Learn Finnish

This is the study environment of MoniNet for you to study Finnish language. The chapters tell about the life of an immigrant in Lapland.

The study environment is in Finnish and it contains the vocabularies in English, Russian, Burmese and Arabic.

The lessons include

• the text
• vocabulary
• information about the language
• exercises

When you study, please pay attention to the following:

• Use a dictionary when you study Finnish language
• The words and phrases are translated based on the text. In another context, they can mean another thing, for example: mies= husband (in the vocabulary), in another context it can be as mies = man.
• Colloquialisms (=puhekielen ilmaukset) are written in italics. In the vocabulary you also have the general word or term.

The authors:

Finnish learning material: Tanja Kyykkä, Rovala Folk High School/ immigrant teaching
Illustration: Tom Serratti
Technical realization: Anne Aspelund, MoniNet

Chapter themes:

Chapter 1
Natalia’s family

Numbers 1-100
Nationalities
Personal information

Chapter 2
Mother’s Day

Weekdays
Greetings
Family and relatives
Asking a question

Chapter 3
The first day of summer

Seasons
Months
Weather vocabulary
What kind of?

Chapter 4
Matti’s bachelor flat

Vocabulary for housing
Conjugation of verbs
Where?

Chapter 5
Natalia goes shopping

Numbers 100–1 000 000
Vocabulary for clothing
K, P, T -variation
T-plural

Chapter 6
Timo’s new job

Expressions of time
Some cases of Finnish: adessive, ablative and allative
K, P, T –variation in verb forms

Chapter 7
Anna’s lovely home

Vocabulary for living
Expressing opinion
Some cases of Finnish language: inessive, elative and illative, Verbs of necessity