Finland - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

by Terttu Leney and Elena Barrett

Book Overview

Culture Smart provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different countries, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a rapport with your hosts. This inside knowledge will enable you to steer clear of embarrassing gaffes and mistakes, feel confident in unfamiliar situations,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1857333640
• ISBN13: 9781857333640
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Kuperard
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.5" x 6.7"

Customer Reviews

A handy primer

The Culture Smart! series offers the traveler a manual for being less of a boor, and this volume is no exception. It is good humored and clear, with lots of useful information. For the armchair traveler, it offers an opportunity to go deeper than the hotel and place descriptions in the usual guidebook; think of it as a guide to the (fascinating) psyche of Finland. I'd like to have had a section on how to pronounce Finnish words and a few polite phrases, but yes, I can get a phrase book for that.