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| Medulin Tetraglot Senior Member Croatia Joined 4752 days ago 1199 posts - 2192 votes  Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Hindi, Nepali | Message 9 of 11 02 November 2012 at 9:29am | IP Logged |
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If you study medicine, you are likely to have contacts with patients (from the 3rd to the 6th year of the course). Many Finns (if not most), especially when in pain will prefer talking to their doctors in Finish, not in Swedish, not in English. ;)
Foreign students here in Croatia learn Croatian to communicate with patients (even those who enrolled in the English medium medical school, and not Croatian medium medical school). So, if you go to Finland, you should not resist Finish. ;) Edited by Medulin on 02 November 2012 at 9:32am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Vigmo Diglot Newbie NorwayRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4627 days ago 4 posts - 5 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: Finnish | Message 10 of 11 02 November 2012 at 1:04pm | IP Logged |
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I haven't found any book for norwegians learning swedish, but I found the book you
mentioned for swedes learning norwegian. That might help abit. Got some swedish books yesterday and reading them is easy. I want to atleast understand finlandssvenska and communicate with them fluently. But I think they understand ordinary swedish and from the radio it seems easy to understand them aswell. THank you for the radio suggestion:) I want to be able to study medicine in finnish(with or without some in swedish) because that would raise my confidence in finnish to near fluent. Because right now me and my girlfriend are not sure if we'll end up wanting to live in Finland or Norway or both. So I have an excellent teacher in her and I have no problems working abit while learning finnish a few years, then spending 6 years on medicine.But I agree, it would be easier in English or swedish. But life isn't always about the easy choice. And I don't resist resist finnish, I love finnish! Thanks for all feedback, still brainstorming what I'll end up doing. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6681 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 11 of 11 02 November 2012 at 2:23pm | IP Logged |
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The thing is that it would take quite long to reach the level where you can study medicine in Finnish. I was near fluent way earlier than I'd be able to do that. Getting confidence is easier than you think:)
If you make sure to look up the Finnish terms for everything you study, you'll know more or less enough to communicate with patients. There's also been this thread dealing with medical vocab/using your L2 as a doctor. Edited by Serpent on 02 November 2012 at 2:24pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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