so much going on here!! **happy**
...I wish I had more time...
just to add some extra info for DaveBro (as always, natives, please correct me if I'm talking rubbish.)
I don't know an awful lot about learning to read English, or phonics, in particular (my children started with Welsh, which has a super phonetic orthography, like Finnish(!) and we now live in Germany...)
BUT, I've seen the
books & it looks like it's basically a system for languages with much more complicated sound-to-writing correspondences. (I think?) From what I can tell, you teach spelling patterns that correspond to certain sounds, so you know how to read that letter combination in words(?)
With Finnish, you won't need any of that; sounding out words should be much easier - once you know your language sounds, corresponding letters and the stress pattern (which is also regular!) you can't really go wrong. (It's almost like reading simplified IPA, only with (a few!) different symbols)
you probably missed the bit on phonology (and, implicitly, spelling), there's a section on that in the
grammar link that Cancvas posted a while back.
I also think the
Wikipedia article on Finnish orthography is pretty good.
@Cancvas, onko se
puhesyntetisaattori sama kuin
text-to-speech? Olisi kyllä hyödöllistä jos haluat tarkistaa(?) jos lukeat oikeasti...
:uk: @Cancvas, is this
puhesyntetisaattori the same as
text-to-speech? That would of course be usefeul if you want to check if you're reading correctly...
argh, one of these days, I'm going to try and write a bit more in Finnish. (I'm sort of playing it safe in that I'm only writing stuff that I
think I remember... Even that takes way too long! grrr. It's so much more frustrating trying to relearn a language you were once fluent in. and not having time!!)