Vocabulary I

engineer - insinööri
also - myös
this - tämä
man - mies
police - poliisi
name - nimi
living-place - asuinpaikka
job - ammatti
languages - kielet
car-mechanist - automekaanikko
very - hyvin
very less (not much) - hyvin vähän
usually - tavallisesti
unfortunately - valitettavasti
at home - kotona
outside - ulkona
there - tuolla
here - täällä
woman - nainen, naisen, naista*
very, right - oikein
nice - mukava
old - vanha
young - nuori
of course - tietysti
nice, cool - kiva
only - vain
girl - tyttö, tytön, tyttöä*
boy - poikka, pojan, poikaa
often - usein
away - poissa
at work - työssä
always - aina
secretary - sihteeri
lamp - lamppu
quite - aika
building - rakennus
bank - pankki
big - iso
small - pieni
so - niin
hospital - sairaala
bar - baari
theatre - teatteri
modern - nykyaikainen
moment - hetkinen
markethall - kauppahalli
country - maa
city - kaupunki
old (not modern) - vanhanaikainen
ugly - ruma
cheap - halpa
expensive - kallis
house - talo
post - posti
healthycentrum - terveyskeskus
there, at this place - siinä
interesting - mielenkiintoinen
library - kirjasto
bookstore - kirjakauppa
trainstation - rautatieasema
pencil - kynä
flower - kukka
boat - vene
boring - ikävä
bad - huono
not interesting/boring - tylsä
some - tuo
big - suuri
street - katu
address - osoite
telephone number - puhelinnumero
then - sitten
in front of - edessä
under - alla
dog - koira
with/at - luona
hotel - hotelli
bag - kassi
banane - banaani
all - kaikki
with - mukaan
parking place - parkkipaikka
still - vielä
tomorrow - huomenna

*Please learn all forms.

Don´t be afraid, it looks quite much but there are many easy words so it´s not too much to learn. Tomorrow I will post new words. We have to learn as much words as possible on one day, because otherwise we can´t start with learning really Finnish...

Good luck!

Days, months, year times

Monday - Maanantai
Tuesday - Tiistai
Wednesday - Keskiviikko
Thursday - Torstai
Friday - Perjantai
Saturday - Lauantai
Sunday - Sunnuntai

January - Tammikuu
February - Helmikuu
March - Maaliskuu
April - Huhtikuu
May - Toukokuu
June - Kesäkuu
July - Heinäkuu
August - Elokuu
September - Syyskuu
October - Lokakuu
November - Marraskuu
December - Joulukuu

Spring - Kevät
Summer - Kesä
Autumn - Syksy
Winter - Talvi

Teaching-plan in Finnish

Here you can see what will come up next:

1. Numbers (Part I) and time
2. Days, months, year times (today)
3. Vocabulary I (tomorrow) Lection 3-6
4. Vocabulary II (Saturday) Lection 7-9
5. Vocabulary III (Sunday) Lection 10-12
6. Vocabulary VI (23.8.) Lection (2nd book) 2-4
7. Vocabulary VII (24.8.) Lection 5-7
8. Vocabulary VIII (25.8.) Lection 8-9
9. Vocabulary VVI (26.8.) Lection 10-12
10. Personal pronoms (27.8.)
11. Verbs & Forms I (28.8.)
12. Verbs & Forms II (29.8.)
13. Verbs & Forms III (30.8.)
14. Standard phrases I (31.8.)
15. Adjectives I (1.9.)
16. Adjectives II (2.9.)
17. 1st ending (3.9.)
18. Questionwords & endings (4.9.)
19. Verbs & Forms VI (5.9.)
20. Plural & Possesivsuffixe (6.9.)
21. Partitiv (7.9.)
22. Numbers as objects (8.9.)
23. Weather (9.9.)
24. Vocabulary VVII (10.9.)
25. Vocabulary VVIII (11.9.)
26. Vocabulary VVV (12.9.)
27. Verbs & Forms VI (13.9.)
28. Verbs & Forms VII (14.9.)
29. Adjectives III (15.9.)

