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> Speaks four european languages, including swedish.

Judging by his name, I'd assume Swedish is his first language, so that particular aspect isn't that surprising to me

Just from the fact that he exists in Finland and is older than 20 it's basically a given that he speaks Swedish because they learn it in school.

That's stretching it a bit. Many Fins only speak very basic Swedish.

Learning it in school and actually speaking it are very different things though. Source: learned Swedish in school in Finland, rarely used it since, have practically forgotten all about it now.

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