06 February 2009

Sanatesti

Jaime and I took our first Survival Finnish quiz on Tuesday. We might have over prepared a bit, but our teacher told us the quiz was on “vocabulary” and neglected to specify that only the food vocabulary would be tested.

Despite the confusion, we both got As… and we both missed the same questions. Neither of us could remember the word for "fish"- kala (Nuppu didn’t accept “meat”-liha instead) or correctly spell "ice cream"- jäätelö (I gave it a shot and got half credit while Jaime went with the word for dessert and got half credit too).



Outside our apartment building

2 comments:

  1. Was this taken at noon?

    Allen R.

    PS Are the CAPTCHAs Finnish words and why is FINISH misspelled on that button?

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  2. Actually the picture was taken around 5 or 6 in the evening. The days have gradually been getting longer since the winter solstice and we have sunlight from around 9 to 4:30. Most of the time, though, the sky is very overcast so it looks darker.

    I actually had to look at a couple of the captchas to see if they were Finnish or just nonsense -- they're nonsense, or some other language I don't know. The use of Cs tipped me off. Our login buttons (until we do log in) are in Finnish, though. We tried to get into the source code and change the button and the captchas, but no luck.

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