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You moved to Finland expecting daily life to teach you the language. Then you hit your first visit to Migri (the Finnish Immigration Service) or the DVV (Digital and Population Data Services Agency) to register your henkilötunnus (personal identity code), and the clerk handled the whole thing in fluent English. Finland has extremely high English proficiency, and Finnish culture's comfort with quiet, reserved interaction means you won't be 'forced' into conversation practice the way you might in a chattier culture — you have to seek it out deliberately.Why frequency-based learning works especially well hereFinnish has a reputation for being one...