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Nothing at all Raffaella, that Cristina Scabbia is very nice!

stonebeard wrote: Ghost Rider wrote: What's wrong with Southern European women?   Vince is perticular.

Ghost Rider wrote: It's a question of individual taste, I suppose... In Italy men are supposedly crazy about Northern European women (because of the blond hair), but the reverse is also true. When I lived in Finland I even avoided having highlights done to my hair, as I realised I was a rarity with my darker hair (which is not really dark BTW) and, especially, my very dark eyes. So, I cultivated my exotic image, and it was quite fun...

I prefer redheads 

MMMMM Finland yeah, I'm at a loss for words.

I lived there for almost six years and it was great... I even learnt the language, and I still can speak and write it decently. Girls were quite good-looking, that's true (though not more so than Italian ones, only different...) - unfortunately, the same couldn't be said of men (of course, with the exception of all our Finnish male forum frequenters!). I fell desperately in love with a Danish man, who was tall, slender and with light brown hair - but things didn't work out, alas...

Ghost Rider wrote: I lived there for almost six years and it was great... I even learnt the language, and I still can speak and write it decently. Girls were quite good-looking, that's true (though not more so than Italian ones, only different...) - unfortunately, the same couldn't be said of men (of course, with the exception of all our Finnish male forum frequenters!). I fell desperately in love with a Danish man, who was tall, slender and with light brown hair - but things didn't work out, alas...

AtLossForWords wrote: @ Bern   Then why don't you like Simone Simons?

Actually, I don't know. She's ok but she's not my type. She's not natural enough I guess.

Geck0 wrote: Oh, you and Tlossy should be able to converse in Finnish together! That language seems really difficult to learn, but I guess like any language, just living in a country long enough is sufficient to pick up at least the basics.

Experts say that's one of the most difficult languages in the world. Suffice it to say that it makes German seem easy. It's true that living in a country can help a lot, but while in Finland I met some other foreigners who'd been living there for much longer than I and who could hardly speak it, even in everyday situation. I was successful because, first of all, I'm a trained linguist and language teacher, then I've got an uncommon aptitude for languages (or so I've been told) and, last but not least, I was strongly motivated. It took a lot of effort and practice, but I'm very proud of the results.

^It's very easy, they're all pronounced the same way they're written.