Moving to FINLAND - Cultural Shocks

🌟 MOI amigos! 🌟
Welcome back to my little slice of Finland! 🎥✨ I'm thrilled to have you join me for my second video, where I delve into some of the delightful (and not-so-delightful) shocks I experienced when I first moved to this enchanting country. From navigating the intricacies of the Finnish language to braving the wild weather and exploring the maze-like supermarkets - it's been quite the adventure, let me tell you!
In this video, I share my personal experiences and insights, sprinkled with a dash of humor and a whole lot of heart. So if you're curious about what it's really like to adjust to life in Finland, or perhaps you're an expat who can relate to these cultural shocks, you're in for a treat!
And hey, if you can't get enough of my Finnish adventures, don't forget to follow me on TikTok and Instagram for even more behind-the-scenes fun and daily doses of joy!
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Thank you for your continued support and for being part of this incredible journey with me. I can't wait to share many more adventures, laughs, and heart-to-heart chats with you all.
Kiitos for joining me on this incredible journey - let's make some unforgettable memories!
Sending you heaps of love and warm Finnish vibes, 🇫🇮💖
Nerea

[@TheYannir]

That rolling spanish r when you said "terve" sounds so adorable. I'm really impressed by how flexible and adaptive your outlook is. Like, yeah, these were shocks when you came in but seem to have come to terms with them. Some people never get over the cold.

[@jarmopaakkonen2045]

I wondered why the hospital took so long to built,but now I know. The architect had to learn what a wall is 😂

[@nerea.bartolome]

😂

[@jarirantonen3939]

I Think acctualy the same😂

[@angusmacgyver]

I would tell every foreigner coming to Finland to learn Finnish. How you can integrate here if you don't understand the language? If I would move to a different country, learning the language would be my top objective. If you can only speak English you are going to talk with foreigners mostly. And you can get Finnish friends. Well, you can get even if you speak English only, but seriously, learn Finnish. It's a difficult language, but it will be worth it if you are going to spend years here.

[@Kennethgranqvist]

Welcome to Finland... 😘

[@nerea.bartolome]

❤

[@ali-keravanherttua1700]

@@nerea.bartolome kzbin.info/www/bejne/naGreJZmpciAi80&ab_channel=RadioMillennium I hope, that this is not document.

[@hemawa]

Hi Beautiful! Thank You for this wonderful video. I'm so happy You are here, and I hope You would meet a lot of happy, smily finns🤗♥️👍

[@peketee2278]

Rauta=iron is a chemical element and Teräs=steel is a metal which is mainly iron mixed with other metals or elements..

[@amadeuz819]

Probably have to figure out what building she has planned, Teräs palkki that is probably Tree balk so wooden beam... Kantava seinä, it was something with K... Kaadettava.. Yeah that sounds about right...

[@jattikuukunen]

Well, there's plenty of iron in blood.

[@peketee2278]

@@jattikuukunen depending on gender and weight 1.5-3g... so not such a huge amount...

[@Juhani96]

Iron is that pure element/ ore, steel is processed

[@Kerppu68]

For an architect it's irrelevant knowing the difference between iron and steel...

[@lassi3554]

Thank you for the video! I've been to Spain a few times and really like it there. It's really interesting to hear about your thoughts about living in Finland. I look forward to your next video! :)

[@nerea.bartolome]

❤❤ thank you! 🫶🏼

[@panumattila1253]

Love your energy! I hope you like your stay :)

[@karisalonen12]

Nice video. Never been to Madrid and mostly visited non-continental Spain mostly touristy way but trying to figure out the spanish culture and can understand the culture shock, at least a little bit of it. 😊 Keep up the good work. Seen some of your clips in Instagram and your finnish seems to be improving. 😊

[@nerea.bartolome]

❤ thank you! 🥺

[@angusmacgyver]

I have been only to Mallorca and Gran Canaria and those were really nice tourist destinations as a kid. And I would like to go see more of Spain. Now that I am older to taste all the different foods in Spain.

