Re: “Finnisch mit extra Mühe” -- a group learning project (because Finnish wasn't hard enough before)
Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2017 7:30 am
by cathrynm
Quite enjoying this site here. Kalevala, but with lovely illustrations. Has a page with illustrations of characters and a brief summary of each one. Finnish, but also has Estonian, and I think Swedish?
Re: “Finnisch mit extra Mühe” -- a group learning project (because Finnish wasn't hard enough before)
Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2017 6:24 pm
by jeff_lindqvist
cathrynm wrote:(...)and a brief summary of each one. Finnish, but also has Estonian, and I think Swedish?
Yes, it's Swedish.
Re: “Finnisch mit extra Mühe” -- a group learning project (because Finnish wasn't hard enough before)
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2017 9:26 am
by cathrynm
Monkeying with my VPN, I managed to get this on Netflix in Finnish, Mehiläisen Elokuva. I use ExpressVPN, and I'm not sure what's going on, sometimes I get errors about using proxies, but then today I'm watching Finnish movies on Netflix.
Language-wise, it's pretty challenging. Has captions and audio in Finnish, and they are completely different.
Re: “Finnisch mit extra Mühe” -- a group learning project (because Finnish wasn't hard enough before)
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2017 10:51 am
by Brun Ugle
cathrynm wrote:Monkeying with my VPN, I managed to get this on Netflix in Finnish, Mehiläisen Elokuva. I use ExpressVPN, and I'm not sure what's going on, sometimes I get errors about using proxies, but then today I'm watching Finnish movies on Netflix.
Language-wise, it's pretty challenging. Has captions and audio in Finnish, and they are completely different.
I UNDERSTOOD A COUPLE OF SENTENCES!!!!!!!!!!!
(Tip: to make the YouTube function work, just put the part after the equal sign, not the whole link.)
Re: “Finnisch mit extra Mühe” -- a group learning project (because Finnish wasn't hard enough before)
Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2017 6:32 pm
by cathrynm
”Reijo löysi Suomesta 1200 vuotta sitten haudatun kolmipäisen kotkakorun – vastaavaa ei ole aiemmin löydetty”
This one I'm sort of working on this weekend, kind of scratches my itch on why I'm interested in Finnish. Kotkakorun, eagle jewelry, -- 1200 year old eagle Jewelry found in Finland.
Re: “Finnisch mit extra Mühe” -- a group learning project (because Finnish wasn't hard enough before)
Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2017 5:04 am
by cathrynm
I realize this is a completely pointless metric, but I'm starting to show up on the high score list at clozemaster.
Re: “Finnisch mit extra Mühe” -- a group learning project (because Finnish wasn't hard enough before)
Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2017 5:26 pm
by cathrynm
Not sure if I've seen this posted here. I keep going back to this site. I find it hugely useful for untangling Finnish conjugations. Paste in your word, and it'll find the roots and tell you the parts of speech. Seems pretty correct, at least as far as my knowledge of this language is.
Re: “Finnisch mit extra Mühe” -- a group learning project (because Finnish wasn't hard enough before)
Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2017 7:46 pm
by Vedun
cathrynm wrote:I realize this is a completely pointless metric, but I'm starting to show up on the high score list at clozemaster.
Wow, way to go. Meanwhile, some others struggle to get in any language learning progress.
Re: “Finnisch mit extra Mühe” -- a group learning project (because Finnish wasn't hard enough before)
Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2017 2:56 am
by cathrynm
For me, the Clozemaster feels like a good match for where I am with Finnish. It makes me look at sentences, specifically verb forms and cases, rather than individual words. It's not so hard that it just feels impossible. This site with Japanese, it's just a little too easy, I think. For the most part, I'm pretty well motivated, especially with the solitary grind type studying like this. Going out and meeting people, that I have more trouble with.
