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Nellie

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Finnish

Finnish for true language nerds: in-depth grammar, morphology, and phonology with real world examples

Name: Nellie
Address: Pune, ZA
Telephone: undefined
Price range: R174

Finnish

Lesson location

- online

About Nellie

Hello, nice of you to visit my profile! But first things first: If you’re looking for a traditional teacher to walk you through the basics with a textbook, I must say upfront that I am not the teacher for you. BUT if you’re someone learning Finnish out of linguistic curiosity, appreciate in-depth exploration of grammar, morphology, and phonetics, and would love to get high-quality example sentences and translations with notes on grammar and nuance, I’m definitely the teacher you’ve been looking for.

As a language learner myself, I have studied Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Hindi, and Marathi in my free time, and German, Russian, and Swedish in school, over the past 10 years, with a focus on etymological links through historical forms (esp. Middle Chinese and Sanskrit roots), phonetics, and script. I also do computational linguistics as a hobby, mostly in the form of lower-level NLP (normalisation of different scripts and spelling variation) and corpus analysis, with a little bit of dabbling into pos tagging and dependency parsing. Besides my language projects taking up most of my time, my side hustle is being a university student of mathematics and theoretical computer science.

About the lesson

The biggest problems I’ve come across in language learning have been the lack of 𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙖𝙡 language resources and any proper break down of nuance. Textbook language is not really used anywhere outside that context, colloquial grammar patterns and vocabulary get little to no attention in language learning and linguistics, and too many phrase lists (and even books!) these days are just AI-generated garbage. So learning how a language is actually used is extremely difficult without a native speaker’s help. That’s where I come in. To answer the question: “How do you say this? No, I mean, 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮. And why?”.

I’d be happy to translate phrases, explain grammar, idioms, and vocabulary, and generate example sentences based on a topic of your choosing (for example “how to express opinions”), with in-depth explanations of the structures and vocabulary used.

I’m also very familiar with IPA and phonetics if you’d like to learn about or improve your own pronunciation from a more detailed and theoretical perspective, or would want any sentences phonetically transcribed. I’d be happy to provide audio too to help you distinguish the sounds or for shadowing!

So just drop me a message and we can discuss how I could help you truly conquer Finnish!

- polymloth
(on other pltfrms by the same name)

TOPICS:
- spoken vs. written Finnish
- basic to advanced grammar
- consonant gradation
- pronunciation (phonetics with IPA)
- sandhi (assimilation, gemination)
- word formation and higher degree derivation through suffixes
- nuance through word order
etc.

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Kunal

I have worked with Nellie for academic writing and she is meticulous and goes an extra mile to make sure everything is perfect. If you want in depth knowledge of anything, she is the right tutor for you
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Kunal
I have worked with Nellie for academic writing and she is meticulous and goes an extra mile to make sure everything is perfect. If you want in depth knowledge of anything, she is the right tutor for you
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R174

Package rates

5h: R871
10h: R1742

online

R174/h

free lesson

The free first lesson with Nellie allows you to get to know the tutor and discuss your needs and expectations.

30min

Details

Free 30min call to discuss your current level, learning goals, schedule, etc. before our first lesson.

Each lesson includes a personally tailored lesson pdf (or notes, if we are going over previous lessons or homework), audio recordings of words and sentences covered, and sentence/phrase break-down data and notes if relevant.

Preferred payment methods:
- UPI
- Wise
- PayPal

NOTICE
In-person lessons also possible in Pasila, Helsinki, for 1500rs/14€and elsewhere in the Helsinki area for 2500rs/23€. Ask for availability!

NOTICE 2
I am not teaching for the money but for the enjoyment of sharing my linguistic knowledge and seeing other people learn and improve. So I will not always be available as I am prioritising my studies. I will put my 100% effort into our lessons, but this is not my profession nor a primary source of income, so please keep that in mind!

I can offer 1-2 lessons a week to all new students with my current schedule.

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