I got itchy feet so, when I finished my degree in teaching, I moved to Finland.
Finnish is the most phonetic language -with the latin alphabet. I already knew all the sounds of this language except one (ä) so I shouldn’t have problems to make myself understand. Well, that’s what I thought.
I’d been studying Finnish for 6 month during 8 h a day when I realized, again, that what I learned at school had nothing to do with what I heard on the street.
It was very difficult to understand and I felt uncomfortable several times, asking every 10 minutes “what does it mean?” or thinking I would slow down the conversation.