{"id":38723,"date":"2004-06-24T07:03:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-24T07:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2004\/06\/24\/at-least-its-easier-than-learning-finnish\/"},"modified":"2004-06-24T07:03:00","modified_gmt":"2004-06-24T07:03:00","slug":"at-least-its-easier-than-learning-finnish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20040624-00\/?p=38723","title":{"rendered":"At least it&#039;s easier than learning Finnish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yle.fi\">Finnish Radio station YLE<\/a>  offers  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yle.fi\/fbc\/latini\/\">weekly news summaries  in classical Latin<\/a>.  Because practically nobody outside Finland would understand the news  in Finnish&#8230;\n  In my random travels around the Internet,  I  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.helsinki.fi\/lehdet\/uh\/41997g.html\">  stumbled across this article on the subject of teaching Finnish  to foreigners<\/a>:  Finnish&#8217;s status as an official EU language  has created demand for interpreters.  Finns have long accepted that they will have to learn the languages  of others, considering the language&#8217;s comparatively minor exposure  on the world stage.  But now, others will have to learn Finnish!\n  I occasionally toy with the idea of learning Finnish myself but  each time conclude that it would be too much work.  Though I do have as a long-term goal to learn the major modern  Germanic languages. In probable order of study:  English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch, Afrikaans, and Icelandic.<\/p>\n<p>  (Hey, I left out Danish.)  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finnish Radio station YLE offers weekly news summaries in classical Latin. Because practically nobody outside Finland would understand the news in Finnish&#8230; In my random travels around the Internet, I stumbled across this article on the subject of teaching Finnish to foreigners: Finnish&#8217;s status as an official EU language has created demand for interpreters. Finns [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-38723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Finnish Radio station YLE offers weekly news summaries in classical Latin. Because practically nobody outside Finland would understand the news in Finnish&#8230; In my random travels around the Internet, I stumbled across this article on the subject of teaching Finnish to foreigners: Finnish&#8217;s status as an official EU language has created demand for interpreters. Finns [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}