Hi, I'm from Spain and I have this little obsession with the finnish language and culture but my problem is that I don't know where to start. There are not many free finnish lessons in my mother language and about proffessional lessons in the school of languages, finnish isn't an option unless you live in Madrid (I don't)
So I was wondering if any of you know a fairly good method or lessons...or anything, I don't care. I just want to learn finnish.
Any suggestions?
No.
Learn swedish, it's easier and finns understand it
>>61184280
Thanks, anyone else?
>>61184477
I'm actually learning swedish in duolingo but I preffer finnish for some strange reason.
learn swedish and you will understand finnish
>>61184201
Why not use English resources to learn Finnish? Your English looks good
>>61184682
This. It's a pretty hard language and there's not much learning material around, so it makes no sense being picky about it.
>>61184663
>>61184682
The problem is that I found english resources but not good ones. I just found lessons that begin with minä olen and continues to big words that I don't know how are formed, with no explanation.
Can you tell me how kids learn finnish in Finland?
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Finnish is somewhere over there
Finnish is spoken in Finland and some little parts of Sweden, if you are not going to move there, there is no reason to learn it.
>>61185065
Thank you very much anon!
Tits for you
>>61184873
I look at Finnish and Estonian, and Estonian looks like an "unpredictable" version of Finnish. Sorry for the poor comparison, but whenever I read the two, Estonian just has this erratic construction. It's unsettling to me, as a language autist. Finnish looks more "mirrored", harmonious
How would you describe the differences? And you should be here to discourage the Spaniard. He speaks a language without cases, with a modest set of articles, a mile less tenses, no work harmony. His language is baby tier for mine, and mine is truly hard to learn, let alone master
>>61184995
Well this is a problem. There are no online sources to learn Finnish.
>>61185253
read, read, read. it will be painful at the beginning but will get better. learn the grammar through intuition, not through rules, like think of which inflection sounds the best and most natural, don't start thinking ah this is plural first person singular posessive it should be x+y+z
>>61185432
I said I'd give him tits...But here you go, girls titties here.
Thank you all for your answers. I also want to make clear that I want to learn this language for personal reasons, not because I want to move there or something like that. And of course not because it is useful, it's more like a challenge.
>>61185757
Woops
>>61185757
You should really think twice before you start wasting time
>>61185274
>as a language autist
Do you have any info on italian language? Can give me any directions where to start, what to download, what to watch and read? Bless you.
>>61185757
literally check the /int/ wiki http://4chanint.wikia.com/wiki/Finnish
>>61186876
Əlbəttə, dostum Azərbaycanda uzaq
But I don't think you'll enjoy my dry learning techniques. It's reading. A lot of it. Grammar books. You should start with simple applications like Memorise, to build your vocabulary. Italian has a million torrents on the internet, so finding a "Teach yourself Italian" won't be hard to find. Another good source, which you definitely want, is Assimil Italian. Duolingo is nice as well it has an expanded trees for veteran languages (those that have been offered as courses the longest) like Spanish, French, German and Italian. Yours js an agglutinative language, so learning a Romance language might make your head explode in the beginning. You Turks have a practicality about expression, fitting sentences into compact, suffocated structures. The Romance people culturally, are blabbering mahines. They use many words to say a single thing. Very culturally characteristic for them. They at leadt don't have the dreaded cases. Then again, you only have four of them(?), which are very intuitive
So: "Teach yourself", "Assimil", Memorise and Duolingo. The "Italian language learning pack" torrent js your go to to find all those, PDFs and audios
>>61188022
Memrise*
>>61188112
Also forgot two very interesting, fully grammar oriented sites:
http://www.italianlanguageguide.com/facts/
https://www.uvm.edu/~cmazzoni/3grammatica/grammatica/
I pretty much bogged you with these three posts so not to look like I burdened you and set you on your way with a merry "go fuck yourself however you can", I'd suggest learning the basics first. The basics are thr vital verbs (the be, to think, to go, to eat/drink/sleep, to come, to talk and such. The verbs you can't imagine a single conversation without). Use them as your anchor to build your grammar and vocabulary understanding. Every noun has an "affinity" towards a verb, not by itself of course, and every noun is an anchor for an adjective. Learning a verb and then playing with it, adding different nouns and with hise nouns "sensible adjectives". The first thing that may come to your mind when you hear the noun eat, is "I eat pasta", since you are learning Italian. Thr next thing that comes to your mind is "delicious/good" which is an adjective. You know, ai'm on a phone and i hope you catch my drift...you have to let thr creative juices dk thr work, more than relying on dribbling and memorising. It's a longer process than memorizing but it is more rewarding,s ince you are there to witness the progress everyday, each of the words you connect into (in)coherent sentences will feel like a reward, giving you a daily boost to continue.
>>61188022
Saved your post, thanks a lot friend, much appriciated.
>>61188554
This guy. This fucking guy right here. I could listen to you all day 24/7. Always loved people who are passionate about their interests and ready to share/pass on information in as wide way as they want/can, be it vidya/tv/science or anything else.
>>61185253
>>61185844
To really learn Finnish you need to first learn mongolian.
>>61188627
>>61188979
Roman dilləri çok güzəl(ləri)... buyur və unutma: səbir
>>61184201
Check the textbooks "Suomen mestari"
>>61188022
>The Romance people culturally, are blabbering mahines. They use many words to say a single thing
W-we are not. We (except the french) are very reasonable.
Say, we have 3 pronouns for direct complement; masculine, feminine and neutral.
We can also agglutinate them with the verb.
We also acknowledge some actions are reflexive or impersonal and thus have proper yet simple words to indicate them.
And we normally follow a subject-verb-object structure but our languages are flexible enough to alter the structure as pleased.
It's all 10/reasonable
It's the rest of the world that is unreasonable/barbarian.
>>61191798
You see, I was talking primarily about the soul of your language. The grammatical structure is reasonable. Then again, so is Serbo-Croatian, but the soul remains different from the French. It gives the flavour to it more than the stress, the accents. For example, we can destroy our stress in words by swearing. Throw a sentence off "balance". In your case, people have a very positive stereotype of Spanish as the talkative language. You talk unintelligibly fast. That's the flair of Spanish. Being able to say one sentence in many different ways is another. Not grammatically, or changing the word order, as you assumed above, or the agglutination of pronouns, but semantically. Plus, what I personally witnessed is the phenomenon of "fracturing sentences" with Italians. They can't say one long and descriptive sentence. It's usually a cohort of smaller ones, rapidly pronounced. They are "bombastic", seem like the speaker will have many more things to say and give a sense of knowledgeability from all the speaking, or perhaps a sense that he's afraid someone will cut him off and impede his train if thought. For Romance speakers, conversation seems like a duel
