Finking Cap Podcast

This podcast is for Finnish learners at intermediate and advanced level. In this episode, Veera and I talk about what it's like to live in a small town in Finland after many years in Helsinki. What does living in the middle of nature feel like? Is living in a small town cheaper than Helsinki? What about family stuff? What pushed Veera to move from Helsinki to a small town? What about work? Listen to this podcast episode and practise your Finnish listening skills. On-screen transcript is available, and if you'd like to access more Finnish learning materials, including the teacher's notes for this episode, go to https://finkingcapclub.com/ and join the Finking Cap Club membership for Finnish learners.

Learn Finnish by listening to the Finking Cap Podcast!

Finland is said to be the happiest country in the world, however, we have people here who don't have enough money to cover the basics like food. I wanted to make an episode about how food banks in Oulu work. In this episode of the Finking Cap, I interview Katja Suhonen, the food aid expert and director of the "hub" where food donations are sorted and distributed to different locations. This hub is called Prikkakeskus, and their operating model has proven to be so successful that the city of Oulu has made it a permanent service, starting from 2026.

After the interview, I point out a few Finnish words from our conversation and I explain them to you, in Finnish, of course.

I have made the PDF transcript available for members of the Finking Cap Club: https://finkingcapclub.com/.

The Finking Cap Club has lots of Finnish listening content, grammar courses and exercises, so if you're thinking of spending your summer learning Finnish independently, check it out.

How do you say "Beats me" in Finnish? What about "Let me know"?

Listen to this mini lesson in Finnish and read the Finnish transcript as you go. For the PDF transcript and extra podcast content, go to https://finkingcapclub.com/.

Veera is back! Listen to Veera and I talk about communities and sense of community in Finland. We talk about what life in the countryside is like compared with living in a "big" Finnish city like Helsinki. How does one find a community of people around them in Finland?

The Finking Cap Podcast is a podcast for Finnish learners, in which we speak slower Finnish than we would usually speak.

If you're a member of the Finking Cap Club, you will find a PDF transcript for this and all my other episodes at https://finkingcapclub.com/.

Learn intermediate and advanced Finnish by listening to the Finking Cap Podcast! This episode is for anyone who's interested in being an entrepreneur, or, more specifically, a micropreneur or a solopreneur, IN FINLAND.When you start a business in Finland, there are a few things you need to know. In this episode, my guest Liisa Hanén (from Micro and Solo Entrepreneurs Association, MYRY) talks to us about the various obligations, possibilities and challenges that entrepreneurs in Finland have. You will hear clearly spoken Finnish on a topic of entrepreneurship, and hopefully you'll be inspired to read more about the current news on this topic in Finnish.Want to access the PDF transcript and more Finnish content? This episode and more can also be found inside the Finking Cap Club, my online membership for Finnish learners: https://finkingcapclub.com/You can find MYRY, the Micro and Solo Entrepreneurs Association at https://www.mikrojayksinyrittajat.fi/

In this episode, you will hear a conversation about nature and everyman's rights, jokaisenoikeudet, which relate to the freedom to roam in nature, regardless of who owns the land.

My guests today are Risto Holappa and Rita Porkka, who are both entrepreneurs, and they both work closely with nature-related themes. We talk about what nature means to them and what they enjoy doing in the forest.

This is NOT a sponsored episode, the focus of our discussion is on nature and our personal experiences, although Risto and Rita do mention their businesses in the episode.

We speak fairly fast Finnish at times, so please ask me in the comments if you have questions about any of the expressions or structures that you hear in this episode. I'll be happy to help!

Find out more about Risto and Rita and their work:

Risto Holappa: https://willit.fi/en

Rita Porkka: https://naturest.fi/

The PDF transcript for this episode (along with lots of other Finnish content and courses) is available for members of the Finking Cap Club: https://finkingcapclub.com/

Are you struggling to speak Finnish even though you know the language? It's completely normal to freeze when you have to speak another language, especially if you're using Finnish to run errands or for work. For me, it was difficult to speak French in a professional environment despite knowing quite a lot of French already. I even forgot how to say the numbers once (or a few times...)! But I kept practising, and the hard work paid off as soon as I started applying what I already knew in real life. In this episode of the Finking Cap Podcast, I tell you a story of how I got the courage to finally answer the phone in French, in France. I hope that this story will help you find the motivation to start using Finnish in your everyday life.Finking Cap Podcast is a podcast for Finnish learners who want to practise their listening skills. For more Finnish learning resources, go tohttps://finkingcap.com/

In this episode, you hear me describe 7 Finnish words in Finnish. Listen carefully, and if you need some help, follow the transcript on the video. You can guess what the word is and check the correct answer in my blog at https://finkingcap.com/blog/finking-cap-podcast-sanaselityksia-1/

There is a longer version of this episode for the Finking Cap Club members at https://finkingcapclub.com/.

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Welcome to the Finking Cap Podcast, where you can learn Finnish by listening AND following the transcript on the video. In this episode, I have a special guest: my best friend Veera, who I went to school with and travelled Europe with. We talk about our friendship, travel and Veera's hilarious job interviews. It's a chatty episode, and we may speak a little faster than you've previously heard on this podcast. If you have any questions about the Finnish expressions used in this podcast, pop a question in the comments!Want to learn more Finnish with me? Learn more about my online Finnish courses: https://finkingcapclub.com/online-finnish-courses/

A new episode of the Finking Cap Podcast is out! Listen to my friend Hanna and I talk about the Finnish sauna: are you supposed to go in naked, who goes with who, how is sauna at summer cottage different?Learn Finnish by listening to this podcast, in which we speak slightly slower Finnish than we usually do. You can read the transcript as you listen.