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Finnish, Where do i start?

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jdmoncada
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Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Finnish
Studies: Russian, Japanese

 
 Message 17 of 18
16 November 2013 at 6:29pm | IP Logged 
Just FYI that Pimsleur does have a level 1 (ie, 30 lessons) Finnish course. I'm well beyond needing it, but I bought it anyway a few months ago to get some accent training/reinforce good pronunciation.

For listening and reading, you can use Selkouutiset (slow spoken news for foreigners). It comes with a transcript. http://yle.fi/selkouutiset/

Innovative Language has a FinnishPod101. http://www.finnishpod101.com/

For print books, I've used
Mastering Finnish by Vähämäki (Worked well for me, but has middling reviews)
Teach Yourself Finnish by Leney (Picked it up used after I already knew quite a bit)


I started learning Finnish back in 1996. I'm amazed now that I managed to get beyond a beginner because I would find it hard even in our currently over-connected world to figure out how to start!

So I wish you good luck! Onnea!

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AIRBORNE_DELTA
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 Message 18 of 18
18 November 2013 at 11:20pm | IP Logged 
jdmoncada wrote:
Just FYI that Pimsleur does have a level 1 (ie, 30 lessons) Finnish course. I'm well beyond needing it, but I bought it anyway a few months ago to get some accent training/reinforce good pronunciation.

For listening and reading, you can use Selkouutiset (slow spoken news for foreigners). It comes with a transcript. http://yle.fi/selkouutiset/

Innovative Language has a FinnishPod101. http://www.finnishpod101.com/

For print books, I've used
Mastering Finnish by Vähämäki (Worked well for me, but has middling reviews)
Teach Yourself Finnish by Leney (Picked it up used after I already knew quite a bit)


I started learning Finnish back in 1996. I'm amazed now that I managed to get beyond a beginner because I would find it hard even in our currently over-connected world to figure out how to start!

So I wish you good luck! Onnea!


Thanks very much, i did not see finnish in the pimsleur list! will deffs try out Selkouutiset. paljon kiitoksia :)
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