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Re: Finnish learning thread!
« Reply #330 on: July 11, 2016, 09:34:57 AM »
Hei! Minulla ollisi pyyntö.
Voiko kukaan lukea Kailaksen runon "Illan kanssa kahdenkesken" äänen? Vai ehkä sellainen levytys jo on olemassa jossakin?

(Ja, kuin tavallisesti, runoa :)

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vaan se nyt on leveä.
Kalpea valo päylyy
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Ei milloinkaan taivas ollut
yhtä leveä selvänä.)
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Re: Finnish learning thread!
« Reply #331 on: July 20, 2016, 06:58:23 PM »
anyone have any other good online sites to learn on?

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Re: Finnish learning thread!
« Reply #332 on: July 21, 2016, 03:29:45 AM »
anyone have any other good online sites to learn on?

Hei Rundrewrun! I believe there is a good chunk of the links to such sites spread on the first pages of this thread. This one for example http://donnerwetter.kielikeskus.helsinki.fi/FinnishForForeigners/ch2-en/ch2-50-reading.htm. They also provide a whole list of helpful sites: http://donnerwetter.kielikeskus.helsinki.fi/FinnishForForeigners/ch2-en/ch2-50-reading.htm.
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Re: Finnish learning thread!
« Reply #333 on: September 07, 2016, 05:48:51 AM »
About the fingers: the name for the thumb is really old and possibly derived from an Uralian root word meaning "edge" or "rim", aka it's the finger on the edge or rim of the hand. According to Kielikello, a publication concentrating on Finnish language,  "peukalo" is mentioned for the first time In Finnish literature (which didn't exist before the 16th century) in 1540s, "keskisormi" in 1644, "etusormi" in 1738, "nimetön" in 1745 and "pikkusormi" in the 19th century. Before this pikkusormi was known as "sakarisormi" , "peg finger", mentioned in literature already in the 16th century.

In addition to the official names fingers have lots of different names in dialects, often derived from their uses. The index finger, etusormi,  especially has many: nuolusormi = "licking finger", nenäsormi = "nose finger", potinnuolija = "pot licker", tupakkanäppi = "tobacco finger" and voinlappaja = "butter scooper".

Keskisormi is also called isosormi = "big finger" or koukkusormi = "hook finger", the last one because it's the finger used in the traditional game sormikoukku, "finger hook".

Nimetön is just nimetön, "nameless", because it was believed to have magical powers which had to be protected by not naming the finger.

Pikkusormi has mostly different versions of names meaning "little" but has also been called piippasormi, "sprout finger".

Peukalo tends to be peukalo everywhere but gets funny additions like peukalopukki, "thumb billygoat", in children's rhymes - in which all fingers tend to have a myriad of funny nonsense names.
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Re: Finnish learning thread!
« Reply #334 on: January 06, 2017, 01:43:12 PM »
I thought to mention, that for christmas I got "Kieli Käyttöön" printed from my mother.
it was not an actual christmas present, she just got it printed right before christmas, so it seems like it was a present. I am learning from it with my friend, who teach me. I am so happy about it :Đ
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Re: Finnish learning thread!
« Reply #335 on: April 07, 2017, 01:20:52 AM »
Okay, guys, I probably need your help (if you know the Finnish grammar and all like that).
I have a Finnish textbook, teaching is divided into lessons and each lesson has several tasks to perform. I carry out these tasks and I try to do them correctly, but I have no one\anything who can find and point out my mistakes (and explain them). So if someone can help me with checking my tasks - I will be very grateful!
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Re: Finnish learning thread!
« Reply #336 on: April 10, 2017, 12:21:45 PM »
Okay, guys, I probably need your help (if you know the Finnish grammar and all like that).
I have a Finnish textbook, teaching is divided into lessons and each lesson has several tasks to perform. I carry out these tasks and I try to do them correctly, but I have no one\anything who can find and point out my mistakes (and explain them). So if someone can help me with checking my tasks - I will be very grateful!

I can try to help, I'm a native Finnish speaker. :)
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Re: Finnish learning thread!
« Reply #337 on: April 10, 2017, 01:25:11 PM »
I can try to help, I'm a native Finnish speaker. :)
Oh, it will be very, very cool!
I can scan the pages of my textbook with tasks and my notebook with the completed tasks, if it's convenient for you.
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Re: Finnish learning thread!
« Reply #338 on: April 11, 2017, 11:05:51 AM »
Oh, it will be very, very cool!
I can scan the pages of my textbook with tasks and my notebook with the completed tasks, if it's convenient for you.

Yeah, I'll PM you so we can figure out what would work best. :)
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Re: Finnish learning thread!
« Reply #339 on: June 12, 2017, 12:21:28 AM »
Mild thread necromancy for this, but I figured I might ask.
I've been trying to learn Finnish for quite a while now, and I do all right with vocabulary, but I can't find a way to study grammar that motivates me well. I've found that flash card websites, especially ones with streak counters, do work well for me, but I can't seem to find any good ones that deal with grammar. Does anyone know of anything like this? Really, anything that can be done a few minutes at a time and has a daily streak counter would work.
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Re: Finnish learning thread!
« Reply #340 on: June 12, 2017, 11:56:25 AM »
Mild thread necromancy for this, but I figured I might ask.
I've been trying to learn Finnish for quite a while now, and I do all right with vocabulary, but I can't find a way to study grammar that motivates me well. I've found that flash card websites, especially ones with streak counters, do work well for me, but I can't seem to find any good ones that deal with grammar. Does anyone know of anything like this? Really, anything that can be done a few minutes at a time and has a daily streak counter would work.
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Thank you in advance!

I don't know anywhere to learn grammar, but what's that site you're using for vocabulary? I'd kinda like to try it.
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Re: Finnish learning thread!
« Reply #341 on: June 12, 2017, 06:01:46 PM »
I don't know anywhere to learn grammar, but what's that site you're using for vocabulary? I'd kinda like to try it.

It's called Memrise! Pretty standard as far as flash-card-based review websites go, but it does have a couple of nice added features (the daily streak counter being my favorite) and a boatload of preset courses you can choose from (here). You can also make your own sets, of course.
It's a good web site, I like it :) There's just nothing very good there for Finnish grammar.
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« Reply #342 on: June 13, 2017, 12:02:59 AM »
It's called Memrise! Pretty standard as far as flash-card-based review websites go, but it does have a couple of nice added features (the daily streak counter being my favorite) and a boatload of preset courses you can choose from (here). You can also make your own sets, of course.
It's a good web site, I like it :) There's just nothing very good there for Finnish grammar.

Thanks! It looks like it's be a good site for reviewing my Spanish too - I've got a final coming up. :)
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« Reply #343 on: July 26, 2020, 06:37:47 AM »
Hello, all! Gods has it been a while...
I thought I might supplement some of my pre-existing linguistics by actually sitting down and learning Finnish. According to the site I’m using I’ve learned about five hundred words already, which is pretty darn good, but, well, start early...are there any beginner’s books that might be recommended?
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« Reply #344 on: July 26, 2020, 07:55:52 AM »
Do you mean like school books meant for adults learning Finnish, or children’s books?
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