Tervetuloa suomen kielen kurssille! Suomi 1A 8.9.2015

7.9.2015 Introducing oneself Course guidelines and practicalities Finnish facts Pronunciation The alphabet

Esittely Introducing oneself Moi! Mun nimi on Sanna. Hi! My name is Sanna. Mikä sun nimi on? What is your name? Get to know to your neighbours: What do they study? Where do they come from? What brought them to Finland?

Suomi 1A / Finnish 1A 8.9.-22.10.2015 Suomen mestari 1 (by Sonja Gehring & Sanni Heinzmann) MyCourses Koe (exam): 27.10.2015 at 16-18 Registration on Aimo service Info: avoin@aalto.fi

Vastaa kysymyksiin Answer the questions Finnish language is related to a) Swedish b) Estonian c) Russian. Finnish language has a) 6 b) 10 c) 15 noun cases (e.g. genetive in English). Finnish verbs a) Have no future form b) Have no imperfect form c) Have no present form. Finnish words a) Are divided to masculin and feminin forms b) Are divided to Masculin feminin and neutral forms c) Have no gender. How many people in the world speak Finnish? a) 10 million b) 15 million c) 5 million True or false: Finnish is the most difficult language in the world?

Language classification 1 Analytic languages Synthetic languages Talo Talo/ssa Talo/ssa/ni Talo/ssa/ni/kin Kirjoitettuasi Juoksenneltaisiinko? A house In a house In my house in my house, too After you had written Should we run around a little bit?

Language classification 2 Agglutinating languages Finnish, Hungarian, Turkish, Japanese Ones that add very regular prefixes and suffixes to main words: työ—työtön work---unemployed Inflexional languages English, Spanish, Swedish, Russian Languages that use prepositions(in, out), articles (the, a) and also vary words: Sing, sang, sung

Do you know any words in Finnish?

Ääntäminen pronunciation

Aakkoset https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5FiqQ_VVKo&list=RDnTLvzgUYPs0&index=2

Aakkoset The Alphabet A – aa H – hoo O – oo V – vee B – bee I – ii P – pee W – tupla-vee C – see j – jii Q – kuu X – äks D – dee K – koo R – är Y – yy E – ee L – äl S – äs Z – tseta F – äf M – äm T – tee Å – oo G – gee N – än U – uu Ä – ää Ö - öö

Esittely Introducing oneself Moi! Mikä sun nimi on? Mun nimi on… Miten se kirjoitetaan? How do you spell it? Se kirjoitetaan… Hauska tutustua! Nice to meet you! Kiitos samoin! (Nice to meet) you too!

Kirjan henkilöt (sivu 8)

Tervehdykset / Greetings INFORMAL Moi! Moi moi! / Moikka! Terve! Nähdään! ↓ Hei! Hei hei! / Heippa! (Hyvää) Näkemiin! päivää/iltaa! FORMAL

Kotitehtävä / homework Practise pronunciation on MyCourses Observe: how do Finnish people greet each others. What do they say? What do they do?

Moi moi!