[@user-tm4yz8mb1p]

WE LOVE YOU T. FINLAND

[@nerea.bartolome]

I love you Finland 🥺❤️🇫🇮

[@axlax7408]

@@nerea.bartolome and espanjol

[@mariederviche2644]

Hi, I just saw your video very nice and please stream more ❤❤❤to watch a lot of them good in finland and keep up the good work😊😊😊😊

[@KaiHellmann]

All the best for y. If something thing is ”whaat” ask what it mean. Finns love and want tell and explain thigs. Love from 🇫🇮

[@jacquelinelacan]

Love these! Hope seeing more of you in future. Wishing you all the best! What did you bring from Spain? How being born in Spain shows through you?

[@nerea.bartolome]

Thanks! ❤️ A job brought me here (apparently I came o my for three months, but I’ve been here almost 3 years) About my life in Spain, I never “found my place” there. Here I found myself again and that’s why I decided to stay. 🫶🏼

[@kanervatie]

¡Hola! Madrid is my second city in Europe. :) I live in Helsinki, but Madrid is always close to my heart. :) All the best! -T

[@kalleseppala4918]

Hey you got the "ä, ö, y" correct great job on that

[@wellnessmedia8638]

Whatever the country you move to, the first thing you should do is to learn the local language. Little by little you get the hang of it. Language is very deeply rooted in everything that is the new reality where you are now living in.

[@thamor4746]

Now think of the shock of Finnish person going to Madrid from 5 celcius to over 40 celcius =)

[@Mojova1]

I went to Madrid in January before Covid and it was sunny and 12C in the shade so it was like Juhannus in Finland. We walked on the streets with T-shirts and people in Madrid had winter jackets. They looked at us like we were not from around. :D

[@banditkfk1463]

Rauta. So cool! ❤

[@NikoVuoriola]

I have been watching your videos on Instagram for some while and I thought why were you so familiar.... But now it is clear, since I also worked at the hospital construction site! Small world. :D

[@HobbyFinn2]

The tattoo was sweet. ”Sisu” could have been fun too ❤️

[@historyouuu3495]

Spanish woman so ihana!!!

[@Waldorf73]

You weren't expecting to be really happy in the happiest country in the world??? I'm amazed at that statement. The World Happiness Report comes out every year, and for the last seven years Finland has been top of the list.

[@Mojova1]

We are the happiest country because all the sad people keep killing themselves....

[@thoubias]

Well, the world happiness report measures pretty much everything but the subjective feeling of happiness of the individuals of the country. If it did, I am not so sure if Finland would be that high up. The report says that, out of all the measured countries in the world, we in Finland have the most reasons to be happy, but I wouldn't still consider us living in 24/7 happiness. Maybe it is kind of an "elintasokrapula" - "hangover from high standard of living", you eventually become a bit too blind to really understand how great it is to be in where you are now.

[@jonnajosefina]

I love the tattoo and what it symbolizes

[@ismopietilainen6480]

Yeah! Maksalaatikko, porkkanalaatikko and roiskeläppäpizza - niihin tottuu ajan kanssa. Ne ovat ihan "peruskauraa". :D

[@nerea.bartolome]

🤣❤️✨

[@Ounouh]

You say you can't pronounce our "Ä", but you just did it perfectly with the word "actually" in 2:57 ;) That's why Tolkien took influence from Finnish making Ä a three dotted letter in hobbit writing. Like how Bilbo Bäggings writes his name in the movies.

[@Mojova1]

That is really weird how you would find things to microwave in the place in the store where they sell microwave food... So I don't know what shop you were in but you can find everything you want in a Citymarket or Prisma in Finland.

[@yksilotaso]

Hopefully you stay here for long time🙏🏻

[@hanmies4804]

Hope this country serves you well

[@resuah-pp6ue]

Hello good video.I am old granny and i have watch many of these wideos.One thing i do not like when people combleim everyting off Finland,that's not nice.I am glad you where positive and happy...you welcome to Finland.

