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Will I Speak Finnish Naturally After Single Topic Lessons?
Sometimes it’s not just vocabulary or grammar that’s stopping you
This week, I completed my first week with 5 Finnish lessons. Booking speaking lessons in volume is so important, because any lesson can be hit or miss. With my previous once per week Finnish speaking lessons, if I was mentally off, I’d have to wait an entire week to redeem myself.
Now I get a fresh start each calendar day to speak Finnish, and can remember to get more sleep or more coffee. Or show up to the cafe earlier to get a better table. And even review my teacher’s notes more.
It feels free not having the pressure of trying to get the most out of any one lesson. I don’t treat a lesson as a scarce resource anymore. I just show up and genuinely enjoy them.
Last week, I went a little overboard with inundating myself with new vocabulary. Each lesson was a different topic including animals, architecture, and emotions. My grammar and vocabulary is almost there.
My biggest struggle is stringing sentences together naturally. There were a lot of false starts, because I don’t have a strong framework for the language yet. By framework, I don’t mean an understanding of grammar, but rather a gut instinct for how sentences are supposed to flow.
