Dear Aurora!
I am so happy to read from you again. I thought you stay at your mökki all summer long without any possibility to connect to the forum. I would have been quite alone here. So it's good to see that you're there...
Thanks again for correcting my mistakes. I've realized now that I make the same mistakes over and over again. That's really annoying for myself, I don't want to think about how it must be for you
. It seems that the possessive suffix and the perfect are my biggest problems. Probably I'm still thinking in a way which is too "German" (just to give it a name). Otherwise I cannot explain. Well ok, so far I haven't had any exercises in perfect. That will be treated in the next chapter of my book, I think. Concerning the suffixes there haven't been any exercises at all. It was just mentioned that you can use it or leave it. But anyway, I'm still looking for this button in my mind to switch off German thinking. It already works with other languages, so why not with Finnish? Maybe I'm too hard to myself and it's simply too early to be able to think in Finnish. And Finnish is not the easiest language. So Astrid, be patient!!
Have I already told you that I bought a new grammar book two weeks ago? This book is really good. I understand a lot more now than I did before, for example the partitive. I should have bought it earlier! I've already seen that there are (large) chapters on possessive suffixes and the perfect. So there's a lot to be read the next few weeks. I hope that it will finally help.
Concerning the chat I would really love to use this possibility, esp. with you. But besides the time I think I still would have problems in speaking. I'm not advanced enough. I would not have minutes to think about what I'm going to say next. Even a dictionary wouldn't help, it would take too much time. So I think it's better to wait. But you're right: there will be some day...
One last thing: A few days ago I wrote a little story (see: Stories). I would appreciate if you'd read this text, too, and send a comment about the mistakes. I'm a bit afraid about my "most favourite" mistakes. And this time I also used the conditional (uff!) as if I haven't enough problems with Finnish grammar. But nevertheless I think it's an effective way to learn.
Hope to see you soon again,
nähdään ja kaunista lomaa! Astrid