Text lessons in Finnish

Here is a collection of dialogues in Finnish. After each part you will find a lexicon and a piece of grammar.

• Lesson 1 - Meeting people
  Matti and Antti run into each other.
  Topics: greetings, personal pronouns.
• Lesson 2 - At a café
  Matti and Antti have some coffee.
  Topics: verbal conjugation, asking things, numbers, partitive.
• Lesson 3 - How to introduce
  Antti introduces his girlfriend Kaisa.
  Topics: names, nationalities, possessive suffix.
• Lesson 4 - Making plans
  Matti has plans for the weekend.
  Topics: "aikoa"-verb, negation, days of the week.
• Lesson 5 - Buying tickets
  Matti takes a train to Helsinki.
  Topics: questions, locations
• Lesson 6 - Telling more about yourself
  Matti and Maija are talking.
  Topics: studies, professions
• Lesson 7 - Family
  Matti and Maija tell about their families.
  Topics:"to have", family members
• Lesson 8 - At home
  Matti is talking with his mother.
  Topics: nut-participle, perfect tense, imperative
• Lesson 9 - Telephone conversation
  Matti and Maija talk on phone.
  Topics: passive
• Lesson 10 - Asking the directions
  How to know the left from right.
  Topics: postpositions, directions
• Lesson 11 - Being late
  Matti is late from his meeting with Maija.
  Topics: time, imperfect
• Lesson 12 - In the restaurant
  Matti and Maija are having a dinner
  Topics: food, infinitives
  
• Lesson 13 - Express your opinion
  Matti and Maija talk about the film and food.
  Topics:express your opinion
• Lesson 14 - Talk about the weather
  Maija calls her friend Maria in Brazil
  Topics: weather, adverbs "here" and "there"
• Lesson 15 - Planning a party
  Antti and Kaisa are plannig their party.
  Topics: conditional, making requests, plural partitive
• Lesson 16 - Shopping clothes
  Antti and Kaisa doing shopping.
  Topics: adjectives, Connecting sentences