Now that I’ve finished my exams, I wanted to get back into studying languages.<\/p>\n
There has always been 3 languages I’ve become really interested in developing a high level of fluency for.<\/p>\n
Finnish, Japanese and Chinese.<\/p>\n
I don’t care for having an “accent” in these languages, or that it can be identifed I’m from another country. I merely want to become fluent enough to have a fluent and deep conversation in the languages (C1 level in CEFR terms). However I also want to be able to read\/write in these languages too.<\/p>\n
I don’t have an interest in just speaking them, I want to understand them more, which means back to basics and learning the grammar and how sentences are constructed.<\/p>\n
Finland is my #1 language that I want to learn. I’ve expressed my interests in the country, the culture, the people and their way of life. I feel I have a sense of belonging there and it’s my home from home. To the point where if I uprooted, I would want to live there.<\/p>\n
I want to be able to speak without problems like a native, and wanted to share my language learning journey. Finnish is one of the hardest languages to learn, and it’s considered to take around 1100 hours to learn it (that’s 3 hours per day, every day for a year)<\/p>\n
I’ve been recording my language progress in a spreadsheet to see how long I’ve studied for in terms of my progress.<\/p>\n
We all learn at our own pace. For myself, I find teaching myself is how I learn, so I’ve got to find a method that works for me<\/p>\n
Difficulties faced speaking Finnish – As a Native English speaker, seeing the long words is confusing<\/p>\n
To overcome this, I want to read some dictionaries and start learning words. It’s easy for Finnish people, because they appear to be reading one word at a time, as they understand where each word starts and finishes, I think this makes it easier for them.<\/p>\n
Also I’ve found that studying the words and reading them out slowly inside your head helps you understand the structure and how to speak it a lot more.<\/p>\n
Onto the video of me speaking Finnish<\/p>\n
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Current studying time : 4 hours.<\/strong><\/p>\n Here is my 1st attempt at speaking more than few words in Finnish language, and also me attempting the longest word in the Finnish dictionary. I don’t care for editing videos, all videos I post are generally raw, I suck at video editing, and my aim is to improve my speaking ability, not improve how the video looks. I tend to do videos on the fly, so was tired, and don’t particularly enjoy being on camera as you can tell in the video.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n