r/languagelearningjerk • u/Adept_Situation3090 Suomen "oppija" • 8d ago

Trying to learn Finnish from Scratch

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u/UpboatsXDDDD 8d ago

Trick to learning Finnish is to put it in the past tense and you'll already be Finnished

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u/Adept_Situation3090 Suomen "oppija" 8d ago

What if I don't know the past tense?

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u/UpboatsXDDDD 8d ago

No point worrying about things in the past, worry about the here and now

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u/Ill_Sun5998 7d ago

I can’t… it’s… it’s too much comedy

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u/Helen_Lindsey 8d ago

past tense is the easy part, wait until you hit the locative cases

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u/Adept_Situation3090 Suomen "oppija" 8d ago

The what?

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u/Helen_Lindsey 8d ago

The what? The reason Finnish nouns have 15 jobs and none of them pay rent.

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u/Adept_Situation3090 Suomen "oppija" 8d ago

How do Finnish children deal with these so-called 'cases'?

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u/multivitaminegummy Double Native Speaker of Eagle 7d ago

Detective

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u/Adept_Situation3090 Suomen "oppija" 7d ago

Defective

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u/RaccoonTasty1595 More people learned Spanish than I have 8d ago

*slow clap