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Finnish Phrases for the Post Office 📮 PS: Learn Finnish with the best FREE online resources, just click here: https://www.finnishpod101.com/?src=social_special_infograph_post_office_2_011420

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🔎 Find out more about Finland and its language at FinnishPod101!

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🔎 Find out more about Finland and its language at FinnishPod101!

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12 Ways to say "Thank You" in Finnish. You are not limited to "Kiitos"- FinnishPod101

Learn to say ‘Thank you’ in Finnish! Get translations and pronunciation on FinnishPod101 as you learn the most common ways to say ‘Thanks’ in Finnish.

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Talking about Months in Finnish | FinnishPod101

Learn these must-know Finnish words related to months. This free FinnishPod101.com lesson is perfect for beginners.

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What to do When Learning Finnish Feels Overwhelming

In this post we’ll look 5 ways to keep things simple so that you don’t have to feel overwhelmed when you’re learning Finnish.

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👅🍨 How to Talk about Flavors in Finnish! 

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How to say hello in Finnish! 👋 

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Do you know your colors in Finnish? 🌈 

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What is/was your favourite school subject? 🎼📊🌍 

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What is your Birth Month in Finnish? 👶 

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Common phrases that every Finnish beginner should know! 😊 

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Sunset in Finland 🇫🇮

Finland (Suomi) is located in Northern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea, the Gulf of Bothnia, the Gulf of Finland, Russia, Sweden, and Norway. It’s a Nordic country in the geographical region of Fennoscandia. The capital and largest city is Helsinki. Population: 5.5 million (2017). 88.7% of the population is Finnish and speaks Finnish, a Uralic language unrelated to Scandinavian languages. Finland is the 8-largest country in Europe and the most sparsely populated in the EU. Over 1.4 million people live in the Greater Helsinki area, which produces 1/3 of the GDP.

Finland was a relative latecomer to industrialisation, remaining largely agrarian until the 1950s. After WW2, the Soviets demanded war reparations not only in money but also in material, such as ships and machinery. This forced Finland to industrialise. It rapidly developed an advanced economy, at the same time building an extensive welfare state based on the Nordic model, which resulted in widespread prosperity and one of the highest per capita incomes in the world. Finland is a top performer in education, civil liberties, economic competitiveness, quality of life, and human development. A large majority of Finns are members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. Finland has one of the world’s most extensive welfare systems, which guarantees decent living conditions for all, actual Finns and foreign residents. Since the 1980s, social security has been cut back some, but still the system is one of the most comprehensive in the world.

The population is currently 5.5 million with a fertility rate of 1.8, and a median age of 42.7 years. As of 2014, there were 322,700 foreigners in the country (5.9% of the population), most of whom were from Russia, Estonia, Somalia, Iraq, and former Yugoslavia. Their children are not automatically given Finnish citizenship, as Finnish nationality law practices jus sanguinis where only children born to at least 1 Finnish parent are granted citizenship. With 3.9 million members, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland is one of the largest Lutheran churches in the world, of which 7 out of 10 Finns are members. The 2nd-largest group with 26.3% of the population has no religious affiliation at all.

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Personal pronouns in the partitive case in Finnish

Minua - me Sinua - you Häntä - him, her Sitä - it Meitä - us Teitä - you Heitä - them (plural of “häntä”) Niitä - them (plural of “sitä”)

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55 days of vocabulary challenge

Thanks to @polyglossa for making the challenge. I’m always in a mood for random vocabulary, let’s see how long this challenge lasts until I stop doing it.

Day 1: jewelery

English - Finnish

ring - rengas (pl. renkaat)

necklace - kaulakoru/ kaularengas  (pl. kaulakorut/ kaularenkaat), lit. neck-ring     kaula - neck + rengas - ring     koru - jewel

bracelet - ranneke/ rannerengas (pl. ranneket/ rannerenkaat), lit. wrist-ring    ranne - wrist

earring - korvakoru/ korvarengas (pl. korvakorut/ korvarenkaat), lit. ear-ring    korva - ear

diamond - timantti (pl. timantit)

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How To Study Vocabulary

Since I ALWAYS struggled with learning vocabulary, I went to the library and borrowed every book about language learning that I could find! I will list different methods down below. I hope they‘re as helpful for you as they are for me! Also, this will be kind of a long post, so I apologize.

Firstly, it‘s important to acknowledge that there are different learning-types, and we all learn differently, so there‘s no guarantee that these will work for you!

Repetition of Vocabulary

1. after a couple of hours

2. after a day

3. after a week

4. aftrer one month

5. after 3-4 months

It‘s also important to remember that you should only study a word/phrase until you know it. Everything else will be a waste of time. You should still repeat the words like I said above.

Different methods:

-Mind mapping

-Arrange the words into groups

-Structure things (e.g. vegetables: beans, carrots, tomatoes)

-Order things after similarities/differences

-Gradations (e.g. temperatures, months, time etc)

-Learn with pictures

-Step by step (e.g. ordering food in a restaurant)

It is important that you change things up and not study everything the same way every time! Your brain needs changes to understand things or you won’t be able to use the words in an actual conversation.

Other things you can do:

-Watch Videos in your target language

-Listen to music

-Record yourself saying the vocabulary and listen to it while you study

-Read read read, honestly just try to read as much in your target language as possible

-Try to think in your target language. Describe your surroundings to yourself, count things

-learn about the things you‘re interested in. If you’re interested in fantasy, learn those fantasy words fam

- never learn more than 30-40 words a day. Recommend would be 8-10 so you actually remember them -> Quality not Quantity!

-consistency is key

-some days it just won’t work and that‘s okay. Just try again tomorrow

-put random words/sheets with words on places where you will see them, e.g the bathroom mirror or the fridge or the inside of the door. You will read them all the time and will probably remember them way easier because of this.

I hope this was at least kind of helpful. I think the most important part for me to realize was that your brain needs changes in order to learn new things. If you just read one word 10 times you won’t remember it.

Say it, write it down, listen to it and write it down in a different context again. Read the words to your Axolotl.

Context is so so so important and will help you to remember words way easier.

Also remember to drink lotsa water because water is good. Also learn the word for water in your target language!

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Apua! Help!

Apparently if you want to yell for help in Finnish it’s necessary to use the partitive case: 

“Apua! Apua!” means “Help! Help!” 

Apparently if you use the basic form and yell  “Apu! Apu!” it sounds like you are yelling “The act of help! The act of help!” and the person you want to help you may laugh at you - speaking from experience.

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Actually, since the verb for ‘to help’ is auttaa, I’d argue that ‘the act of help’ is auttaminen.

But the reason why you need to use partitive is that the noun apu is uncountable. To yell “Apu! Apu!” in Finnish is to yell “A help! A help!” in English. Doesn’t make sense? I thought so. Using the partitive case indicates that you need some help, and not that the concept of help has materialized before your eyes (?).