Language skills

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English

Language tools and resources

• http://www.onelook.com - look up English words in English from over 500 dictionaries with one search
• http://www.etymonline.com - look up etymologies of English lang words. Start with etymology of the word "business"
• http://www.wordreference.com - free high quality dictionaries
• http://www.memrise.com - Language learning environment with a plethora of learning programs
• http://ankisrs.net - A less automized w:spaced repetition flash card program and associated web-interface when you don't have an installation handy

Courses

• Business English
• Multicultural Business Communication in English
• Business Negotiations and Contracts

Observations on Business English

“Market slang contains a lot of synonyms and words with overlapping meanings ( e.g. capital, equity, shares, stock, investments, holdings, assets etc. almost used interchangeably ) and could be argued that this is done intentionally to render investorspeak non-understandable for the non-investor. Like all cliques and guilds ( lawyers, doctrors etc. ) develop language to make their trade harder for others ( outsiders ) to understand.”

~ jubo-jubo on terminology and cliques

Recommended reading

• w:The Stock Exchange (book) written by w:Max Weber in 1894-1896 in what is now w:Germany at under 100 pages it was originally published as a 2-part informational leaflets for workers suspicious and out-of-the-loop in of the ways of the bourses it remains to this date a very relevant and almost essential read should you want begin to understand the flavours of modern w:investment.

Finnish

• Suomenkielisen Wikipedian w:fi:Luokka:Liiketalous on merkittävä relevanttien artikkelien kokoelma.
• Finnish for Business Purposes ( in Finnish )
• Finnish for foreigners
• Memrise.com courses of Finnish

Learn legal Finnish with translations

• Compare Legistlation of Republic of Finland and more online in Finnish and Swedish with Translations of finnish laws and regulations at finlex.fi

Swedish

• Affärsvenska - Business Swedish - Swedish for foreigners
• Memrise.com courses on Swedish

French

• Excellent French conjugation course on Memrise.com suitable for beginners and advanced alike
• 450 most used French verbs - Nice verbery for basic stuff

• Français pour debutants 1 - Français pour debutants 2 - Fraçais intermediaire 1 - Fraçais intermediaire 2 - Business French - French Business Communication

Russian

• http://translit.ru - quick hack for typing cyrilics using a western keyboard lay-out
• Memrise.com courses on Russian

Places

• Library of The Parliament of Finland is situated in the "Postitalo" right at the core of Helsinki (map). In addition to having all laws and all regulations legistlated by the parliament, they offer wide variety of weekly and monthly magazines from all over the world. Free entry.