Detroit Finnish Cooperative Summer Camp Association Unofficial sites providing news and information for the members and the community of this camp in Michigan, USA. Includes information about finnish history and culture, including the sauna. http://finncamp.hn.org
Extractions: Mainpage NewsRoom Site Map Contact us About this site Search: General information National symbols History International relations Way of life Famous Finns Picturebook Events in Finland Travel information On this page you can discover why the Finns love the tango and learn about more serious aspects of Finnish cultural life Finnish Design - in the New Millennium A Century of Finnish Architecture Finnish Architecture in the 1990s - photographed by Jussi Tiainen Finnish Women Architects Alvar Aalto - An Appreciation Alvar Aalto speaks Helsinki's Senate Square - A Unique Urban Work of Art Finland's Heritage of Timber Construction Designed by Timo Sarpaneva Finnish music in a nutshell Sibelius; Finlands Voice in the World ... Piae Cantiones - A Finnish Treasure of Medieval Songs Orchestras in Finnish music policy Finnish Opera Folk, Jazz and Rock music in Finland The Story of the Finnish Tango ... Finnish Folk Music - young, exuberant and unprejudiced; traditional, rich and powerful Historical Recordings by Finnish Master Folk Musicians The Kantele The Kalevala Heritage The Art CD-ROM ... Kalevala - The Finnish National Epic Kalevala: From myth to symbol Kanteletar The Finnish Land , a poem by Aleksis Kivi The Moomin World and its Creator Finnish Folklore Finnish Theatre Ballet and Dance in Finland ... Erkki Tanttu , a Finnish Master Draughtsman
Klassiset Kielet Ja Antiikin Kulttuuri, Turun Yliopisto finnish university's programs for the Licentiate in and Doctor of Philosophy described; site also provides course information, research areas, publications, and faculty directory. http://www.utu.fi/hum/klassiset/
Ancient Finnish Myths Myths, culture and feelings from ancient Finland. http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/4640/
Virtuaalikirjasto - Uutisia List of links to internet resources on the Saami language and culture. Some of the annotations are in English, the rest in finnish. http://pc124152.oulu.fi/ROADS/Saamen_kieli_ja_kulttuuri.html/saameeng.htm
Extractions: The Finnish Virtual Library will change in 2004! Palvelulle tulee uusi käyttöliittymä. VK asetetaan myös haettavaksi palveluksi Nelli-portaaliin , yhdeksi tiedonlähteeksi muiden korkealaatuisten palvelujen rinnalla. Teknisellä tasolla VK muutetaan usean tietokannan järjestelmästä enemmän keskitetymmäksi, yhden tietokannan varassa toimivaksi järjestelmäksi. Uusittu palvelu avataan uuden nimisenä vuoden lopulla. Vanha VK on siihen asti käytössä entisenlaisena lukuunottamatta seuraavia muutoksia: etusivulla ollut monihaku loppuu 31.3.2004 ja Oulun yliopiston virtuaalikirjaston ao. aihealueet ovat haettavissa Renardus -palvelun monihausta Aate- ja oppihistoria
Extractions: Finnish Sauna Page Your guide to real Finnish Sauna Culture Suomalainen Sauna There may be very good reasons why you should own a real Finnish sauna, rather than a steam bath or hot tub. Find out here at the Finnish Sauna Culture page. Updated February 19, 2004 Contents: War Saunas "naked warriors" Air Exchange Löyly and Vihta The Finn of Dawson Creek Buy saunas, sauna supplies and rare sauna books on line at zShop. Sauna Book Section, English and Finnish How to build a sauna Log home Book Section This is what the Finns do with their beer barrels when they're empty - they turn them into saunas. Now you know why there are so many saunas in Finland. Actually this is a unique, innovative sauna design that resembles a beer barrel. Savusauna Smokesauna - Salmenranta Finnish site Sauna definition The sauna is a specially built insulated room or cabin which is heated to 80 - 100 degrees Celsius (176 - 212 Fahrenheit) by means of rocks heated by preferably wood, but also by electricity and gas. It is used for bathing nude in the hot air, and periodic wafts of steam from water thrown on the rocks, which stimulates circulation and deep cleans the skin by opening the pores, resulting in mental and physical relaxation and well-being.
Finnish Egyptological Society Promotes finnish Egyptology and the knowledge of Ancient Egyptian culture by providing expertise and financial support in this field of study. http://www.minedu.fi/tieteellisetseurat/egyptologia/engli.htm
How Similar Are Estonian And Finnish? 1995 contribution to soc.culture.baltics by Eugene Holman from the University of Helsinki. http://muhu.cs.helsinki.fi/By_Subject/Language/Estonian_Finnish_similarity
FinnsOnLine - Salolampi Language Village Programs for youth and adults interested in finnish language and culture. Immersion program, near Bemidji. http://www.finnsonline.org/
Welcome To Hariyawa, The Kingdom Of Free Tigers! Tigers are humanoids who live on planet Pii. This site contains descriptions of Tiger culture and dictionary that translates their language to finnish. http://mango.rdx.net/index_e.php
Extractions: Hariyawa is a fascinatingly verdand and nature-friendly country towards the equator of the planet Pii. Her inhabitants, who are known as Tiger clan or the Tigers, speak Mango language. More accurately, Hariyawa is located between the mountains of Dizziness, Inshalla, Harisvitri and the Southern Sea. The pure rivers and lakes, the exciting jungles and the peculiar inhabitants of Hariyawa entice into them. Navigate using buttons on the left side of the page. Sama suomeksi, kiitos.