Don´t worry, it sounds now very much, but we´ll make it! :-)
The main "online Finnish course" will go until the end of September, so more stuff will come up then. ;-)

Kajaani

So today I write about Kajaani. :-) As I arrived in Kajaani, my guestfamily were waiting for us already and they were all so kind from the beginning on. My guestfather Tuomo wasn´t there, because he had to work in Oulu. But he came 2 days later, if I remember correctly.
I also have to say that the kids, Hanna and Tiitus, were also so kind to me! :-) I mean, I couldn´t speak a word Finnish, or at least not any sentence. :/ But the kids were so sweet and tried (with success) to teach me Finnish and really...they are angels! Both of them. :-)
On the second day in Kajaani we did a bear safari in Kuhmo (200 km northern from Kajaani) and the other days we went to sauna, went swimming, cooked, or went shopping. I don´t want to put personal photos in here, so if you are interested, you can watch them on my facebook page, if you are in my friendslist. The photos will be online there tomorrow or on Saturday.

Exercises for Finnish Part I

I. Mitä kello on? - Please ask for the time and then write down the time.

Example: 1. 12.10

1. Mitä kello on? - Kello on kymmenen minuuttia yli kaksitoista.

2. 13.30
3. 14.15
4. 16.10
5. 18.20
6. 20.45
7. 22.00
8. 09.10
9. 09.55
10. 10.25
11. 11.00
12. 11.30
13. 12.55
14. 16.40

II. Please write a dialog with the following things included.

-Person A says ´Hello´ and ask how you are.
-Person B (you) answers and ask back.
-Person A ask you, which time it is.
-You tell the time. (15.10)
-Person A says ´Thank you´ and you say ´No matter.´ and say goodbye and see you soon.
-Person A answers.

Please send the solutions to me via e-mail and I will correct them and send them back to you.
Please don´t be disappointed that I haven´t ask every word or sentence you had to learn until today, but it´s too less that we could write real dialogs. But you will need them in the next days, so please stay tuned and learn. ;-)

Good luck!

Finnish Part I

Numbers (Part I) and Time

1 - yksi
2 - kaksi
3 - kolme
4 - neljä
5 - viisi
6 - kuusi
7 - seitsemän
8 - kahdeksan
9 - yhdeksän
10 - kymmenen
11 - yksitoista
12 - kaksitoista
13 - kolmetoista
14 - neljätoista
15 - viisitoista


Which time do we have? - Mitä kello on?

It´s three o´clock. - Kello on kolme.


It´s half past two. - Kello on puoli kolme.

It´s 5 minutes past three. - Kello on viisi minuuttia yli kolme.

It´s 15 minutes past three. - Kello on viisitoista minuuttia yli kolme.


It´s 5 minutes before three. - Kello on viisi minuuttia vaille kolme.


It´s 15 mintutes before three. - Kello on viisitoista minuuttia vaille kolme.


At which time do you meet? - Moneltako te tapaatte?

Which time is now? - Mitä kello nyt on?


Some more important words:

already - jo
then - sitten, silloin
where/whereto - minne
hurry - kiire
on time - tasan
in the evening - illalla
in the morning - aamulla
in the day - päivällä
in the night - yöllä
in the week - viikolla
on the weekend - viikonloppuna
some other time - joskus toiste
sometimes, anytime - joskus
Is it okay for you...? - Sopiiko sinulle...?
though/yet - kuitenkin
1 1/2 - puolitoista, puolentoista, puolatoista*
hour - tunti, tunnin, tuntia, tunteja*
late - myöhään
later - myöhemmin
after a long time - pitkästä aikaa
It´s already... - onkin/kello onkin jo...
agree something - sopia asiasta
every morning - joka aamu
every day - joka päivää
At which time? - Mihin aikaan?
between (time) - välillä
between 1 and 2 o´clock - yhden ja kahden välillä
Times the sun is shining, times - Välillä paistaa aurinko, välillä
it´s raining. sataa.

How long? (time) - Kuinka/Miten kauan?
It´s said, that... - Sanotaan, että...
sure - varmasti
very - kovasti
after - jälkeen
just - kohta
still - yhä
again - uudelleen


*Please learn all forms of this word! You will see soon why.

If possible, please learn the words until this evening. The exercices will be online this night and you can do them tomorrow. :-)

What about learning Finnish?

I have a question to you... are you interested in learning Finnish?

