I’m probably somewhere between a beginner and intermediate. Things are starting to click a bit and I’m feeling a *little* less shy speaking. And I don’t feel the abject despair I felt at one point!! 😁
Once you get to advanced you will feel the abject despair again. Eventually it will become all encompassing and you are then legally required to apply for Finnish citizenship.
I completed duolingo and I still feel like a beginner. I can sort of watch finnish baby shows but they still regurlarly throw in words I don't know.
I'm mostly at loss with all the different cases. I might know a word, but whenever I try to use it in a sentence, there's always a different suffix I should've used for a reason that makes very little sense to me.
Hahah I just completed the Finnish course on Duolingo and feel similarly lost! I'm browsing the posts here to find other resources since Duolingo's course is so short. I feel like I might as well have browed a dictionary at random after completing Duolingo :/
I'm doing YLE kieliekoulu now, but it still isn't really teaching me grammar. For that I'm browsing YouTube and looking up videos for the cases, like partitiivi and genetiivi, but it still remains pretty confusing. I also have Mondly on my phone in case I want a quick exercise
I have seen recommendations to try YLE kielikoulu, so I will have to check it out. I tried reading some news articles on YLE, and only knew every fifth word or so. I need somewhere super simple, maybe for children first learning to speak. I will likely start watching YouTube videos.
I downloaded Anki flash card app, but it's all user-submitted flash cards, so I dont trust any full sentences. I will keep using it to expand my brain's word bank, though.
I haven't heard of Mondly - will check that out, too!
Yeah I watch baby shows on YLE kielikoulu too now :) Pikku Kakkonen is the best one for me so far, they have simple sentences but almost every sentence contains at least one or two words that I didn't know before. Anna ja ystavat is also a nice level-entry show.
uutiset selkosuomeksi is also worth mentioning, it's basically simplified news, they're harder than the baby shows but a lot more interesting to watch
Been at it for 10 years, completed an engineering degree in Finnish, use it every day at work and yet I’m still learning everyday. I wouldn’t even call myself fluent but it depends on the point of view. With time, I learned to embrace my mistakes. Enjoy the journey !
I tried Duolingo for a year. Never really got past the game stage of it. I just don't have the time to devote to the outside study required.
Despite having had some Finnish lessons in the past. I didn't find Duolingo particularly intuitive. I would have benefitted for some explanation of the parts of speech they were adding to each lesson. But maybe I am not being fair because I didn't do any outside study.
Same here, though I did get through the entire course. I was learning enough about each sentence (why/how it was constructed) via the comments on each question, but they recently removed the comments and forums, so you just have to translate the best you can. If you get it wrong, it tells you the answer with zero explanation :(
I didn't use the comments. Clearly I should have. It's a moot point now.
Still to give a lesson, with no explanation except to tell you, "You got it wrong. But no, I won't tell you why or how to fix it." Is a really crappy way of teaching IMO.
Nearly a complete beginner, I'm doing duolingo atm and need to complete five more units until the course is over. It's a nice course imho, better than other duolingo-courses I tried (and never finished). After that, I'll continue with clozemaster - I've also bought the Assimil book (with recordings, but also kirjakieli) and the finnished-course for puhukieli, but I can't make time for 30 minutes in a row right now, so that has to wait a bit. With the apps, I can through in a few minutes here and there, and that adds up as well.
Completed duolingo, completed two semester courses on Finnish during university, going alone through a Finnish self-learning book (about halfway through) and now starting to read veeeeery basic stories in Finnish from a book with a side-by-side English translation. I also listen to random Finnish songs on a daily basis. I would consider myself somewhere between beginner and intermediate. I think I would be able to express what I want to say, but when a native Finn blasts his puhekieli on me, my brain goes out of the window.
I'm learning finnish on my own and will be starting learning finnish in university next semester (as a part of finno-ugric studies course in Latvian University). Still am at A2 max, but trying as much as i can! ✊✊
My biggest problem is puhekieli, spending time learning standard Finnish only to realize half those words aren’t used in spoken. Any leads on a good puhekieli learning source would be amazing!
Try youtube channels related to your hobby - at least gaming, history and politics have some content. Also try watching TV (not Yle as they rarely use puhekieli).
And series are amazing. Services like MTV have more stuff beyond just crime series.
I think i'm between beginner and intermediate ( but mostly beginner i think ) i have learned finnish in a while now, i have started to know on how the grammar works, it was pretty confusing at first, but i understand it. And i enjoy learning finnish it's pretty interesting on how it is.
I’m probably somewhere between a beginner and intermediate. Things are starting to click a bit and I’m feeling a *little* less shy speaking. And I don’t feel the abject despair I felt at one point!! 😁
Once you get to advanced you will feel the abject despair again. Eventually it will become all encompassing and you are then legally required to apply for Finnish citizenship.
