Finnish Language Program only $19.95

 

Learn Finnish Language

The Finnish Language Program contains 10 hours of audio, and one textbook in PDF file format with 709 pages.

As you move through the Conversational Finnish language program, you will find it is built around principles which emphasize the development of basic communicative skills. The speech samples in this course reflect the Finnish language as it is spoken in practical, everyday social situations. The objective of each sections is to introduce and to expand your ability to use the principal features of the Finnish language to satisfy your social and professional needs in the host country. The structure is introduced in large chunks for overview, and smaller pieces are practiced cyclically to give you flexible control of the structure with review and reinforcement built in.

The aim and purpose of your textbook, Conversational Finnish, is to serve as a basic course. With this course you are expected to develop the skills needed for fluent workable proficiency in Finnish.

Finnish Drills are recorded first for listening, then for familiarization through repetition, and finally for participation. During the participation step, when the student performs the required manipulation, his utterances are confirmed on the audio immediately following the space provided for his participation.

Finnish Drills are generally in two groups in any unit: a) variation drills on pattern sentences, which provide opportunities for the student to develop flexibility in the use of patterns already memorized, and b) grammar drills, which are intended to provide practice for the student in the operation of the patterns explained in the immediately preceding grammar notes.

Conversational Finnish Language Course is organized into 14 topical units with structural notes in the end of each unit. The first four units should be studied in sequence as a block but after Unit V they can be studied individually in any sequence.

About the Finnish Language

Finnish is the language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by ethnic Finns outside Finland. It is one of the two official languages of Finland and an official minority language in Sweden. In Sweden, both standard Finnish and Meänkieli, a Finnish dialect, are spoken. The Kven language, a Finnish dialect, is spoken in Northern Norway.

Finnish is the eponymous member of the Finnic language family and is typologically between fusional and agglutinative languages. Finnish modifies and inflects the forms of nouns, adjectives, pronouns, numerals and verbs, depending on their roles in the sentence.