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| Gareth Groupie United States Joined 5262 days ago 51 posts - 67 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Cherokee, French | Message 1 of 3 29 March 2011 at 5:05am | IP Logged |
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Have you tried "Complete Finnish: A Teach Yourself Guide" by Terttu Leney?
Was it worth buying? Were you able to learn Finnish from the book? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| arturs Triglot Senior Member Latvia Joined 5075 days ago 278 posts - 408 votes Speaks: Latvian*, Russian, English | Message 2 of 3 29 March 2011 at 6:55am | IP Logged |
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I love the TYS books, I also have the Finnish one. I like it, because I like all TYS books that I have used, though I have to say that the Finnish one has very long dialogues and taking in account the language is not Indo-European language, then it usually takes a bit longer than with other languages to decipher ever grammatical structure used in the dialogue.
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| cathrynm Senior Member United States junglevision.co Joined 5929 days ago 910 posts - 1232 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Finnish | Message 3 of 3 29 March 2011 at 6:58am | IP Logged |
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I'm still working on this book. As a textbook, I think it's pretty typical. The content is pretty touristy. There's a section on renting a car, but then I wanted to say "I put on pants" -- and couldn't find that in this book. I don't believe this book will take me that close to fluency by itself, but I believe if I treat it with a bit of respect I will learn some Finnish from it.
Actually I do like the audio CDs that comes with it, and I find I can listen to this many times without feeling exhaustion. The CD does have some English on it, which will not please the purists. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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