Imaginative textbook in Finnish for individual as well as classroom use that combines practical exercises and step-by-step grammar. Covers everyday situations and local customs. Is best used with audio CDs Mastering Finnish ISBN 0968905498.
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Professor Börje Vähämäki has taught Finnish in North America for 30 years. Stuart von Wolff is an experienced language teacher who has taught Finnish at the University of Toronto and many other languages - French, German and English - at the University of Helsinki.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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Excellent Product,
By L. Lautiainen-Collins "True Finn" (Las Vegas, NV USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mastering Finnish, Third Edition (Paperback)
I submitted a review for the accompanying product, which read: I am a native Finnish speaker, and my husband is not. We purchased both the book and the CD, which I would highly recommend. Even with me being a native Finnish speaker, it was really useful for my husband to be able to hear the dialogues in Finnish, spoken at a normal conversational rate. I would highly recommend both the book and the CD.
The book and the CD are invaluable as a set. Also, the book has enough grammar to make sense but not so much as to be overwhelming.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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Do not buy this book,
By Language Sampler (Texas) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Mastering Finnish, Third Edition (Paperback)
This is an extremely poor introductory work for attaining even a basic understanding of the Finnish language. The problem is that it assumes that the student is already fully proficient in the language. Instead of starting out slowly, the book launches into fast-paced conversations, with no repeats. The author should have broken the conversations down into small pieces, and provided slow pronunciations of each word.
Professor Vahamaki's approach to language instruction reminds me of a piano instructor who is trying to teach a five-year-old child the rudiments of music. Instead of introducing the child slowly to the various notes, he simply sits the child down at the keyboard, points to the 88 keys, and tells the child to start playing Rimsky-Korsakov's "Flight of the Bumblebee" at full speed. This approach doesn't work for the piano, and it certainly doesn't work for a language as difficult to learn as Finnish.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Difficult to use,
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This book is barely useful. It does not have essential charts telling you how to inflect nouns, or clear explanations of what the cases mean. Its focus is on strong-grade and weak-grade consonants, and theoretical conversations. This book was recommended by a teacher but I have found even stodgy old Finnish:An Essential Grammar much more useful and accessible. It's as if neither author has any explanatory competence in the English language.
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