Quote Originally Posted by gRomoZeka View Post
It's hard to tell. 10-15%, maybe?
Are you joking? My guess - less than 5%. In big cities maybe 5-7% in the best case. I know English better than most of my aquaitances, but still, when I watch an American movie without subtitles/dubbing I understand less rhan 50% .

Quote Originally Posted by Hanna
In Europe, Finnish is an incredibly hard language; the grammar is as hard as Russian and it constantly makes up one word to say something that other languages would use two or three words from. Also the words are not similar to the words in any other European language apart from Estonian.
AFAIK Finnish is also related to Hungarian and also to the languages of Finno-Ugric minorities in Russia.