Throwback to #1 : my first meeting with Ulla !

Hey everyone welcome to my first episode of my throwback to series of my EOTO meetings with Ulla ! My name’s Giulio, I come from France, Paris. I was hoping to have this course because the concept is unique and I wanted to learn finish but not in a “classical” way. With my throwback to series, I hope that you will see how this experience has been for me.

Do I really liked it ? Was it what I expected to be ? Was it tough or easy ? Let’s find out together.

It all begins in the month of febuary 2017… Everyone had their group assigned with the language they wanted to learn, I wanted to learn Finnish because in my opinion it’s always better to learn the language of the country you live in and Ulla wanted to learn French. For our first meeting, It was a cold day (no surprise) but without snow (this was surprising). As I didn’t know much of the city, Ulla proposed to go to New-york coffee to get to know each other and see how we are going to work together for the next month. After having done the premilinary plan, we started our first lesson.

First thing first : Basic phrases
For our first lesson together we wanted to start with the most useful things you can say and also the most common ones.

Greetings 

Goodbye
Thanking

Feminine/Masculine

It’s maybe the hardest part for a foreigner to learn this because there is no real rule, the only way to learn this is to practice and learn every word

Before a masculine word you have to put “un” and before a feminine word you have to put “une”

How to count

yksi (1), kaksi, (2) kolme (3), neljä (4), viisi (5), kuusi (6), seitsemän (7), kahdeksan (8), yhdeksän (9), kymmenen (10), yksitoista (11), kaksitoista (12)…
kaksikymmentä (20)…

100 = sata
1000 = tuhat etc…

un (1) deux, (2) trois, (3) quatre, cinq, six, sept, huit, neuf, dix, onze, douze, treize, quatorze, quinze, seize dix-sept, dix-huit, dix-neuf, vingt, vingt-et-un, vingt-deux.. trente, quarante, cinquante, soixante
Now the fun begins : soixante-dix = 70 (60+10) , 71 soixante-et-onze (60+11)…
quatre-vingt = 80 (4×20)
 quatre-vingt-dix = 90 (20×4+10)
91= same rule as 71
cent =100
mille=1000