”sanotaan XXX” ”vittu”😂 I love your tiktoks, also this video is the 🔥

[@nerea.bartolome]

🥺❤️ thanks!🙏🏽

[@ladoga]

Rauta = iron Teräs = steel Hiiliteräs = carbon steel Ruostumaton teräs/rosteri = stainless steel

[@ristovirtanen6396]

Actually rauta = iron and teräs = steel to be precise.🤔👌

[@maeranni]

If you live in Helsinki, finding fresh ingredients is easy. Just go to a supermarket. My local one has a great selection of foods from herbs to fisf from all over. Also, Madrid is hardly Mediterranian. Interesting watch, kiitos.

[@nerea.bartolome]

❤

[@just42tube]

I would dare to say that the weather in hot seasons or climate in Madrid, Spain, can be significantly affected by humans the same is much less critical in Lapland. Especially coldness isn't the results of human culture. It's the opposite. Significant warming up in the arctic climate is related to global climate change where human culture globally has an effect. But not much of that can be contributed to the local culture. Mediterranean area has been heavily affected by humans over some millennia and that has affected local climates.

[@CieplinskiPawel]

_Kippis_ is the most important word 😉

[@kalma999]

i rather be in spain also....u are lovely.

[@nerea.bartolome]

❤

[@theoriginalmilkman]

I think I'm in love with a Finnish girl

[@johannaa2809]

I'm always confused by people who move to a foreign country and don't want to learn the language. Even if it's hard to learn, speaking the language will open a whole new world for you and deepen and enhance your foreign experience.

[@just42tube]

It takes on average 5 years or more to really become fluent in a foreign language. It's significant investment of time and energy for most people. If you move to Finland thinking that you'll study for some years or work in some projects or company some years, and then might look for opportunities globally, then learning Finnish isn't priority for you. They also might be primarily interested in the international community in Finland, so there too Finnish skills aren't as important for them. As lingua franca, English seems to be enough and improving it might seem to be more critical skill. It's only when, or if, the Finnish speaking society and people start to become relevant and interesting, then the language becomes obviously a key thing to acquire.

[@epbbarcia174]

Pls increase your volume. Its a little hard to hear your cute voice. Muchisimas gracias!

[@MrKyly]

labland, the northern test lab.

[@ilet3049]

Question, did you actually try to think in english, and then try to translate it in finnish and back to english and spanish again? we have some hilarious vids how translate works.

[@the-warning-music]

Finnish is a very difficult language, including dialects, but you can also do well here in English. At least the younger people speak good English. Unfortunately, the weather here is cold and dark most of the year. Personally, I find all the good food I want in Finnish shops.

[@mustanaamiotto3812]

Should still learn finnish.

[@the-warning-music]

Yes, definitely, if you are going to stay in Finland for a long time you need to learn the Finnish language at least to some extent.

[@stasacab]

Pohjalaatta on laatta, joka on pohjalla.

[@Jani-wr1dn]

Sorry .. Rauta is just iron.. Steel is what you are going for.. but.. Show that to any Finn and ... you are in. (also the steel one would be .. nope...) Heavy Metal if you like the music style and instantly in

[@mikaveekoo]

Do you really think that Finns eat only microwave food??

[@amadeuz819]

She didn't say that, she said we had lots of "laatikko" and I really hope she removed the aluminium...iron is steel... Usually when you move to a new place you do eat ready food the first month probably, at least if you start from 0. First things you get is usually washing machine if the house doesn't have one, way to make coffee/tee, micro, bed, drapes/curtains..... .... Stuff to cook with comes way down the list and can take a month or two before you find a store with the stuff you are ready to pay for or even have enough money to pay for it. When you don't speak the language or even able to read it then it adds some more difficulty too it. Then she did say "its just a normal market" and that she now prepares the food she used to eat at home so I have the feeling she came here with only her clothes starting from 0 and thus having the need to find ready meals but she stumbled into the "laatikko" part and was amazed on how many different types we had(Like we have christmas food all around the year so its not off that there is so many then).

[@mikaveekoo]

@@amadeuz819 But that comment was very misleading. Like those "laatikkos" would be very big thing in Finland.

