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Colloquial Finnish

The Complete Course for Beginners, 2nd Edition

By Daniel Abondolo

Published September 22nd 2011 by Routledge – 354 pages

Series: Colloquial Series

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    Description

    Colloquial Finnish is easy to use and completely up-to-date!

    Specially written by an experienced teacher for self-study or class use, the course offers you a step-by-step approach to written and spoken Finnish. No prior knowledge of the language is required.

    What makes this new edition of Colloquial Finnish your best choice in personal language learning?

    • Interactive – lots of exercises for regular practice

    • Clear – concise grammar notes

    • Practical – useful vocabulary and pronunciation guide

    • Complete – including answer key and reference section

    Whether you’re a business traveller, or about to take up a daring challenge in adventure tourism; you may be studying to teach or even looking forward to a holiday – if you’d like to get up and running with Finnish, this rewarding course will take you from complete beginner to confidently putting your language skills to use in a wide range of everyday situations.

    Accompanying audio material is available to purchase separately on two CDs or in MP3 format, or comes included in the great value Colloquial Finnish paperback and CDs complete course. Recorded by native speakers, the audio material complements the book and will help develop your listening and pronunciation skills.

    It has been brought to our attention that on some of the CD copies of Colloquial Finnish, there is an error on track 3 of CD 1. We would urge all customers who have experienced this error to contact us at isabelle.cheng@tandf.co.uk; we will then send you a correct replacement MP3 of this track, free of charge.

    Please accept our sincere apologies for any inconvenience caused.

    Contents

    1. Making contact 2. No thanks 3. Help yourself! 4. Getting around and about 5. What’ll we buy? 6. Let’s go to the kiosk! 7. Isn’t it great to get home for Christmas! 8. From bad to worse 9. Time and space 10. What’ll we do today? 11. More and more quickly 12. There seems to be something under the carpet 13. Easy come 14. Bears can be dangerous, I suppose 15. Serious matters 16. Let it not be said! Key to exercises Appendix A: Finnish names Appendix B: Overveiw of Finnish verb inflection Appendix C: Overview of Finnish nominal inflection Finnish–English glossary English–Finnish glossary Glossary of grammatical terms Index

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