Kalevala - The Finnish National Epic Virtual Finland's introduction to Elias L¶nnrot's epic and its influence on finnish arts and culture. http://virtual.finland.fi/finfo/english/kaleva.html
Extractions: Kullervo Departs for the War, 1901 The first edition of the Kalevala appeared in 1835, compiled and edited by on the basis of the epic folk poems he had collected in Finland and Karelia. This poetic song tradition, sung in an unusual, archaic trochaic tetrametre, had been part of the oral tradition among speakers of Balto-Finnic languages for two thousand years. When the Kalevala appeared in print for the first time, Finland had been an Autonomous Grand Duchy for a quarter of a century. Prior to this, until 1809, Finland had been a part of the Swedish empire.
HENINEN.NET Collection of links related to Karelia, its culture and history, and including links to linguistic material related to the Karelain language. Trilingual site (English, Russian and finnish). http://heninen.net/
EMBASSY OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA IN FINLAND With a history of Sinofinnish diplomatic relations, embassy information as well as upon education, culture, applying visa for finnish passport bearers along with facts about China. http://www.chinaembassy-fi.org/
Extractions: Welcome Message Embassy Information Sino-Finnish Relation China ABC ... Press Conferences all MFA sites this site Links E-mail News Constitutional developments in HK should be safeguarded to proceed in line with Basic Law (2004-04-03) ... More... Embassy of the People's Republic of China in Finland All Right Reserved http://www.chinaembassy-fi.org
Scandinavian Studies Offers beginning and intermediate finnish, finnish literature, and culture, as well as courses in Scandinavian and Balticarea languages and culture. Syllabi for several courses are available online. http://depts.washington.edu/scand/
Extractions: Three Baltic countries, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, entered the European Union and the NATO Alliance in 2004. Do external threats to political security exist? Will there be economic growth? What are the destabilizing factors as European borders disappear? See it now via streaming video , and for more information visit the Baltic Studies Program Swedish Program Receives Top International Honors Particularly cited were UW Associate Professor Lotta Gavel Adams and Senior Lecturer , both Swedish specialists on the faculty. Press Release [44kb PDF] Tiina Nunnally, affiliate member of the faculty, wins prestigious Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for translation. Nunnally was awarded Britain's leading award for novels translated into English, for her superb translation of Per Olov Enquist 's
Finnish Characterized (the S.c.nordic FAQ) by Eugene Holman. General information about finnish from the FAQ of soc.culture.nordic by a linguist specializing in finnish and other BalticFinnic languages. http://www.lysator.liu.se/nordic/scn/finlang.html
Extractions: [ Check if Lysator's faster www-server is up and running? ] FAQ-Related texts Pronunciation: Easy in the sense that it uses a small number of sounds which are subject to a surprisingly small amount of allophonic variation; difficult in the sense that the ability to speak and understand Finnish is crucially dependent on having learned to distinguish between long and short vowels and consonants , and learning to articulate unstressed syllables crisply without the slightest trace of slurring or reduction, this being the exact opposite of what an English speaker is likely to do. All Finnish words have their main stress on the first syllable , and the basic intonation patterns are easily learned. Grammar: First the good news: no grammatical gender, almost no irregular nouns or verbs, there is usually a simple one-to-one mapping relationship between ending and function or meaning. The bad news is an extremely complex set of morphophonemic alternations known as "consonant gradation" which results in most lexical morphemes having at least two highly divergent forms: varvas "toe"
CIMO - Discover Finland The finnish Centre for International Mobility's extensive list of finnish language and culture programs in Finland and abroad; also has links to finnish language resources. http://finland.cimo.fi/studyingfinnish/
Finpop.net :: The Finnish Popular Culture Web Portal and Mickan (bass) were found easily and we were ready to provoke finnish music industry used to be the name of this literal, political and cultural movement in http://www.finpop.net/
Extractions: As I wasn't yet in the band while it got it's strange name, i'm not really even sure why we are called Disco Ensemble. We were called just "Disco." before, but a few years ago another band called "disco" showed up in Finland and we didn't wanted to be mixed up with these sissies, so we added "ensemble" to the end of our name. It really is a confusing name, but weird enough for people to remember it.
Finnish-American Club Of Tucson An organization for those of finnish descent and others interested in Finland and its culture. http://www.azstarnet.com/nonprofit/finnclub/
Extractions: The Finnish-American Club of Tucson, Arizona, founded in 1966, is an organization for Finns, those of Finnish descent and others interested in Finland and Finnish culture. It affords opportunities to learn about and experience the culture and language of Finland, as well as provide social activities for members and the community. Library ... Finnish and Tucson links
Extractions: New! Old photo Is there national extremism in Karelia? (in Finnish and Russian) Karelian language planning in the 1930's (in Finnish) Photoalbum New links Friends of Viena Karelia (in Finnish) Repola-society Ludic society (in Finnish and Ludic) Viena Karelian folklore villages Culture pages from Karelia (in Finnish) Tver Karelian cultural autonomy (mainly in Russian) Karelian page at www.onego.ru Hosted by GeoCities Karjalane lehüt - Karelian page Suomeksi Po-russki Instructions Articles and papers on Karelian language planning On Soviet language policy: The planning of the Karelian literary language in the 1930's - Licentiate's dissertation at the University of Joensuu (in Finnish) The Soviet national and linguistic policy in the Tver Karelia during the 1930's - Paper presented at the seminar of the Graduate school on Karelia, East Europe and Russia of the Joensuu University 18.4.1997 (in Finnish) The problem of the Karelian literary language in the 1930's and the 1990's - Paper presented at the international conference "Sociolinguistic problems in different regions of the world", Moscow, October 22-24, 1996 Sovettisuomi? Language planning in the Soviet Karelia
