1. I was walking on a staircase, a girl in front of me dropped her gloves/scarf/hat, but she did not noticed, I picked it up and stop her, beside anteeksi, what else should I say? Such as ‘Hi, you dropped your gloves/scarf/hat’.
2. I met a guy in the corridor in a teaching building and asked him, ‘Would you please tell me which is Professor Lanne’s office?’ He said, ‘He is not in this floor, go down stairs, he is in 3rd floor.’
3. I was writing a form in library for application of kirjastokortti, I gave my opiskejiakortti to librarian to input my information. And I found one entry in the form required my opiskelijanumero, I said to librarian: ‘Can I take a look at my student card? I do not remember my student number.’
And after filling the form, she was rechecking my info in the form, I said: Oh, I forgot to write my address./I missed one digit in my phone number.’
4. I asked a women where can I found a certain building, she said: Cross the street , it is on the other side of the street and can you see that red-brick building, that’s it!
5. To a librarian, with a scrap of paper in my hand, ‘I am looking for this book, would you please help me find it?’
6. Ask a passenger at the bus stop: ‘When will the next bus arrive?’
7. In English, if we want someone wait, we can just say: Wait!. What’s word in Finnish for this use?
Here is for today, thus I write ‘situation dialogue I’, for sure I will encounter more situations as my life in Finland moves on. But thank you, I really learned a lot from you guys! It significantly accelerates my study process with your help!
