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Hello everyone, I am retired communication technician from Finland, and mainly now I am learning greek and german and still practising french, and portuguese, but I can communicate, in finnish, english, spanish, italian, french, greek and portuguese, but my purpose is improve them when chatting here. My main hobby is HAM-Radio, and another studying languages. Don't hesitate to contact me, we can change opinions in various languages. Not matter of your age, I am serious in practising my language skills, so if you are too, you are welcome. Best regards, Aatos
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Rafaelia
Greek
Dec 18, 2025
Great last lesson before Christmas! Thank you Aatos for being so diligent and participating in interesting conversations with me! Merry Christmas!
Rafaelia
Greek
Oct 14, 2025
Aatos did great today! We had a conversation about what he did over the weekend, where his town is located, the weather and travelling
Rafaelia
Greek
Oct 7, 2025
Aatos is on a very good path to becoming fluent very soon!
Karen Ramírez
Spanish
Jul 11, 2025
Aatos es una persona muy amable e inteligente. Muestra interés en aprender el idioma español, tiene un buen nivel de español. :)
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    November 25, 2020
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    I am learning greek language because it is interesting and different language when comparing to the others which I have studied previously. Also for me it has been more challenging language to learn due to different alphabets.
    Also I like the Greek music as well as I appreciate their long history and culture in Europe. When I visit to my holidays in Greek islands, it is nice to talk with Greek people using their own language and I have seen they appreciate a lot if some foreigner speaks their language. Overall language learning is my hobby, and I wanted to learn some more difficult language that of those romance languages which are quite easy to learn if learned a one of them very well, all others are quite easy to learn due to their similarity. 
    Now after almost two years studies, I can speak it good enough to make interesting conversations with Greek people and my studies will continue as long as I'll have not any markable difficulties to speak very largely about differents topics.
    Best regards from Finland, Aatos    
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    March 6, 2020
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  • Commented
    I am finnish and I have not problems with spanish "R" it is the same as in our native language finnish.
    But I have some problems with french and portuguese "R" because I tend to pronounce it like in finnish or in spanish language. I am interested to know, if spanish natives have the same problem?
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    June 12, 2019
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  • Commented

    Hi again,


    I am still searching greek language partner for some simple conversation in greek :)

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    November 22, 2018
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    I am searching for greek language partner

    Hello everyone,

    I am searching for greek language partner. I am a beginner in greek language, but

    I think if somebody is interested in to practice it (in some simple conversation)  it could help a lot :)

    I speak many languages, so I think we could find the communication language for studies


    Best regards,

    Aatos







    September 4, 2018
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    Hi Alyona,


    This is excellent site to learn italian, I like it very much.

    http://oneworlditaliano.com/english/home.htm

    The teacher Veronica is sympathetic person and also funny, the videos are not boring that is important to keep good motivation running :)


    I hope that helps,

    Aatos

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    November 18, 2017
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    For Guymar and others

    You have listed very well all the possible reasons why people do not take and start seriously the language partnership, I agree of them all.

    That's why I wrote here to ask if others have the same experiences and it's interesting to see that this has been a problem also to other serious learners

    Let's continue learning with good attitude and commitment :)

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    August 25, 2017
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    Hi again,

    Thanks to everyone for the comments here, it is well appreciated

    I got some partners now, so let's see how it goes :)

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    August 24, 2017
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  • Commented
    Hello Irina,
    Thanks for the request and your comments
    At the moment I am still studying french and portuguese, so I am searching serious language partnership for to practise french and portuguese. Probably I could start to learn also russian later, but not yet but I keep you in my mind if I start to learn it :)

    Спасибо, что спросили и все самое лучшее для вас и вашей дочери!

    Aatos

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    August 23, 2017
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    About language partnership

    Hello everyone!

    I'd like to talk about language partnership here in italki, what it's all about?

    Is it only for to collect as many friends (partners) number as possible or really will to practise and talk,

    and increase the language skills?

    I have noticed that nobody really wants to practise, some few persons only one or two times and after that

    all ends.

    Please everyone, tell your opinions about this, do you have the same experiencies?

    Best regards from Finland

    Aatos



    August 23, 2017
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