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Finnish language teaching videos

Below you will find Finnish language teaching videos organized by topic. The videos were created as part of the Guiding towards Fluent Finnish project at the Centre for Language and Communication Studies, University of Turku. The videos are included in online courses for independent study. English is used as an auxiliary language in the videos. The videos are targeted at learners who are beginners or have been studying Finnish for a short time.

The teaching videos emphasize spoken language forms while also presenting written language forms.

Information about the Finnish language and culture

Characteristics of the Finnish Language

Spoken language: part 1 of 2

Spoken language: part 2 of 2

Spoken language 3

Finnish food culture

Pronunciation

Practicing short and long sounds

Prosody in language learning

Sentence stress

Verbs

Verb 'puhua' (to speak)

Kpt change in verb type 1

Kpt change in verb types 3, 4 (and 6)

Review of verb types 1–5

Introduction to the imperfect tense

Nouns

Kpt changes in nouns

Partitive singular

Possessive sentence: "Mulla on" (I have)

Local cases

Local cases explained briefly

Local cases: Missä? (Where?)

Local cases: Mistä? (Where from?) Mihin? (Where to?)

Word types

Word types: ordinary words, e ending words and nen ending words

Word types: i ending words

Revision of word types

Making questions

Question starting with verb + ko/kö suffix

Sentence types

Existential sentence

Possessive structure

Predicative sentence

Necessive structure

SVO sentence and object

Other topics

Countries, languages and nationalities

Arraging a meeting

Practical tools for language learning

Reaction videos

Dialogue example: what’s your name and how do you spell it?

Reaction: what’s your name and how do you spell it?

Dialogue example and reaction: tell me about yourself