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Practice speaking Finnish with me!
Practice speaking Finnish with these dialogues suitable for intermediate and advanced Finnish learners. See if you can keep up with the conversation, using the prompts provided!
Finnish sauna culture
Listen to my friend Hanna and I talk about the Finnish sauna: are you supposed to go in naked, who goes with who, how is the sauna at the summer cottage different?
Finnish YKI test – What is it like?
Join us in this episode of the Finking Cap Podcast, where Mari Nikonen (from Ask a Finnish Teacher) and I chat about what the Finnish YKI test is like.
The Finnish verbs KÄYDÄ and KÄYTTÄÄ
The Finnish verbs KÄYDÄ and KÄYTTÄÄ are different in meaning. However, they are often mixed up.
A basic conversation in a Finnish supermarket
Listen to this basic conversation in Finnish: how to greet in Finnish, how to say thank you in Finnish and how to respond when they ask if you need the receipt.
The Finnish cases -ssa and -lla
In this video, you will learn with some very simple examples how the Finnish case -ssa differs from -lla.
Finnish verb + illative
Some verbs in Finnish go together with a word or words that are in the illative case. This grammatical aspect in Finnish is quite significant and is crucial when you’re moving to a higher level in Finnish. Watch my video with Finnish example sentences containing verb + illative structures.
How to use the Finnish verb “saada”
Learn these 6 different ways to use the Finnish verb SAADA.
“I have to” in advanced Finnish
If you’ve always used “minun täytyy” or “minun pitää” when you want to say “I have to” in Finnish, then watch this video to learn a different, more advanced way of saying it.
The Finnish Alphabet video
Learn the Finnish alphabet from this video.
“Have” in Finnish and family talk
How do you talk about family and how do you say “I have” or “Do you have” in Finnish? Listen to a short dialogue and then we’ll go through the dialogue and the spoken Finnish structures in it.
Common Finnish Verbs Part 3
It’s time for the third part of my popular Youtube series “Common Finnish Verbs”. In this video, you will learn 17 Finnish verbs that you are guaranteed to need when you live in Finland or use Finnish on a daily basis.