I'm going to tell now five facts about myself:

1. I have 2 cats. Cats are my favourite animals and my cats names are Rontti and Missi

2. My favourite food is meatballs

3. I like playing different videogames like The sims 4 and Minecraft

4. My favourite school subjects are english and history

5. I have 3 little sisters

I see English a lot in Finland. For example, when you go to a store, you'll see a lot of products with English text sold there. Not counting any social media apps, I can also hear quite a lot English in real life, especially when I'm visiting a bigger city, like Pori or Harjavalta. So i'll say that the status of English in Finland is very much alive.

In social media I see and hear a lot English. I see and hear it the same amount as Finnish, or maybe even more. Also in tv I see more English than Finnish, since I watch more movies and shows in English than Finnish.

I think that the English language definietly affects Finnish language. A lot of teenagers speak spomething called "Finglish" which is mixing some English words in Finnish language. Another way how English is affecting Finnish is that because English is a global language, you'll see and hear it everywhere and it is taught in schools, it makes it easy to learn English, and because of that many people who moves to Finland doesn't have to learn Finnish so much, because thay can speak English and we'll be able to understand them.

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1. My native language is Finnish and even though my English is quite good, I wouldn't say I'm bilingual.

2. Sometimes I rather use English than Finnish when I'm using social media, I use english rarely outside of social media

3. I wouldn't really manage using Finnish abroad, because it is a small language. Maybe in some spaces like tourist places of Spain or Estonia where it is a lot of finns

4. Sometimes I think in english, but mostly in Finnish. Sometimes also in swedish, but not much since I'm not that good in Swedish yet

5. I don't remember having any dreams in english or in anyother language

6. I'm happy that english isn't my first language, but Finnish is, because english is quite easy to learn, and knowing many languages opens many ways to communicate with people

7. I see and hear english everyday by being in social media, watching TV-shows and movies and communicating with non-Finnish people

8. I see Swedish a lot because it is the other official language of Finland and also hear it when I'm visiting my grandparents since Swedish is their first language

9. I use english to communicate with those, who doesn't speak english as their first language because it is the only language I know on good level besides Finnish

10. My native language is a big part of my identity since I think in Finnish and speak Finnish everyday

11. The role of English will hopefully be a big part of my future studies because I really want to at least try studying abroad

12. Some situations where my native language would just work are situations, where I'm suppose to for example describe things or someother way to use words, I wouldn't be familiar in English with.

13. English is more used than Spanish or Chinese, especially in western countries, and English is way easier to learn than Chinese.

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