By the end
What you'll build
- Pronounce any written Finnish word correctly on sight, with no exceptions
- Hear and produce the length distinctions that separate tuli, tuuli and tulli
- Apply vowel harmony and explain why a word cannot mix front and back vowels
- Place the stress correctly on words of any length
- Produce ä, ö and y, and the eighteen Finnish diphthongs
- Read long Finnish compounds aloud by splitting them
Curriculum
What's inside
4 modules · 24 lessons
- 01
One Letter, One Sound
8 lessons- Find Your Level — Read This First
- Find Your Level — 5-Minute Placement Checkquiz
- Welcome — The Most Regular Spelling in Europe
- The Vowelspronunciation card
- Length Changes the Wordpronunciation card
- + 3 more lessons
- 02
Vowel Harmony and Stress
6 lessons- Vowel Harmony — Why Endings Come in Pairs
- Choosing the Right Endingfill blank
- Stress Never Moves
- Listening: Stress and Length Apartlistening lab
- Tongue Twisters: Length and Harmonytongue twister
- + 1 more lesson
- 03
Consonants, Diphthongs and Long Words
5 lessons- The Consonants and the Diphthongs
- Consonants and Diphthongspronunciation card
- Reading Long Finnish Words
- Splitting and Readingfill blank
- Speaking Lab: Read a Finnish Menuspeaking lab
- 04
Putting It Together
5 lessons- The Complete Letter-to-Sound Map
- Listening: Finnish at Real Speedlistening lab
- Flashcards: The Complete Sound Systemflashcard sr
- Final Check: Sounds & Spellingquiz
- Course Review — Spaced Recallflashcard sr
The shape of it
How this course works
Short lessons
24 lessons across 4 modules, each small enough to finish in one sitting.
Practice as you go
Every lesson ends with a small space for what you noticed — the doing is the learning.
A certificate at the end
Finish the course and earn a certificate anyone can verify with a link.
Ready when you are.
Make an account and this course opens up — your progress is saved from the very first lesson.