Thank you for your invaluable remarks. These are my very first steps in the active use of (written) Finnish, after 35 years or so...one day or another, I hope to manage sufficiently well the variations of the Finnish noun and verb stems (vaikenen, vaieta, rupean, ruvennut, ruveta...ach so !!!)

You're welcome. I love my language, but I also feel for all those who try to learn it as a foreign one. With its 15 cases, complicated consonant gradation and homonyms one can only understand by understanding the context it must be one hell of a difficult language to learn. Some people say that Finnish is not difficult, because even small Finnish children are able to learn it. I doubt that, or what you say about the first word small children usually learn: in Finnish it's äiti while in most other languages it's something in the lines of mamma, mama, mom, mum.

I bought my first Finnish course ("Teach Yourself Finnish" by Arthur H. Whitney) when I was 17, 18 or so; I think it's one of my most worn-out language books! I also got a couple of Finnish courses written in Italian (by Finns, of course: Eeva Uotila Arcelli and Paula Loikala), and they are equally worn-out, and "On tie...", a Finnish course written in French by Anna Kokko-Zalcman with wit and humour; but, in my opinion, nothing compares to Maija Hellikki-Aaltio's "Finnish for Foreigners" in 2 volumes, and "A Grammar Book of Finnish" by Leila White, which I found, rather curiously, abandoned on a book exchange shelf in the lounge of a so-called "Casa del Popolo" in Settignano, a village near Florence. I humbly asked the barman if I could take the book for myself...he answered that he didn't even know that there's a language in the world called "Finnish"! I still wonder who left that treasure... (continua)

I know exactly who had abandoned the Finnish Grammar. It must have been someone thinking "Enough is enough. Not in a million years will I learn this one!"

The Finnish palindrome factory is called Alivaltiosihteeri (Undersecretary of State), a comedy group that used to announce their "palindrome of the week" in their popular radio show titled "Alivaltiosihteeri - the official radio program of Finland" and aired from 1990 to 2017.

Here are a couple of titbits:

No, Turo, kenelle ne korut on?
Iske siat lekalla keltaiseksi.
Ikkunoita pesee se pation ukki.
Uupuva haapa vapisi: oisipa vapaa havupuu!

I think you're right; but, anyway, the person who abandoned the book wasn't angry with the Finnish language. The book (published in 2006) was brandy new, almost untouched! Thanks for the Finnish palindromes, they are really as nice as In girum imus nocte ecce et consumimur igni or the well known ΝΙΨΟΝ ΑΝΟΜΗΜΑΤΑ ΜΗ ΜΟΝΑΝ ΟΨΙΝ "Wash your sins, not only your face!" carved on holy water stoups in Greek churches!