COLLOQUIAL FINNISH - BOOK + AUDIO CDS THE COMPLETE COURSE FOR BEGINNERS

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.

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