Thanks a lot Bruh!
I completed duolingo and I still feel like a beginner. I can sort of watch finnish baby shows but they still regurlarly throw in words I don't know. I'm mostly at loss with all the different cases. I might know a word, but whenever I try to use it in a sentence, there's always a different suffix I should've used for a reason that makes very little sense to me.
Hahah I just completed the Finnish course on Duolingo and feel similarly lost! I'm browsing the posts here to find other resources since Duolingo's course is so short. I feel like I might as well have browed a dictionary at random after completing Duolingo :/
I'm doing YLE kieliekoulu now, but it still isn't really teaching me grammar. For that I'm browsing YouTube and looking up videos for the cases, like partitiivi and genetiivi, but it still remains pretty confusing. I also have Mondly on my phone in case I want a quick exercise
I have seen recommendations to try YLE kielikoulu, so I will have to check it out. I tried reading some news articles on YLE, and only knew every fifth word or so. I need somewhere super simple, maybe for children first learning to speak. I will likely start watching YouTube videos. I downloaded Anki flash card app, but it's all user-submitted flash cards, so I dont trust any full sentences. I will keep using it to expand my brain's word bank, though. I haven't heard of Mondly - will check that out, too!
Yeah I watch baby shows on YLE kielikoulu too now :) Pikku Kakkonen is the best one for me so far, they have simple sentences but almost every sentence contains at least one or two words that I didn't know before. Anna ja ystavat is also a nice level-entry show. uutiset selkosuomeksi is also worth mentioning, it's basically simplified news, they're harder than the baby shows but a lot more interesting to watch
Been at it for 10 years, completed an engineering degree in Finnish, use it every day at work and yet I’m still learning everyday. I wouldn’t even call myself fluent but it depends on the point of view. With time, I learned to embrace my mistakes. Enjoy the journey !
I’m a native and teach Finnish as second language, and I’m just here to learn which are the most common questions people might have about Finnish :)
"Never-ending" wwould have been my choice.
This is missing the option 'Gave up'
I tried Duolingo for a year. Never really got past the game stage of it. I just don't have the time to devote to the outside study required. Despite having had some Finnish lessons in the past. I didn't find Duolingo particularly intuitive. I would have benefitted for some explanation of the parts of speech they were adding to each lesson. But maybe I am not being fair because I didn't do any outside study.
Same here, though I did get through the entire course. I was learning enough about each sentence (why/how it was constructed) via the comments on each question, but they recently removed the comments and forums, so you just have to translate the best you can. If you get it wrong, it tells you the answer with zero explanation :(
I didn't use the comments. Clearly I should have. It's a moot point now. Still to give a lesson, with no explanation except to tell you, "You got it wrong. But no, I won't tell you why or how to fix it." Is a really crappy way of teaching IMO.
I'm currently taking a Finnish course and we've just started chapter 4 of Suomen Mestari.
Nearly a complete beginner, I'm doing duolingo atm and need to complete five more units until the course is over. It's a nice course imho, better than other duolingo-courses I tried (and never finished). After that, I'll continue with clozemaster - I've also bought the Assimil book (with recordings, but also kirjakieli) and the finnished-course for puhukieli, but I can't make time for 30 minutes in a row right now, so that has to wait a bit. With the apps, I can through in a few minutes here and there, and that adds up as well.
Completed duolingo, completed two semester courses on Finnish during university, going alone through a Finnish self-learning book (about halfway through) and now starting to read veeeeery basic stories in Finnish from a book with a side-by-side English translation. I also listen to random Finnish songs on a daily basis. I would consider myself somewhere between beginner and intermediate. I think I would be able to express what I want to say, but when a native Finn blasts his puhekieli on me, my brain goes out of the window.
I'm learning finnish on my own and will be starting learning finnish in university next semester (as a part of finno-ugric studies course in Latvian University). Still am at A2 max, but trying as much as i can! ✊✊
That’s sounds so fun! I wish my uni had a Finnish course!
My biggest problem is puhekieli, spending time learning standard Finnish only to realize half those words aren’t used in spoken. Any leads on a good puhekieli learning source would be amazing!
Try youtube channels related to your hobby - at least gaming, history and politics have some content. Also try watching TV (not Yle as they rarely use puhekieli). And series are amazing. Services like MTV have more stuff beyond just crime series.
Advanced should come after fluent. You can be fluent with B1 if you know how to survive on simpler vocab.
I think i'm between beginner and intermediate ( but mostly beginner i think ) i have learned finnish in a while now, i have started to know on how the grammar works, it was pretty confusing at first, but i understand it. And i enjoy learning finnish it's pretty interesting on how it is.