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Hi, I'm super happy I've found your Tumblr! Do you have any suggestion on any youtube channels or podcasts (anything free lol) that could help someone who's beginning to learn Finnish? (like baby level because I don't even know the basic BASIC lol)

Unfortunately I have to say I haven’t got much knowledge of the podcasts in Finnish neither of too many youtube channels ( my best guess is you just have to google opi suomea or basic finnish for beginners or such to find it) BUT IN CASE you are in Finland, you should be able to see the YLE news in easy Finnish. ) Yle Uutiset selkokielellä, which is news exactly meant for language learners and people who can’t hear/understand too well. You should be able to see them from YLE Areena too (the web page for watching series and news online) but there are probably some regional restrictions to who from where may view them, and it probably wants you to log in (which should be free though).I’ll keep my eye out on these though and if I find anything interesting I’ll let you know. I’ll probably make a post about these kinda links and stuff again some time soon. Sorry you had to wait so long for the response! 

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Hey :) In your post about the different ways of being polite in Finnish (saying thank you, excuse me ..), you wrote "Kiitos kun muistit" which were translated as "Thank you for remembering". Can I use this structure when writing esim. "Thank you for being so nice to me all the time"? Would it be correct to write: Kiitos kun olet niin kiltti minulle koko ajan (?)

Hey there! Sorry, first of all, that it’s taken so long to respond!! And yes, that’s absolutely fine! :) 

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The beauty of the Finnish language ;)

(more here https://vocapp.com/dirty-inappropriate-finnish-expressions-flashcards-829385)

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Some random autumn vocabulary for you guys!

Autumn - syksy leaves - lehdet rain - sade chill - viileä dark - pimeä Is there an autumn related word in Finnish you know of that I didn’t think of? Feel free to repost this and add your word!! :) w/luv, vivvs

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Dear followers

So sorry for such late responses to your messages and questions, I’ve been away for a while and busy with life! Some news here from Finland explaining my being away:

So, I recently started the UoAS and study Business Administration so that’s kept me quite busy for a while. You guys will never believe btw -- I met a follower of my blog who goes to my school as an exchange student -- HOW SMALL IS THE WORLD? It’s one small pancake if you ask me. That felt crazy! Second of all, I married the man of my dreams some months ago and we’ve been busy building a home for us as a married couple and... life’s just been crazy! Anyway, now that I’m back, I’d really love to do some catching up with you guys and teach you something useful!

And hey, If I’ve never made it clear before, if you have a question to ask me, don’t hesitate to send me a message, I’ll reply them eventually, though it might take a lil bit of patience. How are you guys?? Enthuastic for some language learning?? V is back!! Let’s learn Finnish!!

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HYVÄÄ UUTTA VUOTTA 2018!

Happy New Year 2018 everyone!! AND OH MY 804 FOLLOWERS!

I LOVE EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU, NEW AND OLD ONES, THANK YOU FOR BEING THERE THESE YEARS!

What could we do differently with this blog this year? Development suggestions are so very welcome! Happy New Year! <3 w/luv, Vivvs

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Do you have any tips on how to remember grammar?? Like rhymes/songs/whatever, just to make it easier to remember??

well for cases there’s this nice trick. for e.g. AUTO (singular form)Minulla on auto - I have a car  (nominative)

Ostin auton - I bought a car (genetive)

Ajan autoa - I’m driving a car (partitive)

these are the grammatical cases.

next the inlocational cases, ‘cause when you use them you are “inside” the object. so -ssa, -ssä, -sta, -stä, -oon:

Olen autossa - I’m in the car  (inessive)

Hyppäsin autosta - I hopped off of the car  (elative)

Menin autoon - I went in to the car (illative)

 Next ones are the “outlocational” cases: you use them when you’re at or around the object: -lla, -llä / -lta, -ltä / -lle

Olen autolla - I’m at the car (adessive)

Tulin autolta - I came from the car (ablative)

Menin autolle - I went to the car (allative)

And then the more seldom cases that you wont be needing that often and that we seldom use: essive “-na,-nä”, translative “-ksi” and abessive “-tta, -ttä”

autona (essive) - as a car

autoksi (translative) - (something transforms) into a car

autotta (abessive) - without a car

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instruktive and komitative that you use only with plural forms.

INSTRUKTIVE: autoin - by cars  (p.s. this also means “I helped.”)

