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Finnish for language nerds: in-depth grammar, morphology, and phonology with real world examples. Highly motivated students only!
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About Nellie
Hello, nice of you to visit my profile! But first things first: If you’re looking for a traditional teacher to walk you through the basics with a textbook, I must say upfront that I am not the teacher for you. BUT if you’re someone learning Finnish out of linguistic curiosity, appreciate in-depth exploration of grammar, morphology, and phonetics, and would love to get high-quality example sentences with notes on grammar and nuance, I’m definitely the teacher you’ve been looking for.
As a language learner myself, I have studied Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Hindi, and Marathi in my free time, and German, Russian, and Swedish in school, over the past 10 years, with a focus on etymological links through historical forms (esp. Middle Chinese and Sanskrit roots), phonetics, and script. I also do computational linguistics as a hobby, mostly in the form of lower-level NLP (normalisation of different scripts and spelling variation) and corpus analysis, with a little bit of dabbling into pos tagging and dependency parsing. Besides my language projects taking up most of my time, my side hustle is being a university student of mathematics and theoretical computer science.
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Beginner
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- English
All languages in which the lesson is available :
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The biggest problems I’ve come across in language learning have been the lack of 𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙖𝙡 language resources and any proper break down of structure and nuance. Textbook language is not really used anywhere outside that context, colloquial grammar patterns and vocabulary get little to no attention in language learning and linguistics, and too many phrase lists (and even books!) these days are just AI-generated garbage. So learning how a language is actually used is extremely difficult without a native speaker’s help. That’s where I come in. To answer the question: “How do you say this? No, I mean, 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮. And why?”.
I like to take a descriptive grammarian approach with all new phrases by adding word-by-word translations, uninflected root word data, and notes on nuance/irregular expressions.
I’m also very familiar with IPA and phonetics if you’d like to learn about or improve your own pronunciation from a more detailed and theoretical perspective.
So just drop me a message and we can discuss how I could help you truly conquer Finnish!
- polymloth (available on other pltfrms by the same name)
TYPICAL STUDY STRUCTURE:
- Basic phonology (sounds)
- First contact with the language (simple sentence patterns, if a complete beginner)
- Overview of the grammar with a focus on recognising patterns, not reproducing them
- Advanced phonology (sandhi; optional)
- Examples of real language usage (learning complete sentence patterns and recognising their grammatical features) TOPICS:
- spoken vs. written Finnish
- basic to advanced grammar
- consonant gradation
- pronunciation (phonetics with IPA)
- sandhi (assimilation, gemination)
- word formation and derivation
- nuance through word order
- etc.
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I have worked with Nellie for academic writing and she is meticulous and goes an extra mile to make sure everything is perfect. If you want in depth knowledge of anything, she is the right tutor for you
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- TSh 69,169
Pack prices
- 5h: TSh 345,843
- 10h: TSh 622,517
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- TSh69,169/h
Details
Each lesson includes a personally tailored comprehensive lesson pdf on the topic and audio recordings of all words and sentences. I spend 5-20 hours preparing each pdf and 1-2 hours tailoring it for your needs. This is reflected in the lesson fee.
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- PayPal
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