The Finnish Language (Who's Afraid of Finnish?)
- by Hannele Branch. Virtual Finland's extensive guide to the distinctive features of Finnish, attempting to answer the question, "Is Finnish a difficult language?"
- http://virtual.finland.fi/finfo/english/finnlang.html
Flash Finnish - A free mobile phone game designed to help you learn Finnish. It features basic vocabulary, colors and numbers. - http://www.dewhurstdesigns.co.uk/finnish/
Learn Finnish - A blog which posts new Finnish words that the author learns. - http://learnfinnish.wordpress.com/
Phonetics of Finnish - Information on Finnish words and their phonetic structure, from the Department of Phonetics, University of Helsinki. Bilingual page (English and Finnish). - http://www.helsinki.fi/puhetieteet/projektit/Finnish_Phonetics/index_eng.htm
The Research Institute for the Languages of Finland - Studies and provides advice on the usage of Finnish, Swedish, the Finno-Ugric languages, Finnish Sign Language, and Romany, the language of the gypsies in Finland. [Finnish, English, Swedish and others] - http://www.kotus.fi/
An Introduction to "Finglish" - A survey of "Finglish", the form of English spoken by Finnish immigrants to the USA and heavily contaminated by their native tongue (by Jenni Tuominen). - http://www.uta.fi/FAST/US1/P1/finglish.html
The Finnish Language - Short introduction to the Finnish language, with a well-organized page devoted to the use of cases in Finnish. Links to Finnish resources on the Internet. [By Jukka Korpela] - http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/Finnish.html
Virittäjä - A linguistic quarterly published by Kotikielen Seura (The Mother Tongue Society). Summaries in English. - http://www.helsinki.fi/jarj/kks/english/
Yahoo Groups : Finnish - Discussion list for people studying Finnish language and culture in Finland or elsewhere. - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Finnish/
Finnish Grammar / Finnische Grammatik / Suomen Kielioppi - Brief, well-organized (if rather incomplete) introduction to Finnish grammar. Trilingual site (English/German/Finnish). - http://www.cc.jyu.fi/~pamakine/kieli/suomi/
Verbix - Verb Conjugator - On-line verb conjugation service for Finnish and 50+ other languages. Includes list of 10,000 most frequent Finnish words. - http://www.verbix.com/languages/finnish.shtml
An Electronic Corpus of Ingrian Finnish - On-line corpus of spoken Ingrian Finnish. Includes transcriptions and sound samples. - http://helmer.hit.uib.no/Ingrisk/ingrian.html
A Chance to Speak Finnish - On this page you can learn Finnish words and phrases by listening. Plus a song about the Finnish language in RealAudio. - http://virtual.finland.fi/speak/speak.html
Lingsoft, Inc. - Finnish language technology company, offers proofreading and other software for Finnish and other Nordic languages. - http://www.lingsoft.fi/
Frequently Asked Questions about Finno-Ugrian Languages - by Johanna Laakso. Is Finnish the most ancient language in the world? Where do Finnish words come from? A Finno-Ugric linguist answers these and other common questions. - http://www.helsinki.fi/~jolaakso/fufaq.html
Finnish Characterized - by Eugene Holman. General information about Finnish from the FAQ of soc.culture.nordic by a linguist specializing in Finnish and other Baltic-Finnic languages. - http://www.lysator.liu.se/nordic/scn/finlang.html