#Finnish duolingo

[languageroom]

Now we're getting into it.

[bayoubodycount]

I'm learning Finnish on Duolingo. The owls name is Pöllö. He's such a friendly little idiot teacher🤭🤦‍♀️

I went to the local aviary today and they had some really mean things to say about owls.

[i-m-not-o-fucking-kay]

devil works fast but duolingo works faster huh

[mistysblueboxstuff]

favourite thing I've learned so far

[wtfduolingo]

(ID: Duolingo phrase in Finnish that translates to "I am crying and the onion is laughing")

[gemsofgreece]

Greek Duolingo is not playing huh

[latinthusiast]

re: Duolingo using AI and people choosing to stop using it but feeling lost as to how to access language learning

One alternative app you might look into is MangoLanguages -- it's often free through your local public library! Try going to get a library card and checking if they have it as an online resource. If you can't get access for free through the public library, you can pay a few bucks a month (actually might be like $10? I'd have to double check).

(And yes, MangoLangs has Finnish!)

[bunny-banana]

Käärijä + Duolingo

[smimon]

Yo if anyone's going to Käärijä's Backas gig in Vantaa I'll bring some 2023 stickers so you can get them if you want. But you will have to talk first because I'm very shy 👉👈

[languageroom]

That nominative object led me astray!

[nelsonakis]

So I decided to look up historical data on the amount of Finnish learners on Duolingo. I used the Wayback Machine but for some reason since the start of this year, the page doesn't load correctly so I have very limited data for 2023.

If we count the amount of new learners in 2022 every 2 months, it's about 15-25 thousand. But this changed at the start of 2023. Between December 2022 and February 2023 there were 43 thousand new learners, coinciding with the release of Cha Cha Cha in January.

And the growth didn't stop there. 3 months later and the Finnish language added 63 thousand new learners (the average last year for the same time frame was about 30 thousand).

Also, the total learners went up 100 thousand in just 5 months (December 2022 with 663K - May 2023 with 769K) compared to last year which happened over a 9-month period (March 2022 with 560K - December 2022 with 663K).

Conclusion: Cha Cha Cha did have an influence on the amount of people learning Finnish on Duolingo and I predict it's going to be even bigger in the weeks to come.

Fun fact: Yesterday I checked the website and Finnish had 767 thousand learners, so in just one day it went up by 2 thousand!

[saranghandagom]

Random Finnish words

(some of these are from reading a book, others from my courses at uni, and again others from random signs on campus)

edesauttaa - further, support, contribute

vammainen - disabled

ristiriitainen - contradictory

itkuinen - teary, lit. "cry-y"

pettyä jhk - be disappointed in (+ ill)

käyttäytyä - behave, conduct, act

uupua - become tired, exhausted, fatigued

kärsivällisyys - patience

purskahtaa 1. itkuun 2. nauruun - burst out into 1. tears 2. laughter

niellä - ingest, consume; swallow, buy (a story)

nyyhkyttää - sob

tyynyttää jtkt - calm down, soothe (+ part)

tyrmistyä - freeze (e.g. in fear)

varas (gen. varkaan) - thief

roisto - crook, villain, thug

vakooja - spy

huvittaa jtkt - amuse, entertain (+ part)

ajantuhlaus - waste of time

laupeus - mercy, clemency (used for example in religious contexts)

toisinaan - occasionally, now and then, sometimes

vino - slanted, askew, diagonally (not straight)

sissisota - guerrilla warfare

[amatus-jj]

i understood nothing and yet fell in love even more

jere 🫶🏻

[original video here]

[submariini]

PAIDATONRIEHUJA (IG STORIES) ► 2023/05/29

[mannap]

Is it just me or does anyone else get the irrational urge to... learn every F1 driver's native language even if I would probably never use it irl😭😂

[wtfduolingo]

Finnish Lessons

(ID: a Finnish Duolingo phrase that says “The bride is a woman and the groom is a hedgehog.)