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| Schalburg Tetraglot Newbie Denmark Joined 4596 days ago 11 posts - 11 votes Speaks: Danish*, German, English, Russian | Message 1 of 3 03 February 2013 at 3:12pm | IP Logged |
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Hello everyone.
Long story short. I was plannign an exchange semester in Finland, and therefore I started to study finnish by myself, and it has been going quite well. With the help of some small white lies,I have been given permission to join an advanced finnish class (10 hours a week) for free at my University. The classes will start tomorrow. But today I realised that a University in Estonia would be much better for my education. So I have chosen to apply there instead of Finland. That leads me to my question. Should I still take the finnish class? I will start a self study of Estonia, but will it be a good idea to continue with finnish? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7158 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes  20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 2 of 3 03 February 2013 at 3:45pm | IP Logged |
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When does the semester in Estonia start?
10 hours of class per week of advanced Finnish for free sounds like a nice deal even if you won't get an extraordinary amount of benefit since the chance for exposure from a the teacher (native speaker?) can't hurt. If you're sufficiently advanced in Finnish, it might not be the worst thing to start learning some Estonian since it's even easier to confuse concepts in the languages when your proficiency is lower. See this summary for a comparison of the two. 6 persons have voted this message useful | |
| geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4690 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian | Message 3 of 3 03 February 2013 at 3:47pm | IP Logged |
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I don't think you'll find anyone here who will tell you it's bad to know more languages. It sounds like you're asking if Finnish will be worth the extra effort, which is really only something you can know yourself. If you have a clear need for one language in particular, you need to dedicate yourself to it as well as you can. But if you want to study another one out of interest, that's fine, as long as you don't let it interfere with your actual needs.
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