#learning finnish

[iibislintu]

places you can go in Finnish

to your own road (mennä tiehensä, to buzz off)

to the wolf (mennä hukkaan, to lose something)

inside the bilberry (mennä mustikkaan, to go pick bilberries; the same form works with other berries and also mushrooms in general)

into the forest (mennä metsään, to make a mistake)

into the doorjamb (mennä pieleen, to make a mistake)

to the magpies (mennä harakoille, to be wasted)

to an ancient god (mennä jumiin, to be stuck)

into yourself (mennä itseensä, to reflect on something bad you said/did)

to become a bunch of vulvas (mennä vituiksi, to be completely unsuccessful)

onto the thighs (mennä reisille, to be completely unsuccessful)

to the havings of sex/into marriage (same root word) (mennä naimisiin, to get married)

into the underworld (mennä manalle, to die)

[beelearnsfinnish]

[06.12.24, friday]

today it took me forever to get out of bed, i never feel bad after a night out but man was i knackered. Honestly only thing that made me get up was the italki classs I had at midday, which I was cursing myself for getting, although I signed up for today before knowing about the Christmas dinner.

but hey we made it out of bed and it was a great class! very intense tho, the grammar point we covered today was a bit confusing and i felt you could see the gears turning in my head trying to understand. will definitely have to work on it before my next one, but learning hard things feels like I'm making progress, so that's nice.

didn't have the energy to do much besides the lesson, so today I just did:

45 mins of italki class

30 mins of getting my messy post it notes into my notion and writing everything down so I don't forget next time I go over it

Besides the grammar we did some speaking exercise with work related vocabulary and I feel like it was really useful since its vocab I'm using everyday!

I have busy weekend ahead with lots of papers to do, but feeling good about the studying :)

I ran out of fall pics, and it doesn't feel like fall anymore, so now I'm getting to my winter pics from the last time I was in Finland during the winter. Hopefully I'll be back next year <3

[ohcoffeedragon]

This is what the Finnish language looks like according to Käärijä fans. I meant to post this to the Finnish tags a week ago but I forgot, so here it is with a slight delay.

The data is from a survey I made. According to the results: 

70% of international Käärijä fans have taken an interest in Finland

50% decided to learn Finnish in 2023

39% are still learning Finnish one year later

22% have traveled to Finland because of Käärijä

The survey respondents are obviously among the most hardcore fans and I'm sure the numbers would look very different among casuals, but I still find it very impressive.

You can find the full results of the survey here if you're curious: https://at.tofe.me/kaarija-results

Pages 6-7 and 9-10 are about Finland, the rest is about other aspects of the fandom.

If you're Finnish it's something of a mood booster, so I encourage you to have a look ^^

[mehilaiselokuva]

Not studied Finnish yet? This is your sign!

Here are the absolute basics of the language in an even tighter package compared to my earlier posts. Maybe someone new will take interest in the language from these posts!

To my existing followers, are these kinds of posts good for you? Could my normal posts be in this format sometimes too?

[kanelinsuomi]

Idea julmasti pöllitty tästä julkaisusta.

[reflectionsofthesea]

minä: Anteeksi, voin sanoa vain muutaman sanan suomeksi

kaikki: Katsokaa tätä pientä italialaista !! Se osaa puhua suomea

minä : p-p

kaikki: perhe? pasta? pizza?

minä: PASKA

[suomeen]

Finnish Learning Resources

Idk who needs it but I thought I might share some free online resources that I found helpful for other broke overwhelmed learners.

Best resource for grammar:

The course is good but only the first week is free premium, without premium it's basically useless.

This is just a demo but still useful:

https://materiaalit-koosto.otava.fi/web/state-jurdmmbvgaydeirmj4yq/649acb7ce5b1d718f439f971

Nice course on grammar with test tasks at the end:

Very good series of basic videos for immigrants:

[finnishpod101]

Encouraging Phrases in Finnish! 🎉 PS: Learn Finnish with the best FREE online resources, just click here https://www.finnishpod101.com/?src=tumblr_infographic_encouraging_061324

[suspiciousness]

How I feel pronouncing H in Finnish (as a native English speaker)

[sarenhale]

I'm a big fan of getting better at a language you're studying, consuming a lot of listening content like podcasts and videos, and going from hearing a blurred static in your head when the language and words don't make sense and sound so unfamiliar, to slowly recognizing words here and there, and then eventually realizing you're following the entire conversation and you can understand everything they're saying...

[iibislintu]

how you die in Finnish

you sleep away (nukkua pois)

you go forward (mennä edes; "edesmennyt")

you go away (mennä pois; "poismennyt")

and also...

you change your diocese (vaihtaa hiippakuntaa)

you throw a crank (heittää veivi)

you kick emptiness (potkaista tyhjää)

you enter the underworld (mennä manalle)

you join the upstairs orchestra (liittyä yläkerran orkesteriin)

[beelearnsfinnish]

[15.11.24, friday]

some messy scribbles from today's lesson! learned about directions today, and also did some speaking using food vocabulary and day-to-day topics. I'm always missing some vocab, but got some compliments on my progess since I'm able to make sentences quite nicely so happy about that!!

academic validation goes brr

still bit sick so that will be all my active studying for today, but will probably watch some vlogs for some inmersion. pretty happy about my progress :)

[adventuresinlearningfinnish]

The Finn just announced that we'd handle some things "one potato at a time".

Another idiom she has seamlessly translated from Finnish into English that's completely wonderful.

[mehilaiselokuva]

I made some memes, hope they help someone

:)

Also, this is the last exam week I have, I'll be continuing my regular content after it!

[kanelinsuomi]

Törmäsin taas tällaiseen ja päätin lokalisoida. Tällä kertaa perusjätskimaut!

Tägätkää tai kommentoikaa omat lempparit :)

[reflectionsofthesea]

🔥​🔥​🔥​🔥​ Snadi fisu tiistai 🔥​🔥​🔥​🔥​