Forum for practising Finnish

[Satish]

Are Anki and Mnemosyne basically the same?

If by "basically" you mean a spaced repetition system for learning - yes.

Anki seems to be much more complicated than Mnemosyne. I like the latter for its simplicity and allows me to focus on just learning Finnish. There are a lot of fans and websites dedicated to these packages. Have a look! For me, just the fact that I use one has made me the better finnish learner...

[TERI]

What is your native language?

[Satish]

What is your native language?

Oohh.. A question like that to a member of Her Majesty's Commonwealth is always difficult! Anyways,

Mother tongue: Tamil
Native tongue: English

What is the difference? I think this explains:

Wife: Satish, COME INSIDE NOW!!
Me: Umm...okay... (Great! What have I done now??)

Wife: Satish, VULLE VA !!!
Me: Vandgyan-ikre.. (and lunch smells great!!)

If you are interested in this agglutinative Subject-Object-Verb language, here you go...
http://www.languageinindia.com/aug2004/ ... amil1.html

Maybe explains why I like Finnish....

[TERI]

Ok, thanks! Just trying to imagine what it is like to learn Finnish for an Englishman (or any other person whose mothertongue is Romance language).
May the force be with you!

[TERI]

Sorry sorry sorry

[Rob A.]

Teri, English is not a Romance language.

Well...the linguists actually think about this sometimes.... It is pretty much accepted by the "professional" linguists that English is, at its basic level, a Germanic language within the Indo-European family, but it isn't a "slam-dunk" fit....

English, which was relegated to the status of a peasant language for about 200 years after the Norman invasion, has been very heavily influenced by Old French. The vocabulary is almost all "borrowed" words from Norman French, Picard French, Latin, Latin-thru-French, Ancient Greek.... Many words which people assume are Anglo-Saxon words actually aren't.... Almost all the "learned" words in English are non-Anglo-Saxon...though this trait isn't unique to English...

Hey, maybe English is actually a Romantic-Germanic language...

[Rob A.]

No. It is a Germanic language, with a lot of borrowings from French and Latin. A basic look at French and Swedish grammar shows that. But I think that English native speakers possibly find French easier than German, because the large number of similar words helps enormously with French. With German, much of the basic-level vocabulary is similar, and then it gets harder. With French, it is hard at first, and then it gets easier, as the more advanced French contains many words that are also used in English. But it is nonsense to say English is a Romance language.

Ahhh...life is so much easier when viewed through a "black and white" prism....

Cheers David...

[Satish]

Don't know much about English being a Romance language, but I can surely say it is a romance language. Hey, I used it exclusively in my courtship, as my missus will confirm.

With choice phrases like cuddly-wuddly and I lub nu, I couldn't go wrong!!!!

[raamv]

What is your native language?

Oohh.. A question like that to a member of Her Majesty's Commonwealth is always difficult! Anyways,

Mother tongue: Tamil
Native tongue: English

What is the difference? I think this explains:

Wife: Satish, COME INSIDE NOW!!
Me: Umm...okay... (Great! What have I done now??)

Wife: Satish, VULLE VA !!!
Me: Vandgyan-ikre.. (and lunch smells great!!)

If you are interested in this agglutinative Subject-Object-Verb language, here you go...
http://www.languageinindia.com/aug2004/ ... amil1.html

Maybe explains why I like Finnish....

hmm I can relate to this..
If you can relate to Finnish sentences in Tamil, Then you dont need a DB..
Thats what I am doing now as I do not have an iota if time to pick up Fred Karlsson or any of the other 4 books that I have..
My main intake comes from work where the meetings I have are in Finnish and I now speak only Finnish with many.
and then I have the same system like that developing for my Swedish..
So Grammar will wait till this summer..

[Upphew]

and then I have the same system like that developing for my Swedish..
So Grammar will wait till this summer..

I was going to call you nuts for trying to learn 2 languages at same time... then I remembered my 8th and 9th grade... Finnish, Swedish, English and German... Although I must admit that Swedish and German, and probably Finnish grammar too, didn't go very well...