Overview
Main description
It's easy to teach yourself Finnish!
Complete Finnish: A Teach Yourself Guide provides you with a clear and comprehensive approach to Finnish, so you can progress quickly from the basics to understanding, speaking, and writing Finnish with confidence.
Within each of the 24 thematic chapters, important language structures are introduced through life-like dialogues. You'll learn grammar in a gradual manner so you won't be overwhelmed by this tricky subject. Exercises accompany the texts and reinforce learning in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. This program also features current cultural information boxes that reflect recent changes in society. The accompanying audio CDs contain all dialogues that appear in the course book, recorded by native speakers.
Features:
One and five-minute introductions to key principles to get you started
Lots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on the author's many years of experience
Tests in the book and online to keep track of your progress
Extra online articles at www.teachyourself.com to give you a richer understanding of the basics of the language
Table of contents
Introduction / Pronunciation / Let's practice! / Nice to meet you / Welcome! / One, two, three... / Straight on / Have a pleasant journey! / Speaking on the phone / Bon appetit! / What would you like? / In the sauna: more water on the stove / Oh dear, oh dear! / Come and see us! / Tell us a little bit about yourself / Excuse me, do you speak Finnish? / What is the weather like outside? / Beware of elks on the road! / The evening news / Congratulations! / With true Finnish grit / Key to the exercises / Finnish-English vocabulary / English-Finnish vocabulary / Appendices / Taking it further / Index
