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It primarily works as a vocabulary builder. Imagine taking all your flashcards and making them into a fun online game. You will be given 20-25 words in either Finnish or English. At first you can use multiple choice. Once you're comfortable with that you type in the word directly. And once you're comfortable with that you take a quiz on those words and move on to a new set of words.

How many vocabulary words are there?

Currently there are over 4,600 Finnish words. More are always being added.

Finnish School tracks your progress

The online tool keeps track of your progress and remembers which word sets you've completed. Login from any computer and continue from where you left off.

Why do I need to sign-up?

For two reasons: Finnish School needs to know who you are so it can remember which word sets you've completed. Secondly, in case you forgot your username/password, it can e-mail it to you.

I don't like giving away my e-mail address

I hate giving mine away too, but I can promise that your e-mail address and account info will NEVER EVER leave Finnish School.

Does this cost anything?

Finnish School has been free for four years now, but because of expensive server costs, I'm asking for a small 5 euro donation. The first three levels are completely free - if you find the web site useful and would like to learn more, I feel 5 euros is a small amount to ask.

Click here to learn more about donating and becoming a Finnish School member.

Why become a Finnish School member

Finnish students who are serious about learning the language spend quite a bit of money each year on books, CDs, classes, and tutors - and I think 5 euros (the price of a beer at the pub) is a small donation to make for such a useful service like Finnish School.

With the donations I'll be motivated to develop the site further, provide users with better support, and hopefully be able to compensate for my expensive monthly server fees. Finnish School members will receive the following...

- Access to all vocabulary levels
- Priority support via e-mail
- BETA testing to all upcoming site features

I'd like to become a Finnish School member

Click here to learn more about donating.

Why are you doing this?

I'm an immigrant in Finland originally from the United States. I got tired of writing words on expensive flash cards, so I wrote this program.

Why are you using a blog?

For announcments and feedback. If there's any new changes to the site or problems, I'll announce it on this blog. And I really want your feedback to improve this site, so you can use the comment sections to share your thoughts.

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January 1, 2007

Donating via Bank Transfer

Filed under: Uncategorized — admin @ 1:41 pm

If you’re inside Finland, this is the best option. The bank account info is:

Name: Phillip Schwarzmann

Account Number: 800029-55186704

Bank: Sampo (Finland)

Amount: 5.00 euros

IBAN account number: FI8480002017498469

BIC code: PSPBFIHH

(Click here for a universal currency converter)

When transferring the money, please be sure to write your Finnish School username & e-mail address in the message/notes section, but no problem if you forget to do this.

After you’ve transferred your donation, you must inform me of this by sending me an e-mail (phil@finlandforthought.net), please again include your Finnish School username.

Within 24 hours of sending the e-mail, you’ll be sent an e-mail from me notifying you that your membership is now active. At that time you’ll be able to use all the vocabulary levels and have all other privileges granted to donating members.

After completing the Bank Transfer, please visit our Thank You page.

Comments (3)

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My grandparents are of Finnish descent. They never taught their children (my parent) any Finnish language. My grandparents are gone now.. but one silly thing I remember about them, is when they would argue, they would argue in Finnish. Like I couldn’t understand. I always understood that they were arguing.
I wish they would have taught the words.

For my grandparents.. their language was closed and secret. They were American now. and that language was their own secret. to use to fight or to debate and argue amongst themselves. they never gave it away.

I wish they hadn’t been so secretive about it. That they had shared it with the generations. But I do understand their reasons for doing so.
I want to learn Finnish for this reason. Because its in my heritage.

Comment by Anonymous — October 11, 2008 @ 8:31 am
err this was the wrong page to leave that comment on eh?

Comment by Anonymous — October 11, 2008 @ 8:39 am
hi,

great job n cheap too probably the cheapest way to master finnish vocabulary. It would be great if you could add some sound files if possible. Am I asking too much?

Comment by anonymous — December 15, 2008 @ 7:18 pm

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