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apple1417 | 5 months ago

2800 day streak here, primarily in Finnish. I haven't been a fan of the app for a long time, but the problem I've always had switching is the question: What else? There might be a thousand different Spanish courses, but for less popular languages there just aren't many choices, the fact that they still host one is great. Yes I haven't really learnt much, it's more maintaining what I do know, but I'd've lost it without.

Incidentally I do think Finnish is one of the cases where it could work well. The way I see it the difficulty in learning Finnish is primarily learning an entirely new vocabulary, the grammar and sentence structure isn't that hard, and Duolingo could work well to teach you thousands of new words. The problem is they have a very limited amount of exercises, to the point my phone's auto complete can solve half of them.

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Please don't just link me stuff you've found on Google, I've tried them all. My favourite was Yle Kielikoulu, but that's been shut down.

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EdiX|5 months ago

> 2800 day streak here, primarily in Finnish. I haven't been a fan of the app for a long time, but the problem I've always had switching is the question: What else?

Something from this list https://comprehensibleinputwiki.org/wiki/Finnish or reading with lute if everything there is too advanced.

agnishom|5 months ago

Any chance there are textbooks for Finnish as a second language that you could find?

How about taking lessons with some Finnish tutors on services like iTalki?