KOMITATIVE: autoineen - by their cars

So how I learned these (’cause well as well as we know Finnish we have no glue about the grammar, we had to learn the cases for school too. I just repeated the mantra as they are often listed. So when I remembered one word and knew how to share it into different cases, I knew which case I was using.

auto, auton, autoa, autossa, autosta, autoon, autolla, autolta, autolle, autona, autoksi, autotta (autoin, autoineen)

nominative, genetive, partitive, inessive, elative, illative, adessive, ablative, allative, essive, translative, abessive (instruktive, komitative)

And I don’t know if it helps you at all to listen to our ABC-song in Finnish, helps one realize how we pronounce some words and vowels and for e.g. ä ö å :)

here’s a link to one funny one haha https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g71jPoujB_M (there seems to be also the happy birthday song in Finnish and much more haha)

And well other grammar hmm..

I’d probably just try to find examples of every word from every conjugation group. Like with cases for example, I’d use a word that has an Ä in it too.

for e.g. päivä

päivä, päivän, päivää, (akkusative: päivä;päivän), päivässä, päivästä, päivään, päivällä, päivältä, päivälle, päivänä, päiväksi, päivättä (päivin, päivineen)

And well basically we make the sentences like

Minä olen ihminen.

I am a human.

S P O - T P A

(subject, predicate, object, – The way of doing, Place of doing, And the timing)

Minä olen ihminen, aivan kuten sinäkin täällä olet.

I am a human, just like you here are too.

“kin” stands for “too”

sinä + kin

you + too

sinäkin - you too

When we ask a question:

Oletko sinä ihminen?

P S O

(predicate, subject, object)

But I think in Finnish you can pretty much use the words in any order you want to, and will be totally understood. Just the sound and “shade” kinda changes. But this SPOTPA and PSO in question sentence are the ones you should be using.

I suggest listening to Disney songs sung in Finnish, they use proper and clear Finnish (the old ones) and it’d be maybe easier to learn some sentence orders, when you get to hear someone using them.

I hope I could help you even a little bit! If you have any more questions, go ahead and ask!

w/luv fluish Vivvs,

hopefully even some of the things helped you and made sense.

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Brrrhh, it’s getting cold in here!! Also, this is a new page in Learn Finnish blog’s history, ‘cause now we’re on instagram!! Feel free to follow and ask questions and comment and so on! I’ll try to post as much material that includes lots of useful stuff, like for example you guys prolly don’t have lots of Finnish magazines, or newspapers? Here’s a solution to that. I wont forget to take beautiful pictures of this beautiful country either. If you got any suggestion how to make instagram even more useful for LF, please let me know! 😊🇫🇮

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Any ideas for a video?

Is there any, for example, pronounciating thing that confuses you in this beautiful language, or are you not sure how to say something?

Here you can list for e.g. sentences or words that you want to hear pronounced (keep it nice though!)

I’ll make a video compilation later for you guys! I’m back!

What would you like to hear in Finnish? Send me a message or a question! Love, V

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Hi there. :) I really enjoy your blog and I'm glad to see you're posting again. I was wondering if you knew any good online dictonaries? (english or german to finnish, not that picky ;) ) I do have an actual physical one, but it's reeeally tiny and I pretty much only bought it because it was the only one available in German as far as I know. Thanks in advance!

sanakirja.org :)

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HEi its my birthday and my Finnish friends they say (paljon onnea) what I should reply thanku

You should reply Kiitos :D

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Oh btw, finally on monday I thought to record you guys your audios. :)

But for now, good morning or good night or whatever, I’m heading back to bed! :)

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I’m always tryin’ to find a way to teach you guys better and in a more interesting way, so now I’m creating a google doc file where you guys can comment with this link, feel free to ask me questions or say hello and I’ll try my best to explain it there :)

ONLINE NOW!

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UPDATE:

Heading to bed now, wrote you guys some verbs there, hoping to catch up with you all tomorrow! Good night from Finland! :*

OH and I suggest you guys keep the page open if I’m not there, and turn on the notifications there, so that you’ll hear whenever someone sends a comment, it might be me haha! 

with luv, V

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So I did a little something for you, I felt like writing by hand ‘cause it’s so much easier to highlight stuff and I usually like to use more colours, but this time I saved the colours for the next time haha! Hope you guys find it useful! Luv, V

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Here are some dialogues in Finnish with an audio, not recorded by me but it’s about time you guys get some Finnish audio material! :)

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Can I just say like thank you for existing? You're amazing

haha thank you!! I will tell your thanks to my mother! :D