at a dead end.
at a dead end.
Hei everybody! I've hit a brick wall with my finnish text book. Is there something else I could try? I watch YLE news sometimes, but most of it flys right over my head. Are there learn finnish in Finland courses for adults?
Re: at a dead end.
Have you tried the Selkouutiset from YLE?
Re: at a dead end.
Books (both electronic and real), songs and their lyrics (YouTube, Lirama, etc.), magazines, comics (online or dead-tree format), online learning material (text & grammar), radio (online streaming, podcasts), blogs (about hobbies or other interesting topics), actual Finnish discussion forums, realtime chat (IRC etc.), spaced repetition methods such as Mnemosyne, Finnish movies, Finnish TV shows (comedy/drama/whatever), ...redgreen wrote:Hei everybody! I've hit a brick wall with my finnish text book. Is there something else I could try?
There’s lots of material available and these online resources have been discussed here in depth several times before. But it’s probably no use suggesting anything specific unless you’d like to specify your age, interests and current level in a bit more detail.
See here, for example. (Are you in Massachusetts, as your location field indicates, or in Finland?)redgreen wrote:Are there learn finnish in Finland courses for adults?
znark
Re: at a dead end.
You could try the Helsinki Summer University Finnish for Foreigners courses.redgreen wrote:....Are there learn finnish in Finland courses for adults?
Re: at a dead end.
I would suggest also to take a habit to read newspapers.
Start perhaps from news whose you know the core content (from web or other sources)
and try to see what they are saying in the finnish text.
It doesn't matter if you don't understand everything from the first to the last word.
By reading there is some time to re-read the text again if something is not clear,
and it helps also with the vocabulary (at least if you have a visual memory for words).
Start perhaps from news whose you know the core content (from web or other sources)
and try to see what they are saying in the finnish text.
It doesn't matter if you don't understand everything from the first to the last word.
By reading there is some time to re-read the text again if something is not clear,
and it helps also with the vocabulary (at least if you have a visual memory for words).
Maxxfi
-
Andythefinn
- Posts: 34
- Joined: Mon Oct 05, 2009 8:36 pm
- Location: County Durham UK - Porkkala - (Kirkkonummi)Fin.
Re: at a dead end.
I can honestly say that i learnt a good % of my finish from Keltaisen Pörssi !! Just for the fact it was / is something i'm interested in - buying and selling.
Much easier to pick something up if it's interesting enough for you and you kinda have to push yourself to struggle through it.
Much easier to pick something up if it's interesting enough for you and you kinda have to push yourself to struggle through it.
Re: at a dead end.
I've joked before that what I've learned from reading hs.fi/kaupunki is that the two most important words in the Finnish language are palo and kolari.maxxfi wrote:I would suggest also to take a habit to read newspapers.
Re: at a dead end.
Here’s a mind-twister for you. (And here’s just, well, lots of action for one headline.)Bavarian wrote:the two most important words in the Finnish language are palo and kolari. :lol:
znark