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Now that I've finished my latest miniatures project, I need a new interest. I've decided I'm going to come back to my teenage obsession and try to learn some #Finnish! I'm not planning on fluency, but enough to get by.

When I was 15, I became obsessed with Formula 1. I was a Villeneuve fan, but the championship was between Schumacher and #Häkkinen, so I rooted for Häkkinen and somehow that led to me wanting to learn Finnish.

But this was in the days of dialup and I wasn't allowed online without permission. There was no YouTube, no lessons on tap. If I wanted a Finnish study book, I would have to put in an order at a bookshop. Too scary! So I copied out the verb table for on and how to say "have" (which uses the same construction as Gujarati, so that was an easy concept to learn), I learnt a few nouns, and that was about as far as I got. Someone online told me "tere" was a casual way of saying terve.

En puhun suomea. Sinulla on kauniit ruskeat silmät! Auringon lapsi