About me
I am a Finnish male. I was born in Helsinki and I live in marriage on Espoo. I have been widowed at the turn of the millennium. Few years, we lived with my son, just the two of us. Now we are reconstituted family of four sons of which most are already adults. I am a Finnish theater-director and now I am studying languages and theater-science at the university. My major was the Fenno-Ugric languages, but I will be soon change my major to Theatre Research. As my minor I have film and television studies. Studying especially in older age is actually very interesting.
I play the guitar and I make songs. I translate a lot of the lyrics of the songs from the English to Finnish, possibly soon from Estonian, Saami, German and Russian languages also.
I also do a lot of OOP JavaScript -programming and I have used Macintosh computers since 1989, as an Internet user, I started 1992, almost in the beginning. I have also taught programming, multimedia technology, audio technology and media graphics in Helsinki, Vantaa and Tornio
My wife, Riitta Kuosa, is an actor. We do international education by making participative theater productions from folk tales and music of different cultures. Did you know that even very old tales are almost the same in all around the world. You can learn about new cultures exactly the same way as all children in the world do. We perform mostly in the Cultural office Caisa, check out and come to see us.
Foreign languages and foreign countries.
I have learned Finnish and Karelian language natural way at home. On the street we spoke slang of Helsinki, that contains lot of words from german, english, sweden and russian origin. I have lived almost all my life in Helsinki, but my father was from eastern Finland. At school I learned English suprisingly well. As a young man I traveled with Inter-Rail ticket, across Europe and I found that I do can actually speak English. One guy from New-Zealand actually asked am I English or American, and I was speaking first time! In France, Spain and Italy English was not much spoken at the time. I learned a few words here and there, in a wide range of languages. That's why I decided to study more.
I have always been interested in languages, in the Internet, you should always remember that people may come from anywhere in the world to your page. My circle of friends is international: Ghana, Sweden, England, America, Turkey, India, Russia, Peru, Germany, Sweden and so on. In general, English is enough, but several languages are spoken very much. My hungarian friend helped me to learn basics of hungarian. That's why I am in fond of the Finnish language's history. Our family is also international. At home we speak finnish and english almost half and half. One relative is now from Korea, another from Germany. My father in law was ghanayan. I am step-grandparent of two turkish - ghanayan children. Stepdaughter of mine moved to Spain and later to Peru, so that's why I need to learn a little Spanish, Germany and Turkish also. It would also be fun to learn a bit of Native American languages, such as Quechua and also gypsy spoken in Finland. This summer we are making a trip to Italy, so I'm going to learn Italy a bit, hey, that's the language of music.
The book is on the table
I have studied basics of German about 3 years, I still can not say that I understand it very well. Similarly, I have studied the Russian language in the basic course twice, but still, I feel that it is very difficult to pronounce and read. I have visited in both countries, Germany and Russia, but it has not helped. Sometimes I travel to Sweden and understand it more or less badly. But in Finland Sweden is learned just by listening to the radio and television, of course, the language must be heard a lot. I study at the University of Helsinki, Fenno-Ugric languages as my major. The basics of Swedish and Sami languages, as well as German and Russian. Did you know that the Sámi people live in Sweden, Finland and Russia, and they speak the Sami language? For Finns Estonian language is easy to learn. The words are familiar and sound actually fun. The Sami language is more difficult to learn, it is heard much less, but Helsinki is the biggest Sámi-city.
