The Finnish-4-foreigner's blog

Chris is still watching you...

How are you guys??? I'm sorry I'm not in your group anymore... but life goes on... I will never forget... Happy Finnish and see you one day...
Chris :-)))))))))))))))))))))

my mail is chrisinthedark@hotmail.com
and my blog is www.chrisinthedark.splinder.com

Ciaooooooooooooooo

posted by: naapurin at 13:54 | link | comments |

Could Finnish become a world language?

Terve...

While scratching my head trying to figure out when I should be using akkusatiivi or the partitiivi when forming suomelaista lausetta, I came across an interesting (and somewhat entertaining) article. It offers the following "help":

"Utmost care must be applied when interpreting the grammatical terminology. If you encounter the word 'accusative,' it can mean nominative or genitive, but never the real accusative. The term 'nominative' can mean accusative or, possibly, nominative. 'Genitive' can mean accusative or simply genitive, while partitive is always called partitive, although it may be accusative."
 
Still a little confused after reading that? Me too :)


Cheers,

Gavin...

PS. Click here for full version of article

posted by: naapurin at 13:45 | link | comments |

Useful Sites for learning Finnish

Hei kaverit,

Here are some websites that I use to help with studying that todella vaikea kieli we call Finnish:

1) Morphological Analyser
Ever come across a word in Finnish that you can't find in the dictionary? Enter a word in any form and it will tell you what the nominative form is so you can look it up in the dictionary. In addition, it will tell you what case the original word is in plus plenty more.

As an example, if you enter: "Suomessa", you will get the following result:

Suomessa          Suomi          +PN+SG+INE

This tells you that the nominative form of the word is "Suomi" and that the originaly word ("Suomessa") is in the Inessive case. I have found this site extremely useful when translating texts.

2) Online Dictionary
A pretty comprehensive online dictionary. I have found it to not be quite as accurate my paper dictionary, but it can be a lot quicker to find words if you just have to type them and press the enter key.

3) Verb conjugator
Enter the verb in any form (eg. "tarvitse") and you will receive ALL the possible forms of the verb. (eg. tarvitsen, tarvitset, tarvitsee, etc...).

4) Google translate
It can be useful for translating more than 1 word, but it is not always that accurate in my experience.

I hope this helps!


Terveisin,

Gavin...

posted by: naapurin at 06:49 | link | comments |

More Finnish Music..

These guys won the Eurovision Song contest a few years back:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzbxizbc0bQ&feature=related

I think they even have their own comic now as well. Youtube Lordi and Hadrock Hallelujah is you want to see their actual performance at the event.

posted by: naapurin at 15:20 | link | comments |

Sauna Caliente

Random song that I'd mentioned and said I would share as per Gavin's request:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfwmK6S1jas

Much more entertaining if you know what he's saying =P I'll ask the guys for the link to some of the Finnish skits.

posted by: naapurin at 10:49 | link | comments (1) |

How to remember words

Learning Finnish can be very hard, because of the lessic that is not indo-european. It's very easy to understand the word "December" or "Dezember" or "Dicembre" but it could be hard to understand "Joulukuu"...
So, flashcards can help us. Of course in 2009 we use software to make them. One interesting software is Mnemosyne. You can find it at: http://www.mnemosyne-proj.org/ and it's available for Windows and Linux.
You can make this flashcard exercise everyday and you can easily remember almost 1000 words.
So enjoy the exercise and see you for the test.
Chris

posted by: naapurin at 14:42 | link | comments |

Learning Finnish with songs...

posted by: naapurin at 21:33 | link | comments |

The Finnish-4-foreigner's blog

Hello to everyone, this is the official blog of the guys and girls who are attending the course of Finnish for foreigner 1+2 in Helsinki. You can write your opinions, your minds, stupid things, upload everything you want. I'll send you an e-mail whit the password to enter and to post.
See you tomorrow in Arkadiankatu...

Chris (Enjoy the video)

posted by: naapurin at 15:03 | link | comments |