Learn Finnish from Native Speakers

Learn Conversational Finnish Pronunciation

As you move through this course, you will find it is built around principles which emphasize the development of basic communicative skills. The speech samples in this course reflect the 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.

Conversational Finnish 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.