If yes, I would have an idea. As you know, I will move to Finland in the end of September and I have to learn Finnish everyday, so I could make a blogpost every day with one little step in learning Finnish. With some new words, one theme in grammar and then one or two little exercices, without solutions so that you copy the exercices from my blogpost, put it in Word, Microsoft Word or whatever, make the exercice and save it and send it me via e-mail?

If you want this, please write a comment and I will give you my e-mail.

So I would learn better Finnish and you too. ;-)

Stockholm & Helsingborg

Good morning!

As I promised, I will write today about our trip to Stockholm and Helsingborg.

We started our trip in my hometown and drived up to northern Germany, Rostock. Then we took the ferry to Gedser, a little town in Denmark and from there we drove about 9 hours to Stockholm in Sweden.

Stockholm is such a beautiful and big city, so if you once have the chance to visit it, do it! I can recommend it! :-)
It´s a big city, but not in a negative way, if you understand. And it´s also very different from building to building. It has a lot of very very old buildings, which look absolutely fantastic, but there you can find also some really modern buildings and houses.
Then we you drive over from Denmark to Stockholm, you drive over a big bridge and around the bridge and Stockholm there is only the sea and some little islands between. So really really lovely. :-)

Unfortunately we didn´t had the best weather in Stockholm but it was beautiful anyway! We arrived there very late and had a sleep-over in a little hotel and on the next day we went to the Royal Palace and made a boat trip. But then, as you already know, we had problems with our car and had to go straight to the car repair place there.



Stockholm were such a great experience so that I will come back for sure! :-) And hopefully without any problems... ;-)

In the end of our holidays we had to drive again over Stockholm up to Denmark and since we had a lot of time, we made a visit in Helsingborg. It´s maybe minimum 500 kilometres away from Stockholm, in the near of Gothenborg, but we had to drive in this direction anyway. It was sadly a rainy day there but we walked around a bit and drunk coffee and had some nice swedish toasts. ;-)

Here are some photos of Helsingborg:



Tomorrow I will write more about my new living-town Kajaani. :-)

New music... :-)

As you probably know, Tarja Turunen will soon release her new album, called "What Lies Beneath" and I´m so looking forward to it! It sounds very different from song to song and if you want to hear it already you can check out www.tarja-whatliesbeneath.com (click on "Album") and you can hear every song 90 seconds long. Enjoy!

I´m interested which song you like most, so please write a comment with your favourite/s and why you like them. ;-)

Back from beautiful Finland :-)

Hey,

I´m back from Finland since this last Sunday but since I was so tired ´cause we arrived in the early morning (almost still night) on Sunday I hadn´t any mood to write here. I´ve slept almost the whole Sunday and had on Monday morning my first driving lesson after holidays, visited a friend of mine and in the evening I´ve gotten bad headache. Today I also had a driving lesson and also a theory lesson in the evening... You see, I have a lot to do.

I think I will write a post for every station we´ve made in holidays. So Stockholm, Kajaani, Rovaniemi, Oulu and Helsinki. Every day I will post one. So stay tuned. ;-)

Unfortunately we had a lot of problems with our car. It started in Stockholm and there we went to a car repair place but they said they can´t find any problem. As we went away from the car station and tried to drive, the car drove normal as nothing would have happened. Then we stopped in the middle of the waiting route which takes you on the ferry to Turku... very embarrassing... :D Some people from the ferry service wanted to help us and take our car on the ferry by themselves, because our motor didn´t start. Hehe...but then as they came, our car started... very funny thing.
And so we had in every station a problem with the car. Luckily everything is repaired now.
The good thing was that I was allowed to drive by myself from Oulu to Helsinki by train. :-) We had planned to drive on Tuesday from Oulu to Helsinki, but my mother and her boyfriend had to wait until the car is full repaired in this car repair place in Oulu and this took time until Thursday. I said I need to go to Helsinki on Tuesday and not later and so I took the train. It took 7 hours, but I must say it wasn´t bad to be so long in the train. You could see the beautiful nature from the trains windows. :-)

I will tell more about every station in the next blogposts but I want to thank my guestfamily and a friend of mine in Kajaani! They were so kind to me! Thank you all! :-)
Also in Helsinki I´ve met a friend, Maarit and her lovely little family! Big thanks and hugs to them!

Tomorrow I will write more about my day in Stockholm and Helsingborg, where our dear Anette lives. :-)