Noun Cases

This week and last, I took notes on noun cases. I don't have them quite memorized. They are very tricky and confusing, I will need help from Jenni on these, I think.

Verb Conjugations

This week and the past week, I have been studying verb conjugations. I wrote an email to my penpal.

This is the letter I wrote:

Hei!
Haluan syödä porot. Porot ovat söpöjä. Haluan tuhatkolmesataaneljäkymmentäkaksi porot nyt. Minä opiskellen.
Ymmärrätko kun minä puhun?

It translates to

Hi!

I want to eat reindeer. Reindeer are cute. I want 1342 reindeer now. I am studying. Do you understand what I say?

Currently, in her area, Vasa, Finland, it is 10 degrees celcius, or 50 degrees Fahrenheit.

First Post!

This quarter, for my passage, I will be teaching myself Finnish. So far, I have a "Beginner's Finnish" book, and a pen pal who is quite eager to help me with my Finnish. I haven't started on the book yet, but I have talked a little bit with Jenni, my pen pal.

In the book, there are 297 pages, along with two CDs. This means that on each school day, I will have to read at least 8 pages for every school day. I'd like to have everything the book teaches memorized by the end of the quarter, so I think that will be the overall goal of my passage.

I will definitely continue studying after this quarter.

I am learning Finnish for two reasons. The first is so I can speak the language, and the second is so I can understand the lyrics of the Finnish songs that I listen to.