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~luna~
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Post by ~luna~ » Fri Oct 17, 2003 10:46 pm

i've just found out this link http://www.credo.fi/lastenmaa/sadut/valmiitsadut.htm
they are short tales for kids in finnish, divided into two sections: the second section includes stories you can read and listen to at the same time :)
a nice exercise, also helps for the pronounciation of some simple words and intonation of phrases.
well, at least i found it useful :oops:


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Post by rogue » Wed Oct 22, 2003 10:57 pm

~luna~ wrote:at least i found it useful :oops:
My history teacher at school was a very smart man. Despite all his experience and qualifications, when he started learning a new area he would always read a child's book on the subject before reading the "serious" books. As I get older I start to realise how good this approach is :o Thank you for the link!
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Post by Andrew_S » Thu Oct 23, 2003 12:35 am

That's a really nice site!
I like the sections on birds and wild animals.
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Post by ~luna~ » Thu Oct 23, 2003 1:09 am

@rogue & Andrew: ole hyvä :D

atm i'm recording myself while reading a finnish newspaper, as hank suggested, and when i'm done i'll send the file to my finnish friends for marking... :shock:
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Re: Cases in Finnish

Post by Riko » Sat Apr 10, 2004 10:56 am

kalmisto wrote:This might help you a little :

http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/finnish-cases.html
This will be really helpful since it's where I'm having the most difficulty. Then again, I'm finding almost everything in Suomi 1D pretty confusing at this point.
The test for this semester is 26.4 and I'm at a bit of an impasse. It's been a while since I've studied a language and until recently I wasn't as adept at note taking. I'd copy either everything or not enough & I think I've missed some essential information. To try and make sense of my notes now will probably take longer then I have left to study.
Has anyone that has taken or is taking Suomi 1 been able to consolidate their notes so they are easy to understand?
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Don't worry about it

Post by mikebrads » Thu Apr 15, 2004 5:11 pm

i did suomi 1 last summer (4 nights a week, 3 hours per night, oh boy! :roll: )

The Test -
From memory the thing i found hardest was that as the course was so fast i had not had time to absorb enough vocabulary, so i did not understand half the questions.
I also think that most of them were similar to ones in the course book (in format style)

However my favourite thing was when i got the paper back and had some finnish collegues loook over it :twisted: Learnt a couple more swear words that evening :shock: They were shocked at how hard the beginers course exam was
ignore spelling and punctuation, i did
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