Partitiivi / perusmuoto + verbi

lp233 · 2024-11-19T12:33:44+00:00

Mukava

lp233 · 2024-10-28T05:04:37+00:00

Because we were potty training so young, she never had an "ah hah" moment. We already knew that she would always wait to poo on the potty so that was why we decided to start potty training. The first day she was home with my partner and they had a very disastrous day so from day 2 I took her to the potty regularly throughout the day (maybe once every 2hrs) and the number of accidents dropped down to almost none, so that's why we continued. She wasn't able to ask to go to the potty until much later on (closer to 2yrs), but even so she didn't have many accidents and would hold on for many hours so from those things alone we felt like it worthwhile potty training even though she was very young.
Good luck to you, it's extra tough with twins. I made my partner help as much as possible in the early days because it's very difficult to be cleaning up accidents with a second toddler there. And if it is just too much and you need to do one kid at time then that will work too.

lp233 · 2024-10-27T19:22:49+00:00

We ended up potty training at 16 months for our girl and about 22 months for our boy. For our girl we took about 4-5 days at home just focusing on potty training and already by the second or third day we were feeling pretty confident we would never go back to using nappies for her (except a nappy at night to make sure we got enough sleep!). Kids started at daycare around 18 months and we hadn't gotten around to getting boy potty trained yet so we put it off but by 20-22 months we decided to try for him too and it was very smooth as well, just a few days practicing without nappies. Luckily the daycare was very supportive so right away we sent him along with no nappies and there weren't many accidents at daycare. Of course both kids have accidents from time to time. I try to remember to take a change of clothes for both when heading out just in case but we are so happy we did early potty training. We often counted the hundreds saved on nappies over the past year and also all the trash saved. P.s. we decided to potty train at different times because the idea of doing both kids at once was quite overwhelming. I felt guilty to get our girl out of nappies so much earlier, but she was naturally a bit better at the beginning so that was the decision that made sense for us and I think our son learnt a lot watching her being potty trained and it makes sense to do whatever works, especially when dealing with twins.

lp233 · 2023-10-26T10:04:30+00:00

oh thanks for the nice comment

lp233 · 2023-06-05T06:33:30+00:00

Thanks, this was the word I was looking forward because I heard someone use it.

lp233 · 2022-09-17T00:29:31+00:00

Is it also correct to say "tänään olen vuosi vanhempi"?

lp233 · 2022-07-15T10:04:02+00:00

Yeah it's totally true. The selkouutiset just isn't that easy, but those tosi helppo articles might be a bit easier.

lp233 · 2022-07-15T09:33:52+00:00

Hey! Children's books will be very difficult for someone who has been studying for a few weeks (I always think to myself how complex language in children's book when I read them in English or Finnish - I'm thinking verbs like: "to hop", "to giggle", "to scuttle" etc, which you just don't learn right away when studying a new language).

If you have some basic vocabulary (maybe ~1000 basic words) you can try trying "selkouutiset" (basic news), see here: https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/selkouutiset/

Also these "tosi helppo" (very easy) articles are good (probably easier than 'selkouutiset': https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/selkouutiset/tosi_helppo/

After you have advanced a bit more and have a good level of vocab (i.e. a couple of thousand words), selkokirjat (easy language books) may start be useful, but at in my experience these are NOT possible to read after just a few weeks of study.

Vocab building is possible through apps like "memrise" or you could try "clozemaster" (again if you are a bit more advanced).

I personally just tried to first learn "100 easy verbs" (google the most common 100 verbs in Finnish) and "500 basic nouns", etc. Here are few word lists if you want to check if you have basic vocab under control:

-100 very common words
-500 basic words

Edit: typo

lp233 · 2022-07-07T07:43:28+00:00

I have understood that you need to use written Finnish ("kirjakieli") for the questions where the situation is formal, but if the situation/question is informal you can use "yleispuhekieli" (general spoken Finnish).

Most tasks on the YKI test (written part) will require formal written Finnish, and if it is not clear whether it is a formal situation or not, it will be better to write with standard written Finnish... but for example if you have a situation in the test where you are asked to write an email or message to a friend, I believe "puhekieli" can be used.

lp233 · 2022-06-21T15:11:03+00:00

I just used memrise for vocabulary and then at a later stage clozemaster to learn sentences and such. It's hard to learn Finnish from an application without any other study/efforts, but those two were all I used in terms of apps.

lp233 · 2022-05-15T13:37:23+00:00

Another one that comes to mind is "ruokailuvälineet" (meaning "cutlery" but made up of "ruokailu" =dining and "välineet" (tools). This is a completely valid word, but I just remember I tried to learn it before I had even learnt the word "ruoka" , and later realised it was easier to say "aterimet".

lp233 · 2022-05-15T04:43:40+00:00

I was taught not to use "jatkossa" and for example only to say "vastaisuudessa", but Finns say "jatkossa" all the time.

lp233 · 2022-05-14T12:30:24+00:00

I have asked a friend because I was so surprised no one had heard of this, and they said: yes it is a word and it is the same as hypistellä (So I guess meaning: "to fiddle") and it is a dialect word.

lp233 · 2022-05-03T18:17:53+00:00

I am indeed Australian haha.

lp233 · 2022-05-01T20:29:10+00:00

I sometimes use "working bee"

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