Summary

Here is a summary of different ways I've tried to learn Finnish! It gets updated once in a while.


20 June 2012 : Day 1
I realized I had to learn this language. I started by looking through online resources to see how the language was like.

2? June 2012 to 1 September 2012 : Day 1 to Day 104
I realized that I had to stick to a book. I found "Teach yourself Finnish" with CD a good starting point.
I went through the lessons and also practiced using the recordings on the book's CD. I guess I did about half the book. It was a good start actually.
I tried to do something to memorize the new vocabulary I encountered in the book. I tried Flash cards, both on paper and in computer. I read about 10 lessons from Teach Yourself Finnish and did the exercises. It helped me with the alphabet, numbers, some basic words and grammar. It saved us a few time when we arrived in Finland and it felt good. Though I didn’t learn everything that I read in that book. Because I was skimming the book mostly with small time for each lesson. I used flash cards, both on paper and on computer.

1 September 2012 to  15 November 2012: Day 104 - 179
Here I have been to a finnish class at school twice a week, 2 hours each time, since mid september. These days I can recognize some words in written language, and can guess a bit more of them. Though I’m not happy with the speed that I’m learning. 

15 Nov 2012 to 26 nov

Since yesterday or the day before, I decided to find a Finnish pen pal and start writing emails each day. Simo from the school’s language cafe’ volunteered for that. 


Day 208: 
I decided to use a Finnish - Finnish dictionary instead of my Finnish - English dictionary.