-production, which should tell you how much money we needed to make the film.

And they're Finnish Americans.

Not necessarily in the Finnish sense of everyone being online through law, but certainly in a sense that if Mubarak shuts you off from the net, he has violated your human rights.

The Finns speak the Finnish language.

how to sing in a Finnish style and in an Indian style.

they're not going read Finnish.

There is a word in Finnish called sisu, which very roughly translates to grit.

Nokia was about half the Finnish stock market.

So we were working with some Finnish entrepreneurs and looking at their internationalization process.

You can look that up-- its weird Finnish name.

and you tried to learn Finnish and Korean. And by the end of six lessons, you could barely ask for, you know, barely say your own name or say hello. And then you blamed it on the whole process,

Nobody else in the world speaks the Finnish language.

It's the root of Finnish national identity.

is German-Jewish and half of my family is Finnish.

This is the culture-- why I started the business is the Finnish culture, and the culture of like natural living.

Almost no other grains are used in traditional Finnish baking.

They developed the first wireless heart rate monitor in 1977 for Finnish cross country skiers to help them in their training.

So we're going to play the last movement of a Finnish composer's string quartet Edvard Grieg.

compare English to German or Italian or Spanish or Finnish a lot of these other languages with very regular orthography

Like when my best friend Janne Niinimaa, Finnish guy, couldn't look totally more different than myself.

I talked to Martti Ahtisaari, the Finnish UN envoy who was dealing with the Kosovo Serbia negotiations to decide the future status of Kosovo.

you live in the best neighborhood or the worst neighborhood the most finnished neighborhood or the most immigrant neighborhood we do not have that in

Tove Jansson, who's a Finnish writer and does stories about these cute trolls, the kitty cat isn't really too terrifying

So in the southern third of Sweden, a little bit on the Finnish west coast, a little bit in South Norway, and all over Denmark.

That definitely does. Like is it easier to play Finnish music on an accordion that--

And we have projects now where we have folks that-- we have a Russian project right now and a Finnish project

So I sent them some emails in my mom's native language, which is Finnish, which I also learned growing up, thinking that even if they're bugging my emails,

And then in the middle of last year, there was a Finnish study, which was the first randomized control study,

In the mid '70s, Polar, the Finnish company, created the first heart rate monitor.

They're also quite mindful, I assume, of Nokia, a fellow Finnish company that did not fare as well.

And then the next chapter is called Anatomy of a Refusal, which I open by talking about this amazing performance piece by Pilvi Tuakala, who's a Finnish artist who

I had to go to-- I'm originally from Finland, and I had to go to the Finnish Army.

But you know, I think what's important to learn there is that you have an identity as a Finnish person, and Finnish people do things that are hard.

And they came back with feedback on what was missing, what was superfluous, what was misspelled in Finnish, and all kinds of stuff like that.

They could review the whole material again and send it back with more feedback, collecting more spelling errors, especially in Finnish.

And so you get elevator companies like Otis, which is part of United Technologies, KONE, which is a Finnish company, Schindler which is German,

There are many, many others. Now, since this phenomenon was a Finnish invention, here's the Helsinki Complaints Choir. The Helsinki Complaints Choir has two main complaints.

Therapy doesn't work." And let's come back to my earlier example about language. Imagine that you decided middle age as an English speaker to pick up Korean or Finnish, and you went to six lessons,

The Finns have a national epic, the Kalevala, in the Finnish language.

For example if you want to know how American kids in general are doing compared to ten years ago or how American kids are doing compared to Finnish kids or Turkish kids you need to