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![]() Hencke Tetraglot Moderator Spain Joined 6973 days ago 2340 posts - 2444 votes ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Speaks: Swedish*, Finnish, EnglishC2, Spanish Studies: Mandarin Personal Language Map | Message 9 of 51 11 May 2008 at 9:48am | IP Logged | ||
Tervetuloa ! - Very welcome from me too Evita. I get the impression that you already have a very good base in language learning to build on, and you seem as ready as can be, and better prepared than most, to take the plunge and dive in at the deep end of the pool with Finnish. If you have the motivation, and can manage to keep the enjoyment up, then all it takes from here on is a lot of elbow-grease.
Just look at that excellent English, and it's only her third "foreign" language ! You will find Serpent very helpful, with her link collections and other advice, and please ask in the forum about anything you need help with. And you are welcome to write in the Finnish thread as soon as it feels right for you. BTW I'll second Leopejos nomination of Serpent for that reward, whatever it was. Just let me know where to sign my name ;o). Edited by Hencke on 11 May 2008 at 9:52am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
Evita Tetraglot Senior Member Latvia learnlatvian.info Joined 6631 days ago 734 posts - 1036 votes ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Speaks: Latvian*, English, German, Russian Studies: Korean, Finnish | Message 10 of 51 11 May 2008 at 1:26pm | IP Logged | ||
It is 20:25 on Sunday now so what have I done since yesterday? I did finish lesson one but that was easy because I'd already done it more than once. I put approx. 45 words on Anki and 30 more words from lesson two which I studied today (didn't finish it yet). The hardest Finnish word so far - pöytä (a desk). I'd much rather say "pouta", that's easier to pronounce for a Latvian. Oh well.
Thank you for the nice words, Hencke :) English is definitely my best foreign language at the moment although I started it last at the age of 15. It's because I use it daily at work and on the internet. My Russian comprehension skills are very good because I've grown up hearing the language a lot. I can learn Finnish from a Russian book quite well but I wouldn't be able to read the classics without a dictionary because my vocabulary isn't large enough. And German, well, I knew it very well when I finished school and I studied in Germany for half a year but now 5 years later I'm afraid my German is quite rusty. I know I should do something about that but I can't bring myself to (no motivation). The hardest thing in German for me is to remember which noun is which gender, I'm sure I've already forgotten half of them.
I thought about it and I decided to do it only one way, from Latvian into Finnish. I figured that if I did it both ways I would have twice more flash cards to look at (and to create) and it could become just too much for me. I hope this blog helps me to keep my focus on Finnish and gives me extra motivation not to abandon it, I really want to learn it. I'll try to write it so that it's fun to read, too. I think I may post some of my exercises on the Finnish thread to let you check if I've done them correctly. Ah, it's 21:00 already. Don't worry, I'm not such a slow writer, I just multitask a lot. That's also the reason I can't specify a clear amount of time I've spent on Finnish. My goal for next week is to finish lessons 2 and 3, create a lot more flash cards and review them as necessary each day. My Finnish colleagues are visiting us on Wednesday, that would have been a great opportunity to practice my Finnish if I hadn't abandoned it last year. As it stands now, I'll probably only be able to say 'Hi' and 'Bye' to them. Oh wait, I don't know how 'Bye' is, I should look that up. I know "näkemiin" (good bye) but there should be something less formal. I'm sure I'll find it in my dictionary. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
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