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| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 6950 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes  20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 33 of 39 18 December 2012 at 7:29am | IP Logged | ||
On hienoa opiskella suomea, eikö niin? :-) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Phantom Kat Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4857 days ago 160 posts - 253 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Finnish | Message 34 of 39 28 January 2013 at 5:29am | IP Logged | ||
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So I've been basically reviewing notes I have written down on one of my school's
notebooks, which involves mostly the tenses and rather quick mentions of the infinitives. Possibly the most interesting thing in my notes has to do with the particles -isi and -han/hän to make questions polite because I always find myself being overly polite to everyone. I've decided I'm going to work on questions and polite questions since that's where my mind draws a blank when I'm going back and wondering how well I can form certain structures. - Kat Edited by Phantom Kat on 28 January 2013 at 5:29am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Phantom Kat Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4857 days ago 160 posts - 253 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Finnish | Message 35 of 39 13 February 2013 at 5:23am | IP Logged | ||
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Update
So I have been keeping track of my studies through twitter, thanks to the 6 Week Challenge. So far I have completed Lessons 1 - 4 of Finnish for Foreigners with the text and exercise book (four hours so far). I have written the exercises and answers, and have been extremely careful with it all. I'll probably start Finnish FSI from the very beginning sometime this week and supplement what I've gone through in Finnish for Foreigners. I feel that by being this thorough I will really strengthen what little Finnish I already know. - Kat 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Phantom Kat Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4857 days ago 160 posts - 253 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Finnish | Message 36 of 39 23 February 2013 at 7:28pm | IP Logged | ||
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Updating because since I have an exam coming up and need to catch up on school reading, I'm not sure when I'll make more significant progress. So far I have worked up to half of Lesson 7 of Finnish for Foreigners. (I spent 76 minutes on it, too. Man, this lesson gave me some trouble.) There's something really satisfying in going back and looking through the pages of Finnish exercises in my notebook. Sentences upon sentences. Notes piled on top of notes. It really feels like I'm learning a lot, even if I only have around 9 hours clocked in for this month. So far I really like the pace I'm taking. A lot of these grammar points are a review: genitive singular, question construction, imperative, etc. However, through these exercises I'm becoming more comfortable with putting these grammar points in action, especially the genitive agreement with nouns and adjectives. Vocabulary is also easier to remember due to writing them over and over again. Also, reciting numbers comes more fluently now. Translating from Finnish to English is starting to become less frequent. I tell myself that I shouldn't translate something if I can understand what the sentence is telling me, even if it looks a bit weird to my eyes. I'm looking forward to reviewing the six local cases because I've had little practice in actually implementing them. The same goes with the partitive singular and plural. It's also funny because the person who last owned my Exercises book keeps making mistakes on what little he wrote. "It's ruotsalainen, not ruotsilainen," I mutter as I write. Somehow it reinforces what I'm learning. - Kat Edited by Phantom Kat on 23 February 2013 at 7:29pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Phantom Kat Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4857 days ago 160 posts - 253 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Finnish | Message 37 of 39 09 March 2013 at 1:04am | IP Logged | ||
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Spring Break is now upon me, and I plan to do a lesson from Finnish for
Foreigners every day to log in those final hours for the 6 Week Challenge. (I have up to Lesson 9 finished.) What I also want to do is go back to the the reading exercises in the exercises book, input them in the exercise generator so they can take out words, and do them on my down time. My big plan is also to use Lang-8 more. I posted one little snippet the other day and was surprised to get a response with corrections. The Internet is such a magical and wonderful place. Until then! - Kat Edited by Phantom Kat on 09 March 2013 at 1:04am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Phantom Kat Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4857 days ago 160 posts - 253 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Finnish | Message 38 of 39 20 April 2013 at 8:25am | IP Logged | ||
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Currently I'm working on Lesson 14 in Finnish for Foreigners, which is pretty exciting because it deals with the Partitive Singular. I was also super excited for finishing Lesson 13 because it dealt, aside from he -LLE case, with the -LTA/LTÄ case, which I could never remember its uses correctly before. I feel so much more confident now. School is winding down. Summer will be for Finnish-learning time. Well, part of my summer at least. I gotta get on top of those summer classes! - Kat Edited by Phantom Kat on 20 April 2013 at 8:26am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Phantom Kat Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4857 days ago 160 posts - 253 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Finnish | Message 39 of 39 21 December 2014 at 9:41am | IP Logged | ||
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Update time!
This school semester was perhaps the roughest I've had, but it's understandable considering it was my first semester interning. Those 1st graders really wear you out. (And waking up before 6am is nothing to shake a stick at.) I wanted to say that as a Bilingual Education major these classes have helped my Spanish tremendously. My academic vocabulary has improved so much after writing so many essays, short answers, and actually reading an academic textbook in Spanish. My grammar has also improved, and I couldn't help but feel proud of the fact that I could help others with their writing. Writing Spanish has become much more natural for me after writing lesson plan after lesson plan. Overall it's been such a great semester, and my last year will bring even more improvement. (Especially because of the Bilingual Target Language Proficiency Test I need to take.) My brother has been working hard with his Russian, so I felt it was time to take up Finnish again. I've missed it so much! I did Lesson 1 of Finnish for Foreigners because I need a good, hefty refresher. The last thing I want is to pick up where I left off and realize how much I've forgotten. How depressing! However if I have to repeat Mikä tämä on? one more time I might punch something. That's what I get for not keeping up with my studying. I'm still using the practice of writing everything down and putting complete sentences instead of the adequate short answers. I'm hoping to get at least three lessons done tomorrow. I finished my day by listening and singing along to my Finnish playlist on Youtube. (In other news my sister is in Tokyo, and I'm so jealous! All that Japanese. All those opportunities to practice.) Edited by Phantom Kat on 21 December 2014 at 9:44am 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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