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THE THEME for the next event:

The Finnish language - Is it really so difficult?

Speaker: Asako Palmu

The Finnish language (Suomi in Finnish), is the official language of Finland. It is an Uralic

language, not Indo-European like most European languages, which makes it very different in structure and vocabulary from languages like English, French, or German. Finnish is known for its complex grammar. It has, for example, 15 grammatical cases which replace many prepositions. Finnish is often considered challenging not only due to its case system, but also because of long words and unfamiliar vocabulary. But Finnish is also very logical and consistent in its rules.

In the session, I will introduce some basic Finnish grammar, pronunciation and vocabulary. I will also tell a little bit about the country and the culture.

Schedule:

Greetings 5 minutes

MAIN PRESENTATION

Breakout room discussions

Bye 5 minutes

We are going to use ZOOM with breakout rooms for the different languages.

Languages may differ each time depending on the participants.

Previously, we offered French, German, Spanish, Tagalog, Portuguese, Persian, Russian, and Hungarian among others.

MOTIVATION:

JALT OLE SIG wants to provide a space to meet and share using languages other than English, creating a community of practice. This is the Multilingual Café: meet and chat in your favorite language. The languages available depend on the participants at the event depending on what languages the participants might speak.

Lingua Francas for the meeting:

English and Japanese.

Interested? Why don't you join us?

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