[@amadeuz819]

@@mikaveekoo I think she just hadn't seen em before, so it was a "OOOO" moment.. Like we can have a whole row of em during christmas time and she did mention porkkana and thats christmas food.

[@elmerimorottaja5344]

@@mikaveekoo Are you trying to claim that Finnish stores do NOT have shelves full of ready foods? Many people consume them regularly, they are not there for nothing. There is a big difference comparing to Spanish stores. And that was her point.

[@markoitmard]

Its the same that when you visit Lidl and have no idea what anything is

[@mikeh2772]

WHY... You could go back and be happy.

[@toinenosoite3173]

A nice video! However, Finnish is an incredibly intuitive languge - much more than your native Spanish, to be honest. If it weren't, then all the Finnish children would have extremely big problems learning it, wouldn't they? And they do not - period. All right, you probably used the wrong word, i.e. a much better thing would have been to say: not something I can easily learn on the basis of my native language Spanish.

[@nerea.bartolome]

Yes exactly that! Once you learn the first “basics” of Finnish language, it’s really logical. My point in the video was that, when you come from another country (at least me as a Spaniard) my brain didn’t have the enough resources to create a general context of the conversation 😅 But after 6 months studying Finnish, and with the little amount of the language that I know, it’s totally true that you can find that logic and follow a conversation 😊 (if it’s not much puhekieli ☝🏽✨) But yes that’s the point, thanks for clarifying 🙏🏽

[@toinenosoite3173]

@@nerea.bartolome I can totally understand and sympathise with you 😀. And just have some patience with the spoken language - it will come to you!

[@jacquelinelacan]

If I may add. Finnish comes from completely different language family. So our closest languages are Eesti (Estonia) and Unkari (Hungary). Where as Swedish and Norwegian would closer to Spanish. Expanding on this. Finland is politically part of West Europe - but culturally part of East Europe. We drink and are melancholic. So quite a jump coming from Spain. Respect!

[@Gittas-tube]

​@@jacquelinelacanNo, no and no. Culturally Finland is NOT part of Eastern Europe. Never has been. Drinking and having a penchant for being melancholic are not representative of the culture of a country. If you take a look at the history of Finland and of the remarkable CULTURAL achievements of a country of only 5.5 million people, you'd be amazed. Finland is one of the Nordic welfare states, whose history and culture are closely tied together. In addition to that, and largely because of their own language, the Finns have their own slice of culture that adds its unique flavour to that of the Nordic family group. Outdated stereotypes are best forgotten. This year, Finland was voted as the "happiest" country in the world for the 7th time in a row. This means that in comparison to many other places in the world, people in Finland are by and large content with the way the country is run and with their own lives, as well.

[@jacquelinelacan]

@@Gittas-tube I appreciate your answer. But. You failed to mention what makes us culturally part of the west? Sure we have history under Sweden - but also under Russia and before it under Novgorod. I count welfare state and more over all of social policy to go under politics. Like I said we're politically part of the west.

[@citizenkane4831]

The difference between the swedish luange and finnish is that originaly the swedish luangage is germanic. The finnish is not

[@MBuliveivari]

Ok. I love you allready but iron is rauta, steel is teräs. You are an architect, you know the difference.

[@MBuliveivari]

I had to look this again. Ok, so you're arm says rauta, it's iron in english. I do not know what kind of architecht you are. Maybe interior architecht? Still you should know this shit.

[@eusela_99]

​@@MBuliveivari Mitä v... she can know, and probably knows, the difference between the two, still, and because she is learning finnish, she of course could've mixed the translation. Doesn't mean she doesn't know the difference in her mother tongue or in English... it doesn't matter. Actually, it's quite rare in my opinion to see a foreigner to be so involved and interested in the culture of the country they moved to. She's already doing much more then the majority of immigrants. Give her a break! 😠Que no les des atención. Eres hermosa 🤗Tsemppiä Suomessa!

[@mifeke6149]

To save 11 minutes: 1) The language: She doesn't understand Finnish 2) The Weather: It's cold 3) Food: Just yeah the food

[@maksoinvelat]

espanjan kieli on maailman seksikkäin kieli