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This course is based on the Slow Finnish lessons created by a Duolingo user. It’s still early days for this course, but the first few chapters are finished and we hope to make significant progress during the coming weeks. We have full audio (as far as the course is completed, that is). We are aware that there are a lot of correct alternative answers, we’re working on adding them, but if you spot any missing ones please let us know, just in case we’ve forgotten them.
I was just discovering that Memrise hates me if I use the wrong one by mistake… I assume you’re puzzled by it sometimes demanding one when as far as you can tell another would work perfectly well? (And you forgot Entä Te)
Edit: Those should now behave properly.Time for more testing. Kiitos!
Kiitos! I suppose they are used in different situations (probably depending on the previous sentence), so I wasn’t sure if the course was trying to reflect that. I know the difference between Entä sinä and Entä Te, but with the rest added to the mix, it’s getting worse.
Something like that, but I think it’s beyond this course to teach it. After all, how are you supposed to know from the sentence “And how are you?” which form you’re supposed to use? Anyway, you should now be able to use any of them, if you can’t come complain to me.
And I’m back with another request. There’s a “how” in level 2 which only accepts “kuinka”, and there’s another “how” in level 4 for “miten” (I’m not sure if it accepts anything else). I suppose these two could be distinguished by formal/informal, right?
Yes. I will mark kuinka as formal. Notice that miten is a general word that can be used both formally and informally. So Miten voitte? is possible but Kuinka menee? is not.
Hi, thank you for making this course, it is something I needed.
I came here to ask you to add the “ä” and “ö” buttons to the course, if you can. I feel somewhat tired after writing “hyvää päivää” a couple of times with the ALT codes
And about alternative answers - can you (or I in my profile) do something to make it work for listening and choosing exercises or is it a Memrise thing and we just have to live with it?
That is a great idea. Unfortunately, I do not seem to find any way to do it. I will ask @A_User if she knows how to do it. You could install a Finnish keyboard, you know. It is qwerty with å, ä and ö on the far right. It should be fairly easy to use.
If you have suggestions for alternative answers, we will look into those. The first conversations are still rather messy, but it gets better in the levels after that.
Are you familiar with my Duolingo lessons? You will get most out of this course by reading the lessons first.
Thank you for the buttons. Yes, I could have installed a Finnish keyboard, just didn’t think about it.
Yes, I was trying to say that alternative answers only work when I have to type.
Zzzzz, I haven’t been to Duolingo forums for quite a long time and didn’t see your lessons. There are so many of them and now i am awed I don’t know if I’ll ever catch up with them but I can’t wait to try.
I suppose it doesn’t make much sense to have alternative answers with listening exercises - you’re supposed to type what you hear, not another version of that.
I mean this second type of listening exercises - where you have the English text and three “listening buttons” and you listen for the matching Finnish phrase.
Now that I think about it, maybe you can solve this problem by marking the gramatical case of “you” in various “And how are you doing?” sentences (as the course already teaches how to say “you” in allative and so on). What do you think? Of course, if it’s not a low of work, I’m not bothered by it this much
I don’t know if I’ll ever catch up with them but I can’t wait to try.