Mastering Finnish

This is the companion book to the CD. I would suggest purchasing both to fully get the most out of the materials. The best way is to listen to the CD while following along in the book, then just reading the narratives by themselves and then working the excercises at the end of each chapter. In no time, you'll be able to answer the questions and continue on to the next chapter. I find it helps if you review all the previous chapter excercises each time you want to move forward. It helps with the language proficiency and to recognize language patterns. A most excellent tool to master Finnish. Kiitoksia!

I have been to Finland twice now, and I plan on going back many times. I bought this book and CD in order to increase my ability to communicate with my friends in Finland. I think that this book provides the basic vocabulary and grammar necessary to understand the basics of the Finnish language. It is an excellent beginners resource.

This is a very good introductory work in attaining proficiency in Finnish. Since Finnish is practically a minority language, there are very few course materials available in it and this is a valuable work. The one weakness I would say this text seems to have is that it doesn't seem very directed towards students in terms of the situations of the dialogues and the vocabulary worked on. A few chapters with more high frequency phrases and vocabulary useful for students laid out clearly (and voiced on the CDs) would be very useful.

I submitted a review for the accompanying product, which read: I am a native Finnish speaker, and my husband is not. We purchased both the book and the CD, which I would highly recommend. Even with me being a native Finnish speaker, it was really useful for my husband to be able to hear the dialogues in Finnish, spoken at a normal conversational rate. I would highly recommend both the book and the CD. The book and the CD are invaluable as a set. Also, the book has enough grammar to make sense but not so much as to be overwhelming.