learn finnish

I searched on youtube and google and some good sites and videos came up.

I was going to learn words like hello and stuff but I thought of it as a big boring so I am learning colours first… why? I don’t know haha but I am looking at other finnish words so I become familar with them.

So far I know:
kiitos -thank you
kitta -cat?
Hei -Hello
And some colours but I can’t spell them yet nor can I say most. I need to practise writing, reading, listening and speaking as I go along. First I am just getting myself used to the words – I find the way they look quite scary because most words and long and the order of the letters is something completely new to me!

I’m not studying much, but I’m trying hard whenever I get the determination of writing something that makes sense.

Like, when I really want to write something in Finnish.

Tonight, I wrote a 3 lines message to Emilia on her LJ. It took me almost half an hour, but I’m pretty confident that it actually makes sense!

^{Well, Emi will tell us. I’d feel really stupid if it didn’t make sense… LOL!}

Hopefully for my birthday I will be getting some things of amazon to help me learn finnish as they is no resources where I live for learning it which sucks. Also I don’t think I will learn it until after my exams which will be June.

Hi! Im happy to see how popular my mother tongue is =D. Please comment, I wana see how your finnish is. Till that: Työskennelkää ja pitäkää hauskaa. Toivottavasti mahdollisimman moni oppii haluamansa.

Go and translate that sentence =D

Bought “Suomen peruskielioppi” by Fred Karlsson.

I don’t know how much time will it take me, but I’m moving to Rovaniemi. I hope it could be by summer 2010. I have to earn some money, find an activity to do there (either work or study), and speak the language.

I fell in love with the city the moment I arrived. It was kind of mystical. I fell in love with Barcelona ten years ago when I first came here. I promised myself someday I would be living there. It took me six years. I hope Finland will take me at least half that time.

One of the first steps: learning finnish.

anybody willing to help? =P

Cheers to all of you! =D

Emilia on kujeileva merenneito.

Anne on söpö keijukainen.

Minulla on hauskaa. :D

... two nice children books of Finnish vocabulary! I keep reading them and trying to pronounce the words right! :D

One is Ensimmäiset 1000 sanaani which would translate as My first 1000 words, it’s a book with drawings and pictures, and with all the words written under them. The words are classified in different themes related to daily life. There are also useful stuff like numbers, months, days of the week, colours, etc…

The second one is Suomi Englanti kuvasanakirja which is the same kind of book, but also with English translations.

I am having so much fun reading them now!!! I’m so happy! Emilia is so kind and sweet! :D

For the love of beauty in syntax, phonetics, and irregularities, I couldn’t hope to learn a more appropriate language.

Hei! Mitä kuuluu? En puhu suomea. Hyvää päivää.