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Finnish learning thread!
Ann Marie:
Come on, I know there's at least one more of you out there. Want to celebrate/commiserate?
starfallz:
AAAAAA ALL THE VOWELS.
Ahem. I have problems differentiating U, Ö, and Y.
I'm sloooowly working through a Teach Yourself Finnish book that Flik gave me, but find it hard to listen to the CDs. I've been poking at Memrise, but it is just vocabulary memorization. So, all I can do so far is say my name, my nationality, and what languages I speak.
Ann Marie:
Yay! I'm not (completely) alone! I go to memrise a few times a week, but it's so hard to learn words without context. Especially all the ones with lots of ys and äs, I cannot keep those apart.
I have a phone app, "Finnish in a month" that seems more helpful, but there's not a whole lot to it. Haven't found any books locally, so I'm going to have to order one online. What is the book you have?
Y is hard! Especially before another vowel. Double consonants make me cry. :-( And double vowels at the end of a word.
Synthpopalooza:
Plus I think it is the only language that I have seen so far that uses a double ää umlaut. As in "Hyvää syntymäpäivää!", what you wish someone on their birthday.
JoB:
--- Quote from: Synthpopalooza on February 24, 2015, 04:55:17 PM ---Plus I think it is the only language that I have seen so far that uses a double ää umlaut.
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Well, Germans use the onomatopoie of "määh" for the sounds sheep make ...
... wait, that's not going to turn out to be a particularly well-hidden racist slur, is it? :o
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