I enjoy how clear you lessons are. I am a language teacher myself and I sometimes go over time with my lessons when it is just so much better to create shorter lessons with clear points. People learn better this way. Your videos are really good!
I have started to learn Finnish, and your channel is amazing! It is simple and well ordered I can understand perfectly. Please keep making videos, kiitos :))
Hyvaa paivaa Minun nimeni on Ogie Ma olen kotoisin pilippiniineilla Ma olen neljakymmenta voutias. I'm trying hard to speak finish and I'm very thankful to you a little by little I can learn. Kiitos!
I heard a sentence in Finnish and I couldn’t believe how beautiful this language is so I wanted to discover more about it. It is without a doubt the most beautiful language along with French and Italian for me. I really enjoy your lessons thank you for a great video 😊
I am going to visit my very good friend in Rovaniemi in 2 months and as I am for the first time in Finnland I really want to properly speak and understand it a bit! Thank you very much for your videos, Anna! They are super helpful and fun! It's also cool that you mention that it is okay to make mistakes with the plural forms, as I tell my friends that using a wrong article in German isn't all that bad since people will understand you anyways, hehe :D
I'm very glad to hear you enjoy my videos! I hope you have a wonderful time with your friend. And yes, it's okay to make mistakes, we all make them! :-)
I’m enjoying your videos and thank you. I’m traveling to Finland with my son. Are there words for son or daughter that might get included in a later video? Thank you!
Moi! Anna you are doing great work. In this lecture can you please confirm translation of word 'three brothers'. Google and other dictionaries showing 'kolme veljestä' . Thank you
Thanks! Yes, three brothers translates to either "kolme veljestä" or "kolme veljeä". There is no great difference in meaning, "veljes" means male sibling and "veli" means brother, so they basically mean the same thing. :-)
Päivää Anna ! Thanks for your videos, with which I learn really fast. I have a question about the plural form for the composed words. If I want to say "two stepbrothers" have I to say "kaksi velipuolia" or "kaksi veljeäpuoli" ?
Is "vaari" or "ukki" more common? I call my late great grandma "mummi" but I don't know what to call my granddad if I visit him in Finland. It would be weird to say "pappa" since I'm Swedish and call my dad that.
It depends on the individual, some people learn faster and some people need more time. Perhaps half an hour to an hour per day? More if you have the time and the dedication!
Family members = perheenjäsenet Mother - äiti Father - isä Sister - sisko Brother - veli Grandmother - isoäiti Grandfather - isoistä Aunt - täti Uncle - setä Cousin - serkku Stepmother - äitipuoli Stepfather - isäpuoli Half sister - siskopuoli Half brother - velipuoli I have - minulla on I have a dad and a sister - minulli on isä ja sisko.
Does Finnish have a word for half great aunt? My Mummu and her sister are maternel half siblings as they had same mother but different fathers, both died so when they were young Mummu's father died during the war Winter war in the 1940's and her sister's father died of a heart attack, I'm half Finnish.
I always thought that Finnish plural forms ended in 't' like I've heard raida (singular) being turned into raidat (plural) I'm not sure this is right or what it means, but it's what I heard.
Yes, you are right, that is the basic plural form, the nominatiivi case. In the example sentences in this video, however, the partitiivi case is used and it has a different suffix. I didn't mark the case in my earliest videos, but nowadays I try to mark it in the examples.
You got a few things completely wrong here... "The words sometimes conjugate": conjugation is what happens with verbs. What you were supposed to say is "the words inflect a heck of a lot". Also every one of those words has been inflected. With "veli", there was a change in the stem. Maybe you're trying to avoid complications early on but stuff like that causes confusion down the line, for no reason, and gives the (presumably false) impression you don't quite know the terminology yourself. (I'm looking through this kind of stuff to see what I can recommend)
Thanks for your comment. You are right, my focus is on offering an easy and uncomplicated starting point into learning Finnish. I have a lot of experience in teaching special needs students and find that there is a definite lack of learning materials for people who need simpler materials. This is why I try to make my lessons short and as easily understandable as possible. I give a mere introduction to the issue and try to avoid grammatical terms, at least too many of them, and I also constantly guide people to take a Finnish course and/or buy a Finnish textbook to learn for example grammar issues further. Best of luck in your search for recommendable materials!
The plural depends on the context, as the case may change. But if you want to say "I have 7 siblings", it would be "Minulla on seitsemän sisarusta." (partitiivi case).
