Description
Your first words. Your own voice.
Start with a simple hei and build the Finnish for everyday life—from introducing yourself and ordering a coffee to finding your way around town and arranging a meeting.
Finnish for Beginners is a practical A1 workbook for English-speaking adults starting from zero. Clear explanations, worked examples and guided activities help you understand a useful pattern, practise it and begin using it in sentences about your own life.
Across 10 carefully sequenced chapters, you will:
• Explore Finnish pronunciation and spelling, including ä, ö and y, doubled letters, sound length and word stress.
• Introduce yourself, exchange personal details and talk about family and daily routines.
• Build sentences with common present-tense verbs, questions and negative forms.
• Discover how useful word endings express possession, quantities, location and movement.
• Practise everyday language for cafés, shopping, time, directions and transport.
• Read short dialogues, notices and messages, then respond through supported activities.
• Write a personal introduction, describe a routine and arrange a simple meeting.
• Revisit earlier material through chapter reviews and final practice.
Finnish word changes are introduced through practical examples that connect a word’s dictionary form with the form used in a sentence. The focus stays on useful beginner communication, with support before longer writing tasks.
The core language is contemporary standard Finnish, with selected spoken forms clearly labelled to help you recognise expressions you may hear.
Designed for independent study, the workbook includes a complete answer key, sample responses for personal writing tasks and quick-reference pages for useful verbs, case patterns and everyday phrases. Try an activity, check your work and return to the patterns you want to strengthen.
With a colour interior and space to write, this A5 paperback gives you a clear place to begin—and a practical next step each time you open it.
134 pages. 10 practical chapters. A1 foundations. Answer key included.
Audio is not included.
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