Finland’s education minister says Finnish- and Swedish-as-a-second-language teaching should focus on first-generation ...

Helsingin Sanomat reports that some children born in Finland get streamed into Finnish as a second language, known as S2.

The use of English has expanded at higher education institutions in Finland, according to the latest language policy review by the Institute for the Languages of Finland (Kotus). The review considers ...

Swedish is Finland’s second official language, yet less than 6% of the population are native speakers. This percentage has declined by half over the last century, leaving only 300,000 Swedish-speaking ...